WSPF Planning Files Detail Fight for White House Evidence
Political enemies were watched and the public deceived by a presidency that fought the Watergate Special Prosecution Force for the tapes that could prove the crime.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Covert Ops
Brazil Purged One-Fifth of Legislature as US Spent $5 Billion in Turkey
Kept secret for 47 years, these notes to the President track the violent "sanitizing" of the Brazilian government and the fraying stability of the NATO flank.
By Harlan Pryce ·
King Husayn Feared a Bullet While Awaiting US Aircraft
Marked TOP SECRET and withheld until 2016, these briefings show a Jordanian king fearing assassination and millions of Chinese peasants scrabbling for food.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Mobile Field Interrogation Unit 2 Logged Atrocities of German Prisoners
Captured soldiers of the Third Reich surrendered secrets on concentration camps and signal intelligence to a mobile unit whose files now sit in the National Archives.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Allan Evans Managed Secret OSS Personnel Files in Europe
The paper trail of the Office of Strategic Services tracks the agents and assets moved across a war-torn continent, kept within the vault of the Office of the Chief for decades.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Three Watergate Grand Juries Logged the Hours of a Political Purge
Witnesses were summoned and defendants were trapped while the US Marshal for the District of Columbia tracked every minute of the proceedings in records kept for decades
By Desmond Okafor ·
Charles Kindleberger Mapped Enemy Objectives for the OSS
A German prisoner's diary and the private notes of an economist remain in federal files, detailing the targeting of objectives that cost thousands of lives.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Jedburgh Teams and X-2 War Diaries Ran OSS London Operations
Spies were dropped behind enemy lines and resistance fighters tracked in War Diaries, managed by a London office that coordinated the secret war against the Axis.
By Harlan Pryce ·
WSPF Task Forces Hunted Nixon's Plumbers and Dirty Tricks Squads
Political operatives used to sabotage rivals and spy on citizens left a trail of memos that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force spent years cataloging in the dark.
By Harlan Pryce ·
British SOE Fought German Scorched Earth in Greece via Operation Rankin
Greek cities and ports faced total destruction as the Wehrmacht retreated, a struggle for survival kept in the files of the Special Operations Executive.
By Harlan Pryce ·
US Army Silenced German Panzer Communications via JACKAL
German armored units were left blind and deaf on the battlefield by a specialized jamming operation that remained tucked away in the Radio Counter-measures Division's files.
By Harlan Pryce ·
British Saboteurs Targeted Pasing Railway Power Hub
Railway workers and German logistics officers in Munich faced a hidden threat as the Special Operations Executive mapped the sabotage of a vital transformer station.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Nixon Aides Bet on 'One in Twenty' Gamble to Block Allende
A secret 1970 memo marked "Sensitive" details a plot to manipulate Chilean elections and stir fear of communism, while officials admitted the gambit could spark widespread violence.
By Desmond Okafor ·
JFK Weighed Evacuating 4,000 Americans Before Ousting Ngo Dinh Diem
Marked Top Secret, this record captures the moment US officials decided Ngo Dinh Diem was a liability, weighing the evacuation of thousands of civilians against a betrayal of a longtime ally.
By Harlan Pryce ·
SOE Jumpers Targeted Retreating Germans in Operation Herring
British agents plummeted into Italy to break the German retreat, an operation whose specific costs remain buried in files like HS 6/792.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kissinger and Haig Told General Viaux His Coup Had a 5 Percent Chance
To save assets for a future strike against Salvador Allende, the White House ordered the CIA to tell General Roberto Viaux his coup attempt was almost certain to fail.
By Harlan Pryce ·