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,...
A Letter to the Pentagon: 1952’s Forgotten UFO Report Resurfaces
A recently unearthed classified letter, addressed to the U.S. Secretary of Defense in the early 1950s, provides one of the clearest historical snapshots of how seriously military leaders were taking reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The document -...
Project Have Doughnut: Inside America’s Covert Evaluation of the MiG-21
In the shadowy world of Cold War espionage and military technology, few programs were as tightly held-or as tactically revealing-as Project Have Doughnut. This highly classified 1969 initiative, recently declassified and published in area51_50.PDF, unveils a...
CIA Files Reveal African Aerial UAP Mysteries of the Cold War
A quietly declassified CIA document from the mid-20th century reveals an overlooked region in the global UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) narrative: Northwest Africa. Titled simply "Unidentified Flying Objects Over Morocco and French West Africa", the short but...
