UFO Tracked by U.S. Personnel at Soviet Border Near Rostov City
A short but striking CIA report, catalogued as DOC_0000015263 and titled "FLYING OBJECT OBSERVED AT ROSTOV," documents a Cold War-era UFO sighting near the strategic Soviet city of Rostov in 1951. The memo notes that U.S. personnel stationed in the region observed an...
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...
Operation JESUITS: Soviet Spycraft, Catholic Resistance, and the Cold War in Lithuania
A gripping Cold War-era espionage operation, once buried in KGB archives, has now come to light. “Operation JESUITS,” chronicled in a newly published Cold War International History Project working paper, reveals how the Soviet state security apparatus...
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,...
