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Mother Divine, Leader Of A Shady Celibacy Cult, Has A Shockingly Small FBI File
We’ve looked at a number of different cults and cult leaders, and they usually have pretty hefty FBI files. Synanon? Three hundred and forty six pages. The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh? Five hundred and ninety one pages. But a cult leader who recently died this past March has a shockingly small FBI file. How small? Just…
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How America’s Secret Nuke Police Hunted For Dirty Bombs In The 1970s
Bomb threats have been a part of American life since at least the 19th century. But in the 1970s the types of threats shifted dramatically. The people making bomb threats in the US started to claim their bombs had nuclear materials. By 1975, the US started a new task force to deal with the threats,…
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US Diplomat Was Investigated For Spying As A Kid Because He Kept Writing To Boeing Asking For Photos
By most standards, Robert F. Dorr lived the most all-American, patriotic life anyone possibly could. He served in the Air Force, he was a diplomat with the State Department from the 1960s to the 1980s, and he went on to be a successful author and TV pundit about military affairs. But as a teenager, Dorr…
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Emails: CIA Official Reviewed Parts Of Times Reporter’s Book Before Publication
New York Times reporter David Sanger worked extensively with former deputy CIA director Michael Morell during the reporting of his book Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power — even arranging to provide Morell with access to an entire unpublished chapter for his review — according to documents obtained by…