Trump calls AI risk a hoax, Xi wants ‘human control,’ and nobody wants guardrails, except for the AI incident hotline both sides are quietly discussing.
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CORONA: America’s First Spy Satellite Program, 1960–1972
Reference entry on CORONA, the first U.S. spy satellite program: early failures, the 1960 mid-air film catch, KH cameras, and its 1995 declassification.
Declassified
The CIA ‘Vaccine’ Memo Is Real. Here’s What It Actually Says
A viral headline said a 1952 CIA memo plotted to drug Americans with vaccines. We read it: one line about shots, 13 stranger ideas, and one real case.
Declassified
Declassification Appeals Panel Targets 1,200-Case Backlog
A new ISOO notice lets the panel that rules on declassification appeals send stalled cases back to agencies and makes its rulings binding. What changed.
Archives
Project AZORIAN: The CIA, the Glomar Explorer and K-129
Project AZORIAN, the CIA’s 1974 effort to raise Soviet submarine K-129 with the Hughes Glomar Explorer, as told in the agency’s own declassified history.
News
State Dept. Releases Reagan Files on 4 South American Nations
State Dept. historians released 88 Reagan-era records on Paraguay, Venezuela, Ecuador and Uruguay, from Stroessner memos to F-16 sales. What’s in them.
Declassified
The CIA’s Founding-Fathers Spy Story Was Also a 1975 PR Plan
Washington ran spies, and the CIA made sure you knew it. Files show how the agency and Ford White House used the Bicentennial against the Church Committee.
Opinion
The Tail Risk Next Door
Mark Carney calls a U.S. invasion of Canada an extreme tail risk. Trump called it highly unlikely. An opinion on what that exchange says about the times.
Archives
NSA’s Declassified History of the Gulf of Tonkin Incidents
NSA’s declassified Gulf of Tonkin history found no second attack on Aug. 4, 1964, and that most signals intelligence was left out of official reports.