Tag: CIA
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...
Wife of CIA Officer Edward Lansdale Positively Identified Lansdale in Picture Taken at Dealey Plaza After JFK Assassination
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Lansdale looks like he was part of wider regime change operation quarterbacked by Lyndon B. Johnson
Major General Edward Lansdale was a legendary CIA operative who played a key role in U.S. Cold War operations in Southeast Asia during the 1950s and 1960s.
A prototype for the Alden Pyle character in...
Between 1975 and 1989, the primary U.S. intelligence agency leveraged various financial assistance programs to shape Portuguese democracy and prevent the country from falling under Soviet influence. Here’s how.
The involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Portugal is widely acknowledged. In fact, it was primarily thanks to...
When Progressive Laotian Politician Tried to Build Bridges Between Neutralists and Left-Wing Pathet Lao, He Was Gunned Down on Steps of His Vientiane Home
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The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset.
On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and head of the “Peace and Neutrality” party, was shot and killed as he walked up...
CIA Oversaw Hideous Torture in Con Son’s Tiger Cages and Other Prison Facilities in Vietnam
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Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror
In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015, was a congressional staffer invited to be part of a delegation that was sent to...
Did Legendary Filmmaker Ken Burns—Whose Documentary Revealed Harsh Truths About the Civil War—Intentionally Hide Harsh Truths About the Vietnam War to Whitewash the CIA?
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Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why.
In the fall of 2017, more than 60 million people tuned into PBS to watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary on the Vietnam War, which was ten years in the making and cost $30...
Part I in a two-part series
In December, the rapid fall of the Syrian government to Western-backed jihadists stunned the world and sparked a wide range of reactions amid the fallout. Unsurprisingly, the collective West was quick to celebrate the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, a long-time U.S. foreign policy objective...
Netflix Film Shines Light on How Manson Family Murders Appear To Have Been Tied to CIA Mind Control Project
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As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a CIA doctor—Jolyon West—helped...
Famed Whistleblower Philip Agee Among CIA Officers Who Worked Under State Department Cover
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Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover
Revealed in the recent document dump from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection as mandated by a presidential directive was just how extensively and...
Investigating a possible link between the cold murder cases in the Antelope Valley of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Aujay
Sprawling poppy fields, aerospace, and secret military bases, California’s Antelope Valley is known for these landmarks. Over the past decades, the Antelope Valley became...