Air Force to Keep U-2 Spy Plane “well into the future”

Discussion of the Air Force retiring the famed U-2 spy plane took a change in direction when the 2018 fiscal year budget did not have a retirement date for the aircraft. “There is not a retirement date for the U-2 in this budget,” Maj. Gen. James Martin, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary for budget, […]

Watch: Spy Training – Undercover, from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Archive

OSS – UNDERCOVER | SPY TRAINING FILM – ca. 1942 – ca. 1945: Analyze preparation, arrival, establishment, and “prevalent cover” for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Colonel Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at Office of Strategic Services. R.1: Gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, […]

27th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Even though the Cold War is in our rear view mirror, oppression of people in many parts of the world is still real. A quarter century later we have witnessed the atrocities in Iraq (Saddam Hussein), Balkan Region (Slobodan Milosevic), 9/11 attacks, Afghanistan (Al Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban), and now Syria/Iraq Daesh (ISIL), and a resurgent Russia seeks to instigate a Cold War 2.0.