IntelligenceDB
108 entries on intelligence agencies, declassified operations, and counterintelligence from the public record. From the CIA and KGB to Mossad, the Berlin Tunnel, VENONA, and the Cambridge Five, explore how secret services shaped a century.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA was created by the National Security Act of 1947 as the successor to the wartime Office of Strategic Services. Its Directo...
KGB
The KGB operated from 1954 until the dissolution of the USSR as the umbrella of Soviet intelligence. Its First Chief Directorate r...
Mossad
Mossad was established in 1949 as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations and reports directly to the Prime Minister...
Operation Ajax
Operation Ajax, jointly run with the British SIS under the codename TPAJAX, toppled Mohammad Mosaddegh after he nationalized the A...
VENONA Project
VENONA began in 1943 when analysts detected reused key material in Soviet diplomatic cables encrypted with one time pads that had ...
Cambridge Five
The Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, were recruited at Cambridge in th...
Five Eyes
The Five Eyes grew from the 1946 UKUSA agreement, in which the United States and Britain divided signals interception and agreed t...
Operation Gold
Operation Gold dug a tunnel from West Berlin under the sector boundary to intercept Soviet military communications cables, jointly...
Stasi
The Ministry for State Security ran domestic surveillance and foreign espionage for East Germany from 1950 to 1990, deploying info...