The Los Angeles Times
Our investigations stand on The Los Angeles Times' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
18 stories, each opening at its source.
- Los Angeles Times — This company made billions by surprise-billing helpless ER patients
- Los Angeles Times — Inside the U.S. 'kill chain' that destroyed an Iranian school
- William P. Bundy obituary, Los Angeles Times (October 8, 2000) — documents the 1953 McCarthy episode
- LA Times, \"CIA, North Network Had Close Ties, New Data Hints,\" December 30, 1987
- Los Angeles Times, Avri Elad obituary, 1993
- Los Angeles Times — Halliburton Unit’s Bill for Iraq Work Mounts (documents the LOGCAP chain from 1992 study to 2003 RIO contract, May 9, 2003)
- LA Times, \"Probe Ties Reagan, Bush to Iran-Contra Cover-Up,\" January 19, 1994
- LA Times, \"Swiss Turn Over Iran-Contra Records to U.S.,\" November 3, 1987
- Los Angeles Times — ‘Clinton Ties to Investment Firm Draw Scrutiny’ (Feb 21, 1992) — Stephens Inc., ADFA, and BCCI-adjacent business relationships
- LA Times September 21, 2001 correction — CIA denies
- LA Times, \"Poindexter Given 6 Months in Prison,\" June 12, 1990
- Los Angeles Times, 1985, FBI agent testimony
- LA Times, Nov. 1991, on the Hersh libel suit
- Los Angeles Times — the leveraged buyout and 'shortsighted' strategy, alongside the retail pressures
- LA Times, \"Casey Wanted a Super-CIA Outside Government: North,\" July 10, 1987
- Los Angeles Times — 'Conflict of Interest Alleged in BGH Approval' (Apr. 21, 1994): names Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for policy, in rBGH labeling controversy
- LA Times, \"North's 'Shredding Party' Reportedly Missed a Memo,\" May 12, 1987
- LA Times, February 27, 1987
Where their work appears on this site
- Capturing the referee: the agrochemical revolving door and a captured reviewer →
- The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
- Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
- The Bankruptcy Is the Business Plan →
- The Surprise Was the Business Model →
- PROMIS and the Maxwell distribution: an intellectual-property theft, a suspect backdoor, and a media baron with intelligence ties →
- The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
- Until After the Midterms →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Military Grift →
- The Private Equity Playbook →
- The Agrochemical Cartel →
- The Dulles Blueprint →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
13 FACT · 4 PROBABLY TRUE · 3 SOME SMOKE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Surprise Was the Business Model →
A private-equity-owned firm built a business on surprise-billing ER patients.
FACT - Until After the Midterms →
A US missile struck the school on the first day of the war — and Pentagon personnel knew within hours it was American.
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
Allen Dulles shields the CIA — the William Bundy defense, August 1953
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
Appendix A: “The Enterprise was a CIA operation”
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Lavon Affair: Operation Susannah and the Israeli false-flag campaign in Egypt →
Avri Elad was a double agent who betrayed the ring to Egyptian intelligence
SOME SMOKE - The Dulles Blueprint →
Halliburton, KBR, and the privatization Cheney built
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
Independent Counsel Walsh's Final Report, August 4, 1993
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
Lake Resources Inc. and the Swiss account architecture
FACT - Military Grift →
Mena and ADFA — Barry Seal, Jackson Stephens, and the Arkansas node
PROBABLY TRUE - Israeli Influence on the United States →
Mossad's August 2001 warning to CIA
PROBABLY TRUE - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
No documentary evidence shows the CIA as an institution directed the Enterprise — only that Casey personally sponsored it
SOME SMOKE - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
Poindexter: convicted 1990, reversed 1991
FACT - Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
Pollard was motivated primarily by ideology, not money.
SOME SMOKE - PROMIS and the Maxwell distribution: an intellectual-property theft, a suspect backdoor, and a media baron with intelligence ties →
Robert Maxwell had substantive, documented ties to Israeli intelligence independent of the PROMIS allegations
PROBABLY TRUE - The Bankruptcy Is the Business Plan →
The defense: retail and hospitals faced real pressure of their own.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
The Enterprise's structure, principals, and purpose
FACT - Capturing the referee: the agrochemical revolving door and a captured reviewer →
The revolving door: Michael Taylor, from Monsanto's law firm to the FDA and back
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
The shredding episode and Fawn Hall (November 21-25, 1986)
FACT - Until After the Midterms →
The toll: scores killed, the large majority children — with the exact count attributed, not asserted.
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
The Tower Commission, February 26, 1987
FACT - The Bankruptcy Is the Business Plan →
Toys 'R' Us: a profitable retailer killed by its own buyout debt.
FACT