For decades, the intelligence traded between US agencies and foreign governments regarding the murder of John F. Kennedy stayed hidden, leaving only sanitized working copies for the public.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The name Roland Jacques Claude Abbiate was a mask for an NKVD killer whose movements from Mexico to New York stayed in British files for decades
By Desmond Okafor ·
Pinochet spent years stonewalling the U.S. government to hide a murder plot in Washington, a strategy detailed in a Secret CIA cable that remained hidden for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Names of operatives and collaborators stayed hidden for decades, even as the DOJ launched a renewed hunt for the order that killed two people on a Washington street
By Desmond Okafor ·
Ronni Moffitt and Orlando Letelier were killed by a car bomb in Washington, but a secret CIA assessment spent months calculating how the Pinochet regime would lie about it.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt were murdered in a D.C. car bomb, yet the FBI waited 24 years to hunt for the order's author in a case where names remain blacked out
By Desmond Okafor ·
The man who ordered the assassination of a diplomat in Washington died while serving 529 years, but the FBI's final interrogation of him remains a wall of black ink.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1976 cable describes "special teams" that killed a diplomat on US soil, with the most damning operational details still blacked out after decades of secrecy.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Political dissidents across the Southern Cone were marked for death in a cross-border killing machine that reached into Europe, a plan the CIA tracked while the names remained blacked out for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The names of assets are gone, but the records of a failed hit on the Führer and a slaughter in Slovakia remained hidden for decades in a curated paper trail.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A Peruvian agent was beheaded and butchered for leaking the truth about a military massacre, a horror kept in U.S. diplomatic cables while the operational ties to the killer remained blacked out.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Kept secret for decades, a 1976 memo shows the CIA fearing the optics of assassination squads in South America—squads the United States had already funded.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A Secret/Eyes Only FBI memorandum from 1976 tracks the disposal of two kidnapped officials, whose identities were erased by state terror and hidden for 36 years
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1978 confession from a Chilean hitman reveals a desperate attempt to trade state secrets for survival after the car bombing of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A DIA report from 1994 details how the Peruvian High Command traded justice for loyalty, rewarding death squad members with European postings while exiling those who exposed narcotrafficking.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A secret diplomatic warning against international assassinations was rescinded just five days before a car bomb killed two people in the U.S. capital, a reversal kept secret for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·