Welcome to Hidden Histories

A blog dedicated to uncovering censored or suppressed war crimes by the United States and its allies

Why Substack?

For the past six years now I have been publishing my work at Medium.com. I am appreciative of the Medium platform, but I feel it’s time to branch out now, and extend the reach and impact of my work. (Some of this work was republished, or in some cases, originally published as well at Counterpunch.org and TheCanadaFiles.com.)

I write about things almost no one else does, and getting it published by third parties hasn’t been easy. I never set out to be an iconoclast, but my curiosity and interests led me to some dark places that even the most progressive journalists and academics have shied away from.

What kinds of things am I talking about? The list below is a sampling of the kinds of hidden history that I have revealed, nearly always with the documented evidence, i.e., documents that you can download and explore yourself! This is not a “shock” blog. It’s in many ways a serious academic undertaking.

Examples of My Work

Evidence of U.S. communications intelligence intercepts from the Korean War that corroborate Communist charges of U.S. use of biological weapons (BW), charges which the U.S. has continued to deny for decades

Evidence of Canadian foreknowledge in December 1951 of U.S. plans to use biological weapons in the Korean War

OSS documents that reveal that the secret predecessor to the CIA was given oral orders to use biological weapons against plant/crop material prior to the end of World War II

The full text of the report of the International Scientific Commission’s investigation into the BW charges, corroborating the truth of the claims of the North Korean and Chinese governments, as written by famed British bioscientist Joseph Needham

The findings of a high-level U.S. Marine Corps inquiry into the BW confessions of Colonel Frank Schwable, which revealed that air crew officers flying BW missions over Korea and China were told that, if captured, they could reveal any details about their mission they felt they had to

Secret orders to the CIA to “destroy” those who sought to spread belief in the veracity of the Communist BW charges

Hidden links between the personnel who helped cover up the U.S. Korean War biowar campaign and CIA mind-control programs, including MKULTRA

Chinese Public Health poster warning about germ warfare bombs and use of infected insects, circa 1952 (Source: NIH — U.S. National Library of Medicine)

The full previously classified details about the death in custody of Guatanamo detainee number 10028, Naji Naseem, tortured into compliance with U.S. authorities

Discovery of otherwise unreported computer tampering that went on in nearly every case of a detainee’s death at Guantanamo.

What’s to Come?

What kinds of articles do I have in the works? Right now I’m working on discovering the truth behind the deaths of high-ranking officials in the U.S. biowarfare program at Ft. Detrick in the first years of the Korean War.

I also have an essay in the works that will totally change our understanding of how the Japanese used biological weapons, showing that despite what has been reported in every history on the subject, some of the Japanese balloons sent over North America in the closing months of World War II carried a bacteriological payload, including, allegedly, use of anthrax and plague.

Who Do I Write For?

I write for you, the reader, be you an academic, historian, political activist, blogger, podcaster, reporter, seeker after truth… whoever you may be and whatever the interests that lead you here. I hope you will find this work both interesting and important.

A number of people have told me that the hidden histories I reveal are just too old for anyone to really care about. In fact, I find this claim quite selective, as the news media is replete with references to events from the past that are meant to inspire or enflame readers today, whether to take a stand, to speak out on an issue, to go to war, or to hide under their bed.

I believe that what I write about it highly relevant. But you get to be the judge of that.

What Do I Want? What’s in It for You?

I’m hoping that you will read my work and be inspired to subscribe to this blog, as either a “free” subscriber or a “paid” one. I have put out a good deal of money in recent years to seek and obtain the documents I do, not to mention the many hours of unpaid time to analyze them and write up the findings.

While my writing thus far has brought in a small amount of money, I’ll be frank, nearing age 70, and with no other source of income but Social Security and a very small pension, I could use more renumeration for my work to help finance my research. Medium and small blogs offer little in the way of payment. Meanwhile, copying fees from archives have increased, and travel expenses to libraries and archives are expensive. Sometimes I try to obtain old pamphlets or books that are otherwise unavailable online or in most libraries. All this costs money.

So I’m hoping you will subscribe to this blog. You will get extensively researched and unique historical essays that aim to change the understanding of our world and what really makes it tick. You will get access to documentation that I use, in most cases anyway, as sometimes I’m not allowed to share an archive’s documents or extensive book material for copyright reasons.

You will also get the satisfaction of knowing that you are contributing to the main aim of this blog: the exposure of crimes and scandals that the powers that be want to keep hidden, and which even many progressive or crusading journalists and historians have ignored. I follow Marx’s old dictum: the point is not just to interpret the world, but to change it!

This will not be a daily blog, or even necessarily a weekly blog. It will all depend on what I’m working on. I’ve found that it’s easy to get distracted when you are working on a big essay, so when I’m going, I keep my nose to the grindstone. If you peruse the list of linked essays above, you’ll see that when I do publish, it’s substantive, often 10,000 words or more. These are encyclopedic works, articles meant to be bookmarked, downloaded or otherwise kept as references.

But I’m not unaware that a subscriber to a blog may not want to wait months to get a fairly long article, no matter how much inherent interest such a work might carry. So I promise to write more regularly and often for publication. Not every article needs to take an hour to read! The tension is always between accessibility to the reader and the need to express often complex material.

I hope I can have something original out at least every other week. This is a new project for me, so I’ll have to see how it all plays out. I’m hoping that my record pursuing these subjects and issues speaks to my sincerity.

But if you don’t subscribe, I still hope you read and share my work.

Welcome to Hidden Histories!

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