Tag: CIA
In early 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to provide secret campaign funds to Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and other select members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which favored close integration with the U.S during the Cold War.
According to historian Michael Schaller, between 1958 and 1960...
Palantir is a data analytics company founded with CIA seed money, which employed former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former CIA Director George Tenet as consultants.
Its AI software, which journalist James Bamford characterized as “the digital equivalent of weapons of mass destruction,” is used by the Israeli Air...
The 2024 Netflix documentary American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) nominated the four-part series in the following categories:
Outstanding Lighting Direction
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Outstanding Documentary
The Emmy Awards for News and Documentaries are scheduled to be held...
John Millis was poised to release a report exposing CIA involvement in drug trafficking in Central America
An investigation into Millis’ death should be reopened along with journalist Gary Webb and others who were privy to info about the CIA’s drug running in Central America during the Reagan-Bush era and...
Ramparts magazine was a beacon of the 1960s social movements: an anti-establishment muckraking magazine that published important exposés of the CIA, including its involvement in the murder of Ché Guevara, its infiltration of the National Student Association (NSA), and its support for clandestine police training programs in South Vietnam...
Part II: “Humanitarian Aid”
In February, corporate media went ballistic when the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The uproar claimed the dismantling of the foreign aid agency would not only result in massive government layoffs but cause...
Website accused Andriy Portnov of being a traitor
On May 22, Andriy Portnov, 51, was assassinated in Madrid, just after dropping off his children at the American School.
A lawyer by training, Portnov was a leading opposition figure in Ukraine who was forced to flee the country after the February 2014...
Much excitement has accompanied the Trump administration’s release of declassified documents in the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., files. While these documents have not yielded any smoking guns, they do provide important documentation of CIA and other secretive government activities during the 1960s....
We are diving deeper into our investigation of CIA actions that contradict U.S. national interests.
Today, we uncover another CIA-affiliated company using taxpayer money to supply Ukraine with weapons and military equipment—outside the scope of official aid packages.
Typically, money-laundering scandals involve substantial sums, ranging from tens of millions to billions...
MK-ULTRA continued to operate under the cover of religious cults after its formal shutdown in 1973
In June 1956, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who headed the CIA mind-control experiments known as MK-ULTRA, authorized a sub-project involving the testing of LSD on prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
The sub-project was headed by...
