Category Archives: CIA

On This Day — CIA COS Richard Welch Is Assassinated in Athens (December 23 1975) [UPDATE — Learning from Aristotle]

Posted on December 23, 2023 by L

“The CIA and the Ford White House quickly saw Welch’s murder as a political windfall. At a time when the CIA was under assault from Congress and Bush’s nomination was in peril in the Senate, there was now a dead … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering Gary Webb “CIA & Cocaine DARK ALLIANCE” (August 31 1955 – December 10 2004)

Posted on December 11, 2023 by L

“I was you once. Gary, I started down this road. Though nowhere near as far as you are. When they saw I wasn’t gonna stop, they ‘controversialized’ me. Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? They make *you* … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Did the CIA Kill Father Louis Thomas Merton? (December 10 1968) [UPDATE : Is ChatGPT pro-establishment oriented?]

Posted on December 10, 2023 by L

“The very thoughts of a person like me are crimes against the state. All I have to do is think, and immediately I become guilty.” Father Louis Merton  A Signed Confession of Crimes against the State December 10 2023 — … Continue reading →

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On This Day — THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE (CIA, November 28 1947)

Posted on November 28, 2023 by L

“Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN Genral Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab States as recommended by the UN Special Committee on Palestine.” CIA (November 28 1947) November 28 … Continue reading →

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70 Years Ago — Did The CIA Murder US Army Scientist Frank Olson? And Why? (November 28 1953) [UPDATE — New documents: Frank Olson’s death was connected to a specific program]

Posted on November 28, 2023 by L

“If this would have been a suicide, it would have been very difficult to accomplish. There was motive to kill him. He knew the deepest, darkest secrets of the cold war. Would the American government kill an American citizen who … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Robert Gates Becomes 15th CIA Director (November 6 1991) [Test your “Spy Knowledge” with our CIA Directors Quiz!]

Posted on November 6, 2023 by L

“If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of.” Robert GatesFormer CIA Director   November 6 2023 — … Continue reading →

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KRYPTOS Week — Introduction : Sculpture Dedication Ceremony at the CIA (November 3 1990)

Posted on November 4, 2023 by L

“Maybe you’re mistaken–maybe this first part of the Kryptos code is really not a polyalphabetic Vigenere Tableau after all — maybe it’s a different type of code entirely. Or maybe it is a Vigenere code, but it’s been double or … Continue reading →

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On This Day — THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE (CIA, November 28 1947)

Posted on November 2, 2023 by L

“Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN Genral Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab States as recommended by the UN Special Committee on Palestine.” CIA (November 28 1947) November 02 … Continue reading →

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Remembering CIA Rachel A. Dean (April 10 1981 – September 30 2006)

Posted on September 30, 2023 by L

“Rachel was a warm and compassionate young woman, and an officer of unbounded potential. We miss her still and will remember her always. She is our 87th star.” CIA Director General Michael V. Hayden May 21 2007 September 30 2023 … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The VELA Incident (September 22 1979)

Posted on September 23, 2023 by L

“Now, 40 years later, there is a scientific and historical consensus that it was a nuclear test and that it had to be Israeli.” Avner Cohen (September 22 2019) September 22 2023 — A CIA-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded … Continue reading →

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