Moscow rigged its most sensitive hardware with explosive charges to keep it out of Western hands, but a clandestine pact between London, Washington, and Beijing worked to disarm the traps.
By Constance Bell ·
The X-2 branch tracked everything from gambling to Irish priests, yet the most vital secrets—the identities of the moles within their own walls—remain absent from the record.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kept secret for decades, the records of the Strategic Services Unit preserve the training and the personnel but excise the blood and the betrayal of the first American spy agency.
By Vera Kessler ·
Parachuted Jedburgh teams risked everything in Occupied France, while the names of those purged in counter-intelligence sweeps remain buried in the Paris Field Station files.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Soldiers at Patch Barracks faced internal surveillance by the 427th CIC, but the outcomes of those security surveys were stripped from the administrative record.
By Miriam Adler ·
Industrial workers were monitored by a clandestine military unit whose code for a looming strike remains a ghost in the archives, masking the identities of the informants who betrayed them.
By Miriam Adler ·
From the Mediterranean to the jungles of Burma, the administrative skeleton of the OSS shows an agency built on untraceable money and a global web of permanent surveillance.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The blueprints for stripping a nation of its secrets and silencing its people were kept in a historical vault, hiding the operational reality of an occupied Germany.
By Marcus Boone ·
A Soviet agent used five aliases to move spies through the world's ports for decades; the British kept the record of his movements in a file that identifies the holes in Western security.
By Constance Bell ·
While Paris burned with sabotage, Madrid served as a vetting ground where a secretive counter-intelligence unit erased operations without explanation, a process kept secret for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Spies in the Red Cross and leaks that risked firing squads for operators stayed hidden in records the US government previously withheld, including files on chemical warfare in Europe.
By Harlan Pryce ·