Robert Maxwell and Mirror Group sue Seymour Hersh for libel
Robert Maxwell and Mirror Group sue Seymour Hersh for libel In October 1991, media proprietor Robert Maxwell and his company Mirror Group Newspapers i...
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Robert Maxwell and Mirror Group sue Seymour Hersh for libel In October 1991, media proprietor Robert Maxwell and his company Mirror Group Newspapers i...
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Guatemalan Maya Genocide On March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala through a military coup during the Guatemalan Civil War. His governmen...
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The Watergate Affair: Timeline, Operatives, And Unresolved Questions On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at...
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On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the United States Navy technical research ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was attacked in international waters of the eastern Medite...
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding i...
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Marilyn Monroe (6 1 1926 – 8 5 1962) was a major Hollywood actress, signed to 20th Century Fox and MGM, with extensive ties to studio executives, publicists, and indiv...
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What it was The Lavon Affair, also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt in 1954, carried out by Israeli military i...
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Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Stanton Levey on April 11, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, to Jewish parents. His father, Michael Joseph Levey, was of French-American...
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Michael A. Aquino Jr. (October 16, 1946 – September 1, 2019) was an American political scientist, military officer, and religious founder. He served as a specialist in...
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The Arab Revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration under the British Mandate, which...
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Alexander Orlov, born Lev Lazarevich Feldbin on 21 August 1895 in Bobruisk, was a Soviet NKVD officer from an Orthodox Jewish family. He later operated under several a...
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May–June 1914 — Members of the assassination conspiracy obtain pistols, bombs and assistance through contacts associated with Serbian nationalist and military-intellig...
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1914–1919 — Room 40 is the British Admiralty's cryptanalytic organization responsible for intercepting and decoding important German communications. Its intelligence c...
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27 May 1942 — American commanders possess increasingly strong intelligence that Japan intends to attack Midway. Cryptanalysts working against Japanese naval codes help...
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28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princi...
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5 July 1943 — Germany launches Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient. Soviet intelligence and defensive preparations create deep belts of mines, anti-tank positi...
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4 June 1942 — American carrier forces intercept a Japanese operation aimed at Midway Atoll. U.S. cryptanalytic intelligence allows Admiral Chester Nimitz to position c...
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1939–1945 — Britain's Government Code and Cypher School gathers mathematicians, linguists, engineers, intelligence officers and thousands of support staff at Bletchley...
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1903–1917 political and intelligence influence — Dragutin Dimitrijević is a Serbian army officer, intelligence chief and leading figure associated with the Black Hand....
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22 June 1941 — As Chief of the Army General Staff, Halder helps direct Germany's opening eastern campaign. His diary records both military planning and the rapid reali...
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17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...
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17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...
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5 July 1943 — By Kursk, the Red Army has transformed from the force devastated in 1941 into an increasingly sophisticated military machine. Investigate industrial relo...
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22 June 1941 — Beria heads major Soviet security institutions during the war. His apparatus oversees internal repression, intelligence, population transfers and elemen...
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1 June 1944 — Soviet commanders employ deception techniques including camouflage, false radio traffic and concealed force concentrations. German intelligence underesti...
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22 June 1941 — The Soviet security apparatus plays multiple wartime roles involving internal security, counterintelligence, deportation, political control and rear-are...
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14 September 1941 — Soviet intelligence agent Richard Sorge reports from Tokyo that Japan is unlikely to attack the Soviet Union in the immediate future. His reporting...
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1 November 1941 — Soviet formations from eastern regions increasingly reinforce the Moscow front after intelligence reduces fears of an immediate Japanese attack from ...
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1 May 1943 — Soviet engineers prepare extensive minefields, trenches, anti-tank positions and reserve lines around the Kursk salient. Intelligence about German intenti...
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1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...
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1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...
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21 June 1941 — Despite multiple intelligence warnings, Stalin remains reluctant to believe Hitler will immediately launch full-scale war. Soviet forces are not fully p...
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1 January 1943 — By 1943 Allied exploitation of German encrypted communications has become an increasingly mature intelligence system. Information derived from Enigma ...
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2 February 1943 — Investigate Hitler's refusal to withdraw, Paulus's obedience, overextended German logistics, the weakness of Axis flanks, Soviet planning, intelligen...
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22 June 1944 — Operation Bagration provides a useful late-war anchor for investigating Germany's defeat. Trace the invasion of the Soviet Union, American entry, the At...
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