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National Security Archive analysts have uncovered everything from CIA assassination plots of Fidel Castro to programs that ...

A secret Central Intelligence Agency mind control program. National Security Agency spy operations aimed at Martin Luther ...

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest ...

Rahul Gandhi is not unaware of the risks of calling out Modi on issues of high corruption, electoral fraud and divisive ...

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 17, 1961 (UPI) -- Cuba charged today that the invasion of Fidel Castro's island was carried out by "mercenaries" coming from Florida and Guatemala and armed and financed by ...

Pressure is building on President Kennedy to order a military strike on the newly discovered nuclear missile site on Cuba. But JFK wonders whether it’s better to keep the discovery a secret from ...

On October 23, 1962, as the blockade on Cuba is prepared, both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev begin to doubt their choices. This episode explores how each leader weighs the risk of backing down ...

Tragedy has stalked the Kennedy family for generations. The heartbreak mounted again this week after Tatiana Schlossberg, President John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, revealed she is battling a rare and ...

For nearly half a century, the Kennedy Center Honors have been both a crowning achievement in the arts and a premier social event that have largely avoided the partisan politics of the nation’s ...