The CIA Brainstormed Ways to Turn Translation Into Psychological Operations
It wasn’t just what was said-it was how it was said, and who translated it. A declassified document reveals that during the Cold War, the CIA convened a specialized brainstorming meeting to dissect the role of translation as a strategic tool-not just for information...
The U.S. Quietly Built a Manual for Total Incapacitation
While the world looked for bigger bombs, a small team of U.S. researchers was building something stranger: a guide to shutting people down-mentally, physically, and psychologically-without killing them. The Quarterly Technical Progress Report, a document spanning late...
How U.S. Intelligence Neutralized UFO Reports Without Explaining Them
In the early years of the Cold War, as the U.S. focused on atomic weapons and espionage threats, it also began logging something far less explainable: unidentified flying objects. While the public saw flying saucers as science fiction, military and intelligence...
Soviet Pilots Reported Impossible Flying Objects Over Stalingrad in 1954
In the spring of 1954, Soviet fighter pilots stationed near Stalingrad witnessed something they could not explain: fast-moving aerial objects flying at extreme altitude and speeds beyond the known capabilities of any aircraft in the USSR or the West. The report was...
