Pinochet spent years stonewalling the U.S. government to hide a murder plot in Washington, a strategy detailed in a Secret CIA cable that remained hidden for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Names of operatives and collaborators stayed hidden for decades, even as the DOJ launched a renewed hunt for the order that killed two people on a Washington street
By Desmond Okafor ·
Ronni Moffitt and Orlando Letelier were killed by a car bomb in Washington, but a secret CIA assessment spent months calculating how the Pinochet regime would lie about it.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt were murdered in a D.C. car bomb, yet the FBI waited 24 years to hunt for the order's author in a case where names remain blacked out
By Desmond Okafor ·
The man who ordered the assassination of a diplomat in Washington died while serving 529 years, but the FBI's final interrogation of him remains a wall of black ink.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1976 cable describes "special teams" that killed a diplomat on US soil, with the most damning operational details still blacked out after decades of secrecy.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Political dissidents across the Southern Cone were marked for death in a cross-border killing machine that reached into Europe, a plan the CIA tracked while the names remained blacked out for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Kept secret for decades, a 1976 memo shows the CIA fearing the optics of assassination squads in South America—squads the United States had already funded.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1977 briefing sought to "reassure" the First Lady about the agency's illegal acts while the U.S. looked away from state terror in the Southern Cone.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Secret/Eyes Only FBI memorandum from 1976 tracks the disposal of two kidnapped officials, whose identities were erased by state terror and hidden for 36 years
By Desmond Okafor ·
A 1978 confession from a Chilean hitman reveals a desperate attempt to trade state secrets for survival after the car bombing of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.
By Theo Marchetti ·
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 ·
A secret diplomatic warning against international assassinations was rescinded just five days before a car bomb killed two people in the U.S. capital, a reversal kept secret for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Left-wing exiles in Europe and North America were hunted by a cross-border assassination network financed by Washington, with key names still blacked out in the files.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For decades, the account of how a top intelligence officer used the Founding Fathers to justify illegal mail opening and kidnapping remained hidden in a Texas transcript.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The FBI and CIA tracked a network of death squads across the Southern Cone for years, but a Top Secret Senate report on the slaughter was suppressed until a leak brought it to light.
By Desmond Okafor ·