Shadows in the Stratosphere: The U-2 Reconnaissance Program and the Crucible of Cold War Intelligence
In the early years of the...
The Phoenix Program: The CIA’s Covert War Against the Viet Cong Infrastructure
During the Vietnam War, the conflict...
Project MK-NAOMI: The Clandestine Stockpiling of Lethal Toxins and the Technology of Biological Warfare
To understand the most extreme and...
The Iran-Contra Affair: Covert Pathways, Executive Hubris, and the Fragmentation of Constitutional Trust
In the mid-1980s, the administration of...
Operation PBSUCCESS: The Overthrow of Guatemalan Democracy and the Dawn of the Latin American Cold War
To comprehend the modern geopolitical landscape...
Operation Ajax: The 1953 Coup, the Strangling of Iranian Democracy, and the Catalyst for Modern Middle Eastern Conflict
The 1953 coup d’état in Iran,...
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Black Liberation and the Democratic Order
Between 1956 and 1971, the Federal...
Operation Mongoose: Covert Warfare, the Imperial Presidency, and the Cold War’s Darkest Crusade
The humiliation of the Bay of...
Bill Clinton, the “New Democrat,” and the Limits of Centrist Reform
To understand the defining economic, political,...