In 1947 the Army announced a flying disc, then a balloon. GAO’s 1995 search found two records, destroyed base files, and the Air Force’s Mogul answer.
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Project MINARET: The NSA’s Watch List of Americans
Project MINARET, the NSA’s 1967-1973 watch list, put King, Ali and two senators under warrantless surveillance. Its history, from declassified records.
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The 1973 Bab el-Mandeb Blockade in the Declassified U.S. Record
The U.S. State Department’s declassified record of Egypt’s 1973 Bab el-Mandeb blockade, from Golda Meir’s first complaint to the quiet deal that ended it.
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COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Five Domestic Programs
The FBI’s five COINTELPRO programs, 1956 to 1971, in one table: dates, 3,247 proposals, 2,370 approved actions, and where Senate and FBI records disagree.
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Operation PBSUCCESS: The CIA’s 1954 Guatemala Coup on the Record
Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA’s 1952-1954 campaign to oust Guatemala’s President Jacobo Arbenz, traced through the agency’s own history and the FRUS record.
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The Pentagon Papers: McNamara’s Vietnam Study, 1967–1969
A reference entry on the Pentagon Papers: McNamara’s 1967 tasking, Gelb’s 1969 report, the 1971 Supreme Court case and the full release in June of 2011.
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Operation TPAJAX: The 1953 Iran Coup in the U.S. Record
How the State Department’s 2017 FRUS volume documents Operation TPAJAX, the CIA’s 1953 Iran coup: approvals, the failed first try and the lost cables.
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Operation Northwoods: The Joint Chiefs’ 1962 Cuba Pretexts Memo
The full March 1962 Northwoods memo, read page by page: how the Joint Chiefs’ nine Cuba pretexts took shape, what each proposed, and how Kennedy answered.
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Able Archer 83 and the 1983 War Scare
How NATO’s Able Archer 83 exercise set off a Soviet nuclear alert in November 1983, as recorded in the PFIAB war scare report and Gen. Perroots’s addendum.