Investigative deep-dives, source-backed stories, and hidden histories — curated under this category.
In 1961, the Kennedy administration launched Operation Mongoose — the largest and most aggressive covert war the United States ever waged against a single…
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…
In four sweltering August days in 1953, a handful of American and British spies, suitcases of cash, paid mobs, and one insubordinate cable rewrote…
