Two Bombs a Year: Robert Webber and the Dimona Secret
Kept secret for decades, a 1965 debriefing shows the U.S. knew the Dimona reactor was a weapons project while officials worked to keep the IAEA out of the Negev.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Israel
LAKAM's Ghost Agency and the 1979 CIA Blind Spot
Jonathan Pollard delivered US secrets to an intelligence unit that was completely missing from the CIA's 47-page map of Israeli intelligence, a gap that stayed secret for years.
By Harlan Pryce ·
600 Pounds of Uranium and the Silence of Theodore Shackley
For over a decade, the disappearance of enriched uranium from a Pennsylvania plant stayed hidden, until a 1977 briefing revealed a calculated gap between intelligence and evidence.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Begin's Secret Strike and the 14 US Aircraft That leveled Iraq
Kept secret for decades, the record of a 1981 raid on a nuclear reactor shows Washington managing the fallout of a strike carried out by US-made jets.
By Roy Castellano ·
Jonathan Pollard and the 2006 Damage Scrub
An American analyst sold out his country for Israel, but the CIA spent nearly twenty years scrubbing the damage report before an appeals panel forced the record open in 2012.
By Vera Kessler ·
Missing Uranium and the CIA’s Silence on President Johnson
Two pages of a CIA memorandum remain blacked out, hiding the mechanism by which hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium vanished from Pennsylvania to fuel a nuclear program.
By Roy Castellano ·
Jonathan Pollard and the Secret Price of Israeli Intelligence
An American analyst bled state secrets for foreign payments, but a 1987 sentencing memorandum suggests the legal battle was a proxy for a high-stakes diplomatic negotiation.
By Vera Kessler ·
Baghdad Hanged 15 Alleged Spies While 5,000 Jews Remained at Risk
15 people died on gallows in Baghdad on January 27, 1969, leaving thousands of Iraqi Jews in a precarious position for years—a report kept secret from the public until 2016.
By Constance Bell ·
Soviet Union Traded 600 Jewish Lives for Middle East Leverage
Kept TOP SECRET until 2016, a daily brief to President Nixon shows how Moscow used the release of 170 children to force Israeli flexibility in peace talks.
By Theo Marchetti ·
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 ·
Shah Demands $1 Billion as Iran Threatens Oil Consortium
Iranian leaders threatened to strip the oil consortium of 50 percent of its interests for $1 billion while Israeli flights kept Arab forces on edge and Hanoi weighed a Tet-like offensive.
By Roy Castellano ·
30 Viet Cong battalions mass for Mekong Delta offensive
Intelligence sources remain blacked out in notes to Richard Nixon detailing how 30 Viet Cong battalions threatened the Mekong Delta and Levi Eshkol fought a right-wing revolt.
By Vera Kessler ·