Thousands of suspected dissidents and forced informants were processed through the Seventh Army's intelligence machine, their fates scrubbed from the reports that mapped the early Cold War.
By Marcus Boone ·
Kept secret in a personal album, the record of C.I.C. Area No. 21 replaces the reality of forced purges and interrogations with images of "peaceful hills" and green tea.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Soldiers of the Chinese Army in India were re-armed by the US only to be subjected to a 'security education program' that remained hidden in tactical histories for decades.
By Miriam Adler ·
While the Army Language School relied on Japanese-American linguists, the War Department was simultaneously tracking their communities for suspicious activity across the country.
By Marcus Boone ·
For decades, the overlap between a children's health charity and the monitoring of German social organizations remained buried in a generic administrative file.
By Marcus Boone ·
A hidden index of 'Secret Project' files from 1953 to 1956 reveals a system where soldiers were treated as disposable assets, their identities buried under a layer of bureaucratic noise.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Thousands of informants and interrogated subjects were reduced to administrative entries in records kept secret for decades, while the operational core of their surveillance remains missing.
By Marcus Boone ·
Informants and subjects of investigation were reduced to "problem areas" in files maintained by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
By Miriam Adler ·
Suspects of drug abuse and terrorism were captured on film by Naval investigators, creating a visual archive of surveillance that remains listed in government catalogs.
By Marcus Boone ·
Investigation summaries and censorship rules stayed buried in Army files, tracking the lives of those accused of disloyalty or witnessing the worst of war.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Prisoners of war and those flagged by the Counter Intelligence Corps faced an unaccountable security apparatus during the Korean War and its aftermath.
By Miriam Adler ·
Civilians across the Middle East were scrutinized for their opinions of Americans and Soviet ties in files that mapped the region's political dissent.
By Miriam Adler ·