Political hopefuls and career officials were vetted through prosecutorial files to identify those deemed toxic to the new administration, a process kept hidden for decades.
By Miriam Adler ·
The battle over the recordings that documented a constitutional crisis was fought not in court, but through "implementation rules" kept secret for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A 1976 investigation into the president's ties to maritime labor was shielded by the highest security markings to keep the details of the probe from the public.
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 ·
A president's attempt to bury the record of state-sponsored killing shifted the burden of national failure onto the senators who dared to investigate.
By Desmond Okafor ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
Operation SOLO and the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald remained central to a struggle between investigators and the federal government to control the official record.
By Theo Marchetti ·