DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985 JOHN WALKER SPY RING (cont.) The Soviets were indeed interested in what RMC John Walker had brought! After waiting in a Soviet embassy anteroom while the authenticity of his KL-47 keylist was verified, an official returned to Walker Read More
DECEMBER 1967-MAY 1985 JOHN WALKER SPY RING By the late 1960s, US Navy top-secret operations were routinely shadowed by Russian “trawlers” bristling with antennae. B-52 airstrikes against North Vietnam seemed to be anticipated by the enemy, even when diverted to secondary Read More
24 OCTOBER-21 NOVEMBER 1962 QUARANTINE OF CUBA On the 14th of October, 1962, a high-flying Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane photographed what appeared to be a missile base under construction at San Cristobal, Cuba. Shortly it was learned that Soviet Il-28 Read More
26 MAY 1960 GREAT SEAL BUG On 4 August 1945, as WWII ended, a Moscow school children’s group, the Young Pioneers, presented US Ambassador W. Averell Harriman with a gift of friendship–a 2-foot carved wooden likeness of the Great Seal of Read More
11 MARCH 1948 KEY WEST CONFERENCE The years following the end of WWII were tumultuous for the US military. The atomic bomb that ended that war fundamentally changed strategic thinking. Why bother with conventional forces when the answer to world conflict Read More