Wartime

Wartime/Defense Tactics and Strategies

Since the dawn of our intelligence and military agencies, soldiers, strategists, think tanks and others have spent an extensive amount…

February 24, 2015

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)…

February 23, 2015

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s…

February 23, 2015

C-130 Shootdown (09/02/1958)

On the 2nd of September 1958, Soviet MiG-17 pilots shot down a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance-configured C-130 aircraft over Soviet…

February 23, 2015

Soviet Capabilities and Probable Courses of Action Against North America in a Major War

Background The FBI processed for release a 2054 page file dating from the mid-1950s describing how the world nearly ended.…

February 23, 2015

RAND: Have We Reached the End of History?

Document excerpt: "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the…

February 23, 2015

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…

February 23, 2015

Operation Acoustic Kitty

Background Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to…

February 23, 2015

Cold War Preparation and Survival

Background The following documents pertain to the preparation for a war with the Soviet Union. Countless studies from think tanks,…

February 23, 2015