The Leopoldville Covenant: Patrice Lumumba, the CIA’s Chemical Division, and the Clandestine Plot to Poison the Congo
The independence of the Republic of...
Operation Artichoke: Scientific Barbarism, the “Disposal Problem,” and the Birth of the CIA’s Mind Control Empire
In the early, paranoid years of...
The Zimmermann Telegram: British Cryptography, German Imperial Hubris, and the Intercept That Dragged America to War
In the opening days of the...
The Hanford Clashes: Harry Truman, the Wall of Secrecy, and the Constitutional Battle Over the Manhattan Project
In the middle of 1943, as...
The Delaware Street Stakeout: The Kansas City Star’s Binocular Surveillance of Harry Truman
The summer of 1946 was a...
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...