Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
@ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social
International Relations @ University of South Florida & The National Security Archive. Interest: international law, CIA, covert action, secret law, human rights, and criminal accountability.
Nice to see my article for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the killing of Che Guevara cited by the New York Times. Not as excited to see the U.S. continue to engage in "covert" regime change operations.
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Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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October 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Nice to see my article for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the killing of Che Guevara cited by the New York Times. Not as excited to see the U.S. continue to engage in "covert" regime change operations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."
The DEA and Ayotzinapa
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."
Great work on what you can find when you delve into the weeds of the JFK Assassination files.
I dug through the JFK assassination papers to see what I could learn about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s and 70s. Here's what I found. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Spy vs. Spy: Scenes from the Cold War in Colombia, 1963-72
Washington, D.C., September 3, 2025 - Covert CIA surveillance of a Soviet agent under diplomatic cover in Mexico City in 1968 led to the acquisition of intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadersh...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Great work on what you can find when you delve into the weeds of the JFK Assassination files.
Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller (1952) was frustrated that the U.S. agreed to a rules-based international order that prohibits intervention into the domestic affairs of other states.
August 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller (1952) was frustrated that the U.S. agreed to a rules-based international order that prohibits intervention into the domestic affairs of other states.
In 1952 the Psychological Strategy Board assessed that U.S. domestic policies on race relations, restrictive immigration, and tariffs were psychologically damaging to U.S. interests.
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In 1952 the Psychological Strategy Board assessed that U.S. domestic policies on race relations, restrictive immigration, and tariffs were psychologically damaging to U.S. interests.
Flying Saucers, Oh my! Psychological Strategy Board staff minutes
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Flying Saucers, Oh my! Psychological Strategy Board staff minutes
If this intelligence assessment stands, this has the potential for a major clash between Trump and Netanyahu. Two individuals who are incapable of taking the blame for any kind of failure.
Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.
JCPOA > MOP
June 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If this intelligence assessment stands, this has the potential for a major clash between Trump and Netanyahu. Two individuals who are incapable of taking the blame for any kind of failure.
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Arsenal play Barcelona in the UWCL Final tomorrow at 5pm at the Estádio Jose Alvalade. Full match preview 👇🏻🔴⚪️
May 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Arsenal play Barcelona in the UWCL Final tomorrow at 5pm at the Estádio Jose Alvalade. Full match preview 👇🏻🔴⚪️
Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
A potential South Asian Cuban Missile Crisis...
Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>
May 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A potential South Asian Cuban Missile Crisis...
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Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
May 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
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New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup
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CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS
Washington D.C. May 7, 2025 – On November 29, 2011, a Chilean judge stunned the world by indicting a retired U.S. Navy captain as an accomplice to the executions of two U.S. citizens in the days follo...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup
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Here is my new article (with Peter Kornbluh) for @nsarchive.bsky.social on more covert action secrets in the Kennedy files. The article discusses CIA covert ops in Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Congo, Haiti, Japan, Italy, and more.
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JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 - Just six months before the 1964 military coup that overthrew the government of João Goulart in Brazil, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans Richard Helms...
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April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here is my new article (with Peter Kornbluh) for @nsarchive.bsky.social on more covert action secrets in the Kennedy files. The article discusses CIA covert ops in Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Congo, Haiti, Japan, Italy, and more.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here:
historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files
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History As It Happens: The JFK Files
Why was director Oliver Stone testifying on Capitol Hill today? After his 1991 film "JFK" reignited conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's assassination, Congress authorized the release of mill...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here:
historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files
historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files
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The CIA took over an FBI monitoring post targeting the United Nations in 1967, according to newly declassified "Family Jewels" documents.
In an operation codenamed "SALVAGE," the CIA “maintained custodianship” of an FBI post in New York targeting the UN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/329...
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The CIA took over an FBI monitoring post targeting the United Nations in 1967, according to newly declassified "Family Jewels" documents.
It was great to be interviewed for this @nytimes.com article on our work at the @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.
The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It was great to be interviewed for this @nytimes.com article on our work at the @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Here is my latest EBB with @nsarchive.bsky.social . An overnight team effort to find six great documents that reveal new CIA covert ops and unknown details of famous operations. More to come...
March 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here is my latest EBB with @nsarchive.bsky.social . An overnight team effort to find six great documents that reveal new CIA covert ops and unknown details of famous operations. More to come...
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This is similar to the rallying cry "Je suis Charlie.” Either you support free speech or you don’t. Either you support due process or you don’t. We are all in this together, regardless of our opinions or the content of our speech.
March 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is similar to the rallying cry "Je suis Charlie.” Either you support free speech or you don’t. Either you support due process or you don’t. We are all in this together, regardless of our opinions or the content of our speech.
Trump is not isolationist, he is an aggressive unilateralist
Issues of strike approval authority and operational flexibility ought to be secondary to the questions of:
1) Do these targets actually pose a threat to the U.S.?
2) And relatedly, does the 2001 AUMF still authorize these actions after a quarter century?
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1) Do these targets actually pose a threat to the U.S.?
2) And relatedly, does the 2001 AUMF still authorize these actions after a quarter century?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon streamlines clearances on airstrikes and raids, officials say
The Trump administration relaxed restrictions on how U.S. commanders approve airstrikes and raids, paving the way for the Pentagon to respond more rapidly to perceived threats.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump is not isolationist, he is an aggressive unilateralist
I was literally just in contact with JFKL over some docs I was interested in. @lucatrenta.bsky.social I hope Ford library isn't next.
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JFK Library in Boston closed until further notice due to federal job cuts, source says
The JFK Library in Boston is closed indefinitely because of federal job cuts, a source tells WBZ-TV.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I was literally just in contact with JFKL over some docs I was interested in. @lucatrenta.bsky.social I hope Ford library isn't next.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes
Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes
Case of Osama Najim puts spotlight on controversial migration pact between Italy and Libya
Giorgia Meloni’s government is under pressure to clarify why a Rome court refused to approve the arrest of a Libyan general accused of war crimes, allowing him to…
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January 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes
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Twelve years ago a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA could memory-hole a photo of a prisoner whom the CIA had tortured because the photo might reveal something about how the CIA had tortured him. Remembered that when I read this @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social story.
Prisoner’s Self-Portraits of C.I.A. Torture Surface From Sealed Court Record
“This is what his nightmares are all about,” said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.
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December 19, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Twelve years ago a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA could memory-hole a photo of a prisoner whom the CIA had tortured because the photo might reveal something about how the CIA had tortured him. Remembered that when I read this @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social story.
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Now updated with a link to one of the detainee's self portraits of his torture, as shown to a jury at his sentencing trial.
MORE BREAKING NEWS: The United States has repatriated two Malaysian prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, concluding a secret military operation. The rare transfer, a day after the Pentagon delivered another prisoner to Kenya, reduced the detainee population to 27 men.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
Pentagon Repatriates Malaysian Prisoners Who Pleaded Guilty to War Crimes
The prisoners were airlifted from Guantánamo Bay in a secret operation nearly a year after they admitted to serving as foot soldiers for the accused Indonesian terrorist leader Hambali.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Now updated with a link to one of the detainee's self portraits of his torture, as shown to a jury at his sentencing trial.
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Great piece @christinalamb.bsky.social on investigations into the Assad regime's crimes and CIJA's work. Wiley thinks Putin will send #Assad back to 🇸🇾 within 3 years. I doubt this will happen under Putin. When the regime changes in Moscow, this will become possible.
www.thetimes.com/article/939e...
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‘Bigger than Nuremberg’: the secret files that could jail Assad
Thousands of pages of evidence reveal in detail the barbarity of the deposed dictator’s regime. The hunt for the perpetrators has begun
www.thetimes.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Great piece @christinalamb.bsky.social on investigations into the Assad regime's crimes and CIJA's work. Wiley thinks Putin will send #Assad back to 🇸🇾 within 3 years. I doubt this will happen under Putin. When the regime changes in Moscow, this will become possible.
www.thetimes.com/article/939e...
www.thetimes.com/article/939e...
I agree, Wray should have forced Trump's hand. I don't think he should have fought it all the way to SCOTUS though given the current court.
This is an unbelievable abdication by Wray and makes it so much easier for Trump to install a corrupt leadership under Kash Patel and weaponize the FBI. Wray is doing a huge disservice to the FBI past, present, and future.
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray says he will resign before Trump takes office wapo.st/4fgeG7E
December 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I agree, Wray should have forced Trump's hand. I don't think he should have fought it all the way to SCOTUS though given the current court.