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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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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Folder: REMOTE VIEWING SESSION DATA. SITE # 0243. REMOTE VIEWER: 095 CRV; 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...
Topics: CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, STARGATE, SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
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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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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
Hazners, Vilis
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FBI Files on CIA Liaison
Topics: FBI, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Psychological Strategy Board documents from CIA
Topics: Psychological Strategy Board, Psychological operations, Psychology, PsyOps, Psychological warfare,...
V-13690 (Gehlen Organization V-Number). BEFINAL-103 (CIA cryptonym while monitoring his peddling of fabricated intelligence reports). See ROESSELSPRUNG and DILLINGER
Topic: CIA
Kalnins, Bruno
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Louis Jolyon West
Topics: Jolyon West, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA, MK ULTRA
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
Papers from [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to ESAU.
Topics: CIA, ESAU, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
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).
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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
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
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...
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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...
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...
Topic: CIA
Nazis In South America
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CIA documents relating to the Berlin Wall.
Topics: Berlin Wall, Germany, East Germany, West Germany, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom...
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
Documents form [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to CAESAR.
Topics: CIA, Central intelligence Agency, CAESAR, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
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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...
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
Magyar, Harcosok, Bajtarsi, Kozossege
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Documents from [the] Central Intelligence Agency regarding POLO.
Topics: CIA, POLO, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
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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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Abramtchik, Mikola
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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
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
OSTRICH (OSS and British cryptonym).
Topic: CIA
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.
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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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Balodis, Nikolajs
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German Intelligence Service
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Trial documents from American military tribunals of Japanese war criminals digitized by the International Criminal Court.
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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
Husseini, Amin El
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Krupp, Alfried
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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).
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Hoettl, Wilhelm
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Skorzeny, Otto
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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....
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OSS branch liquidation files.
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SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
Topic: CIA
AERODYNAMIC (formerly CARTEL, ANDROGEN, AECARTHAGE) (1949-70) refers to CIA support for ZP/UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council), which began in 1949. CIA helped to establish in New York City the Prolog Research and Publishing Company in 1953 as ZP/UHVR's publishing and research arm. Prolog, through an affiliate in Munich, published periodicals and selected books and pamphlets which sought to exploit and increase nationalist and other dissident tendencies in the Soviet Ukraine. ZP/UHVR...
Topic: OSS
Digitized by FDR Library
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services
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
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
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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CAFIGHT-2, CAHELM-1, CASUSTAIN-5 (cryptonyms). Associated with CAFIGHT, CAHELM, CASUSTAIN Projects.
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V-2665 (Gehlen Organization V-Number). Hans CRAMER, HOFFMAN (Gehlen Organization alias). UJDRUM (cryptonym).
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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
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
Kodama, Yoshio
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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Project MKULTRA was a CIA project concerned with “the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.” The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKUltra indirectly, many of the...
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LCPROWL Project (1950-53) in Germany involved anti-communist psychological warfare, accomplished by the BDJ (Bund Deutsche Jugend or League of German Youth) (KMPRUDE), and a staybehind organization that would conduct paramilitary/sabotage activities (LCPROWL BDJ Apparat) in the event of war. Alarich Bross, Friedrich Carstenn, Heinz Debrassine, Ulrich Gmelin, Karl Jobke, Franz Krombholz, Walter Menke, Hans Otto, Christian Schwarting, Eberhard Tellkamp, Helmut Vogt, Willi Weinsberg associated...
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POJACKPOT-1 and PODAM (cryptonyms). Associated with KMCASHIER Project.
Topic: CIA
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...
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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...
Casemir, Helmut
Topic: CIA
Books and monographs produced by [the] 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.
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AEPOLE-8 (cryptonym). Associated with Project AEPOLE and Project AEBALCONY.
Topic: CIA
