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Russia's hand launched satellites, the secret deal that killed the program

What began as a student experiment that rewrote the rules of space exploration ended in scandal, silence, and the fall of an ...
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The secret Cold War spy plane the Soviets shot out of the sky

Born from the B-24’s wartime legacy, the PB4Y-2 Privateer became something far more dangerous in the early Cold War: a ...

How a Secret Team of American Female Codebreakers Toppled a Cold War Soviet Spy Network—and Unmasked Traitors on Home Soil

At Arlington Hall, women on the Venona Project exploited a Soviet cipher flaw to expose Cold War spies, a secret that ...

This Top-Secret Satellite Spied on Enemy Weapons for the U.S. Air Force, Declassified Files Reveal

In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

Two Amateur Radio Operators Tapped Into a Soviet Frequency. Did They Hear a Woman Burning Alive in Space?

At the height of the Space Race, two Italian amateur radio enthusiasts claimed to have captured secret audio of cosmonauts, ...

'They have lied and spied for the communists': The suburban spies who sold nuclear secrets to the USSR

The Portland spy ring trial began on 13 March 1961. The BBC reported on a Cold War tale of espionage, adultery, exorcism – and a deceptively ordinary-looking bungalow.