Inside the CIA’s Penal Colonies
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Crowdfunding Effort Seeks Gov’t Records of CIA Agents Involved in Iran-Contra
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Why Allen Dulles Killed the Kennedys
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Richard Nixon's Accomplice at the FBI (USA Today)
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Should We Trust Secret Government? Nope
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Release Government Files On The Malcolm X Assassination
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America's Six-Decade Nazi Spy Cover-Up
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The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra And 9/11
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Snowden Docs: Western Spy Agencies Build ‘Cyber Magicians’ to Manipulate Online Discourse
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The National Security State - America's Most Dangerous Institutions
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Ralph Nader: The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome, From Japan To America
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Pakistan: Leaked Report Confirms High Civilian Death Toll in CIA Drone Strikes
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Former CIA Agent Publishes Book on Harassment by Agency, Cover-Up
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Questions for FBI will Linger Following Whitey Bulger Trial
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'Classified Enemy' in Manning Case Confounds Scholars
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The Bradley Manning Trial and Unconstitutional Secrecy
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Verizon Security Chief was Fourth-Ranking FBI Official Under GW Bush
Verizon security chief used to be high level official at FBI The current chief of security of Verizon, a company embroiled in controversy over the
Bradley Manning's Court Martial: Key Players in the WikiLeaks Trial
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