Last month, 19 senior CIA officials, current and former, signed a statement lauding the late president George Bush, who served as CIA director for one year. The agency put out a complimentary “unclassified” video about his service to the agency. Langley’s Twitter feed featured 11 straight days of photos and anecdotes about Bush’s warm relationship...
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King and Kennedy Family Members Call for New Assassination Investigations
The sons of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are calling for reopening the investigations of their father’s deaths in 1968. In a letter signed by 60 people, Martin Luther King III and RFK Jr. called on the government “to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin...
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Whitewash: CIA Tweets in Honor of MLK, the Man They Spied On
The CIA is nothing, if not shameless. Fifty three years ago, the agency with the help of the FBI and local police, was spying on Martin Luther King as he passed through Miami. The agency wanted to know more about one of his associates said to be “a member of the Communist party.” They were...
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Leaked FBI Testimony Doesn’t Bolster Trump’s ‘Deep State’ Theories
With Democrats now in control of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, new details are emerging about the Republican investigation of the FBI’s handling of the investigation of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two transcripts, leaked to the New York Times and the Epoch Times respectively, show how senior FBI officials viewed Donald Trump’s rise...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Covert Action Museum Is Not So Smart
Last month I reported that the planned Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations had received $10 million grant for a showcase building in northern Virginia. Given the CIA”s lengthy record of unsuccessful operations that harmed U.S. interests and values, I questioned whether the museum was a good idea. Now Richmond Times Dispatch is asking the...