Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin claimed Moscow was not disseminating nuclear weapons while a defector provided proof of the opposite, a contradiction kept Secret for decades.
By Roy Castellano ·
A tactical effort to manipulate Chinese industrial policy stayed hidden for decades, replacing rigorous economic analysis with a curated pitch for "domestic benefits."
By Marcus Boone ·
For over 25 years, the State Department kept secret how it viewed China's internal instability and climate disasters as tactical variables in a high-stakes diplomatic stalemate.
By June Hargrove ·
A 1999 cable kept from public view for decades exposes how a skeleton crew in Beijing stalled American technical teams to protect industrial growth
By Constance Bell ·
An August 1962 report, kept secret for decades in an excised copy, admits U.S. nuclear warheads in Turkey and Italy were effectively under allied control despite official lies to the Soviets.
By Eleanor Voss ·
The government kept a curated record of the voices that explained the Watergate cover-up, while the man at the center of the conspiracy remains missing from the transcripts.
By Constance Bell ·
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 ·
The truth of the Nixon era was handed to a State Department PR office for distribution, and the gap between the evidence and the report remains a black hole in the record.
By Constance Bell ·
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 ·
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 ·
A 1977 secret report swore the Shah was in fine health and Iran was stable, while the monarch was dying of cancer—a delusion that left the US blind to the coming revolution.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Six Jesuits were murdered by soldiers, but a 1989 cable shows Washington’s priority was guarding against leaks to protect the Salvadoran military from the truth.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Thousands of Chileans faced a massacre to keep a dictator in power, a plan the State Department tracked through military leaks and recorded in a cable dated October 1, 1988.
By Harlan Pryce ·
For years, the State Department told the world the Chilean military denied killing Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi; an internal probe kept secret for decades found those denials 'dubious.'
By Theo Marchetti ·
In a brief order sent from Zambia, the Secretary of State stopped warnings to Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay about international killings, leaving targets exposed to state terror.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Kept confidential for years, a 1999 State Department analysis exposes how Washington tried to pivot a narrow missile freeze into a total surrender of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
By Roy Castellano ·