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.
The Grayzone Debates National Endowment for Democracy on Group’s CIA Ties
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED’s communications…
John Kiriakou: Havana Syndrome — Paranoia or Reality?
Gang-stalking. Extremely low frequency radiation. Voice to Skull (V2K) technology. None of these were terms the author had ever heard of during his 15 years at the C.I.A.
Assange Visitors Renew Request for CIA to ‘Purge and Destroy’ Files on Them
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Attorneys and journalists, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy, amended their lawsuit against…
John Kiriakou: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee
If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
CIA Pushes for Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Alleged Spying on Assange Visitors
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter The Central Intelligence Agency and former CIA director Mike Pompeo notified a federal court in New York that they intend to push for the…
Joe Lauria: Fighting the “Psyopcracy”
It is a hard thing to combat because it’s not a physical enemy but rather messages that lodge themselves in millions of people’s minds. And it has come to rule…
John Kiriakou: CIA Should Get Out of the Laboratory
The C.I.A. has long had labs, whether overt or covert, where terrible things happened.