Cover-Ups & Secrets
MKUltra: What the CIA Actually Did, and What It Didn't
The mind-control programme was real. The mythology it seeded is a separate thing.
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Operation Northwoods: The Plan That Was Real and the Plot That Wasn't
The Joint Chiefs really did propose staging attacks on Americans. Then it was refused.
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Katyn: The Forest, the Forgery, and the Denial
For half a century, one government blamed the other for a massacre it had committed itself.
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COINTELPRO: When the Paranoia Was Filed in Triplicate
The activists who said they were being watched were right, and had the paperwork coming.
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The Great Sugar Cover-Up: How Fat Took the Blame
In 1967, three Harvard scientists were quietly paid to point the finger at fat.
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Thalidomide: The Drug, the Cover-Up, and the Woman Who Said No
The tragedy that was real, the warnings that were buried, and the myth of the lone regulator.
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Operation Gladio: The Secret Armies Left Behind
NATO really did hide weapons across Europe. What they were for is the harder question.
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The Gulf of Tonkin: The Attack That Half-Happened
One clash was real. The second, which launched a war, almost certainly never occurred.
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The Reichstag Fire: Who Lit the Match, and Why We Still Argue
Ninety years on, the most consequential arson in modern history is still contested.
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The Business Plot: The Coup Against Roosevelt That Nobody Was Charged For
A decorated general testified that Wall Street asked him to march on Washington.
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Iran-Contra: The Conspiracy That Confessed on Television
A secret arms deal and a secret war, unravelled on live daytime TV.
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The Bitter Bean: Chocolate's Child-Labour Supply Chain
Twenty years of pledges, and the cocoa still comes with a cost the label never mentions.
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Tuskegee: The Study That Earned Every Suspicion
For forty years the US Public Health Service watched men die of a curable disease.
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Big Sugar's Playbook: How an Industry Manufactured Doubt
The tactics were borrowed from tobacco, and they worked for decades.