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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 12d

Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."

The DEA and Ayotzinapa

Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great work on what you can find when you delve into the weeds of the JFK Assassination files.

Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · Sep 3

I dug through the JFK assassination papers to see what I could learn about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s and 70s. Here's what I found. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Spy vs. Spy: Scenes from the Cold War in Colombia, 1963-72

Washington, D.C., September 3, 2025 - Covert CIA surveillance of a Soviet agent under diplomatic cover in Mexico City in 1968 led to the acquisition of intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadersh...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 25

Never heard of it either.

Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 15

But Latin Americans remain frowzy and careless.

Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 15

U.S. was attempting a courtship of Latin Americans

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 15

Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller (1952) was frustrated that the U.S. agreed to a rules-based international order that prohibits intervention into the domestic affairs of other states.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 15

In 1952 the Psychological Strategy Board assessed that U.S. domestic policies on race relations, restrictive immigration, and tariffs were psychologically damaging to U.S. interests.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Flying Saucers, Oh my! Psychological Strategy Board staff minutes

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Jun 24

If this intelligence assessment stands, this has the potential for a major clash between Trump and Netanyahu. Two individuals who are incapable of taking the blame for any kind of failure.

Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · Jun 24

Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.

Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · Jun 24

JCPOA > MOP

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Jun 13

I've been thinking this since there was talk of Israel thinking about destroying Iranian oil infrastructure last Oct. Regime change is the logical conclusion of Netanyahu's adamant opposition to negotiations with Iran. To save his legacy of utter failure, Netanyahu is willing to burn the house down.

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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · May 23

Arsenal play Barcelona in the UWCL Final tomorrow at 5pm at the Estádio Jose Alvalade. Full match preview 👇🏻🔴⚪️

Arseblog News @arseblog.news · May 23

Arsenal v Barcelona UWCL Final Preview

THE LOWDOWN Arsenal play against Barcelona in the Champions League final in Lisbon on Saturday afternoon. Allow me to repeat that sentence. Arsenal play against Barcelona in the Champions League final in Lisbon on Saturday. The Gunners are the first team in the competition’s history to play in the first qualifying round and then progress […] The post Arsenal v Barcelona UWCL Final Preview appeared first on Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · May 22

Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem

Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · May 10

A potential South Asian Cuban Missile Crisis...

Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · May 10

Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · May 9

Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · May 8

New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup
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CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS

Washington D.C. May 7, 2025 – On November 29, 2011, a Chilean judge stunned the world by indicting a retired U.S. Navy captain as an accomplice to the executions of two U.S. citizens in the days follo...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Here is my new article (with Peter Kornbluh) for @nsarchive.bsky.social on more covert action secrets in the Kennedy files. The article discusses CIA covert ops in Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Congo, Haiti, Japan, Italy, and more.
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JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command

Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 - Just six months before the 1964 military coup that overthrew the government of João Goulart in Brazil, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans Richard Helms...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Apr 1

Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here:
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History As It Happens: The JFK Files

Why was director Oliver Stone testifying on Capitol Hill today? After his 1991 film "JFK" reignited conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's assassination, Congress authorized the release of mill...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · Mar 28

The CIA took over an FBI monitoring post targeting the United Nations in 1967, according to newly declassified "Family Jewels" documents.

National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · Mar 28

In an operation codenamed "SALVAGE," the CIA “maintained custodianship” of an FBI post in New York targeting the UN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/329...

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Mar 21

It was great to be interviewed for this @nytimes.com article on our work at the @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.

The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Mar 19

Here is my latest EBB with @nsarchive.bsky.social . An overnight team effort to find six great documents that reveal new CIA covert ops and unknown details of famous operations. More to come...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Mar 10

This is similar to the rallying cry "Je suis Charlie.” Either you support free speech or you don’t. Either you support due process or you don’t. We are all in this together, regardless of our opinions or the content of our speech.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Mar 1

Trump is not isolationist, he is an aggressive unilateralist

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Mar 1

Issues of strike approval authority and operational flexibility ought to be secondary to the questions of:

1) Do these targets actually pose a threat to the U.S.?

2) And relatedly, does the 2001 AUMF still authorize these actions after a quarter century?

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Pentagon streamlines clearances on airstrikes and raids, officials say

The Trump administration relaxed restrictions on how U.S. commanders approve airstrikes and raids, paving the way for the Pentagon to respond more rapidly to perceived threats.

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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · Feb 18

I was literally just in contact with JFKL over some docs I was interested in. @lucatrenta.bsky.social I hope Ford library isn't next.
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JFK Library in Boston closed until further notice due to federal job cuts, source says

The JFK Library in Boston is closed indefinitely because of federal job cuts, a source tells WBZ-TV.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Jan 22

Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes

Case of Osama Najim puts spotlight on controversial migration pact between Italy and Libya Giorgia Meloni’s government is under pressure to clarify why a Rome court refused to approve the arrest of a Libyan general accused of war crimes, allowing him to…

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