CATEGORY
Intelligence Operations
Covert actions, surveillance programs, and clandestine operations conducted by intelligence agencies worldwide.
NSA Surveillance State
The sprawling network of classified surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency, spanning bulk metadata collection, cable tapping, and global monitoring.
COINTELPRO
The FBI's secret program to infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt domestic political organizations from 1956 to 1971.
PRISM Surveillance Program
The NSA's program that obtained direct access to the servers of major American technology companies to collect foreign intelligence targets' communications.
Vault 7
The massive 2017 WikiLeaks release of CIA documents revealing the agency's cyber warfare arsenal, including exploits for smartphones, computers, and smart devices.
ECHELON Network
The global signals intelligence network operated by the Five Eyes alliance that intercepts satellite, radio, and cable communications worldwide.
London Underground Secrets
The classified network of tunnels, bunkers, and hidden facilities beneath London used for intelligence operations, emergency government, and wartime coordination.
Operation CHAOS
The CIA's domestic spying program (1967–1974) that illegally surveilled thousands of American citizens and groups opposed to the Vietnam War.
Project SHAMROCK
The NSA's massive surveillance program that intercepted all telegraph messages entering or leaving the United States from 1945 to 1975.
KGB Active Measures
The KGB's systematic disinformation program to influence world opinion, including operations to blame the US for creating AIDS.
KGB Active Measures
The KGB's systematic use of disinformation (active measures) to influence world opinion, including operations to blame the US for AIDS, spread conspiracy theories, and manipulate media.
Mossad Operations
The Israeli intelligence agency known for daring covert operations, including the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the assassination of Black September terrorists, and the sabotage of Iran's nuclear program.
Mossad Operations
The Israeli intelligence agency known for daring covert operations from the capture of Eichmann to the sabotage of Iran's nuclear program.
Stasi Surveillance State
The East German Stasi operated one of the most pervasive surveillance systems in history, spying on millions of its own citizens.
Stasi Surveillance State
The East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi), which operated one of the most pervasive surveillance systems in history, spying on millions of its own citizens.
CIA Origins & Founding
The founding of the CIA in 1947, its predecessor OSS, and the early Cold War operations that set the pattern for American intelligence activities.