December 23rd marks the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters—95.7% of participants—said “da” to secession from the multi-ethnic socialist federation. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten-Day War between Slovenian territorial defense forces and...

The CIA has been implicated in many of the murkiest incidents of the latter half of the 20th century. From the Kennedy assassination and Project MK-ULTRA, to what Wikipedia dubs the “alleged” Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine program which recruited prominent American journalists into a CIA propaganda network funded by...