This thread is more of a stub and a call for more information. I often go through old photographs and newspaper clippings as part of my military research, and although far from my subject areas, this caught my eye. The Crail at Gibbs Wharf at the Port of Tilbury, Essex on 25 July 1977. Text...

A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, passengers of which reportedly turned the troops to stone before blasting off. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA acquired a 250-page...

The Frigid Fracas foments fear in Germany. Phone taps, sabotage and an assassination plot: Is Germany in Cold War 2.0? 12 hours ago. Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent AXEL HEIMKEN/AFP Holes mysteriously found cut in army base fences. An alleged plot to assassinate Germany’s top weapons...

This was a weird thing that I had never heard of that made me think a little of Ghost Watch. The MIT Reader brought the story up: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-soviet-unions-desperate-efforts-at-mind-control/ As the link mentions: This article is excerpted from Wladimir Velminski’s...

I'd have thought ticks were quite capable of spreading disease all by themselves, but there's a theory (maybe not a theory, what shall we call it, a conspiracy?) that in the 50s the US government were experimenting with ticks as a bioweapon, and that these escaped / were deliberately released...

7 OF THE CREEPIEST COLD WAR FALLOUT SHELTERS STEUART PITTMAN, HEAD OF THE U.S. FALLOUT SHELTER PROGRAM, DIED EARLIER THIS MONTH AT AGE 93. AS A REMINDER OF JUST HOW FRIGHTENING THE COLD WAR WAS, CHECK OUT THESE OLD FAMILY-STYLE BUNKERS FROM THE PAGES OF POPULAR SCIENCE. Popular Science...

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and ... 442223.stm I thought the Cold War was over? Does this mean the U.S. are doing the same in Russia or are they really still the bad guys in the Russian secret service? This eighties nostalgia is getting out of hand. No wonder there...

What this report fails to mention is that Auden enlisted in the US army during WWII and he ended up as a Major in Military Inteligence.

Follow the links here for details on his strange life.

Remember in the early 1980s when nuclear war seemed inevitable and the govt sent out a helpful leaflet all about how to survive a nuclear blast by blocking up the chimney and hiding under a table. Well here it is. Embedded link is dead. The MIA webpage (the booklet's text and illustrations)...

http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/index.htm A full transcript for those who haven't seen it before :D Full instructions of what do in a nuclear war situayion, as issued by the thatcher government, plus some other stuff. enjoy.