The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...
15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...
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The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped London
After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...
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The Release of a 1961 Plan to Break Up the CIA Revives an Old Conspiracy Theory About Who Killed JFK
A proposal to break up the CIA that didn't come to fruition ... “needed the CIA” in the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and its allies like Cuba, and a huge reorganization would ...
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What Would Be The Aftermath of a Nuclear Attack in Minnesota?
History tells us that it was at the Malta summit in December 1989, that Gorbachev and US President George H.W. Bush declared ...
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Can hockey break the diplomatic ice between US and Russia?
In an echo of the Cold War, ice hockey has become central to international diplomacy, after it was mentioned by Vladimir ...
Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich
As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.
Has Trump already killed NATO?
This term, though, despite deepening tensions with Europe, Trump hasn’t said much about leaving the alliance. His secretary ...
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Open Access to Holocaust History
A collaboration between United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and JHU's Project Muse will allow digital access to the ...