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Western leaders made verbal assurances in 1990 focused on Germany’s reunification, including James Baker’s line that “NATO’s jurisdiction… would not move one inch eastward,” but no legally binding, wr...
Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...
The complete, published transcripts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, “Save America” speech are available from multiple mainstream outlets and archival projects; for example, The Washington Post’s trans...
Declassified records and longstanding investigations show MKULTRA combined pharmacology (notably LSD) with coercive techniques—electroshock, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, sleep and temperature extrem...
Newly released government files in 2025 disclose extensive Cold War-era CIA covert operations and gaps in agency record-keeping, but multiple major news outlets and historians say those records “do no...
Operation Northwoods was a 1962 menu of proposed false‑flag actions drafted within the Department of Defense/Joint Chiefs of Staff that recommended staging or fabricating attacks and incidents to crea...
Declassified records and archival reporting show MKULTRA was not a single lab’s work but a wide network: at least 80 institutions and roughly 185 outside researchers participated, including universiti...
Declassified JFK-era documents released in 2025 show evidence of close working relationships between some CIA officers (notably James Jesus Angleton) and Israeli intelligence, and they reveal domestic...
No single, legally binding promise to forswear expansion into exists in the archival record; Western officials made oral assurances in 1990 limited to the disposition of NATO forces on a reunified , w...
Jonathan J. Pollard was a civilian U.S. naval intelligence analyst who in the mid-1980s provided large quantities of classified U.S. intelligence to Israel, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espi...
Declassified MKUltra records identify scores of universities, hospitals and private labs that received CIA funding or served as sites for drug and behavioral experiments—most famously McGill Universit...
The most recent public releases include over 1,200 pages of MKULTRA-related records published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest, drawing on surviving FOIA and archive material that survive...
Survivors and historians say MKUltra victims were subjected to a range of sensory, drug and electroshock techniques meant to erase, overwrite or compartmentalize memory and to create dissociated “role...
The assembled analyses show , ranging from confirmed Cold War intelligence collaboration with Mexican governments to journalistic and academic allegations tying the CIA to anti‑narcotics operations an...
The record shows ’s combined repeated, baseless claims that was “corrupt” with language urging supporters to march to — he told the crowd “I know that everyone here will soon be marching to the Capito...
Declassified U.S. government records and agency reports—including CIA documents released through the agency’s FOIA Reading Room and the National Security Archive collection—show that U.S. officials kn...
Large, government-held caches of JFK assassination records were ordered released in 2025 and thousands of pages were published — roughly 63,000–80,000 pages in various tallies — but experts and journa...
The – “Defense of ” agreement established -based U.S. defense rights in Greenland while explicitly recognizing Danish sovereignty, but it was implemented alongside secret annexes—most notably a Top Se...
Several named MKULTRA victims — notably Stanley Glickman, Velma “Val” Orlikow and a cohort of patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill’s Allan Memorial Institute (including recent plaintiffs such as Ms....
Several primary-source collections shed direct light on the USS Liberty attack: declassified CIA memoranda and reports, NSA transcript and audio releases of intercepted Israeli communications, Navy/Do...