A High-Level Mole and the Secret Draft of Warsaw Pact Naval Control
Kept secret for nearly four decades, a 1978 memorandum exposes the risk taken to acquire a Warsaw Pact blueprint for naval command.
By Constance Bell ·
Naval Intelligence
Kara Class Cruisers and the Joint Intelligence Bureau's Atomic Hunt
The Soviet Navy's most lethal surface predators were tracked by a web of British intelligence divisions for decades, but the sources of their data remain blacked out.
By Roy Castellano ·
RADM Sumner Shapiro and the 10-Submarine Delusion
For years, the Navy and the CIA fought a secret war over Soviet submarine priorities, a dispute kept from the public while Atlantic shipping was left vulnerable to an underestimated Red Fleet.
By Vera Kessler ·
Rear Admiral Petrashkevich and the 1971 Secret Soviet Naval Manual
A high-level leak from Moscow's military headquarters detailed the Warsaw Pact's plan for submarine warfare, but the intelligence remained buried from Langley for four years.
By Constance Bell ·
Admiral Mikhaylin and the 49 Nuclear Submarines of NATO
Kept under strict need-to-know for decades, a Soviet naval manual intercepted by the CIA exposes the Kremlin's obsession with NATO amphibious landings.
By Constance Bell ·
K. F. Smirnov and the Secret Maps of a Warsaw Pact Invasion
For four years, the technical preparations for a Warsaw Pact naval strike remained buried in a secret journal, a gap that masked the standardization of a coordinated assault.
By Constance Bell ·
Yanakiyev and the Secret Soviet Plan to Blind the Sixth Fleet
Kept secret for 43 years, an internal Warsaw Pact blueprint for naval surveillance exposes the technical gaps the Soviets feared would let NATO slip through.
By Marcus Boone ·
Jens Palsson and the 1942 Blueprint for Strategic Deception
A wireless operator captured in Reykjavik was cast as a puppet in a British game of naval lies, a role that left him detained in a Surrey interrogation camp.
By Vera Kessler ·
Rear Admiral N. Gonchar and the Soviet Plan to Hunt Polaris Submarines
Kept secret until 2017, a 1973 TOP SECRET memorandum reveals how the USSR used fake fishing vessels to track US nuclear submarines and strip them of their second-strike capability.
By Roy Castellano ·
Mahoney and the 99 Curated Crises of Naval Diplomacy
Kept secret as Confidential for years, a 1977 study catalogs nearly two decades of naval intervention while scrubbing the record of the intelligence operations that fueled them.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Ministry of Defence Scrutinized Soviet 76mm Guns to Prevent Naval Surprise
Sailors on the North Atlantic stood watch against a Soviet navy whose precise firepower remained a guarded secret for decades to prevent a sudden, decisive naval slaughter.
By Vera Kessler ·
Harry Houghton Leaked Naval Secrets to Soviets from 1951 to 1961
For ten years, a naval clerk fed the Soviet Union secrets from the Admiralty Underwater Detection Establishment before his 1961 conviction.
By Vera Kessler ·
Navy Tracked Soviet Subs Since 1950s Under Fake Research Cover
For decades, the Navy hid a global dragnet under a fake oceanographic cover to track Soviet submarines before shifting its focus to police other nations' coastal waters.
By Marcus Boone ·
Air Force Tracks Russian ICBMs With 12,288 Antennas
Russian missile trajectories are tracked with mathematical precision by 143 civilians aboard a converted merchant ship that serves as a floating intelligence asset.
By Miriam Adler ·
Clerk Harry Frederick Houghton Fed Moscow Secrets for 10 Years
Western naval sentries were blinded for ten years by a clerk who fed underwater detection secrets to Moscow before his 1961 conviction.
By Harlan Pryce ·