She had spent the year in Afghanistan targeting senior al-Qaida and Taliban members from one of the CIA's most important bases. Ranya Abdelsayed was less than 48 hours away from returning to the United States in 2013 when a colleague found her body in her bed at the agency's Gecko Firebase in Kandahar. At age …
“Whitey” Bulger part of a CIA MKUltra experiment
While imprisoned in Atlanta for the bank robbery conviction in 1957, Bulger volunteered to be a drug test subject in an effort to reduce his prison sentence. Bulger was injected with LSD -- a not-so-well-known drug at the time -- for what he thought was an effort to find a cure for schizophrenia, according to …
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At the time of the JFK assassination Dallas’ mayor, Earle Cabell was a CIA asset
He pointed to documents in the July dump pointing to an ongoing relationship between the CIA and Dallas' mayor at the time, Earle Cabell — whose brother had been forced out of his job as deputy CIA director in 1962 after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Source: Long-sealed JFK assassination files won't end conspiracy talk | Politics …
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The Manson Family: The official story vs. closer to the truth
Joan Didion, the essayist recalls sitting in her sister-in-law’s swimming pool in Beverly Hills on August 9, 1969, when the phone rang. Natalie Wood on the line had heard that across town there had been a spate of murders at a house rented by the director Roman Polanski, on Cielo Drive. Early reports were frenzied, shocking, lurid, …
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