CIA Minutes Reveal Tensions Over Tech, Funding & Espionage Gear
A declassified document from the CIA’s Research, Development and Production Review Board offers a rare inside look at the technical debates, procurement struggles, and operational pressures inside the Agency’s clandestine R&D wing during the early Cold War. The...
50 Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis Inside the NSA
Cryptanalysis - the science of cracking secret codes - has always been an arms race between mathematicians and machine designers. A newly declassified NSA document, titled "Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937–1987)", provides a rare and sweeping look at...
File by Fire: How the FBI Destroyed Its Own History
A declassified trove of internal FBI communications reveals a decades-long institutional push to purge its own historical records, some dating as far back as 1920. This wasn’t the careful curation of archives. It was bureaucratic incineration. Documents...
What a 1960s CIA Journal Taught Us About Espionage and Cognitive Error
In a quietly powerful internal volume titled Studies in Intelligence, CIA analysts and case officers in the 1960s turned their gaze inward. This particular issue - declassified decades later - explores not just field operations or global espionage, but something far...
Minds in the Shadows: How the CIA Studied Its Own Failures in the 1960s
A rare, declassified edition of the CIA’s internal journal, Studies in Intelligence, offers a unique window into how the Agency processed - and tried to learn from - its operational missteps during the Cold War. Though marked "For Official Use Only," this issue,...
