Reagan told Thatcher his Reykjavik offer meant ending “all nuclear devices.” Within a week, two aides not on the call rewrote it as “ballistic missiles.”
Declassified
RCMP Caught CIA Cover Branch Sending Ex-Agents to Canada
Newly unredacted pages of Canada’s 1986 Rodal report show the RCMP caught a U.S. Army cover branch sending ex-agents north. One U.S. line is still secret.
Declassified
Cubana 455: The Accused Bomber Got a U.S. Visa Five Days Before the Attack
FBI letters to Kissinger show a Cubana 455 suspect asked the FBI’s man in Caracas for visa help. It was issued Oct. 1, 1976, five days before the bombing.
Declassified
Smith’s Team Met Brennan at CIA.
Smith told senators he never met John Brennan. The FBI memo shows three of his prosecutors met Brennan at CIA in 2023, and the agents’ notes are blank.
Declassified
Curveball: What the BND Told the CIA Privately, and Officially
Hanning’s BND privately called Curveball “crazy” and a possible fabricator, then cleared his claims for public use. The WMD Commission record shows both.
Declassified
Thomas Crooks’s ‘Mystery Contacts’: What the FBI’s Own Files Show
Thomas Crooks’s ‘mystery contacts’ drew headlines after a Judicial Watch FOIA release. We read all 250 FBI pages to see what the records actually say.
Declassified
The Saudi Arms Finding State Redacted, Even for Congress
State’s own watchdog found the department didn’t fully weigh civilian harm in 2019 emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The details are still withheld.
Declassified
CIA Still Withholds Its Tlatelolco Pages, 58 Years Later
The CIA’s own history of its Mexico City station describes the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in two sentences. The next nine pages are still withheld in full.
Declassified
Inside the Navy’s 1979 Study of Nuclear Planes and 80-Knot Ships
A 560-tonne nuclear patrol plane, 80-knot ships and carriers on air cushions: we read the Navy’s newly released 1979 ANVCE study and what became of it.