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...
How the CIA Identified, Approached and Broke Recruits
A 1944 CIA training document, recently declassified, lays out in cold detail exactly how the agency evaluated and manipulated potential assets. More than a manual, it’s a psychological dissection of human vulnerability-who can be recruited, how to spot them, and how...
The U.S. Government Wanted a Truth Drug And Got a Chemical Lie Instead
It started with a promise: a chemical that could make anyone talk, spilling secrets without resistance or deception. What the U.S. got instead was confusion, contradiction, and a costly pharmacological dead end. A declassified report titled Development of Truth Drug...
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...
