Helms, Edwards and the September 18 Plan for Chile
A CIA source's identity was botched by censors in a memo concerning the Chilean political crisis, kept secret until it reached the State Department's public files.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Richard Helms
Admiral Kasatonov Calculated One Atomic Torpedo to Sink a US Carrier
Kept secret until June 2017, a Soviet tactical guide envisioned the annihilation of NATO carrier groups with single nuclear torpedoes and orbital surveillance.
By Roy Castellano ·
CIA Targeted Patrice Lumumba for Illegal Overthrow in 1960
Patrice Lumumba was reduced to a set of statistical estimates as the CIA weighed an illegal coup against the risk of alienating other African states.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Richard Helms and William Colby Forced to Account for Hidden JFK Records
Families of the fallen waited 30 years for answers while CIA architects Richard Helms and William Colby scrubbed records and hid files to maintain plausible deniability.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Kissinger and Helms Plot to Covertly Support Jorge Alessandri
Secret directives from a "higher authority" urged a covert push for Jorge Alessandri in Chile, though the record remains blank on the assets and money deployed.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Richard Helms Warns CIA Radios Face 30-Day Survival Window
Radio Free Europe faced a total blackout in 1971 when Senator Ellender blocked secret CIA funding, leaving the operation with only weeks of cash and termination costs still blacked out.
By Marcus Boone ·
Soviet Admiral Planned Immediate and Crushing Nuclear Strikes
Western targets were marked for immediate and crushing nuclear strikes in a 1962 Soviet blueprint that identified propaganda and carrier movements as markers of an impending war.
By Roy Castellano ·
CIA officer passed Black Leaf 40 poison pen to kill Castro as JFK was shot
Presidential oversight bodies were deceived about a plot to kill Fidel Castro while CIA agents paid Rolando Cubela $8,200 for an assassination attempt.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Helms and Gottlieb burned illegal human experiment records
Victims of illegal human experimentation were scrubbed from the record by CIA leadership in 1973, leaving the agency's behavior-modification research permanently buried.
By June Hargrove ·
Soviet General plotted 10-day nuclear sprint to the Atlantic
American reserves risked total isolation under a secret Soviet plan to create radioactive zones and seize harbors, a strategy the CIA tracked using the codeword IRONBARK.
By Roy Castellano ·