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Secret US spy agency used serial killer and Nazis as sources
RANDY HERSCHAFT and CRISTIAN SALAZAR/Associated Press Writers It was a night in early November during the infancy of the Cold War when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled through a garden and across a gully to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. They hid in four large crates for their perilous journey. Four [...]
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Papers reveal Nixon plan for North Korea nuclear strike
Planes on alert after US spy plane shot down had weapons 20 times size of Hiroshima bomb Guardian/Chris McGreal It is more than 35 years since he was shunted out of office, but the thought of Richard Nixon’s finger on the nuclear trigger still has the power to terrify.
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CIA opens up about disastrous 1952 mission inside China
The Associated Press Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history, a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole two decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the lives of their two pilots. In opening up about the [...]
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Files reveal Britain’s secret biological weapons trials in second world war
Porton Down scientists studied foot-and-mouth, typhoid and cholera for disease attacks Guardian/Owen Bowcott and Rob Evans British scientists experimented with ways of spreading foot-and-mouth disease, and lethal infections such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid in secret biological warfare trials during the second world war.
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