Soviet Assets and the 60,000 Workers Caught in the Vienna Gray Zone
For years, the Soviet Union operated a shadow state within occupied Austria to bypass Western embargoes—a system the US tracked and directed from the shadows.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Industrial Espionage
Joseph Volodarsky and the Forged Identities of Soviet Illegals
A Polish-Russian agent spent a decade infiltrating the UK and USA before a 1940 Canadian internment ended his career as a provider of fake passports for the NKVD.
By Constance Bell ·
Rumanian Oil and the OSS Plan to Seize German Patents
Kept secret through the early Cold War, the record shows the OSS tracking the destruction of European energy fields while preparing a post-war administrative takeover of industrial secrets.
By Desmond Okafor ·
St. Louis Records and the Sanitized Return to West Germany
For nearly a decade, the United States decided which Nazi war crimes records to return to Bonn and which to feed into the maw of Langley and the Department of Commerce.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Balkan Aircraft Plants and the 8th Air Force's Target List
Axis industrial capacity was tracked for years in files that separate the targets from the spies who found them, leaving the human cost of the bombing runs as the only clear metric.
By Harlan Pryce ·