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 Barbados. The mid-air terrorist attack on Cubana flight 455 killed everyone on board, including the entire Cuban national fencing team returning with gold medals from a Panamerican competition.
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 covert operations targeting student groups in the days leading up to the massacre at Tlatelolco 58 years ago this week on October 2, 1968.
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 secretary of state Henry Kissinger, according to declassified FBI documents posted today by the National Security Archive. In a meeting with FBI agents on May 25, 2000, in New York, Kissinger related a private meeting he had with General Pinochet in Santiago, Chile, just three months before the assassination, according to a newly disclosed FBI summary of the interview.
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 in Florida. His incarceration at the Krome Detention Center in Miami remained unknown until he appeared on the Department of Homeland Security’s “worst of the worst” list—one of several Trump administration publicity stunts from January 2026 meant to demonstrate that ICE was rounding up immigrants with actual criminal backgrounds.
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 two countries over the extent of U.S. government involvement in Mexican security operations. First identified as U.S.
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 tristemente célebre masacre de cientos de civiles inocentes en 1982.
El 5 de febrero, la decisión concluyó que Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, un ex subteniente y miembro de las fuerzas especiales Kaibiles, cometió crímenes de lesa humanidad al participar en la masacre de hombres, mujeres y niños que vivían en el pequeño pueblo de Dos Erres, en el norte de Guatemala.
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 participating in congressional hearings to investigate the secret bombing of Cambodia. As the Nixon administration’s cover up was unraveling, Kissinger was angry that “these @*%&* over there are acting as if it happened on the moon”; he demanded that Secretary Laird defend the original Nixon/Kissinger decision to launch clandestine attacks on Cambodia.
Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan military officer who participated in a horrific and notorious massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians in 1982.
Washington, D.C., November 26, 2025 - On General Augusto Pinochet’s 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, four delegations of Southern Cone secret police chieftains gathered in Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the Chilean intelligence service, DINA.
Washington, D.C., October 27, 2025 - Tonight, PBS stations across the country will begin airing a two-part biographic documentary on Henry Alfred Kissinger, depicting his life and the controversial legacy of his foreign policies. “According to the featured experts,” concludes a review of the film published in Foreignpolicy.com, “Kissinger learned the wrong lessons from his experiences with Nazi Germany.