The CIA and the media

Carl Bernstein | 20 Oct 1977 After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below. How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked…

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

Global Research | 17 May 2016 The following article was initially published in 1997. It is in part based on the work of William Blum. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, 1995 (GR Ed. M. Ch.) By Steve Kangas The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of…

CIA torture report goes “missing”

News.com.au | 17 May 2016 Planes flying into the World Trade Center. Bodies falling from high-rise windows of the twin towers. The events of that day – the largest ever attack on American soil – are impossible to forget. The American public responded with fear and anger and the Bush administration responded with a plot…

Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Enter Al-Qaeda

Prof. Peter Dale Scott | 13 May 2016 Professor Peter Dale Scott sees what the rest of us miss. His decades-long investigation of the connections between the hugely lucrative and unstoppable global drug trade and the national security apparatus is unparalleled. The details are also highly complex and a challenge to absorb. Nevertheless, they demand…

How the CIA Writes History

The Intercept | 26 April 2016 Last summer I paid a visit to Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library as part of my research on legendary CIA counterspy James Jesus Angleton. I went there to investigate Angleton’s famous mole hunt, one of the least flattering episodes of his eventful career. By the early 1960s, Angleton was convinced the KGB…

Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers

CNBC | 12 April 2016 Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world. Birkenfeld, an American…