Kept Secret for nearly three decades, a March 1995 directive codified the command authority the DIA held over military intelligence units while scrubbing the operational needs of the soldiers it served.
By Marcus Boone ·
For months, the Indonesian military treated militia massacres as a volume knob, adjusting the slaughter to avoid American intervention while the UN struggled to hold a referendum.
By Harlan Pryce ·
He licensed the guns that fueled paramilitary massacres, yet Bogota promoted him to national security adviser while the DIA watched from the shadows.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A heavily censored report kept secret for decades confirms that Colombian state forces sheltered the very paramilitaries responsible for the highest toll of civilian blood.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A set of briefing slides from March 1999 shows the Defense Intelligence Agency seizing control of the scientific sensors used to track WMDs, a move hidden behind a reorganization of the Intelligence Community.
By Miriam Adler ·
A DIA report from 1994 details how the Peruvian High Command traded justice for loyalty, rewarding death squad members with European postings while exiling those who exposed narcotrafficking.
By Theo Marchetti ·
While thousands died in the Andean highlands, the Defense Intelligence Agency mapped the fragility of the state to prepare the ground for an authoritarian takeover.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The Indonesian army slaughtered students at Trisakti University in 1998; a classified cable proves the US knew the killings were unprovoked while the world was told otherwise.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The CIA erased text already published by the State Department to hide the contents of a 1989 report, scrubbing even the portions marked unclassified.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Pinochet attempted to seize Santiago on New Year's Day 1989, a desperate gamble that left one general collapsed on the floor and the dictator's final path to power blocked
By Harlan Pryce ·
A target vessel was tracked via 'solo mode' remote viewing, but the actual results of the mission were scrubbed from a record kept secret for ten years
By Eleanor Voss ·
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 ·
Kept secret until recently, a DIA report details how Indonesia's special forces purged 11 low-ranking officers to shield the general who ordered student kidnappings
By Harlan Pryce ·
Seventeen civilians were gunned down in Jakarta in 1998; a confidential DIA cable confirms the bullets came from US rifles provided as grant aid decades earlier.
By Desmond Okafor ·
An operative's vision of brown shapes on a beach was handled via "Skeet channels" and encrypted coordinates, masking a target that remained classified for over a decade.
By Miriam Adler ·
The Defense Intelligence Agency knew in May 1999 that the Indonesian military would use proxy militants to fight a pro-independence vote, yet the full map of that betrayal remains blacked out.
By Desmond Okafor ·