Indonesian Security Forces and the Dili Takeover
Indonesian security forces used joint detachments to seize the capital of Timor-Leste, a collaboration that stayed in State Department files for years.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Paramilitary
Álvaro Uribe and the 1995 Bid for Direct Military Aid
He sought US helicopters to crush guerrillas while the embassy tracked his own drug ties—a secret kept for decades through redacted cables.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Wiranto and the Hundreds of Weapons for East Timor's Militias
While the UN weighed a peacekeeping force to protect a vote on independence, a March 1999 intelligence digest tracked the Indonesian military's secret arming of paramilitary death squads.
By Desmond Okafor ·
DIA Maps 9 Terrorist Groups Governing Colombian Countryside
Far-right terrorists governing Colombian territory through force and massacres were watched by US spies tracking the central nervous system of the organization's regional commands.
By Desmond Okafor ·