Tag: CIA
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...
Ukrainian intelligence units are conducting drone-warfare operations in Africa and the Middle East as proxies for the U.S.
A consolidation of U.S. elite interests has taken shape in the Russo-Ukrainian war, with a network of Western venture capitalists, high-tech start-ups, NATO military advisers, and CIA intelligence officials reaping material...
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...
Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War
The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes.
In return,...
John Stockwell, a CIA operative in Africa and Asia who resigned from the Agency in December 1976 and wrote a tell-all memoir, In Search of Enemies (1978), died in June 2026.
With Philip Agee, Stockwell was among the most important national security and CIA whistleblowers of the Cold War era.
Both...
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...
CIA mind-control programs were intimately tied to use in coercive interrogation. Both Gitmo and CIA black-site torture were impossible without MK-ULTRA, but that history is being buried.
The Agency office with the greatest current SERE familiarity was the Office of Technical Services (OTS), in which were located a...
