CIA

Release of Bin Laden Files by CIA Presents Iranian Connection?

When Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, they brought back thousands of documents on computer hard and thumb drives that, it was hoped would shed much more hope on the al-Qaida organization. Now as the CIA released thousands of pages of documents seized in the raid, it has once again raised questions about […]

Here are the 5 most interesting things we’ve found the JFK assassination files so far

On Thursday night, the American government released more than 2,800 documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of American President John F. Kennedy.  These documents, which had been classified for the past 54 years, held the promise of revealing long withheld secrets about what served as perhaps the most historic American tragedy of the modern era […]

A new clue helps us understand the West’s ‘stay-behind’ networks in Europe

The 1980’s witnessed the twilight years of the Cold War.  Beneath the surface, centers of power were being consolidated, strange bed fellows met in secret, and intelligence officers dug in their heels following a type of sunk cost fallacy which would lead them to believe that the Cold War would continue forever.  One of the […]

Drew Murray, ‘The Chive,’ and why people hate the media

At the moment, the American media is enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity with terms such as fake news, liberal agenda, and biased media thrown around almost reflexively.  Of course, none of this is new and the media has long been in need of some internal soul-searching.  It’s sad that this did not even begin […]

The JFK document dump could be a fiasco

The federal government’s long campaign to try to choke off rampant conspiracy theories about the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is threatening to end this month in massive confusion, if not chaos. Within the next two weeks, the National Archives is legally obligated to release the last of thousands of secret documents […]

Experts warn Congress a North Korean EMP could kill millions

Members of Congress were again warned this week about the threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack from North Korea or other rogue entities that could have catastrophic effects on the United States, akin to an extinction-level event. The briefing was given by two members of the former EMP congressional commission, who said that a […]

CIA team preparing for dangerous mission… somewhere, director says

The Director of the CIA today told an audience in Texas that “at this very moment, there’s a CIA team preparing for a mission in a very dangerous part of the world.” “There’s not much of a U.S. footprint there, nor is it a place where our brothers and sisters in the military can operate,” […]

How the CIA staged sham academic conferences to thwart Iran’s nuclear program

This is an edited excerpt from “Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities,” by senior editor Daniel Golden. The excerpt was co-published with The Guardian. The CIA agent tapped softly on the hotel room door. After the keynote speeches, panel discussions and dinner, the conference attendees had retired for the […]

On this day in history: The death of Che Guevara

October 9, 1967: Che Guevara is hurled into a hut, shot in the arms and legs with a rifle, then quickly dispatched by rounds to the chest. The man’s face is plastered across t-shirts in universities, painted on walls in Cuba and associated with Marxist images all over the internet.  He is a symbol, no […]

CIA releases new Sputnik documents

[Update Oct. 4: The CIA has released the Sputnik documents. You can find them on the CIA’s website here.] The CIA plans to release a new batch of secret documents about the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, which made history when it blasted into space 60 years ago Wednesday, Code and Dagger has learned. An article published […]