Two Families Once Escaped East Germany in a Hot Air Balloon
What price would you pay for freedom, and what dangers would you put your family through for a chance at a better life? Peter Strelzyk…
Operation Mongoose: The US Government’s Ridiculous Plot to Overthrow Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was one of the most famous figures of the Cold War. He was especially famous in the United States, as officials with the…
Project Stargate: When the CIA Tried to Harness Psychic Energy Against the Soviets
Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of…
Avro Arrow: The Groundbreaking Jet Interceptor Canada Will Never Forget
The Avro Arrow is the subject of a frustrating and tragic story about a world-class aircraft that was simply too ambitious for the nation that…
Cold War-Era Double Agents Who Could Easily Outfox James Bond
The best-known spy of all time is James Bond, a fictional British agent developed by Ian Fleming during the height of the Cold War. While…
Operation Monopoly: When the US Tunneled Under The Soviet Embassy
The U.S. and U.S.S.R. were no strangers to spying on each other, as they had been playing a cat-and-mouse game of espionage since the beginning…
CIA Documents Reveal Early Plot Against Raúl Castro
With Raúl Castro’s retirement from politics on the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, CIA documents about a planned assassination plot against the…
Project MKUltra: The CIA’s Unethical Cold War-Era Human Experimentation Program
The CIA has been subject to much scrutiny since its establishment in 1947 and this only increased following the conclusion of the Cold War, when…
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum: The Versatile Air Superiority Fighter That Could Launch Ground Attacks
The Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum is a Soviet air superiority fighter that’s earned the respect of many pilots throughout the world. It entered service in the…
The MiG 23 that flew for 560 miles without the pilot then crashed in a farm killing a boy
The cold war is littered with near ‘nuclear apocalypse’ misses, technological and aviation advancement and a fair number of peculiar incidents. One such bizarre event…
The MiG 23 that flew for 560 miles without the pilot then crashed in a farm killing a boy
The cold war is littered with near ‘nuclear apocalypse’ misses, technological and aviation advancement and a fair number of peculiar incidents. One such bizarre event…
Northern Ireland Cold War Nuclear Bunker For Sale
Northern Ireland’s only Cold War bunker was built to survive a nuclear attack, but it’s now dangerous to enter due to a buildup of a…