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New study based on declassified records reveals paranoia about subversion in conservative states that resulted in serious constitutional violations
In April 1967, legendary Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael gave a fiery speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, pointing attention to the systemic racism in American life, to the...
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Liam Daniel Hayden.
To put it briefly, our records show that, throughout his entire career, Liam Daniel Hayden has carried out undercover operations across a wide range of locations. His secret missions took place in Kazakhstan (2003-2005), Azerbaijan (2009), Turkey (2013-2017), and Iraq (2018). Since 2021, Liam...
Mozambique’s liberation party, FRELIMO, won elections last October in an apparent landslide win. The party has been in power since 1975. Daniel Chapo has replaced President Filipe Nyusi who served two terms. Current events though are volatile and, at the time of writing, it appears that Venâncio Mondlane from the...
Donald Trump has found a new mission for the CIA—ramping up secret drone flights over Mexico to track and hunt down leaders of Mexico’s drug cartels.
The New York Times reported in mid-February that the CIA’s covert drone program over Mexico, first initiated by the Biden administration, has proved useful...
The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.
Trump and the GOP support regressive tax policies and fervent anti-immigrant measures while the Democrats offer a Republican-light domestic economic program combined with hawkish foreign policies that...
China’s future looks increasingly bleak, but it has great counter-cyclical expansion potential via domestic and international rebalancing
In a daring thought experiment, imagine just for a moment that you are the powerful president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). You are sitting next to a cozy fireplace in a...
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Winter operated as an intelligence agent under cover of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and served as a paid propagandist for the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a criminal organization that developed open-air crematoria to dispose of all the bodies of the people they...
In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.
The documents detail communications...
On Thursday morning, February 20, 2025, Yves Engler—who has written for CovertAction Magazine—presented himself to Montreal police for arrest, as ordered.
Though facing multiple charges, the Canadian author, journalist and activist had no reason to believe he would not be bailed out in time to spend the weekend with his...
Ukrainian drones have carried out terrorist strikes extending into Russia designed to cripple its oil and gas industry and been deployed to attack Russian journalists
On one of its last days in office, the Biden administration declassified an account of its once-secret support for Ukraine’s drone industry.
U.S. officials said they...
