Cairo Outpost and the Erasure of Wartime Assets
Hidden in archival descriptions, the operations in Egypt expose a reliance on foreign cables and a systematic scrubbing of the names of those who did the actual work.
By Vera Kessler ·
Egypt
Soviet Military Reach Targeted Egypt and Peru to Breach US Perimeters
Kept secret until 2017, the file tracks Soviet naval and air intrusions into the Caribbean and Africa, mapping a global shadow empire that operated for decades under a SECRET stamp.
By Roy Castellano ·
Egyptian Air Force Monitored a 1,400-Mile Radius With 56 Scarab Drones
Military installations and civilian gatherings were watched without consent from Kom Oshim Air Base, where a three-man crew captured physical evidence on wet film.
By Miriam Adler ·
300 Soviet Engineers Turn Aswan Dam Into Forward Base
Soviet personnel built a Red Sea early warning system in Egypt while intelligence tracked Arab terrorists in Lebanon and blacked out the ground reality of the Vietnam crisis.
By Roy Castellano ·