120,000 Interned and the Provost Marshal's Ledger
Japanese-Americans and factory workers were fingerprinted and filed under "domestic disturbances" in a system that bypassed civilian law for four years.
By Marcus Boone ·
World War II
Yukon Oil and the 4-Inch Pipeline to Nowhere
Built at staggering cost and abandoned in months, the Canol pipeline remained a classified secret for decades, masking a strategic resource play in the Yukon region.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Josef Hirsch and the Balkan Cover for Nazi Spies
A prominent London rabbi’s wartime role as a commercial front for the Abwehr remained buried in Security Service files, masking a deeper operational link to the Soviet Union.
By Vera Kessler ·
Nazi Uniform Codes in the First U.S. Army's Pacific Files
Details on the SS and Hitler Youth remained buried in records focused on the Pacific theater, masking a synchronized Allied effort to categorize Axis personnel.
By Vera Kessler ·
Missionaries and Black Markets in the X-2 New Delhi Files
The X-2 branch tracked everything from gambling to Irish priests, yet the most vital secrets—the identities of the moles within their own walls—remain absent from the record.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Soviet Entry into the War Against Japan and the Ledger of Lend-Lease
The coordination of a global war was kept in a series of memorandums and plans, masking the ideological hostility that would soon ignite the Cold War.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Forged Sheet Music and the OSS War to Break Axis Morale
Axis soldiers were broken by forged toilet paper and fake radio broadcasts, a campaign of lies documented in curated exhibition panels and kept from public view for decades.
By Theo Marchetti ·
65 Civil Affairs Handbooks and the Management of Japan
While Tokyo burned, the U.S. relied on radio intercepts and captured files, leaving a void in high-level intelligence that was filled by a massive administrative blueprint.
By Harlan Pryce ·
August 8 and the German Theft of Italian Secrets
Captured by the Germans from their own allies and held for decades, these files track the collapse of trust between Rome and Berlin during the North African campaign
By Constance Bell ·
Roman War Plans and the OSS Personnel Ledger
German and Italian military planners met in Rome to coordinate North African strikes, yet the men who fed this intelligence to the OSS remain obscured.
By Constance Bell ·
The Red Cross and the 1940s OSS Cover in China
Kept secret for decades, the US record groups humanitarian aid with espionage, exposing how the Red Cross served as a cloak for covert operations in China.
By Desmond Okafor ·
SNIPER and the 1942 Price of a Belgian Turn
A Belgian airman’s decision to betray his German handlers upon landing in Britain is preserved in a summary record that omits the brutality of his vetting and the utility of his silence
By Vera Kessler ·
Miguel Piernavieja del Pozo and the Spanish Recall of 1940
Kept in the Security Service's PF Series files, the record of a Spanish spy in London shows how 'dissolute behaviour' became the excuse for a clumsy extraction.
By Vera Kessler ·
Japanese Civilians and the FMAD Morale Ledger
Kept hidden in integrated series, the psychological mapping of a population's breaking point provided the data used to engineer a total surrender.
By Constance Bell ·
Ginny II Executions and the Caserta Command Gap
Fifteen men were executed under Hitler’s Commando Order in 1944, but the records of the station that sent them remain stripped of their strategic intent
By Harlan Pryce ·
Most Secret Cablegrams and the British Mapping of the OSS
Kept secret for decades, these reports from British posts tracked German troop movements and the rise of Josip Broz Tito while the US leaned on a foreign diplomatic machine.
By Constance Bell ·