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The Japanese strike of December 7, 1941 caught American intelligence dispersed and stovepiped. Cryptanalysts were reading diplomat...

A U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser on October 14, 1962 photographed Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba, and...

The USS Pueblo, a Navy signals intelligence ship, was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on January 23, 1968 in waters w...

The Senate Select Committee chaired by Frank Church investigated assassination plotting, domestic surveillance, and covert meddlin...

The September 11 attacks revealed warning signs scattered across agencies that never fused into alarm. The FBI Phoenix memo and in...

The October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate judged that Iraq possessed chemical and biological stockpiles and was reviving nuc...

The Zimmermann Telegram, decrypted in Room 40 of British naval intelligence in January 1917, revealed Germany offering Mexico an a...

Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 with 269 people aboard, strayed off course into Soviet airspace over Kamchatka and Sakha...

In the early hours of September 26, 1983, the Soviet Oko satellite system falsely reported inbound American missiles, the system c...

Able Archer 83, a NATO command post exercise in November 1983 that rehearsed nuclear release procedures, alarmed Soviet leadership...

In June 2013 the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed classified programs to journalists at the Guardian and the Washing...

On 1 May 1960 a Soviet surface to air missile brought down a CIA U-2 reconnaissance aircraft flown by Francis Gary Powers near Sve...

In 1985 and 1986 officials of the Reagan administration secretly sold missiles to Iran, then under an arms embargo, hoping to free...

In 1954 Israeli military intelligence activated a cell of Egyptian Jews to plant incendiary devices in cinemas, a post office and ...