1800s to the 20th century
In 1961, the Kennedy administration launched Operation Mongoose — the largest and most aggressive covert war the United States ever waged against a single…
For four decades, NATO ran a secret civilian army in Western Europe. In October 1990, an Italian prime minister confirmed its existence on the…
Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. The men who built his most terrifying weapons did not. In the chaotic…
Between 1968 and 1972 the CIA ran one of the largest targeted-killing programs in modern American history inside South Vietnam’s villages. Official figures record…
Operation Keelhaul was the secret Allied policy that forcibly returned millions of Soviet citizens — including Cossacks who had never lived in the USSR…
In 1943, three million Indians died of hunger in Bengal — a province that had enough food to feed itself. No drought caused this…
In four sweltering August days in 1953, a handful of American and British spies, suitcases of cash, paid mobs, and one insubordinate cable rewrote…
