Jeremy Kuzmarov

3 weeks ago | covertactionmagazine.com | Jeremy Kuzmarov

On June 4, 2000, John Millis, a former CIA case officer then serving as the top staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, died of a reported suicide at a seedy Fairfax, Virginia motel after he was found with a gunshot wound to the head. Millis’ death occurred the day after he forced the CIA to release a controversial report he had authored on the CIA’s alleged links to cocaine smuggling by Nicaraguan drug rings who were connected with criminal groups in Los Angeles.

3 weeks ago | covertactionmagazine.com | Jeremy Kuzmarov

[This article continues CovertAction Magazine’s efforts to expose the CIA’s sordid history.—Editors]Ramparts magazine was a beacon of the 1960s social movements: an anti-establishment muckraking magazine that published important exposés of the CIA, including its involvement in the murder of Ché Guevara, its infiltration of the National Student Association (NSA), and its support for clandestine police training programs in South Vietnam using the cover of Michigan State University (MSU).

1 month ago | covertactionmagazine.com | Jeremy Kuzmarov

On May 22, Andriy Portnov, 51, was assassinated in Madrid, just after dropping off his children at the American School. A lawyer by training, Portnov was a leading opposition figure in Ukraine who was forced to flee the country after the February 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan coup.

1 month ago | covertactionmagazine.com | Jeremy Kuzmarov

Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces. OR Books has put out a collection of his writings, If I Must Die, which offers a window into the death and destruction meted out by the Israelis, with U.S. backing, over the last decade in Gaza.

1 month ago | covertactionmagazine.com | Jeremy Kuzmarov

On April 9, a collection of peace activists affiliated with the People’s Arms Embargo returned to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, one hour north of San Francisco to stage a protest to try to block entry into the base. Armed with Palestinian flags and banners, the group displayed the names and ages of some of the children that have been killed since Israel began its genocide in Gaza.