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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author, most recently, of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. This essay is drawn from the afterword to the new paperback edition of the book, scheduled for publication by …
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Project MKUltra began on this day in 1953 and continued for years Kat Eschner April 13, 2017 Many of the records from MKUltra have been destroyed, but 8,000 pages of records were discovered in 1977. iStock On this day in 1953, the then-Director of Central Intelligence officially approved project …
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Kanye West was hospitalized on Monday shortly after canceling the last 21 shows of his national tour. Most reports suggest the rapper suffered from temporary psychosis, but some paranoiac skeptics believe that he is just being reprogrammed after challenging the status quo and praising Donald Trump. …
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The foundations of what was to become known as “enhanced interrogation” were laid when Kirk Hubbard, the CIA’s director of behavioural research and an APA member, commissioned James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two ex-US air force psychologists, to deliver a report on possible “countermeasures to …
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If you believe the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked in a studio in 1969, this movie is for you. Even if you never bought into that urban myth, you may be impressed by the technical achievement of “Operation Avalanche,” which suggests that two nerdy young CIA agents (played by director Matt Johnson …
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If you’re like most people, you’re having trouble keeping track of the nation’s growing stockpile of conspiracy theories. It’s becoming harder and harder to separate the birthers from the truthers from the grassy knollers and all the rest. But there’s one conspiracy theory that, regrettably, is …
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If you’re like most people, you’re having trouble keeping track of the nation’s growing stockpile of conspiracy theories. It’s becoming harder and harder to separate the birthers from the truthers from the grassy knollers and all the rest. But there’s one conspiracy theory that, regrettably, is …
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This Friday (Sept. 16) an ethically questionable and totally thrilling fake documentary about the first moon landing premieres in theaters. In the film, titled “Operation avalanche,” two CIA agents pose as documentary filmmakers to infiltrate NASA and investigate a Russian mole. Then they stage the …
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There have been numerous brilliant documentaries made since 9/11, about the day nearly 3,000 people were killed in the largest ever terrorist attack on US soil, and its aftermath. Fifteen years on, if broadcasters had an ounce of courage or grace they would just rerun the best of them to mark each …
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In 1975 Senator Frank Church convened a joint senatorial/congressional inquiry into the egregious human rights and civil liberties violations of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”), National Security Agency (“NSA”), as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) against people both …
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