120,000 Interned and the Provost Marshal's Ledger
Japanese-Americans and factory workers were fingerprinted and filed under "domestic disturbances" in a system that bypassed civilian law for four years.
By Marcus Boone ·
Surveillance
Nixon’s Fixers and the Systematic Sabotage of Federal Agencies
Nixon’s covert "fixers" turned the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Justice into weapons against political enemies and corporate rivals.
By Marcus Boone ·
Soviet Ekranoplans and the Mapping of Russian River Lines
Coastal cities lived in a blind spot where Soviet hybrid aircraft could skim the waves undetected, a vulnerability hidden in technical reports on river irrigation and aerospace.
By Marcus Boone ·
Charles Colson and the Legal Gambit to Silence Watergate
He was the first of Nixon's inner circle to go to prison, but before the cell door closed, he tried to burn his indictment by claiming the news had poisoned the jury.
By Marcus Boone ·
Louis Patrick Gray and the ITT Ledger of Political Sabotage
A high-ranking FBI official provided documents to a task force while simultaneously destroying others, leaving a curated record of the Nixon administration's corporate alliances.
By Marcus Boone ·
Dutch Harbor and the War Department's Decimal Mask
Kept secret for decades, the administrative indices of the War Department mask a shift from wartime defense to Arctic surveillance in Alaska.
By Miriam Adler ·
Western Union and the Secret Signals from Cairo to Kauai
A global network of listeners spanned the Pacific and the Nile, routing intelligence through private cables and military lines to ensure a grip on the world's news.
By Miriam Adler ·
Missing Pages and the Soviet War for the Spectrum
Details on Soviet ground-based electronic warfare were tracked by British intelligence, but the strategic analysis of the SS-NX-5 missile remains missing at transfer.
By Miriam Adler ·
WSPF and the 1974 Inventory of Nixon's White House
After Richard Nixon fled the presidency, the legal war for the evidence he left behind was fought through a series of concessions and redacted inventories that remain the only map of what was lost.
By Marcus Boone ·
Ministry of Defence and the AN-70's Landing Zones in Kazakhstan
Field reports on Kazakh irrigation and Ukrainian river lines were filed alongside technical assessments of a Soviet-designed transport plane, a mapping exercise kept secret for decades.
By Marcus Boone ·
The Chilean Embassy Bug and the FBI's Secret Proxy
A Top Secret memo, held for decades, exposes how the CIA used the FBI to breach the Chilean embassy and spy on Israeli diplomats while scrubbing the record for Senate investigators.
By Miriam Adler ·
11 MIGs and the Panic in Hanoi's Airfields
North Vietnamese pilots fled to China as US destroyers closed in on Hanoi, a moment of vulnerability hidden behind sanitized briefs and redacted intercepts.
By Miriam Adler ·
Archibald Cox and the Void in the Watergate Record
A legal scholar appointed to uncover the truth stopped recording his own calls, leaving a gap in the history of how the Nixon administration fought to bury its crimes
By Miriam Adler ·
Yanakiyev and the Secret Soviet Plan to Blind the Sixth Fleet
Kept secret for 43 years, an internal Warsaw Pact blueprint for naval surveillance exposes the technical gaps the Soviets feared would let NATO slip through.
By Marcus Boone ·
Unofficial Files and the War Plans Division's Map of Domestic Dissent
Suffragists, Black soldiers, and peace activists were photographed by a propaganda agency and handed to military planners in a cache kept secret from official records.
By Marcus Boone ·
The 1949 Handoff and the Segregated Files of Occupied Germany
The transition from military to civilian rule in Germany kept the machinery of surveillance intact while the names of those watched remained blacked out for decades.
By Marcus Boone ·