Cold War Era

The Space Race

The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make…

March 1, 2015

KAL (Korean Air Lines) 007, September 1983

Introduction Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner that was shot down by Soviet interceptors…

February 28, 2015

Russian Intelligence

Below, you will find various reports regarding foreign intelligence on Russia.  This will primarily consist of records after the Cold…

February 25, 2015

DoD Document Collections

Background The following 18 CD-ROMs were created by the DoD, when they transferred their FOIA Reading Room to their online…

February 25, 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