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On the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States was thrust abruptly into global war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shattered any remaining illusions of distance or safety,…
In the early morning hours of December 3, 1948, investigators from the House Un‑American Activities Committee (HUAC) arrived at a quiet farmhouse in Westminster, Maryland. They expected to collect evidence…
Operation FOOT, launched in September 1971 under the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, remains one of the most dramatic and consequential counter‑espionage actions of the entire Cold War. It…
By the mid‑1960s, the CIA viewed Latin America as one of the most strategically fragile regions of the Cold War. Fidel Castro’s consolidation of power in Cuba, followed by Havana’s…
In the long, labyrinthine history of espionage, few figures loom as darkly, or as enigmatically, as George Blake. To some in Moscow, he died a hero in 2020, a loyal…
When World War II ended and the smoke cleared over Europe and the Pacific, the United States emerged as a global leader, but also as a nation facing unprecedented threats.…
The undersea battlespace is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in decades, driven by the convergence of autonomous systems, distributed operations, and intensifying great‑power competition. As adversaries expand their…
The 17th Rapid Capability Assessment (RCA17) is a collaborative innovation event scheduled to take place April 20–24, 2026, in Chantilly, Virginia. The event is hosted jointly by SOFWERX and ICWERX,…
The CIA Museum, located inside the Agency’s Langley, Virginia headquarters, is famously closed to the general public. But even among those who can enter, few realize that one of its…
For more than six decades, the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook stood as one of the most widely recognized and frequently consulted reference works produced by the U.S. government. Now,…