Crossed-Out Names and the OKH Intelligence Shopping List
Names of officers who tried to kill Hitler were scrubbed from personnel files, while detailed dossiers on anti-Soviet guerrillas were preserved for a new war.
By Constance Bell ·
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The U.S. Army and the Erasure of the French Resistance in Normandy
The records of the liberation of France were kept for decades, but the silence regarding the local fighters who bled for the landings is a deliberate choice.
By Harlan Pryce ·
CIA Session 04 and the Search for the Dark Asset SOLO
When conventional intelligence channels failed to locate their target, the CIA turned to a remote viewer to bridge the gap through the void.
By June Hargrove ·
Operation OVERTURE and the Asbestos Excuse for a Missing Soviet File
Kept secret for decades, a set of British intelligence files on Soviet atomic power ends with a suspicious destruction order for a high-stakes operation.
By Roy Castellano ·
Langford and the 1986 Blueprint for a Psychic Workforce
A training manual kept secret for 14 years details the effort to turn natural psychics into a scalable, interchangeable tool for the intelligence community
By Miriam Adler ·
Rhea White and the 50,000-Document Map of the Paranormal
For fourteen years, the government funded a digital dragnet of psychic practitioners and literature, a project kept secret until 2000 and still hiding its primary objective.
By June Hargrove ·
OSS Cable Logs and the Silent Mapping of Post-War Europe
Names and messages were purged, but the skeleton of a global surveillance grid survives in a ledger of area codes kept secret for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
James Michener and the Vanished History of the South Pacific
A fatal dock explosion and the loss of the SS President Coolidge are recorded in a file where a future novelist purged the record of the South Pacific's secret wars.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The Stored Logs of Aberdeen and the Quiet Room
Kept secret for decades, a declassified index lists the remote-viewing targets and operators who sat in the dark for an intelligence apparatus that lost its paper trail.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Vladimir Putin and the 2% Approval Rating That Built an Empire
Kept secret for years, a 2000 diplomatic cable shows how a sudden surge of state-backed strength masked the installation of a former intelligence officer
By Constance Bell ·
The SSU and the 1945 Scrubbing of the Washington Registry
A ledger of war crimes and resistance networks was handed to a rump intelligence agency in September 1945, where the record suggests the most inconvenient truths were purged.
By Constance Bell ·
JSOC's May 1999 Targeting of Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
A redacted intelligence study from Lawrence Livermore was being prepared for special operations commanders, even as the world watched Pakistan’s nuclear expansion.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Brazil Revoked Habeas Corpus While US Weighed $350 Million Aid
Kept secret until 2016, these briefing notes show a world on the edge, from jailed Brazilians and Saigon sappers to the suspected bombing of Iraqi troops.
By Roy Castellano ·
Ministry of Defence Tracked India's Push for Nuclear Weapons
South Asia's pursuit of the bomb remained a primary concern for the Joint Intelligence Bureau, whose files on India's nuclear programme were kept within the Ministry of Defence.
By Roy Castellano ·
Isaac Don Levine Served as Information Channel for Defector Krivitsky
Kept in the Security Service files on Soviet agents and suspects, a Russian-born journalist’s ties to a high-level defector remained a matter of state intelligence for years.
By Constance Bell ·
Mobile Field Interrogation Unit 2 Logged Atrocities of German Prisoners
Captured soldiers of the Third Reich surrendered secrets on concentration camps and signal intelligence to a mobile unit whose files now sit in the National Archives.
By Desmond Okafor ·