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...
A 1946 U.S. Intelligence Breakdown of Soviet Propaganda Broadcasts
Declassified report reveals how Stalin’s information machine sought to rewrite global public opinion-one frequency at a time. "All resistance to Soviet policy is that of ‘reactionaries’ seeking to defeat peace, democracy, and security." - Central Intelligence Group,...
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,...
