Soviet Bloc Signal Equipment and the MoD's Nuclear Hunt
Hidden for decades, these technical digests tracked the electronic pulse of the East while the sources and the counter-measures were scrubbed from the page.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Sino-Soviet Split
11 MIGs and the Panic in Hanoi's Airfields
North Vietnamese pilots fled to China as US destroyers closed in on Hanoi, a moment of vulnerability hidden behind sanitized briefs and redacted intercepts.
By Miriam Adler ·
Tracking the Unaligned: The Hidden Math of Nuclear Delivery
British intelligence kept a specialized eye on the technical shifts of non-aligned powers, monitoring the precise moment an airframe becomes a nuclear threat.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Soviet Anti-Ship Missiles and the Chinese Proxy
The UK used China's primary military intelligence organ to track Soviet naval threats, a relationship hidden for decades alongside files that simply vanished from the record.
By Vera Kessler ·
The PRC and the British Blueprint to Blind Soviet Radars
Kept secret in the UK National Archives, a series of technical reviews mapped the Soviet SA-6 missile net using intelligence from a communist rival to protect nuclear bombers.
By Roy Castellano ·
Pyongyang Spurns Moscow After Soviets Deny Modern Missiles
North Korea armed its general population without military need and called the Berlin Wall a half-hearted measure as it abandoned Soviet assurances for Chinese positions.
By Vera Kessler ·
1 Million Ruble Trade Deal Masks Claim Lin Biao Survived Plane Crash
Secret suspicions in Pyongyang masked diplomatic frictions and whispers that Lin Biao avoided the Mongolian plane crash, contradicting the official narrative of the time.
By Vera Kessler ·
Seven parties synchronized scripts to isolate Mao Zedong
Communist officials coordinated a propaganda offensive against Mao Zedong in Warsaw, where a sudden Soviet plan to isolate Albania shocked the Polish party.
By Marcus Boone ·
Kim Il Sung Claimed 92 Percent Autonomy to Mask Soviet Credit Needs
Pyongyang hid its reliance on Soviet credits for steel mills and power plants behind a mask of total autonomy while shifting its political allegiance toward Beijing.
By Vera Kessler ·
Tsedenbal sought Soviet troops to shield Mongolia from sudden attacks
Fear of sudden attacks drove Yu. Tsedenbal to ask for Soviet battle units and detection gear, a plea that stayed hidden in a secret fond until 1979.
By Vera Kessler ·