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Washington D.C., July 10, 2026 - On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents quietly detained Armando Fernandez Larios, a former Chilean secret police operative living ...
Washington, D.C., July 1, 2026 - A pamphlet published 50 years ago by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to celebrate the United States Bicentennial and highlight the role of secret intelligence ...
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2026 - On Tuesday, June 30, the congressional Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets chaired by Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna will hold a special ...
The Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to ...
Washington, D.C., January 7, 2026 - Russian president Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush on his birthday in July 2001 and on the day of the 9/11 attacks, and the two ...
Washington, D.C., October 15, 2025 - The 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near the U.S. Air Force Base in Thule, Greenland, that scattered radioactive plutonium across miles of icefields ...
Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025 - Eight months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has fundamentally distorted the federal information landscape as it continues to ...
President Harry S. Truman, shown in 1945, stated that he made the decision to use the bomb, but the decision-making was a group process by top military leaders, including Secretary of War Henry ...
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2025 - The Trump administration’s intention to acquire Greenland, including possibly by force, has put a focus on the history of its strategic interest to U.S. policymakers.
“There’s no secret stuff in here… Just good analysts working with publicly available information and applying good methodological tradecraft” Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the ...
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