How the United States Captured German Atomic Scientists Before the Soviets Could
A declassified letter from 1945, sent by intelligence officer Philip Strong to physicist Samuel Goudsmit, sheds light on one of the most urgent and secretive operations of the final days of World War II: the American race to secure German atomic scientists before the...
Declassified Document Reveals CIA’s Cold War Brainwashing Regime
In the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency quietly compiled a now-declassified internal study for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Its subject: the systematic re-education of captured minds-a process popularly known as "brainwashing." But the agency’s report...
Soviet & U.S. Bio-Chemical War Plans Revealed
In a stark 1951 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE-18), the U.S. intelligence community laid out in meticulous detail the possibility that the Soviet Union could use biological and chemical weapons if war broke out with the United States. This wasn’t science fiction....
The CIA’s Behavior Modification Experiments at Edgewood Arsenal
For over two decades, Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland was the epicenter of a classified research program that merged pharmacology, military doctrine, and deep secrecy. A newly surfaced Department of the Army document outlines in detail how chemical and psychological...
Secrets in the Numbers: How the CIA Fought to Shield Government Data
A little-known document titled "Confidentiality of Federal Statistical Records Act" reveals how, in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence agencies, led by the CIA, resisted legislative efforts to make government-held data more accessible. The document outlines the CIA’s...
