A reference guide to the Bay of Pigs through declassified CIA and White House records, from 1960 planning papers to the Inspector General’s 1961 survey.
A presidential panel declassified the 9/11 Commission’s review of 353 pre-attack Daily Brief articles plus 11 interview memos. Here’s what was released.
Newly released FBI files show agents questioned Henry Kissinger in a 2000 probe of Pinochet’s role in the 1976 Embassy Row bombing. Read what they say.
The CIA’s 1973 “family jewels” file, declassified in 2007: its own account of spying on journalists, opening mail for two decades, and assassination plots.
The Department of War issued a legal waiver letting personnel bypass classified program secrecy agreements to report UAP information directly to PURSUE.
The CIA declassified 71 presidential briefs on bin Laden — warnings that began in 1998, not with the single memo most people remember from August 2001.
Declassified 1975 Church Committee transcripts hold Sidney Gottlieb’s own account of MKULTRA, the Castro assassination plots, and Frank Olson’s death.
A 2013 declassification restored the CIA’s own redactions, the first U.S. document to confirm Area 51 by name and detail its U-2 and OXCART history.
Declassified 1990s cables show China was privately open to climate deals, and a Senate vote had already blocked U.S. ratification before Kyoto talks began.