Cold War Era

The Top Secret CIA Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro / Operation MONGOOSE

Background Throughout his time as the President of Cuba, many attempts were made by the United States to assassinate Fidel…

July 6, 2016

Soviet Intelligence Targets in the United States, 1946-1953

Background The following is based on the introduction in the document: The insatiable desire of the Soviet Union for intelligence…

July 3, 2016

Cold War Era – Reports & Records

The below are records from the Cold War era about strategy, warfare, the Soviet Union, etc. They are listed from…

June 21, 2016

Operation Gladio

Background Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine NATO "stay-behind" operation in Europe during the Cold…

April 25, 2016

A History of Soviet Aviation and Cosmonautics, January 1965

This publication is a translation of Aviation and Cosmonautics (Aviatsiya I Kosmonavtika) formerly Herald of the Air Fleet, a monthly journal of…

April 6, 2016

Vulnerability Assessment of Charged Particle Beam Weapons, September 1979

Background This document was discovered as a reference in another government records. I then filed a FOIA request for the…

January 28, 2016

UVB-76 – “The Buzzer”

Introduction UVB-76, also known as "The Buzzer", is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that…

May 18, 2015

Operation Mongoose – AKA: Cuban Project

Background Operation Mongoose, officially known as the Cuba Project, was a covert operation launched by the United States government in…

May 6, 2015

Recovering a Secret Spy Satellite Capsule from Underwater Ice Station Zebra – 16,400 Feet below

Introduction The Trieste II (DSV-1), the Navy’s most advanced deep sea submersible at the time, surfaced about 350 miles north…

March 3, 2015

Original Wizards of Langley

Background This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) offer a…

March 2, 2015