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After Reykjavik, the documents show that the American side actively suppressed Ronald Reagan’s nuclear abolition ideas, while the Soviet side worried that Reykjavik was “as high” as the US would ever…

Reagan believed that there could be no arms control without progress on human rights and in private meetings put pressure on the Soviets to make reforms. Gorbachev believed in opening his…

Soviet and American transcripts of conversations in the Hofdi House show real “Shakesperean passions” as Gorbachev described his experience of negotiations. The Soviet and U.S.

From the launch of the Soviet Union’s January 15, 1986, proposal to abolish all nuclear weapons by the year 2000, both Reagan and Gorbachev pursued their

Washington, D.C., October 8, 2026 - Fifty years ago this week, a small bomb of plastic explosives hidden inside a tube of Colgate toothpaste destroyed a civilian Cuban airliner off the coast of…

Washington, D.C., October 1, 2026 - The CIA continues to keep secret major substantive portions of an internal accounting of its activities in Mexico, including information on cove

Washington, D.C., September 21, 2026 - As part of a “major case” investigation into the role of General Augusto Pinochet in an act of terrorism in Washington, D.C., the FBI interviewed former…

Washington, D.C., September 17, 2026 - As U.S.

Washington, D.C., August 31, 2026 - The “fundamental reevaluation” that took place in the Kremlin under General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev not only encompassed the political, ideological, and…

Washington, D.C., August 18, 2026 – The fossil fuel industry is trying to weaken methane reporting requirements while simultaneously fighting to preserve the related federal emissions database it…

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

Washington, D.C., May 27, 2026 - State Department intelligence analysts predicted widening political fissures in Europe and warned about the rise of populist and radical political parties in response…

Washington, D.C., May 19, 2026 - One month before Cuban MiG aircraft shot down two unarmed Cessna planes off the island coast, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official cited “further taunting…

Washington, D.C., April 29, 2026 - The reported deaths last week of two CIA officials in northern Mexico after an operation to dismantle a clandestine drug lab have heightened tensions between the…

Washington D.C., April 16, 2026 - In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F.

Washington, D.C., March 19, 2026 - On August 10, 1973, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger placed a call to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to complain about U.S. officials who were…

Washington, D.C., 19 de marzo de 2026 - El tribunal federal de Ottawa finalmente decidió revocar la ciudadanía canadiense de un oficial militar guatemalteco que participó en una horrible y…