espionage

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250826-the-soviet-artwork-that-spied-on-the-us

GREAT ESCAPEE Sqd Ldr Brian Paddon was in touch with M19 during his time in Colditz and captivity and after his escape. This was undercover work while serving with the RAF as a test pilot. M19 was part of the British Secret Service during WW2. I would like to know more about its activities ...

Secret Cold War project "Alpha". When the U.S. managed to get hold of Soviet Jet fighters, including the Yak-23 (DOCUMENTARY)

The voice of Parker has passed on. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj463gx8gyo

Meant to post this last week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/12/edward-johnson-argo-iran-america-diplomats-affleck/ Rest In Peace :(

Most odd attack happened today in Lebanon. There are reports on exploding beepers throughout Lebanon allegedly targeting Hezbollah members. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/...

Hello all, been a minute I am not sure where to post this, but has anyone heard of the Welbum? It's in the same league as the Welrod, Welwand, Welfreighter, and Welman when it comes to British convert R&D at Station IX in WW2. I saw the name pop up while reading about the Welwand and I...

RTX has come forward and voluntarily admitted 750 violations of ITAR pertaining to leaks of military information between August 2017 and September 2023. This includes the VC-25 (Air Force One), F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and the B-2 Spirit stealth, B-1B Lancer and the F/A-18, F-15 and F-16...

A YouTube series covering 'Numbers Stations' quasi-mysterious shortwave stations, which are widely suspected to be used by various intelligence agencies to contact agents in the field. This series is covering the stations one at a time. When they were more common (In the 1970 - 2000s) time...

Let face it Top Gun: Maverick is one of biggest success in Box office and Tom Cruise ? Instead give pseudo intellectual interviews like every Wookie in hollywood he thanks the audience his way View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ujdJf7nnCM Promote his new movie View...

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/south-koreans-including-army-captain-allegedly-spied-for-north/6550135.html

Most TV and Film productions use real weapons or modify them like the Sterling SMGs in Star Wars. Now and again, however, a show decides to make its own props. In 1970 Gerry Anderson released his live action series "UFO" set in a fictional 1980 where a secret organisation called SHADO battled...

In September 1944, the Soviet secret service succeeded in arresting two German agents, a man and a woman in Soviet army uniforms, whose mission was to travel to Moscow and eliminate Stalin. Without going into the details of Operation Zeppelin, weapons were found : A miniature grenade launcher...

As the movie industry wheels out yet another Bond film I prefer to return to the world of the original, in the pages of Ian Fleming's novels. For those who do not know what Britain was like for most ordinary families in the 50s and 60s, the glamour of the world described by Fleming in his books...

I thought that making a separate thread on the 6513th Test Squadron known as the Red Hats, those who conduct the initial flight tests of acquired MiGs for later tactical exploitation, and would focus the website's patrons on the issues of how these aircraft are acquired, tested, who tests them...

Thought I would post about this book I had just read. Its title is "Autopsy for a Cosmonaut" by Jacob Hay and John M. Keshishian, MD. Published by Little, Brown and Company, NYC. Published in Feb. 1969. It's basically a story about a Soviet manned space shot that ended badly for its...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/maps-soviet-union-ussr-military-secret-mapping-spies/ https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo24760505.html

Till now allmost all drones are completely man-made. That could change, at least in the field of micro drones, according to an article in the december issue of the German magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (Spectrum Of Science). Several teams of scientists are working on a conversion of...

Robunos was suggesting having some pics of the Goodyear Inflatoplane, so here goes... The Goodyear Model 466 and 468 were called Inflatoplanes. Like the Hiller Flying Platform and other odd aircraft, they were part of a multi-service evaluation by the Army and the Navy's ONR, except here the CIA...