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The secret lives of the Mafia hunters
A member of Sicily's elite Catturandi police squad explains what it's like to trail Mafia bosses and reveals how they react when they're caught.
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How I Hijacked a Plane, Spent the Next 44 Years Living in Cuba
The ballad of Charlie Hill, dean of Havana hijackers. By Alexander Zaitchik.
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Google’s lawyers, Ron Paul’s grandson, and the most depraved campaign crime in decades
It is easily the most depraved little episode of presidential campaign crime in decades, worthy of Nixon’s CREEP or Boris Yeltsin’s goons, and it’s been almost totally ignored by the media—mainstream and otherwise. By Mark Ames. (Aug. 21)
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The Color of Surveillance
What an infamous abuse of power teaches us about the modern spy era. By Alvaro M. Bedoya.
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The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far
Yves Bouvier made hundreds of millions of dollars selling paintings. Was it fraud? By Sam Knight.
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The Plot to Steal the Color White From DuPont
How a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula. By Del Quentin Wilber.
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I Was The Most Wanted Man in China
How Scientist Fang Lizhi Became an Enemy of the State. By Fang Lizhi.
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Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters
The group is called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an exclusive all-male group dating back to the 1600s. By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz.
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The Truth About the MiG-29
How U.S. intelligence services solved the mystery of a cold war killer. By John Sotham. (Sept. ’14)
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Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS
The Story of Anna Therese Day. By Gail Sheehy.
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How Turkey supports the jihadists
Russia questioned the future of Turkey when it delivered to the Security Council an intelligence report concerning Turkey’s activities in support of jihadists. The document includes about ten revelations which implicate the activities of the [Turkish intelligence agency] MIT... By Thierry Meyssan,
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MFA vs. CIA
A writer considers an alternate life as an undercover agent. By Jennifer duBois.
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Inside Jobs
“The burglars’ rehabilitation of a quiescent architectural space brings with it a much broader and more troubling implication that we ourselves do not fully understand the extent of the rooms and corridors around us, that the walls we rely on for solidity might in fact be hollow, and that there are ways of moving through any building, passing from one floor to another, that are so architecturally unexpected as to bear comparison to animal life or even the supernatural.” By Geoff Manaugh.
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The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee
As an exhibition of notorious magician John Dee’s books continues, Philip Ball argues that he warrants a place in science’s history.
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Ford White House [Cheney] Altered Rockefeller Commission Report
Dick Cheney and other Ford White House Aides Altered Rockefeller Commission Assassination Report according to Declassified Documents
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The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice
“Count” Victor Lustig was America’s greatest con man. But what was his true identity? By Jeff Maysh.
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The Mastermind: An Arrogant Way of Killing
A journey to understand how a real-estate agent in the Philippines became the target of a criminal mastermind. By Evan Ratliff. Episode one.
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Why the OPM Hack Is Far Worse Than You Imagine
The Office of Personnel Management data breach involves the greatest theft of sensitive personnel data in history. But, to date, neither the scope nor scale of the breach, nor its significance, nor the inadequate and even self-defeating response has been fully aired. By Michael Adams.
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The Actress Who Dazzled El Chapo
After Kate del Castillo tweeted about the drug lord, he asked her to make a movie about his life. Then she took Sean Penn to see him. By Robert Draper.
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How a Ragtag Gang of Retirees Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in British History
The police and public gasped at the audacity of the Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015, where millions in cash and jewels were taken from an underground vault in London’s diamond district. Mark Seal investigates the unorthodox daring of the perpetrators—and the high-tech investigation that snared them.
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