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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi

@ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social
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International Relations @ University of South Florida & The National Security Archive. Interest: international law, CIA, covert action, secret law, human rights, and criminal accountability.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 6h
Buen resumen @sinembargomx.bsky.social de nuestro articulo e importante enfoque del grupo C-047 y Nazar Haro. Todos los documentos relacionados con Nazar Haro, el grupo C-047 y la DFS también se tienen que desclasificar. @nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social www.sinembargo.mx/4880396/la-c...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 6h
Nice to be interviewed by @elpaismexico.bsky.social on our article on the CIA in Mexico for @nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social elpais.com/mexico/2026-...
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Un expediente agujereado esconde el rol de la CIA en la represión del 68 en México
Nuevas indagaciones confirman la financiación estadounidense a grupos estudiantiles de extrema derecha en los años previos a la matanza de Tlatelolco
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@nsarchive.bsky.social published a new briefing book just for me!! 😍 nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The CIA Station in Mexico: The Last JFK Assassination Records Secrets
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 target...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
La Jornada acaba de escribir un artículo sobre la investigación que @cldorfman.bsky.social y yo hemos publicado en @nsarchive.bsky.social sobre operaciones de la CIA en contra de estudiantes mexicanos desde 1952 hasta la masacre de Tlatelolco en el 68. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...
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CIA financió grupos de derecha, realizó infiltración y tuvo nexos con gobierno previo a matanza en Tlatelolco
Según documentos oficiales divulgados y analizados por el National Security Archive, centro de investigación independiente en Washington, la CIA manejaba por lo menos cinco proyectos a lo largo de dos...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not all the JFK files have been declassified! @cldorfman.bsky.social & I show at @nsarchive.bsky.social what the CIA is hiding in its redacted Mexico City Station History: CIA unilateral ops targeting student groups leading to the Tlatelolco massacre & more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The CIA Station in Mexico: The Last JFK Assassination Records Secrets
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 target...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th! What better day to do some light reading on a CIA domestic psy op to rehabilitate its public image by exploiting the war of independence. A nice (if perhaps awkward) conversation starter. @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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“Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War
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 op...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Cool video summary of @nsarchive.bsky.social article on the CIA & the Bicentennial.
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A pamphlet published in 1976 to celebrate the Bicentennial and highlight the role of secret intelligence operations in the Revolutionary War was part of an effort to push back against congressional investigations of CIA abuses, writes @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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“Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War
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 op...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
50yrs ago, the CIA published "Intelligence in the War of Independence" to rehabilitate the Agency's public image as it was being investigated for decades of misdeeds. In this post for @nsarchive.bsky.social I write a little history on this CIA publication.
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“Exploiting the Bicentennial”: The Church Committee, the CIA, and the Politicization of the Revolutionary War
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 op...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Glad someone is tracking the administration's assault on the right to information
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Check out our new article @lucatrenta.bsky.social
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My piece w @lucatrenta.bsky.social is up @justsecurity.org. It warns of implications of Khamenei assassination & US abandonment of domestic assass ban for inter society & recommends Congress invest & legislate prohibiting assass as Church recommended 50 yrs ago. www.justsecurity.org/135015/khame...
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Khamenei’s Killing and the Perilous Death of the Assassination Ban
Khamenei’s killing ends U.S. ban on assassination, deepens U.S.-Israeli lethal ties, and invites States to abandon diplomacy for violence.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🔔 Introducing the Disappearing Data Chronology—a timeline tracking the Trump admin’s fundamental changes to the information landscape, including major data losses / restorations, legal challenges, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi... @nsarchive.bsky.social
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A Disappearing Data Chronology
About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here is my discussion with @klasfeldreports.com on my article for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the Barr Doctrine: the secret legal framework that paved the way for the Noriega op in 1989, Maduro this year & potentially more to come www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cj...
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Trump's Ex AG Bill Barr MEMO EXPOSES Maduro Raid
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here is an article @lucatrenta.bsky.social and I wrote in @uk.theconversation.com that situates the Khamenei killing within long hist of assassination plots where US prefers that someone else pulls the trigger. Based @nsarchive.bsky.social docs posted over years theconversation.com/ali-khamenei...
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Ali Khamenei’s killing continues long US tradition of letting others pull the trigger
Declassified documents reveal details about the long history of the US seeking allies willing to cooperate to kill.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Odds of decapitation or "inadvertent" assassination just went up as well
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Looking forward to participating in this webinar @quincyinst.bsky.social on Fabruary 17 at 1:00pm to discuss a new book by Jack Cheevers on the 1963 coup and assassination of Diem in South Vietnam. You can sign-up here. quincyinst.org/events/kenne...
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Kennedy’s Coup: How Diem’s Assassination Became Our Foreign Policy Albatross
A discussion of Jack Cheevers' new book.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Powerful warning by @sophieduroy.bsky.social & @lucatrenta.bsky.social on the U.S.'s lack of even trying to engage with international law re the Maduro snatch operation. verfassungsblog.de/even-hypocri...
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“Even hypocrisy requires a moral code”
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I just received a hard copy of @lucatrenta.bsky.social & @avramovok.bsky.social (eds) Killing in the Name of the State: State Sponsored Assassinations in International Politics, where I contributed a chapter on secret treaties and assassinations. www.rienner.com/title/Killin...
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Lynne Rienner Publishers | Killing in the Name of the State State Sponsored Assassination in International Politics
Lynne Rienner Publishers, celebrating 35 years of independent publishing, is known for its cutting-edge, high quality scholarly and academic books and journals in politics, social sciences, and the hu...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Aquí está mi artículo para @nsarchive.bsky.social sobre cómo la invasión estadounidense de Panamá en 1989 abrió la puerta a la operación contra Maduro. Traducido al español. elindependiente.mx/nacional/202...
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Doctrina Barr contra Noriega sirvió para capturar de Maduro — El Independiente
Dr. Arturo Jiménez-Bacardi/ I de V partes* Los memorandos legales de 1989 decían que el presidente tenía “autoridad constitucional
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
And for each one of those power grabs there should be some secret legal opinions effectively amending the law. #secretlaw #FOIA www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Tests Presidential Power: Venezuela Operation, Iran Bombing and More
A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Must-read research and historical context for the Maduro operation 🗃️
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Oh hells yes! Have I ever mentioned that working with @nsarchive.bsky.social is kind of a dream of mine?
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Incredible piece from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social today on Bill Barr, Noriega, and the kidnapping of Maduro. Barr can also be remembered for dismantling the Cienfuegos case in 2020 by dropping drug trafficking and money laundering charges against Mexico's former SecDef. The more things change..!
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Here is my new article for @nsarchive.bsky.social It is based on documents I found at the George H. W. Bush Library that deal with the lead up to the "snatch" operation against Panama's Noriega in 1989 and how that op served as the key precedent for the Maduro op nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Imperial Prerogative: How the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” Set the Stage for the Maduro “Snatch” Operation
Washington, D.C., January 16, 2026 - The Justice Department official who wrote the legal opinion determining that President Donald Trump had the constitutional authority to “unilaterally order” the “e...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Great power unilateralism and climate change are not a good combination. @rsanta.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A huge loss. Bill Burr's commitments to transparency, accountability, knowledge, and mentorship had no limits. His EBBs always amazed me. Always FOIA, MDR, and appeal. @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Nice to see my article for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the killing of Che Guevara cited by the New York Times. Not as excited to see the U.S. continue to engage in "covert" regime change operations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Great work on what you can find when you delve into the weeds of the JFK Assassination files.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller (1952) was frustrated that the U.S. agreed to a rules-based international order that prohibits intervention into the domestic affairs of other states.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In 1952 the Psychological Strategy Board assessed that U.S. domestic policies on race relations, restrictive immigration, and tariffs were psychologically damaging to U.S. interests.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Flying Saucers, Oh my! Psychological Strategy Board staff minutes
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If this intelligence assessment stands, this has the potential for a major clash between Trump and Netanyahu. Two individuals who are incapable of taking the blame for any kind of failure.
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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Arsenal play Barcelona in the UWCL Final tomorrow at 5pm at the Estádio Jose Alvalade. Full match preview 👇🏻🔴⚪️
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A potential South Asian Cuban Missile Crisis...
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS
Washington D.C. May 7, 2025 – On November 29, 2011, a Chilean judge stunned the world by indicting a retired U.S. Navy captain as an accomplice to the executions of two U.S. citizens in the days follo...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Here is my new article (with Peter Kornbluh) for @nsarchive.bsky.social on more covert action secrets in the Kennedy files. The article discusses CIA covert ops in Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Congo, Haiti, Japan, Italy, and more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 - Just six months before the 1964 military coup that overthrew the government of João Goulart in Brazil, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans Richard Helms...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files
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History As It Happens: The JFK Files
Why was director Oliver Stone testifying on Capitol Hill today? After his 1991 film "JFK" reignited conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's assassination, Congress authorized the release of mill...
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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The CIA took over an FBI monitoring post targeting the United Nations in 1967, according to newly declassified "Family Jewels" documents.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It was great to be interviewed for this @nytimes.com article on our work at the @nsarchive.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.
The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Here is my latest EBB with @nsarchive.bsky.social . An overnight team effort to find six great documents that reveal new CIA covert ops and unknown details of famous operations. More to come...
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CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy
Washington D.C., March 19, 2025 - On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—intelligenc...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is similar to the rallying cry "Je suis Charlie.” Either you support free speech or you don’t. Either you support due process or you don’t. We are all in this together, regardless of our opinions or the content of our speech.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump is not isolationist, he is an aggressive unilateralist
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I was literally just in contact with JFKL over some docs I was interested in. @lucatrenta.bsky.social I hope Ford library isn't next. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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JFK Library in Boston closed until further notice due to federal job cuts, source says
The JFK Library​ in Boston is closed indefinitely because of federal job cuts, a source tells WBZ-TV.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22/01/2025
Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes
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Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes
Case of Osama Najim puts spotlight on controversial migration pact between Italy and Libya Giorgia Meloni’s government is under pressure to clarify why a Rome court refused to approve the arrest of a Libyan general accused of war crimes, allowing him to…
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Twelve years ago a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA could memory-hole a photo of a prisoner whom the CIA had tortured because the photo might reveal something about how the CIA had tortured him. Remembered that when I read this @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social story.
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Prisoner’s Self-Portraits of C.I.A. Torture Surface From Sealed Court Record
“This is what his nightmares are all about,” said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.
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