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The impressionistic essay film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,' premiering at Sundance, explores mid-century world history with a musical flair.

In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians.

Kristin Christman, with dedication in video to Angel Christman

Because the USSR had no military presence in Africa, it relied on the work of intelligence services – the GRU and the...

Amid calls to target Putin, it’s worth recalling why the U.S. has stopped trying to kill foreign heads of state.

Often, the stated aims and promises of the plotters are never fulfilled. Only a handful of coups have been in the service of the people.

A new book on the CIA in Africa throws further light on the UK’s covert role in the 1961 killing of Congo’s Patrice Lumumba and raises more questions about the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. A new book on the CIA in Africa throws further light on the UK’s covert role in...

A lecture by John Stockwell given in October, 1987 on the inner workings of the national security council and the CIA's convert actions in Angola, Central America and Vietnam.

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Repéré par l’agence de renseignement américaine pour ses opinions anti-communistes, le lieutenant–général Joseph Mobutu n’aurait jamais pu prendre le pouvoir à...