Begin's Secret Strike and the 14 US Aircraft That leveled Iraq
Kept secret for decades, the record of a 1981 raid on a nuclear reactor shows Washington managing the fallout of a strike carried out by US-made jets.
By Roy Castellano ·
Iraq
Sagi’s Short Briefing and the 1981 Strike on Tuwaitha
Summoned urgently to a meeting they did not request, US attachés were told a nuclear reactor had already been leveled—a fact kept secret in redacted cables for decades.
By Roy Castellano ·
Baghdad Hanged 14 Alleged Spies While CIA Tracked Iraqi Jews
Fourteen people were executed in public while the intelligence community weighed the risk to the Iraqi Jewish community; the record was sanitized and withheld until 2016.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Iraq Hanged 14 Alleged Spies as Arab Allies Warned Against Spectacle
Fourteen men died on the gallows in Iraq while Cairo warned the execution was too sensational, a detail kept Top Secret until 2016.
By Vera Kessler ·
Baghdad Hanged 15 Alleged Spies While 5,000 Jews Remained at Risk
15 people died on gallows in Baghdad on January 27, 1969, leaving thousands of Iraqi Jews in a precarious position for years—a report kept secret from the public until 2016.
By Constance Bell ·
UK Military Chiefs Linked Nerve Gas Production to Coronation
British military leaders balanced mass-casualty nerve gas manufacturing and Iraqi interests against the Queen's coronation, while the actual decisions made remain hidden.
By Roy Castellano ·
Iraqi Jews Face Execution Threats and Pakistan Army Shoots Violators
A fragile French franc threatened to topple Charles de Gaulle and plunge sterling into crisis while redactions masked the specific failures of President Thieu's staff.
By Roy Castellano ·
618-Page Autopsy Traced Systemic Intelligence Failures in Iraq
Erroneous conclusions about Iraqi WMDs sparked a massive autopsy of an intelligence apparatus that failed to track proliferation through illicit private networks.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Le Duc Tho Demands Power as Soviets Threaten West Berlin Access
Hanoi threatened military force to secure political power in the South while Soviet agents weighed harassing West Berlin access routes before a March 5 deadline.
By Vera Kessler ·