An examination of the CIA’s Cold War MKUltra program through Senate hearings and released records, distinguishing what is documented about Frank Olson, rediscovered financial files,… Read More »The Records the CIA Tried to Erase: MKUltra, the Cold War Mind-Control Experiments
In 1940, as France fell and invasion loomed over Britain, Churchill’s government raced to move the nation’s gold and securities across the Atlantic to Canada… Read More »Operation Fish: How Churchill Secretly Shipped Britain’s Gold Across the Atlantic in WWII
Behind a fake company sign on Fifth Avenue, a handful of civilian codebreakers ran America’s first peacetime cryptanalytic bureau — cracking Japan’s diplomatic cables to… Read More »The Black Chamber: The Light and Shadow of America’s First Peacetime Cipher Bureau
In 1943, a secret US Army unit at Arlington Hall set out to crack a supposedly unbreakable Soviet cipher, and a Soviet blunder handed them… Read More »The Venona Project: How a Soviet Cipher Mistake Unlocked 37 Years of Intercepted Secrets
The U.S. Army cracked Japan’s PURPLE diplomatic cipher more than a year before Pearl Harbor, yet the attack still succeeded. The reason lies in a… Read More »Codename PURPLE: The Cipher America Broke — and Why It Didn’t Stop Pearl Harbor
How a single coded telegram helped draw the United States into World War I: Room 40’s codebreaking, a double concealment, Zimmermann’s own confession, and the… Read More »The Zimmermann Telegram: How One Coded Cable Drew America into World War I
