Secret Soviet Radar Base Sells At Auction
Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction yesterday, officials said. The town formerly known as Skrunda-1...
View ArticleSecret CIA Mission To Salvage Soviet Sub Surfaces
In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made...
View ArticleAir Force Propaganda Film Refutes Dr. Strangelove
To refute early 1960s novels and Hollywood films like Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove which raised questions about U.S. control over nuclear weapons, the Air Force produced a documentary film–“SAC...
View ArticleCold War Propaganda Film Aimed At School Kids
The United States was the only country producing nuclear weapons until 1949 when the USSR tested its first nuclear device. The perception of safety generated by US weapons superiority waned. Soon...
View ArticleFrench Bread Laced With LSD in CIA Experiment
A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of...
View ArticleU2 Spy Plane: Retirement Postponed
The U-2 spy plane, the high-flying aircraft that was often at the heart of cold war suspense, is enjoying an encore. Four years ago, the Pentagon was ready to start retiring the plane, which took its...
View ArticleUS To Declassify Old Satellite Spy Photos
The public will at last get a glimpse at our government’s secretive, Cold War-era version of Google Earth. Secrecy News reports: Millions of feet of film of historical imagery from intelligence...
View ArticleUS Army Sprayed St Louis With Radiation In Chemical Warfare Test
The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed. While it was known that...
View ArticleCIA Bankrolls Animated Cartoon In Attempt To Fight Communism
During the cold war, the CIA created Operation Mockingbird to manipulate the views of the public. They recruited assets within US and foreign news agencies to directly control the news. One of the...
View ArticleSecret CIA Project To Make Cyborg Cats
In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an elite spy, implanting a...
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