Patricia Derian and the Garbage Heaps of Buenos Aires
Notes kept from official channels describe how US intelligence agencies signaled to the Argentine junta that human rights mandates were merely cosmetic and could be ignored
By Theo Marchetti ·
Jimmy Carter
Desert One's 8 Dead and the 1980 Calculation for Special Ops
Eight servicemen died in a collision of helicopters in the Iranian desert; a Top Secret report frames the catastrophe as a justification to expand the military's covert reach.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Paul Austin’s Alzheimer’s and the Failed Cuban Summit
A private emissary's cognitive decline allowed unauthorized promises of an embargo lifting to reach Havana, forcing the State Department into a desperate campaign of damage control.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Jimmy Carter OK'd CIA's use of unwitting Americans to funnel books to Soviets
Kept Secret for decades, a July 1979 memorandum shows how US academics were manipulated into aiding a covert operation to funnel publications into the Soviet Bloc without their knowledge.
By Constance Bell ·
Jimmy Carter weighed the risk of ending all nuclear tests in 1977
A Secret memorandum shows the new president wanted to stop all nuclear explosions, leaving the military to figure out if the Soviets would actually stop too.
By Roy Castellano ·
Prague Warns North Korean Nuclear Weapons Could Spark Global War
Prague feared North Korea was equipping itself with nuclear weapons and risking global war while Budapest dismissed the alarm as a tactic to sound out Jimmy Carter's plans.
By Roy Castellano ·