Our Hidden History: Archival Interviews & Original Research

An examination of the hidden life of a famous cold war-era human rights lawyer, Luis Kutner. Pieced together from recently declassified documents.

Hugo Turner is a writer and a researcher specializing in the history of anti-imperialism. In this interview he discusses Sullivan & Cromwell, the infamous US corporate law firm that launched the careers of the Dulles brothers.

Prosecutors in Dallas have said for years, "Any prosecutor can convict a guilty man: it takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent man.

Joseph McBride is an accomplished professor, journalist, film historian, and author. He is the author of 20 books, including a new book, which came out in June entitled, How Did Lubitsch Do It? about Ernst Lubitsch, a famed Hollywood comedic film director. He's also the author of Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killer of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

Mr. McBride became prominent nationally in 1988 for uncovering an FBI document from J. Edgar Hoover listing George H.W. Bush as a member of the CIA in contact with anti-Castro Cubans at the time of the Kennedy assassination, a finding that has been basically like an earthquake in changing the way that people understand the history of the Bush family.

Lou Wolf, one of the founders of Covert Action Information Bulletin along with Philip Agee, James and Elsie Wilcott, and Ellen Ray and Bill Schaap, talks about the magazine's relaunch, the history of CAIB, Gina Haspel, Obama, Trump and more. Visit: http://COVERTACTIONMAGAZINE.COM

Dennis Bernstein interviews Jack Terrell, a former Contra military trainer and mercenary who worked with Enrique Bermudez in Honduras. Terrell, who went to Honduras for what he calls patriotic reasons, discovered upon arrival a criminal enterprise engaged in drug dealing, slave trading, and mass rape. Disgusted by these revelations, Terrell subsequently turned whistle-blower.

The CIA… is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers… it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting 'intelligence' justifying those activities… Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies.

An All-American football player at Notre Dame, Ralph McGehee worked for the CIA from 1952 to 1977. He is the author of Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA, which Alexander Cockburn called "one of the outstanding books written by a former CIA agent."

Keynote address by Michael Tabor on the history of the United States and the political objectives of the Black Panthers.