For decades, a curated list of psychological breakthroughs in West Germany and Italy remained hidden, tracing the precise mechanisms by which the human mind accepts a falsehood as a cure
By Miriam Adler ·
A curated bibliography kept secret for decades maps the boundary between psychiatric theory and the operational use of 'sensitives' to solve crimes and gauge population susceptibility.
By Miriam Adler ·
Hidden in a CIA archive for decades, a psychokinesis study shows 300 Europeans were subjected to biographical screening under the guise of a parapsychology experiment.
By Eleanor Voss ·
He led a Soviet front for espionage and was imprisoned by the Gestapo, but he ended his career in the West German parliament under a banner of extreme nationalism.
By Constance Bell ·
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 ·
A British-German national suspected of Nazi sympathies was arrested in 1953 for alleged ties to a Soviet espionage ring, a case tucked away in the Security Service's L Series files.
By Constance Bell ·
Three Soviet leaders vanished from public view and a motorcade attack left Moscow in a state of "unease" known only to the highest levels of the US government until 2016.
By Vera Kessler ·
European borders were jeopardized when West German diplomats tried to weaken inviolable frontiers by introducing 'peaceful change' during 1973 negotiations.
By Vera Kessler ·
GDR diplomats secretly tracked the political vocabulary of their enemy to paint the Kiesinger government as neo-Nazi and bypass Bonn's hold on European security.
By Vera Kessler ·
West Germany fought to prevent a security conference from becoming a coronation for the GDR, demanding free movement of people and ideas before granting the legitimacy of a summit.
By Roy Castellano ·
A terrorist assault team planned a May 1982 attack on a US official building using explosives stolen from a bunker and hidden in the basement of a red tile roof house.
By Vera Kessler ·