Toxins and landslide triggers were developed in a Maryland golf club while the OSS logged the movements of world leaders—a gap in the record that hides the delivery of those weapons.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Personnel files kept hidden for decades show how the Office of Strategic Services vanished into the Air Force, leaving only a paper trail of authorized ghosts.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Five hundred amateur spies died in Gestapo prisons while their records were shuffled through a thirteen-month sanitization window before reaching the CIG.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Bicentennial publication uses a 1775 firing to warn against disclosure, framing modern covert action as a revolutionary tradition while congressional investigators circled the Agency.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kept in archival summaries for decades, the training records of the OSS show how the US learned to dismantle European political organizations—and what the state still hides about the sources of that knowledge.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Cambridge doctor and his wife shared a single Soviet codename while operating in a circle that included the traitor Kim Philby.
By Harlan Pryce ·
An Austrian refugee infiltrated London and later the United States, his identity as a Soviet agent flagged by a defector while he operated a press agency under a false name.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Russian agent spent decades operating under four different names to infiltrate foreign capitals, a career detailed in files once held by the British Security Service.
By Harlan Pryce ·
An Austrian woman played a dangerous game in England before 1939, using micro-dots and social circles to feed the Germans, though her value remained modest.
By Harlan Pryce ·
An Austrian national lived as a double agent in England before 1939, relying on micro-dots and social circles while her handlers found her aptitude lacking.
By Harlan Pryce ·