Helms, Edwards and the September 18 Plan for Chile
A CIA source's identity was botched by censors in a memo concerning the Chilean political crisis, kept secret until it reached the State Department's public files.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Chile
Pinochet’s 1978 Blueprint to Protect the Men Who Killed Orlando Letelier
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 ·
Augusto Pinochet and the May 1978 Cover-Up Calculus
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 ·
46 Aides and the Hunt for the Intellectual Authors of the Letelier Bombing
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 ·
Manuel Contreras and the Blacked-Out Truth of Punto Peuco
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 ·
Agustín Edwards and the Military Demand for US Guarantees
Behind the closed doors of the CIA, a media mogul promised the generals that Washington would back their move to stop Salvador Allende from taking power.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Orlando Letelier and the FBI’s Secret Map of Condor Assassins
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 ·
Juan Manuel Contreras and the Single List for European Liquidations
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 ·
Chile and the Secret Dinner that Bought CIA Silence
A 1975 draft memo shows how senators and intelligence chiefs agreed to bury files on the Congo, Indonesia, and Laos, keeping the scale of American intervention secret for half a century
By Harlan Pryce ·
Henry Kissinger and the Five-Day Window for a Washington Bombing
A secret diplomatic warning against international assassinations was rescinded just five days before a car bomb killed two people in the U.S. capital, a reversal kept secret for decades.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 ·
Pinochet and the 48-Hour Warning to Save the 1988 Vote
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 ·
Pinochet and the Army's Blueprint to Kill the 1988 Vote
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 ·
Pinochet and the 'Good Soldier' Who Wanted to Betray the Secret Police
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 ·
Harry Barnes and the 'Violence and Terror' Plan to Save Pinochet's Rule
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 ·
Pinochet and the 'Extremely Difficult' Cost of Stability
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 ·
Augusto Pinochet and the Generals Who Betrayed the Auto-Coup
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 ·