LSD, Hookers, Hit Men, and the Top Levels of the CIA
In the 1950s and 60s, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA cornered the market on the world’s LSD supply. In this podcast, get a firsthand account from a man who was there.
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Reasons to Doubt the Official Osama Raid Story — Five Years Later
It’s the fifth anniversary of the raid that purportedly removed Osama bin Laden from the face of the earth. But a close look suggests it’s more complicated.
Russ Baker Connects the Dots
Most of the media today reports on individual events and moves on. Russ Baker talks about WhoWhatWhy’s more holistic approach to covering these stories and to understanding how they are interconnected.
Deep History and the Global Drug Connection, Part 1
Part 1 of a riveting account of the many varieties of violence from an elusive and unauthorized source, what the author calls “deep force violence.”
New Documentary on Cuba Embargo — WWW Exclusive (Excerpt 4 of 4)
With President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, this new documentary on the US-Cuba relationship and the embargo couldn’t be more timely. A WhoWhatWhy exclusive.
Do Christian Fanatics in the Military Endanger National Security?
Mikey Weinstein is fighting what he considers the dangerously excessive influence of Christian extremism in the US military. It’s an ugly fight and the push-back against him and his group has been intense.
Stephen King TV on JFK Hit: Will Fiction Lead to Truth?
Stephen King is no JFK assassination expert, but thinks Oswald did it & would like to imagine some hero stopping him. How’s that for a streaming TV series?
Tribute to the Man Who Exposed the Pentagon Papers
What’s better than Daniel Ellsberg? Peter Dale Scott paying tribute to him.
Why CIA’s Richard Helms Lied About Oswald: Part 3
This is an essay about lies — layer upon layer of lies — told by US intelligence agencies and other officials about what Lee Harvey Oswald, or his look-alike, was allegedly doing in Mexico just weeks before the Kennedy assassination. And it is about obstruction of justice in what is considered the crime of the century.
Why CIA’s Richard Helms Lied About Oswald: Part 2
This is an essay about lies — layer upon layer of lies — told by US intelligence agencies and other officials about what Lee Harvey Oswald, or his look-alike, was allegedly doing in Mexico just weeks before the Kennedy assassination. And it is about obstruction of justice in what is considered the crime of the century.
Why Investigations of ‘Intelligence’ Failures Go Nowhere
The watchdogs tasked with overseeing the federal government are pushing back against a growing defiance from agencies like the FBI. The agencies’ subtle and not-so- subtle obstruction sheds light on why attempts to fix responsibility for “intelligence failures” — like the probe into the lead-up to the Boston Marathon bombing — typically amount to a whole lot of nothing.
The CIA, Mafia, Mexico — and Oswald, Part 5
This is a complex story, as fascinating as it is appalling. It is about how the CIA and FBI suppressed a major clue to the existence of a pre-JFK-assassination conspiracy. And about how alleged evidence of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico was manipulated and altered by elements in the CIA and their Mexican clients, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS).