An FBI affidavit ties five classified reports a CIA contractor opened to his calls with a journalist he was dating and to the Substack posts that followed.
News
Rubio Asks Cubans to Partner With the CIA, and Havana Mocks It
Rubio urged Cubans to seek a “discrete partnership with the CIA,” and the agency posted contact steps. Its last Cuban recruits mostly worked for Havana.
Declassified
Project AQUILINE : The CIA’s Bird Drone
Birds Aren’t Real is satire. But CIA files show a 1960s bird-like spy drone, test crashes, and a 1971 doubt over whether détente would ever let it fly.
Declassified
The CIA’s Bin Laden Raid Script Said No Women Were Hurt
The CIA scripted the bin Laden raid briefing on May 1, 2011, saying no women were hurt. Within two days, the White House told the story three other ways.
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
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.
Archives
Operation PBSUCCESS: The CIA’s 1954 Guatemala Coup on the Record
Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA’s 1952-1954 campaign to oust Guatemala’s President Jacobo Arbenz, traced through the agency’s own history and the FRUS record.
Declassified
The CIA ‘Vaccine’ Memo Is Real. Here’s What It Actually Says
A viral headline said a 1952 CIA memo plotted to drug Americans with vaccines. We read it: one line about shots, 13 stranger ideas, and one real case.
Archives
Bay of Pigs, 1960–1961: The Declassified CIA Record
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.