Soviet Union Traded 600 Jewish Lives for Middle East Leverage
Kept TOP SECRET until 2016, a daily brief to President Nixon shows how Moscow used the release of 170 children to force Israeli flexibility in peace talks.
By Theo Marchetti ·
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Yeltsin Asked Clinton for $2.5 Billion Loan for 1996 Election
Russian pensions and wages hung in the balance as Boris Yeltsin pleaded for a massive American infusion of cash to secure his grip on power before the 1996 vote.
By Marcus Boone ·
US Embassy monitors saw drunken voters and domestic violence in Putin's 2000 run
Kept confidential for years, the cable describes how some voters were coerced at home while others marked ballots for drunken friends.
By Marcus Boone ·
Jimmy Carter OK'd CIA's use of unwitting Americans to funnel books to Soviets
Kept Secret for decades, a July 1979 memorandum shows how US academics were manipulated into aiding a covert operation to funnel publications into the Soviet Bloc without their knowledge.
By Constance Bell ·
India blamed US for plotting a Kashmir state under Sheikh Abdullah
Kept confidential since 1953, a telegram details New Delhi's use of the press to paint a pro-independence leader as a treasonous agent to mask its own actions in Kashmir.
By Constance Bell ·
Russian OMON tortured Samashki villagers over 264 rifles
Men in the Chechen village of Samashki were beaten with electric wires and blocked from medical care in April 1995, according to a report by the rights group Memorial.
By Marcus Boone ·
Kim Dae Jung sought to end 50 years of fear before 2000 summit
Marked confidential and blurred by redactions, this record tracks the fragile calculations used to bridge a divided peninsula and reunite families torn apart by war.
By Marcus Boone ·
US Embassy Warned Kim Jong Il Fooled South Koreans Before 2000 Summit
Kept secret for years, a cable shows how a few meetings in Beijing blinded a population to the DPRK threat and put the US security role in jeopardy.
By Constance Bell ·
41 Tribal Nations won a settlement for stolen assets
Generations of lost wealth and political purges were masked by photo opportunities in a visual ledger tracking the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2017.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Wang Bingnan Ordered to Defy US Demands for American Nationals
Top Secret midnight orders stayed hidden, directing Wang Bingnan to use Xinhua articles on persecuted students to counter US pressure for the release of all American nationals in China.
By Marcus Boone ·
3,000 Protesters Trampled Stalin's Image in 1953 Plzeň Revolt
Workers were watched by party informants and purged through security audits, with the most active strikers disappeared into Jáchynov mines.
By Marcus Boone ·
Rep. Holtzman Demands Paul Henze Resign Over Suspected War Criminal
Victims of a 1941 Jewish pogrom were ignored as an NSC staffer dismissed a suspected fascist bishop's broadcast as "silly," sparking a congressional demand to oust him from the White House.
By Constance Bell ·
$14,935,000 Kept Nixon From Silencing Radio Liberty
Soviet dissidents nearly lost their only free voice in a covert CIA operation that Nixon almost terminated, leaving several justifications for the station's existence still blacked out.
By Marcus Boone ·
447,000 Flee East Germany, Forcing Malenkov to Soften Police State
Workers, peasants, and police vanished across the border in a mass haemorrhage that left 500,000 hectares abandoned and the state unable to feed its people.
By Marcus Boone ·
Seven parties synchronized scripts to isolate Mao Zedong
Communist officials coordinated a propaganda offensive against Mao Zedong in Warsaw, where a sudden Soviet plan to isolate Albania shocked the Polish party.
By Marcus Boone ·
Pyongyang demanded six full sports and co-hosting status for 1988 Seoul Games
Negotiators fought to secure passage for 25,000 officials and journalists as Pyongyang demanded a separate organizing committee and control over six full sports.
By Constance Bell ·