Manuel Contreras and the Blacked-Out Truth of Punto Peuco
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 ·
State Terror
Two Cuban Diplomats and the Cement Drum in Rio Lujan
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 ·
$3,500 for Ten Days of Killing at Condor 1
The CIA held the operational blueprint for a coordinated assassination network across South America, keeping the financial costs of state terror secret for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Forbes Burnham and the Phantom Sergeant in the Rodney Case
A historian was blown apart by a walkie-talkie bomb in 1980, and a secret cable from July 1 of that year held the silence of the American Embassy regarding the man who delivered the device.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Fidel Castaño and the 2,000 Paramilitaries Who Sold the Cordoba Model
Kept secret for 25 years, a 1998 cable documents how U.S. multinationals and the DEA intersected with Colombian narco-vigilantes to cleanse the Córdoba region.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Jakarta and the 98 Percent Who Voted for Freedom
While Timorese voters faced slaughter from state-backed gangs, an intelligence report from September 1999 weighed whether the Indonesian state ever intended to stop the killing
By Harlan Pryce ·
Sexual Violence and the 1998 Jakarta Killings
The link between state-sponsored rape and the murder of students remained a 'Confidential' diplomatic secret while the perpetrators walked free in the post-Suharto transition.
By Desmond Okafor ·