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A Stone Buried and Unearthed Again: The Xi’an Nestorian Stele, Christianity in China 800 Years Before the Jesuits

2026-06-182026-11-02

Erected in 781 in Chang’an, the capital of Tang China, the Nestorian Stele records in Chinese and Syriac the story of a Christian community that… Read More »A Stone Buried and Unearthed Again: The Xi’an Nestorian Stele, Christianity in China 800 Years Before the Jesuits

MKUltra: The CIA’s Secret Cold War Mind-Control Experiments on Unwitting Citizens, and the Records That Survived

2024-08-222026-10-31

미국 중앙정보국(CIA) 본부 건물.

Approved by the CIA in 1953, MKUltra tested whether LSD, hypnosis and sensory deprivation could control the human mind. This article uses public records to… Read More »MKUltra: The CIA’s Secret Cold War Mind-Control Experiments on Unwitting Citizens, and the Records That Survived

Operation Fish: How Britain, Facing Invasion, Moved Its Gold and Securities to Canada

2024-08-022026-10-29

1940년 대서양을 항해하는 영국 해군 순양함 HMS 에메랄드. 물고기 작전 초기 유가증권 수송을 맡았다.

In the summer of 1940, with a German invasion looming, Britain loaded its remaining gold and the overseas securities its citizens had registered onto warships… Read More »Operation Fish: How Britain, Facing Invasion, Moved Its Gold and Securities to Canada

The Black Chamber: How America’s First Peacetime Cipher Bureau Broke Foreign Codes Behind a Fake Company Sign

2024-07-242026-10-27

허버트 O. 야들리. 1917년 육군 MI-8을 이끌었고, 1919년 블랙 챔버 설립을 주도했다.

The Black Chamber was America’s first peacetime code-breaking agency, secretly solving foreign embassy cables behind a fake company sign in 1919 New York. Here is… Read More »The Black Chamber: How America’s First Peacetime Cipher Bureau Broke Foreign Codes Behind a Fake Company Sign

The Venona Project: How Reused One-Time Pads Exposed Soviet Spies in America

2024-07-102026-10-24

버지니아주 알링턴에 있던 알링턴 홀(Arlington Hall). 옛 여학교 건물로, 베노나 프로젝트의 본부였다.

The Soviet one-time pad was unbreakable in theory, until wartime chaos led to pages being used twice. Through that crack, a U.S. Army team made… Read More »The Venona Project: How Reused One-Time Pads Exposed Soviet Spies in America

Codename PURPLE: The Cipher America Broke — and Why It Didn’t Stop Pearl Harbor

2024-06-282026-10-24

전시된 97식 구문인자기(PURPLE) 실물. 미국은 실물을 본 적 없이 원리만으로 이 기계를 재현해냈다.

The United States broke Japan’s PURPLE diplomatic cipher without ever seeing the machine and read Tokyo’s final note before the Japanese embassy did, yet Pearl… Read More »Codename PURPLE: The Cipher America Broke — and Why It Didn’t Stop Pearl Harbor

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