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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 ...

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 ...

John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, admonished Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an essay revealing that she has less than a year to live following a ...