David Wise was co-author of the 1964 best-seller “The Invisible Government,” the first really good book ever written about the CIA. The book, which the CIA sought to suppress, chronicled the excesses of U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Wise laid bare the agency’s role in orchestrated coups in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s,...
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FOIA Watch: The ‘Indiana Jones Warehouse” (or Where the Government Stashes its Oldest Records0
Anyone who uses the Freedom of Information Act to investigate the working of the U.S. government is likely to run into road block called “no responsive records.” For example, when I sued the CIA for the files of George Joannides, a psychological warfare operations officer, I was told the agency had no records responsive to...
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Is Gina Haspel Abetting Trump’s Politics of Misdirection?
Asheley Wood of Just Security suggests she is. Re-read what Haspel said about China in her Louisville speech and then consider the context.
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Fifty Years After Tlatelolco Massacre, Impunity Reigns In Mexico
Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most notorious events in Mexican history: the massacre of scores of student demonstrators on the eve of the 1968 Olympics. Across the country, Mexican citizens are commemorating the event with marches and rallies, conferences, exhibitions, and performances. The massacre marked the first time a popular movement confronted Mexico’s...