Antulio Ortiz Ramirez: The Hijacker Who Vanished into Cuba
On May 1, 1961, Antulio Ortiz Ramirez forced a National Airlines plane from Florida to detour to Cuba. Though the passengers and aircraft returned safely, Ramirez remained behind-sparking a criminal case that would take over a decade to close. A newly reviewed...
CIA Promised to Preserve JFK & MLK Records Despite Requests to Destroy
In late 1976, the CIA assured Congress it would not destroy any records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-despite a scheduled return to routine document destruction. This commitment is outlined in a memo from CIA...
Congressional Investigator Pushes CIA on JFK and MLK Files
On November 24, 1976, Richard A. Sprague, Chief Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Assassinations, paid a pivotal visit to CIA Headquarters. The committee was tasked with reinvestigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King...
FBI Pressure Campaign Against King Intensifies Ahead of Nobel Prize
As the world prepared to award Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the FBI intensified its covert operations to discredit him. A newly examined Bureau document from November 1964 reveals an aggressive campaign aimed at applying "pressure from...
The CIA Spied on MLK From a Miami Hotel Room
A classified CIA memo from July 1966, now declassified, reveals that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was spied on during a stay in Miami. The operation included physical surveillance, room monitoring, and even trash retrieval from King’s suite. The surveillance...
