The National Security Agency has declassified an eye-opening pre-history of computers used for code-breaking between the 1930s and 1960s. Special thanks and courtesy of GovernmentAttic.org for allowing The Black Vault to post it here as ...
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The “Family Jewels” Collection (CIA)
Background Widely known as the “Family Jewels,” this archive consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities ...
The CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers
This collection of declassified analytic monographs and reference aids, designated within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Intelligence (DI) as the CAESAR, ESAU, and POLO series, highlights the CIA’s efforts from the ...
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s during the Cold War. In Russia, it is termed the “Caribbean Crisis”, while in Cuba it is called the ...
Operation SOLO, Communist Party Infiltration
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially ...
