A Bicentennial publication uses a 1775 firing to warn against disclosure, framing modern covert action as a revolutionary tradition while congressional investigators circled the Agency.
By Harlan Pryce ·
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 ·
The White House fought to keep the American public blind to the agency's attempts to kill foreign leaders; the record shows how a single Senator broke the silence.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The White House chose to protect foreign assets over congressional transparency in a 1975 memo that remained secret for decades, ensuring the silence of those who plotted to overthrow a democracy
By Desmond Okafor ·
A legal strategy crafted in 1976 sought to shield the secrets of a National Security Advisor by claiming his calls weren't official records, keeping them hidden from FOIA.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For decades, the identities of the corporate fronts and political puppets the CIA funded in Chile stayed hidden to protect a global playbook of regime change.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Chilean collaborators and coup plotters faced public exposure in 1975 as Gerald Ford weighed whether to shield the CIA from a Senate probe into its million-dollar shadow war.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Names of Chileans who worked with U.S. covert operatives remained hidden after the Ford administration blocked CIA participation in public hearings in 1975.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Families sought evidence of fallen sons while the Church Committee mapped illegal surveillance and the HSCA hunted for missing memos and redacted cables.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Civilians in Cambodia and South Vietnam paid with their lives while aides managed the exposure of intelligence abuses and African crises through records that omit the most damning specifics.
By Desmond Okafor ·
American soldiers died in a war managed by an Ad Hoc Group while the NSC used clinical redactions to hide illegal spying and foreign assassinations.
By Harlan Pryce ·
For decades, the American public lived under indefinite emergency declarations that left civil liberties to the Oval Office and allowed intelligence agencies to operate without a leash.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Men and women digging through the 35th president's archives were unaware the government was keeping a separate ledger of their names and movements.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Families of the fallen lived in a permanent state of suspicion while Senate leads into the 1963 killing stayed tucked away in National Archives boxes.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Thousands of Americans were tracked and intimidated by their own intelligence services, leaving a trail of secrecy that Robert McFarlane was tasked to contain.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Thousands of citizens were spied upon and manipulated in a shadow war that remained hidden until congressional probes forced the Ford administration into a defensive crouch.
By Miriam Adler ·