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The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden.

A Chile’s Court sentenced three former DINA officers to 15 years in prison for the 1976 assassination of U.S. citizen Ronnie Moffitt during a transnational operation targeting diplomat Orlando Letelier.

After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.

London and Washington were right about the Russian invasion, but failed to persuade European powers. They underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated Russian power, just as Putin had. Four years later, the war continues.

Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repression, [whose] teams … launch[ed] assassination missions and other criminal operations in the United States, Mexico and Europe.”

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