P.O. Box 1142: A Secret World War II Intelligence Facility
Memorial to P. O. Box 1142 at Fort Hunt Park. Photo by Ser Amantio di Nicolao / CC BY 3.0. Cropped. P.O. Box 1142 was a clandestine military intelligence facility…
Coffee Shops, Spies and Espionage
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The Unmasking of a KGB Assassin: The Defection of Bogdan Stashinsky
The Lubyanka building (former KGB headquarters) in Moscow, where Stashinsky received his orders from. Photo by Alexander Savin / CC BY-SA 3.0. In the fall of 1961, Bogdan (or Bohdan)…
The Power of Literature: How the CIA Leveraged “Doctor Zhivago” Against the Soviets
The book “Doctor Zhivago” distributed throughout the Soviet Union by the CIA. Photo: Central Intelligence Agency. The story of the CIA’s involvement with Boris Pasternak’s novel, Doctor Zhivago, is a…
Dmitri Polyakov: The Soviet General Turned Double Agent
Video frame from footage of Dmitri Polyakov’s arrest by the KGB. Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov was a Major General in the Soviet GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) who became one of the…
Operation FAREWELL: How the CIA Duped the Soviets
President Ronald Reagan with French President Mitterrand at wreath-laying ceremony at the American cemetery at Omaha Beach in 1984. Department of Defense photo by SPC 5 James Cavalier. During the…
Spies in the City: The CIA’s Cold War Operations in Berlin
Image of the Berlin Wall taken in 1986 from West Berlin side by Thierry Noir at Bethaniendamm in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The Wall’s infamous “death strip”, on the east side of the…
Breaking the Code: How the VENONA Project Exposed Soviet Spies
National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade circa 1950s.National Security Agency photo. The VENONA Project was a top-secret counterintelligence initiative launched by the United States during World War II. Its…
Operation Mount Hope III: A Bold Military Heist
The Libyan Mi-25 taken in Chad by the US Army in 1988 during Operation Mount Hope III. On display at the Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham Alabama. The Mi-25 is…
Operation Periwig: A Deceptive Masterstroke of WWII
Questionnaire, which was attached in capsules to pigeon legs as part of Operation Periwig. Operation Periwig was a deceptive masterstroke of WWII. The PSYOP operation was conceived in November 1944…