Tag: CIA

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,...
On February 22, 2026, the Mexican military mounted an operation, assisted by the CIA, that killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the 59-year-old head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who had a $15 million bounty on his head. A few hours later, Donald Trump tweeted “We’re Winning too much,...
Eartha Kitt was a magnetic singer, songwriter and actress who starred as Catwoman in the 1967 season of television’s Batman and was known for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby.” In the early 1950s, Kitt recorded six top-30 songs. Orson Welles once called her “the most exciting woman in the...
Kyrylo Budanov Has Ties to Far-Right Pro-Banderite Groups From the Phoenix Program to Operation Condor and the Contra War to Operation Timber Sycamore and the Global War on Terror, the CIA has a long history of training fascist death-squad operatives, torturers and assassins. The historical...