Tag: CIA
April 5 marked the 32nd anniversary of former Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s death, supposedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This past year, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists that put fresh eyes on Cobain’s autopsy and the crime scene material concluded that Cobain’s death actually resulted from...
No Wonder They Have Betrayed the Legacy of Frank Church
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) was established in 1977 as a consequence of post-Church Committee reforms intended to prevent the perpetuation of CIA abuses that were exposed in the 1975/76 Church Committee.
The first chairman of the HPSCI (1977-1985), Edward Boland (D-MA),...
Leary Helped Destroy the 1960s New Left by Turning the Youth onto Drugs
During the mid-1960s, as political activism against the Vietnam War and other social ills skyrocketed, Dr. Timothy Leary, a former University of California at Berkeley and Harvard professor, traveled the U.S. urging young people to “turn...
In 1997, Ambassador Robert Houdek was the senior U.S. official in eastern Congo.
His job was to assist in the repatriation of Hutu refugees who fled Rwanda after the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took control following Rwanda’s 1990-1994 civil war.
A former senior U.S. official characterized Houdek as “our man...
On April 6, The New York Times ran an article under the headline “CIA’s Deception Plan Helped Divert Iranians from Missing American” by Julian Barnes.
The article noted that, when two American pilots ejected from their plane after it was shot down and took refuge in the mountains, the CIA...
On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, an opposition leader with the Korean New Democratic Party (KNDP), was kidnapped by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) from the 22nd floor of the Grand Palace Hotel in Tokyo and drugged while he was imprisoned.
The plot was to swiftly eliminate Kim, though...
Editors compromised integrity as independent news organizations by sending dispatches from foreign correspondents to CIA
The CIA is known to have enjoyed a close relationship with the mainstream media during the Cold War and to have recruited dozens of journalists to help advance CIA propaganda.
An article in the November 2024...
Dubbed the “Queen of Conspiracy” and a “modern Sherlock Holmes,” Mae Brussell (1922-1988), the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles rabbi and a Beverly Hills housewife, became one of the 20th century’s foremost researchers of the so-called “deep state.”
The latter concept implies a hidden aspect of the U.S. government...
Nick Bryant is a skilled investigative reporter who, in 2009, published a book about a child sex trafficking network in Omaha, Nebraska involving powerful GOP politicians who were flying children to a party house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., which was wired for blackmail.
In 2011, as he continued...
In December 1998, Michael Riconosciuto was serving out a 26-year prison sentence at Allenwood Penitentiary in Pennsylvania on drug charges when he was given information by a rabbi close to his family about an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center,...
