The sun had not yet risen on November 16, 1989 when a group of Salvadoran Army soldiers surrounded the Pastoral Center of the University of Central America in San Salvador, and began pounding upon the doors and windows. They yelled for the Jesuit priests sleeping inside to come out. One of the priests appeared on…
Thirty years ago, on January 9, 2017, the Reagan White House released the presidential finding which authorized the sale of arms to Iran and ordered the CIA not to inform Congress. The finding was signed by President Ronald Reagan on January 17, 1986, months after the shipment of weapons to Iran had begun. Read the…
via The National Security Archive: On September 21, 1976 a bomb exploded underneath a car on Sheridan Circle, about a mile and a half from the White House, killing former Chilean Ambassador to the United States, Orlando Letelier and his colleague, U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt. A newly declassified memo from Secretary of State George Schultz…
