The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding
From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA’s secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America’s friends.
Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations From the Vatican to Latin America
This is the final batch of JFK files after the federal government began declassifying documents in the early 1990s.
USAID Exported CIA Balkan Terror to Haiti
This tragic event produced a neverending descent into nightmarish lawlessness, which endures to this day in the country.
Burying the CIA’s Assange Secrets
The CIA won the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by four Americans who claimed they had their privacy rights violated when they visited Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy.
The CIA Illegally Spied on Puerto Rican and Mexican American Activists for Decades
And is probably still at it. As newly released classified documents confirm activists’ long-held suspicions, the disclosures should also alert us to current dangers.
20 Years After His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Twenty years ago this month, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide after his career was systematically destroyed.
In Unprecedented Move, Judge Keeps CIA Employee Facing Espionage Act Charges in Jail
For the first time in the Eastern District of Virginia a defendant charged under §793 of the Espionage Act has been ordered to be detained before trial.
John Kiriakou: The CIA & the 9/11 Plea Deals
If you don’t like the outcome of this odyssey through uncharted legal territory, blame the C.I.A., Mitch McConnell and almost every other member of Congress who served in 2009 and…
How the CIA Destabilizes the World
If only the CIA’s rogue operations had been consigned to history as a result of the crimes exposed by the Church Committee, or at the least had brought the CIA…
Lawsuit Against Alleged CIA Spying on Assange Visitors: A Rare Court Hearing
A federal judge pushed back when a government attorney refused to confirm or deny whether the CIA had engaged in warrantless surveillance.
Bolsonaro’s Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide
Kit Klarenburg delves into the brutality meted out during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonar by Brazil’s infamous Rural Indigenous Guard—an undercover, lethal elite police force clandestinely established by…
Patrick Lawrence: The US Press, Spooks & the Church Committee
Nineteen fifty-three was a peculiar year for The Washington Post to question the C.I.A.’s drift into activist intrigues, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his forthcoming book, Journalists and…
New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments
By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News In a groundbreaking investigation, renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton has blown the lid off a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files, recently obtained…
Beijing Vows Countermeasures After CIA Says It’s Rebuilding Spy Networks in China
CIA Director William Burns says the spy agency is 'making progress' in China.
New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners
While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.