Ford authorized secret US payments to steer Portuguese labor from China
Portuguese workers were targeted for manipulation by US funds kept secret from Congress, with the exact dollar amounts still blacked out in the record.
By Desmond Okafor ·
40 Committee
Kissinger and the 40 Committee spent $125,000 to sabotage Allende
Kept under a "Secret; Eyes Only" stamp, this record shows how Washington targeted the Popular Unity front to ensure a leftist victory in Chile remained out of reach.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Gerald Ford paid for secret labor operations to block Communist rule in Portugal
Portuguese workers and political moderates became the targets of a program marked "Outside the System" to keep the nation from falling to radicals, with the cost still blacked out today.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Ford halts $4.8 million secret operation in Italy
House committee leaks and the fall of Premier Moro stopped a $4.8 million operation that Bill Colby denied had spent a cent, though details of the program's stages stay blacked out.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kissinger Orders Secret Cash Stockpile to Target Salvador Allende
Five and a half lines remain blacked out from a meeting where the US stockpiled Chilean escudos to fund operations against a president the public believed was safe.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Nixon Secures $36 Million to Save Cold War Radios
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty nearly went dark in 1972 as a legislative deadlock forced the Nixon administration to replace clandestine funding with a direct $36 million grant.
By Theo Marchetti ·