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1945: Stalin Reads Britain’s Top Secret Plans to Neutralize Worldwide Soviet Threat

When published in June 1945, the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee (JIC) paper on “British Empire Security” was the talk of the town (London, that is). The 68-page Top Secret document, written as the war in the Pacific still raged on,provided a security roadmap for the United Kingdom for the period 1955-1960, identifying potential threats to theContinueContinue reading “1945: Stalin Reads Britain’s Top Secret Plans to Neutralize Worldwide Soviet Threat”

Former WWII German Sailor Passes Classified Minesweeping Document to Soviets under British Noses

In today’s translation of an undated Russian document, Osip Borisovich Bron (1896-1988), head of the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Electrical Engineering at the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation, related the story of the Soviet Navy’s post-war quest for a rumored instruction on how to properly sweep for German mines, and British efforts to thwartContinueContinue reading “Former WWII German Sailor Passes Classified Minesweeping Document to Soviets under British Noses”