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…
https://youtu.be/C5ibix1ZsEY An unwilling Soviet assassin killed two Ukrainian expatriates in West Germany before his own dramatic escape and defection. Bogdan Stashynsky was recruited by the Soviet NKVD at the age…
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://youtu.be/WbQVOqcDZ1c Peter Mason and his wife Prudence Mason served Britain’s MI-6 from the earliest days of the Cold War through the 1970s. Peter was a member of the Special Operations…
These jungle boots with footprint soles were designed to disguise the presence of MACV SOG warriors on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Military Assistance Command Vietnam - Studies and Observation Group was…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0y8rOIlnx0 An explosive press conference by US intelligence personnel took place in West Germany in 1954. The stars of the show were Nikolai Khokhlov, a Soviet MVD assassin and his…
Lance Corporal Sara-Jane Warke was assigned to the Military Reaction Force, a special mission unit which operated in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in the 1970s. The MRF is a…
Beginning in 1962, the legendary research & development powerhouse at Lockheed known as the Skunk Works started to develop a supersonic drone that could do the work of a CIA-flown A-12 or…
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…