This story comes from Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea’s largest and most conservative news outlets. Adrian Hong Chang, the alleged ringleader of the Feb. 22 attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, has worked with the CIA on multiple occasions, according to Chosun Ilbo. That claim has yet to be confirmed. Hong Chang...
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Spain Not Satisfied with CIA Answers on Embassy Break-In
The story of the February 22 break-in at the North Korean embassy in Madrid just keeps “getting more pregnant” as investigative reporters are wont to say. The daytime attack, involving ten men (some of whom escaped via Uber), is rather more entertaining than parsing the Talmudic texts of Barr and Mueller. (Plus, Rachel Maddow doesn’t...
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Former CIA Officials Woo the 2020 Democrats
Former CIA officials are increasingly willing to inject themselves into presidential politics. Former directors Michael Morrell and John McLaughlin want to educate the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates about national security issues. The 2020 Democratic candidates face some fundamental questions about national security and intelligence issues. Only Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spelled out their...
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How Researchers Found a Secret U.S. Government Documents Data Base
This item comes from Russ Kick, veteran transparency activist who runs the AltGov2 web site. Kick noticed some unusual pages in a batch of new MK-ULTRA documents posted by the Black Vault earlier this year. (MK-ULTRA was a CIA program that sought to exploit drugs and hypnosis to control behavior.) Kick traced the origins of...
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The Man Who Asked Too Many JFK Questions
The late Charles Thomas belonged to an exclusive, unhappy and forgotten club: U.S. government officials whose efforts to honestly investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 cost them their jobs and reputations. Last week the Washington Post ran an obituary of Cynthia Thomas, the widow of Charles Thomas. It was an unusual...