UPI
Our investigations stand on UPI's 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
8 stories, each opening at its source.
- UPI — 'Trump Plaza fined $200,000 for discrimination' (June 1991); appeal lost (Oct 1992)
- UPI Archives, July 16, 1969: Hoover calls Black Panthers greatest threat to U.S. security
- UPI: Memo urged Clinton to attack Obama’s roots
- UPI, \"Supreme Court lets stand ruling on Oliver North,\" May 28, 1991
- UPI, 1993: No wrongdoing in Inslaw affair, report says
- UPI Archives — Trump Castle penalized for the loan from the developer's father (1991)
- UPI, \"Iran-Contra report: at least four laws broken,\" November 18, 1987
- UPI Archives (1985) — Latin American Catholic bishops accuse the CIA of subversion
Where their work appears on this site
- COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
- The Permanent Pollster →
- 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 →
- The Small Loan →
- The War on Liberation Theology →
- Trump and the Mob →
- CIA Crimes →
- The FBI's War on the Black Panthers →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Military Grift →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Too Big to Jail →
How we graded the claims built on their work
7 FACT · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Trump and the Mob →
His Atlantic City casino hosted a Gambino-linked high-roller so lavishly that regulators fined it — for discrimination.
FACT - COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
Hoover publicly designated the Black Panther Party ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.’
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
In 2008, Penn urged the Clinton campaign to attack Obama’s ‘American roots’ — and Clinton refused.
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
North: convicted 1989, vacated 1990-91
FACT - PROMIS and the Maxwell distribution: an intellectual-property theft, a suspect backdoor, and a media baron with intelligence ties →
The Bua Report (1993) definitively cleared DOJ of all wrongdoing in the Inslaw matter
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Small Loan →
The casino bailout: a $3.35 million chip purchase that regulators ruled an illegal loan.
FACT - The Enterprise: Oliver North, Richard Secord, and the NSC's off-books network →
The joint congressional committees, November 18, 1987
FACT - The War on Liberation Theology →
The killings: U.S.-backed forces and the clergy of the poor.
FACT