Prior to the 2018 mid-term elections, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published an important pamphlet called “The CIA Democrats” detailing the large number of Democratic Party congressional candidates who had military and intelligence backgrounds.
Eleven of the candidates with a military-intelligence background...
On September 16, 2026, former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague for war crimes.
Known in his guerrilla fighting days as the “snake,” Thaçi, 58, was sentenced along with three other senior members of the since-disbanded Kosovo...
On August 3, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., passed away at the age of 89.
A New York Times obituary called Mr. Fanjul (aka “Alfy”) the “patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuba’s largest sugar businesses in the revolution of 1959 and fled to the...
Philip Mosely, who was considered the “most influential Sovietologist of the Cold War,” embodies the close ties between academia and the CIA
In his 1987 book Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, historian Robin Winks details a close connection between academia and the CIA and its...
Ernest R. May embodies deep connection between academia and the CIA
Ernest R. May (1928-2009) was a Harvard history professor for 55 years and dean of Harvard College in the late 1970s; he also served as the senior historian, consultant and main author (with Philip Zelikow) of the 9/11 Commission...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA off-shoot that was founded in 1983 with the purpose of advancing political propaganda and U.S. regime-change operations.
The NED routinely supports dissidents and highlights human rights abuses occurring in countries that are geopolitical rivals of the U.S., like China, Iran and...
On a cold November night some time in the late 1980s, CovertAction Information Bulletin founder Philip Agee was sitting in the back of an auditorium at the University of Rhode Island listening to a debate between Arthur Hulnick, a representative of the CIA, and a member of the American...
In August 1991, journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hotel room with his wrists slashed and cuts so deep it severed a tendon.
Casolaro had been investigating a web of CIA corruption in the 1980s linked to the Iran-Contra scandal and theft...
While thousands of people languish in the ICE gulag under abhorrent conditions and are kidnapped off American streets and subject to deportation, a CIA-linked foreign terrorist is being given preferential treatment in a stark reflection of the double standard and corruption of the U.S. criminal justice system.
On July 16,...
The March 8, 2026, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured an article by Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan entitled “America’ Secret Veterans: They Fought For the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. Now, 10,000 Former Zero Unit Soldiers Are in the United States and Living in Fear.”
The article focused on...
