I recently received a 45 page packet from the CIA with new information on Chinese aid to the mujihadeen during the Soviet-Afghan War. On a broad level, they came to pretty much the same conclusion that I did, but they had some new insights and details that I was excited to read.

I also self-published a book on the subject, which makes me pretty darn proud.

• Archaeologists have discovered new artfacts suggesting a Scottish Highland village resident of 4,500 years ago fought with bow and arrow

• An ornamental piece of a more than 1,500-year-old wooden “haniwa” parasol has been unearthed here from a “kofun,” a huge burial mound of a high-ranking figure in ancient Japan

• Taiwan Jaw Bone Connected to the Origins of Humanity, May Reveal Entirely New Prehistoric Species

• The Peruvian Association of Rock Art (APAR) is searching to prove the mystery behind the recently discovered petroglyphs at Checta archaeological site

• Prehistoric caves discovered near Sentani Lake in Indonesia

• Medieval Chess-Piece Workshop Unearthed in England

• Two sculptures that languished in obscurity for more than a century may be the only surviving bronze works by Michelangelo, researchers announced in Britain

• In 2008, when the owner of a vacant commercial property in Chillicothe flattened a mound that locals had long believed to be a Native American burial ground, preservationists were powerless to stop it. Ohio has no laws that protect ancient sites on private property

• 2,500-Year-Old Pharaonic Carvings, Two Obelisks Discovered in Egypt

• Child grave goods from Isle of Man castle & Viking beach market discoveries moving to Cornwall - Finds include glass beads, bronze pins, sword & iron nails from a Viking ship burial. “There are over 50 objects from 1 particular site – a beach market, a potentially 1st contact site."

• Human evolution becomes even more complicated

• Ancient skull from Galilee cave offers clues to the first modern Europeans

• Stranding Site of 'SS Great Britain' Found—Grounded off N Ireland in 1846, it was longest passenger steamship in world. "We located a huge doughnut ring of debris that fitted exactly the shape of the ship & faced the precise direction contemporary accounts said she lay.”

• Peruvian child mummy gets scanned at Cincinnati Children's Hospital to learn more about its ancient past

• 2 of the Vatican’s “Ancient” Egyptian Mummies are 19th Century Fakes - Specimens once thought to be the remains of children or animals are likely a product of the 1800’s “mummy mania”

• Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers

• Skeleton and musket balls from gruesome 1629 shipwreck and mutiny unearthed in Australia

• Prehistoric Grave May Be Earliest Example of Death During Childbirth

• Menkaure Pyramid opened to public after restoration

• Remains of ancient 'bowman' discovered

• Giant screens will show Richard III's cathedral re-interment in Leicester city centre

• Scientists reveal fishy cooking habits of North American hunter-gatherers

• Ancient tablets reveal daily life of exiled Jews in Babylon 2,500 years ago

• Newfound 'Gospel of the Lots of Mary' Discovered in Ancient Text

• Skull suggesting brain surgery unearthed in Xinjiang

• Prehistoric caves found in Papua

• Plans afoot in Athens to revive Pikionis's ‘pilgrimage’

• Archaeologists search for prehistoric settlements in fields where Bronze Age remains were revealed by Google Earth

• Ancient Texas pictograph mystery solved, Houston researcher says

• Bowhunting may have fostered social cohesion during the Neolithic

• Barcelona’s ethnographic collections united with opening of World Culture Museum

• Prehistoric Temples on Maui Reveal Origins of Island’s First Kingdom

• Taj Mahal Gardens Found to Align with the Solstice Sun

• Tomb raiders arrested in Ashkelon National Park for looting, damaging ancient site

• 10th century sculpture of Buddha found in Thanjavur

• First Major Exhibition of Hellenistic Bronzes to Tour Internationally

• Fugitive Shipwreck Hunter Captured After 2 Years on the Lam

• Mall construction unearths American Indian mound

• Yuan Dynasty tombs unearthed in N. China

• Archaeologist begins dig in the Sudan, Nile River Valley area

• The first archaeological studies of the fifteenth-century monastery in Wągrowiec

• Collapsing Pyramid at the Hindu Temple of Sukuh to Be Restored by 2016

• Cannon from Mughal era found on Musi bank

• Found in Spain: traces of Hannibal's troops

• Ancient sacrificial architecture unearthed in Shaanxi

• Saved Mali manuscripts face damage in new home

• Corpse of 200-Year-Old Monk Found in Lotus Position

• Europol seizes hundreds of smuggled ancient Egyptian artifacts in Europe

• Libyan Archaeology Threatened by Years of Conflict

• Experts move 'Britain's oldest yacht'

Ernie Lazar, one of the most prominent Freedom of Information Act filers just released several FBI documents pertaining to my interests including:

Monograph on the Klan 1958-1964

The Klan in Chicago

Files on Pro-Cuban citizens in the US

and a ton more. If you're interested in how the FBI operated in Cold War America, i'd suggest looking through some of his stuff.