Historical Transcriptions
Archival documents, declassified records, and important historical speeches transcribed for research and analysis.
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Disposable Patriot: Contra War Mercenary Turned Whistleblower
Whistleblower Jack Terrell, 1992
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.
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The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War
CIA Whistleblower Ralph McGehee, 1986
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."
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Michael Tabor: Keynote at the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
Black Panther Leader Michael Tabor, September 5th, 1970
Keynote address by Michael Tabor on the history of the United States and the political objectives of the Black Panthers.
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Huey P. Newton: Speech at the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
Black Panther Leader Huey P. Newton, September 5th, 1970
Speech by Black Panther Commander Huey P. Newton on the political objectives of the Black Panthers.
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'Operation Carlota' and Cuban Internationalism
Gabriel García Márquez, 1977
Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez wrote about the Cuban internationalists and their travels to the battlefront of the war in Angola.
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The Real Iran-Contra Scandal
Rev. Bill Davis of the Christic Institute, 1990
Rev. Bill Davis speaking on the real Iran-Contra scandal, beyond the arms-for-hostages and petty bribery to the drug dealing, the private intelligence operators, the assassinations, and the congressional cover-up.
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JFK, Jim Garrison, and Hollywood Blacklisting
Comedian Mort Sahl interviewed by Elliot Mintz, 1968
Originally posted at Kennedys and King: "In this remarkable Pacifica interview from the Sixties, Mort Sahl reveals how his career was ruined, as he lost two broadcast programs in Los Angeles and he was blackballed—not due to ratings, which were good, but because he would not be quiet about the JFK assassination."
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CIA/Contra Drugs, Intelligence Reform, and Oliver North
US Senate Investigator Jack Blum, 1996
Jack Blum was special counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he was Chief Investigator for the Kerry Committee (The Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations) which investigated, among other things, the CIA-Contra drugs connection. In 1996, he was the lead witness during hearings before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee about the Contra/Cocaine connection which were prompted by the series of articles authored by Gary Webb that appeared in The San Jose Mercury News.
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Uncovering the CIA
Philip Agee interviewed by Author John Marks, 1976
Former CIA case officer Philip Agee discusses his experiences with the CIA, his book, his persecution, and his exile. John Marks is the author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate and co-author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
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CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb, January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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Retroceso: El Reclutamiento de Nazis por Parte de los Estados Unidos y su Efecto en la Guerra Fría
Author Christopher Sampson interviewed by Alan Fong, 1988
El autor Christopher Simpson discute su libro titulado Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and its Effect on the Cold War (Retroceso: El Reclutamiento de Nazis por Parte de los Estados Unidos y su Efecto en la Guerra Fría). El interés de Simpson sobre el tema, inició durante el juicio de deportación de Otto Van Bolschwing, quien argumentó contra su deportación de los Estados Unidos al señalar que la CIA lo había introducido en los Estados Unidos.
Simpson ha obtenido información a través de las demandas de la Ley de Libertad de Información de que Estados Unidos buscó a todos y cada uno de los agentes para combatir el “expansionismo” soviético al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El servicio exterior comenzó a reclutar en los Interrogatorios de Prisioneros de Guerra, y ayudó a muchos criminales a evadir los juicios por crímenes de guerra. Simpson concluye que el servicio exterior, creó la Guerra Fría para asegurar el presupuesto del Pentágono después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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Vincent Salandria: Problems with the Warren Commission Report
Vincent Salandria and Gaeton Fonzi, 1966
...no one can look and not see this evidence. And yet it was not seen. It was not considered. I have to think that this failure to see and this failure to consider was deliberate.
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Jim Garrison's Case: Criticism of the Warren Commission Report
William W. Turner and Hal Verb on KPFA, 1967
William Turner, a former FBI agent and staff writer for Ramparts magazine, and Hal Verb, a reporter for the Berkeley Barb and instructor at San Francisco State Experimental College, discuss the problems with the Warren Commision Report. They speak on developments in New Orleans, and the inadequacy of the investigation itself.
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Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War
Author Christopher Sampson interviewed by Alan Fong, 1988
Author Christopher Simpson discusses his book entitled Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and its Effect on the Cold War.
Simpson's interest in the topic started during the deportation trial of Otto Van Bolschwing, who argued against his deportation from the US by noting that the CIA had brought him into the US. Simpson has attained information through the Freedom of Information Act lawsuits that the United States sought any and all operatives to combat Soviet "expansionism" at the end of World War II. The foreign service began recruitment during POW debriefings, and helped many criminals avoid war crimes trials. The foreign service, Simpson concludes, created the Cold War to insure the Pentagon budget following the end of World War II
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Lee Harvey Oswald and The Warren Report
Author Sylvia Meagher interviewed by William O'Connel on KPFA, 1967
…if this is truth then black is white, night is day, and war is peace. This is not truth. [The Warren Report] is a false document.
Sylvia Meagher examines the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Soviet Union and the United States prior to President Kennedy's assassination. She goes on to explain how this information refutes the findings of the Warren Commission.
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Cold War Human Medical Experimentation at Canada's Penetang Hospital
Steve Smith on interviewed on Black Op Radio, 2001
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The RFK Assassination and the LAPD Cover Up
Scott Enyart interviewed on Black Op Radio, 2000
In 1968, as a young photographer, Scott Enyart found himself snapping photos of Presidential Candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the moment of his assassination. In this 2000 Black Op Radio interview, Mr. Enyart discusses that moment and his decades long efforts to get his crime-scene photos back from the Los Angeles Police Department - including a high-profile case against one of the LA's most ruthless lawyers.
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Operation Tailwind: Chemical Weapons in Vietnam and the Media Cover Up
Journalist April Oliver on Black Op Radio, 2001
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JFK, Jim Garrison, and the American Media
John Barbour interviewed by James DiEugenio on Black Op Radio, August 17th, 2017
Black Op Radio #848Veteran author and researcher James DiEugenio interviewed filmmaker and television personality John Barbour on Black Op Radio. John has made three films about the JFK assassination and conducted a rare series of interviews during the 1980s with Jim Garrison, Mark Lane, and witnesses to the events in Dealy Plaza.
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The Creation and Goals of the Church Committee
Senator Frank Church, 1975
We have now entered the final decade on the way to 1984. Weary of scandal or not, we must never become weary of being vigilant. We dare not shrink from another redemptive investigation. Learning where we stand can spell the difference between arriving nine years hence at the doorstep of the Orwellian nightmare or awakening with sublime relief in the knowledge that we have, through perseverance today, confounded that dark dream of tomorrow.
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The JFK Assassination and CIA Psychological Warfare Operations
Jefferson Morley, 2011 COPA Conference, 2011
Journalist Jefferson Morley, editor of JFKFacts.org and author of Our Man in Mexico, discusses the the JFK Assassination and its connections to CIA psychological warfare operations that came before and after it.
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Spooks, Planes, and Heroin: The Keys to Escalation in Indochina
Professor Peter Dale Scott, June 30th, 1972
Peter Dale Scott, author of The War Conspiracy, discusses the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon backed conspiracies to misinform the White House about the Vietnam War and its extension into Cambodia.
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CIA, Drug Trafficking, and the JFK Assassination
Author Douglas Valentine, 2011 COPA Conference, 2011
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The Secret Wars of the CIA
CIA Whistleblower John Stockwell, 1986
These things kill people. 800,000 in Indonesia alone according to CIA's estimate, 12,000 in Nicaragua,
10,000 in the Angolan operation that I was sitting in Washington, managing the task force. They add up.
We'll never know how many people have been killed in them. Obviously a lot. Obviously at least a million.
800,000 in Indonesia alone. Undoubtedly the minimum figure has to be 3 million. Then you add in a million
people killed in Korea, 2 million people killed in the Vietnam war, and you're obviously getting into gross
millions of people…
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Mort Sahl: The Cause is Humanity
Comedian Mort Sahl, 1970
I'd like to see the people who killed Jack Kennedy, the killers of the dream,
and Bob Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, who are the same people and that can be
proved I would like to see them hanged, and then I'd like to see capital
punishment abolished in the United States and I'd like to see my kids to grow
up in school and learn from their civics teacher that the last people executed
in America were the people who tried to kill the men of peace.
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Jonestown and the CIA
Joseph Holsinger, aide to Congressman Leo J. Ryan, 1980
The gist to what I'm getting to is this: I received a lot of documentation, which I'll provide you here today, that indicates the strong possibility that Jonestown and the People's Temple, was in reality, a mass mind control experiment conducted by the CIA as a follow-up to something called MKULTRA which they conducted from the early 50s through 1974.
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On the Matter of the Murder of the President of the United States
Fidel Castro, November 27th, 1963
Speech by Commander Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Socialist Revolution and Prime Minister of the revolutionary government in the memorial ceremony of November 27th, held at the stairway of the University of Havana, November 27th, 1963.
Fidel Castro's first speech on the assassination, from the day after the assassination, is available here.
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Concerning the Facts and Consequences of the Tragic Death of John F. Kennedy
Fidel Castro, November 23rd, 1963
The following is the text of a speech/commentary delivered by Fidel Castro on Cuban radio and television, Saturday evening, November 23, 1963, one day after the assassination of President Kennedy. The speech gives the reader insight into the immediate analysis of the assassination which a political expert such as Castro was able to make.
Fidel Castro's second speech on the assassination, from the following Wednesday, is available here.
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"Maurice Bishop, my CIA contact agent, was David Atlee Phillips"
Anti-Castro militant and CIA Agent Antonio Veciana, 2014
I want to unequivocally state that Maurice Bishop was [CIA case officer] David Atlee Phillips… I traveled to Dallas at the end of August or beginning of September of 1963 to meet with Maurice Bishop, my CIA handler. We had agreed to see each other in the lobby of a downtown Dallas bank. There, I observed Bishop with a young man I later identified without a doubt as Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 2014, the Assassination Archives and Research Center held a conference on the occassion of the 50th Anniversary of the release of the Warren Commission Report. The highlight of the conference was a statement by Cuban exile leader Antonio Veciana.
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Reopening the R.F.K. investigation
Kennedy advisor Paul Schrade and Congressman Allard Lowenstein, 1973
Kennedy advisor Paul Schrade and Congressman Allard Lowenstein interviewed on KPFA by Jim Berland. They discuss the 1968 assassination of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, particularly focusing upon the need to reopen the case to uncover the real events.