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 ·
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 ·
Forty-eight hours before Chileans voted to end a military dictatorship, Ronald Reagan was warned of a planned massacre—a secret the White House managed through covert channels.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A confidential warning of a staged coup stayed hidden for decades, revealing a plan to slaughter civilians and blame Communists to keep a dictator in power.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kept under Top Secret/Eyes Only markings for decades, a Roger Channel cable describes a ten-hour interview with an assassin the U.S. deemed credible but never prosecuted
By Theo Marchetti ·
Thousands of Chileans faced a massacre to keep a dictator in power, a plan the State Department tracked through military leaks and recorded in a cable dated October 1, 1988.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kept secret for decades, a memorandum shows how the Reagan administration treated a political assassination on US soil as a mere diplomatic friction point to be managed
By Desmond Okafor ·
One day before the 1988 plebiscite, Washington warned the Chilean regime it knew of a plot to use violence to kill the vote—a secret preserved in a redacted embassy memo.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Ronni Moffitt and Orlando Letelier were erased by a car bomb in 1976; a decade later, a DINA operative's curated confession served to insulate the architects of the hit.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1987 memo marked SECRET/NODIS shows the CIA kept President Reagan in the dark about the dictator who bombed Washington, while the State Department scrambled to shift the liability.
By Theo Marchetti ·
For over a decade, the Pinochet regime blocked the extradition of the men who blew up a diplomat in Washington, until a January 1989 summary signaled the end of the line.
By Theo Marchetti ·
A diplomat and his colleague were blown apart in the U.S. capital, but a 1979 decision ensured the dictator who ordered the hit faced only a reduction in embassy staff.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A report marked TOP SECRET ZARF/UMBRA, held for decades, shows the DIA knew one day before the 1988 plebiscite that the dictator intended to trigger riots to stay in power.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A secret memorandum kept from view for decades shows how the State Department used a defector's testimony to force Reagan to stop backing a dictator who bombed Washington
By Theo Marchetti ·
Kept secret for over a decade, a memo shows the State Department using CIA evidence of a capital city assassination to force Ronald Reagan to abandon a Chilean dictator.
By Theo Marchetti ·