Covert Ops

Cold War Talk Cold War Talk

The prevailing view of the Bush Administration's expulsion of some fifty Russian diplomats in retaliation for the Robert Hanssen spy scandal has been that it was a throwback to co...

Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors

What Are Spies For? What Are Spies For?

The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985....

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?

New evidence of a CIA scheme to use Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / David Corn and Gus Russo

Chile and the End of Pinochet Chile and the End of Pinochet

The former dictator is charged at last, and human rights are the talk of the nation.

Feb 8, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper

A Tale of Two Venonas A Tale of Two Venonas

A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.

Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Schwartz

Double Enmity Double Enmity

Noah Isenberg reviews Communazis, by Alexander Stephan.

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

Accountability on Chile Accountability on Chile

"Actions approved by the U.S. government aggravated political polarization and affected Chile's long tradition of democratic elections and respect for constitutional order and th...

Nov 27, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh

A man walks past a giant plaster cast on display with other artifacts at the Peabody Museum.

Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies

Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.

Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price

CIA Outrages in Chile CIA Outrages in Chile

"Covert action," the late Senator Frank Church concluded in 1976 after his long inquiry into CIA operations in Chile and elsewhere, is a "semantic disguise for murder, coercion, ...

Sep 28, 2000 / Peter Kornbluh

Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case Trulock Is Source of Botched Lee Case

In a bad spy flick, there's got to be a character like Notra Trulock, an obsessed sleuth who always gets his man--even if it's the wrong man.

Sep 12, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

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