Project AQUILINE: A Nuclear-Powered Cold War Drone
In the late 1960s the CIA began developing a small bird-like drone, intended for low-profile aerial reconnaissance. Still stinging from the infamous loss of the U-2 aircraft and pilot Francis…
In the late 1960s the CIA began developing a small bird-like drone, intended for low-profile aerial reconnaissance. Still stinging from the infamous loss of the U-2 aircraft and pilot Francis…
Disguised objects for use as dead drop containers required an incredible amount of research, experimentation, and testing before they could be used for high-risk operations in the field. The slightest imperfection could…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKaKo0z-P7s CIA case officer David Tyson found himself in the fight of his life at the Qali-i Jangi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on November 25th, 2001. The fortress was…
In 1958, a Soviet diplomat and KGB agent named Everly Lutsky approached Kay Marshall, who worked as a passport officer for the British High Commission in New Zealand and asked her to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxbEyuFPWqI Podcast Episode #16 - An NSA Agent Abroad with Dr. Eric Haseltine One of the most sophisticated technical operations of the Cold War was conducted by the KGB in…
The East German Stasi were infamous for their creation of a near-total surveillance state during the Cold War. Besides their enormous and allencompassing human intelligence network, which involved a significant fraction of the…
The SAC-46 Flying Dragon Officially designated the SAC-46 Gun, Dart, Carbon Dioxide Propelled, the Flying Dragon was designed and prototyped beginning in 1943 but was not a high-priority project for…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSwa7Guj_8 A .38 caliber bullet hole in the windshield of his car marks the scene of the murder of Joseph Alon, an Israeli Air Force officer and military attaché…
A micro-SD card containing eight classified documents was found in the home of former CIA case officer Kevin Patrick Mallory III during the execution of a search warrant, along with…
A former US Navy petty officer volunteered to spy and kill for Russia; until he learned too late that he had been talking to undercover FBI agents all along. Robert…