The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was a wartime intelligence agency, and a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the United States Armed Forcesbranches. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, World War 2, World War II,...
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the U.S. Government declassified the majority of its security-classified records relating to World War II. Yet, 60 years after the war, millions of pages of wartime and postwar records remained classified. Many of these records contained information related to war crimes and war criminals. This information had been sought over the years by congress, government prosecutors, historians and victims of war crimes. In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, World War 2, World War II,...
The Czechoslovak crisis began in January 1968. The Czech communist leadership embarked on a program of dramatic liberalization of the political, economic, and social orders. These reforms triggered increasing Soviet concerns culminating in the invasion of 21 August 1968. This collection of documents pertains to these issues, the responses and analysis of this event in history.
Topic: CIA
This collection of material by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and essays offer an unprecedented, wide-ranging look at the man and his career as the United States' top intelligence official and one of its most important diplomats during a crucial decade of the Cold War. From mid-1966, when he became DCI, to late 1976, when he left...
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Unabridged microfilm records of United States military commissions for investigating and prosecuting Axis war crimes. Reel 93 is missing. Originally digitized by unwcc.org
Topics: United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes
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War Crimes Military Tribunal of the Ministry of National Defence
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Documents from Nationalist Chinese (Taiwan) war crimes trials of Japanese personnel. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: UNWCC, United Nation War Crimes Commission, Japanese War Crimes
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Nuremberg Military Tribunals
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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946 - April, 1949 Volume 1 - The Medical Case Volume 2 - The Medical Case/The Milch Case Volume 3 - The Justice Case Volume 4 - The Einsatzgruppen Case/The RuSHA Case Volume 5 - The RuSHA Case/The Pohl Case Volume 6 - The Flick Case Volume 7 - The IG Farben Case Volume 8 - The IG Farben Case Volume 9 - The Krupp Case Volume 10 - The High Command Case Volume 11 - The High Command...
Topics: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
Psychological Strategy Board documents from CIA
Topics: Psychological Strategy Board, Psychological operations, Psychology, PsyOps, Psychological warfare,...
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International Criminal Court
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Selected documents from German civilian courts pursuing war crimes cases in the British Zone. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topic: British Zone of Occupation
FBI Files on CIA Liaison
Topics: FBI, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation
V-13690 (Gehlen Organization V-Number). BEFINAL-103 (CIA cryptonym while monitoring his peddling of fabricated intelligence reports). See ROESSELSPRUNG and DILLINGER
Topic: CIA
Nazis In South America
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Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
Kalnins, Bruno
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Papers from [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to ESAU.
Topics: CIA, ESAU, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
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Lists compiled by the United Nations War Crimes Commission indexing known war criminals during World War II. These records would eventually be consolidated into the CROWCASS lists. Originally digitized by unwcc.org.
Topics: UNWCC, United Nations War Crimes Commission, Nazi War Crimes
Hazners, Vilis
Topic: CIA
Files collected by the Central Intelligence Agency relating the missile gap.
Topics: Missile gap, Cold war, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of...
Adolf HORN (Gehlen Organization alias). RNMELLATE (cryptonym when he was Liaison Contact at the West German Ministry of Defense).
Topic: CIA
Abramtchik, Mikola
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AEDOGMA / AEBATH (1947-61), which supported the activities of the Principal Agent (PA), Michael Korzhan, was designed to produce CI/CE information on two Ukrainian nationalist groups in Germany; positive intelligence on other Ukrainian groups in Germany and Western Europe; information on Soviet penetration of Orthodox churches; and miscellaneous CE and other support activities beginning in 1947. In 1959, the PA was transferred to Paris to report on the efforts of the Soviet Services in emigre...
Topic: OSS
AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data...
Topic: OSS
Documents form [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to CAESAR.
Topics: CIA, Central intelligence Agency, CAESAR, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
CAMISOLE, GULL (OSS/SSU/CIG cryptonyms).
Topic: CIA
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
DTPILLAR (1951-67) refers to CIA support to The Asia Foundation, which undertook programs via private institutions in Asia to counteract the spread and appeal of communism. Karl Herczeg associated with Project. Minoru Maeda considered for possible use on Project.
Topic: CIA
AEACRE (1952-64) established a mechanism for the planning and conduct of REDSOX operations via a Domestic Operations Base (DOB) used for the interrogation, assessment, training, briefing, and preparation for dispatch of agents for infiltration into the USSR. Aleks Kurgvel, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB (formerly AEBEEHIVE) (1970-91) superceded Project AERODYNAMIC and supported the Ukrainian émigré organization ZP / UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) with a New York publishing arm called Prolog Research Corporation (QRTENURE, AETENURE) and a Munich Office, Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE), publisher of the monthly journal Suchasnist. CIA terminated QRPLUMB after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 and provided funds to enable Prolog to...
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Folder: ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF GATEWAY PROCESS; STAR GATE was an umbrella term for the Intelligence Community effort that used remote viewers who claimed to use clairvoyance, precognition, or telepathy to acquire and describe information about targets that were blocked from ordinary perception. The records include documentation of remote viewing sessions, training, internal memoranda, foreign assessments, and program reviews. The STAR GATE program was also called SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
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Topics: CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, STARGATE, SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
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National Archives Microfilm Publications - Microfilm Publication M887 Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trial United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al. (Case I) Roll 1 - Documents of Authorization, Lists of Tribunal Members, Covers of Transcripts, Minute Books, Prosecution and Defense Exhibit Index, Court Docket, List of Witnesses Roll 2 - Transcript Volumes 1-3 Roll 3 - Transcript Volumes 4-6 Roll 4 - Transcript Volumes 7-9 Roll 5 - Transcript Volumes 10-12 Roll 6 -...
Topics: 1893-1946, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Nuremberg...
CIA documents relating to the Berlin Wall.
Topics: Berlin Wall, Germany, East Germany, West Germany, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom...
POJACKPOT-1 and PODAM (cryptonyms). Associated with KMCASHIER Project.
Topic: CIA
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
Balodis, Nikolajs
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During World War II, he worked on concepts for a postwar peace; however, officially such studies were forbidden by the Nazis, who had declared total war. As a result, Erhard lost his job in 1942 but continued to work on the subject by order of the "Reichsgruppe Industrie." In 1944 he wrote War Finances and Debt Consolidation (orig: Kriegsfinanzierung und Schuldenkonsolidierung). In this study he assumed that Germany had already lost the war.
Topic: CIA
German Intelligence Service
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OSS branch liquidation files.
Topic: OSS
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
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Many, if not all, of the Phoenix Program materials were created or collected and donated by Douglas Valentine. The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam(AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The Phoenix Program was designed to identify and...
Topics: CIA, Phoenix, Phoenix Program, Assassination, Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Cold war
AECOB, approved in 1950, was a vehicle for foreign intelligence (FI) operations into and within Soviet Latvia and involved infiltration and exfiltration of black agents and the recruitment of legally resident agents in the USSR, especially Latvia. ZRLYNCH was approved in 1950 for use of the Latvian Resistance Movement, which had been formed in 1944, as a vehicle for clandestine activities within the USSR. ZRLYNCH was renewed in 1952 as a part of AECOB, which then provided both FI and political...
Topic: OSS
Skorzeny, Otto
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Hoettl, Wilhelm
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AEDEPOT (formerly AEREADY) (1957-65) was designed to provide a trained "Hot War" cadre of agents who could be used during a period of heightened tensions/increased alert or during actual hostilities against the Soviet Union. Mikola Abramtchik, Constantine Mierlak, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
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DTLINEN (formerly EARTHENWARE, GRAVEYARD) (1951-60) was a CIA covert propaganda, harassment, and sabotage activity subsidizing both the overt and covert the activities of the Kampgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (Fighting Group against Inhumanity (KgU)) against East Germany. The KgU (CAJERSEY), an overt organization, sought to expose conditions in the USSR and Soviet Zone of Germany which were considered crimes against humanity. Heinrich Otto Krause associated with Project. Erich Von Sivers...
Topic: CIA
Documents from [the] Central Intelligence Agency regarding POLO.
Topics: CIA, POLO, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
AEPOLE-8 (cryptonym). Associated with Project AEPOLE and Project AEBALCONY.
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United States. Department of the Army. Military Commission at Yokohama.
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Trial documents from American military tribunals of Japanese war criminals digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes, Yokohama
Mueller, Heinrich
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Records from American, Australian, and British military tribunals compiled by the United Nations War Crimes Commission on the prosecution of Japanese personnel. Records digitized by unwcc.org
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, Japanese War Crimes, United Nations War Crimes Commission
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
Topics: War crime trials, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
Magyar, Harcosok, Bajtarsi, Kozossege
Topic: CIA
Krupp, Alfried
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Louis Jolyon West
Topics: Jolyon West, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA, MK ULTRA
OSTRICH (OSS and British cryptonym).
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Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
Casemir, Helmut
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GRCROOND / GRREPAIR (1952-62) sought to develop and strengthen the Austrian paramilitary program so that this program could be activated at full strength in the event of hostilities. The program included staybehind, evasion and escape; guerrilla warfare and resistance; paramilitary training; and caching of equipment. Egbert Hochhauser, Hans Tschurtscenthaler considered for possible use on Project GRCROOND.
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Documents and transcripts from United Kingdom v, Heinz Wilhelm Eck digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Nazi War Crimes, SS Peleus, British Zone of Occupation, unrestricted submarine warfare
Tsuji, Masanobu
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Document number CIA-RDP80-00926A004000490001-5 declassified and released through the CIA's CREST database. Previously available only on four computers located outside of Washington D.C., the Agency was successfully pressured into putting the files online as a result of a MuckRock lawsuit and the efforts of Emma Best. The metadata was collected by Data.World, and the files are now being archived and made text searchable by the Internet Archive.
Topics: CREST, General CIA Records, RIPPUB, REPORT, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
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Records of war crimes trials conducted by the Netherlands primarily against Japanese war crimes committed in Indonesia. Digitized by the International Criminal Court.
Topics: Japanese War Crimes, Dutch East Indies
PASTIME (1948-52) was Berlin Base's staybehind program, including trained W/T operators, agents, cutouts, and informants prepared for activation in the event of hostilities. PASTIME used some of the same people as the KIBITZ staybehind program.
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Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
V-2665 (Gehlen Organization V-Number). Hans CRAMER, HOFFMAN (Gehlen Organization alias). UJDRUM (cryptonym).
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Gehlen Organization counterintelligence projects
Topics: CIA, Gehlen, Counterintelligence
CADROWN (formerly TPEMBER Apparat, CADRASTIC) (1952-55) was approved in 1952 as Amendment 3 to Project TPEMBER to establish a paramilitary resistance apparat in East Germany for escape and evasion and other staybehind resistance activities in case of war with the USSR. TPEMBER (later CADROIT) (1949-55) supported a campaign to expose and to prevent where possible, illegal actions, breaches of justice, and acts of inhumanity committed and tolerated by authorities in East Germany. This was...
Topic: CIA
AESAURUS / AENOBLE (initially AEROSOL, renamed AEGIDEON / AENOBLE in 1958) operation (1950-61) maintained communications with agents of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Narodno Trudovoi Soyuz or NTS (CABOCHE-1, PDGIDEON, SHUBA-100)). NTS was founded in 1930s by Russian emigres with extreme rightest and anti-Semitic views and collaborated closely with the Nazis in Russia, providing local administrators, propagandists, and informants. NTS rebuilt itself in 1945 as an anti-Soviet...
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CABATON (1956-64) provided accommodation addresses in Bonn and Frankfurt. Erich Neugebauer, Johannes Hirsemann associated with Project.
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Digitized by FDR Library
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services
CALABEL-1 (cryptonym when he was Liaison Contact at the West German Foreign Office). Stephen H. HOLCOMB, Arthur T. LATTER (pseudonyms). Associated with Project AEFORD (formerly PBSTEAM).
Topic: CIA
AEVIRGIL (1953-63) provided a controlled, anti-communist émigré organization for political and psychological activities against the Soviet target. The particular émigré organization, which was called the Central Association of Post-War Emigres (TsOPE) and located in Munich, produced and disseminated Russian language leaflets and a monthly magazine (Svoboda), held propaganda meetings and press conferences, and was engaged in psychological warfare against the Soviet target. Wilhelm Gruenwaldt...
Topic: CIA
Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II. His name was mentioned in CIA documents as a plotter in a 1952 plan to kill the Japanese prime minister of the time, Shigeru Yoshida.
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