The Chemistry of Coercion: Sidney Gottlieb, George Hunter White, and the Dark Legend of Operation Midnight Climax
In the tense early years of...
Operation Sea Spray: The 1950 Biological Vulnerability Test Over San Francisco
In the early years of the...
The Blueprints of Sabotage: Operation Gemstone and the Infiltration of the Watergate
The Watergate scandal of the early...
The Glomar Explorer Venture: The Covert Recovery of Soviet Submarine K-129
During the height of the Cold...
Operation Eternal Darkness: The Airstrike Blitz on Lebanon and the Fracture of the Middle East Ceasefire
The Ceasefire and the Exclusion of...
Operation True Promise IV: The IRGC’s Retaliatory Barrage and the Ignition of the 2026 Iran War
The Catalyst: Operation Epic Fury and...
The Paymaster’s Secret: Charles A. Dana’s Clandestine Surveillance of Ulysses S. Grant
In the early spring of 1863,...
The Doha Dealroom: The Qatari Influence Campaign and the Privatization of U.S. Foreign Policy
Introduction: The Quarter-Billion-Dollar Lobbying Footprint Qatar,...
The Master’s Illusion: George Washington, General Heath, and the “Great Bluff” Hoax of August 1776
In late August 1776, the embryonic...
The Morristown Ledger: George Washington’s Art of Deception and the Dinner-Table Disinformation Gambit of 1777
During the dark, frigid winter of...