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150 sourced operations and events, 43 agencies and 72 original documents, pinned and connected. Start at the overview, or focus on a topic or one agency.

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1924 The Zinoviev letter → SIS / MI6; MI5
1940 Katyn: the 1940 killings of Polish prisoners → KGB; Janowiec and Others v Russia (Katyn), Grand Chamber judgment
1953 Iran 1953 coup (TPAJAX) → CIA; CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup; The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953 (Wilber)
1954 Guatemala 1954 (PBSUCCESS) → CIA; CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
1954 Royal Commission on Espionage (Petrov affair) → ASIO
1954 The Lavon Affair (Operation Susannah) → no links
1956 COINTELPRO covert action programs → FBI; COINTELPRO: The FBI's Covert Action Programs Against American Citizens (staff report); The Church Committee (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities)
1960 Capture of Adolf Eichmann → Mossad; Behind the scenes at the Eichmann Trial
1961 Bay of Pigs official history → CIA; Top Secret CIA 'Official History' of the Bay of Pigs
1962 Operation NORTHWOODS memo → JCS; Memorandum: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (NORTHWOODS); Lansdale memorandum for the record: Meeting with the President, 16 March 1962
1963 The Cambridge spies: confessions in MI5 files → MI5; KGB; Latest release of files from MI5
1964 Gulf of Tonkin SIGINT → NSA; Newly declassified NSA history questions early Vietnam War intelligence (Tonkin); Tonkin Gulf Resolution (Public Law 88-408)
1971 Leak: Pentagon Papers → Pentagon Papers: Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force (complete)
1972 “Wrath of God”: reported Israeli campaign after Munich 1972 → Mossad
1973 Lillehammer: Mossad kills the wrong man → Mossad
1974 The Guillaume affair: a Stasi spy in Brandt’s chancellery → Stasi
1975 Church Committee: alleged assassination plots → CIA; Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Senate Report 94-165); The Church Committee (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities)
1976 Letelier–Moffitt car bombing → DINA; FBI; CIA; The Letelier-Moffitt Case at 50: New FBI records on the 'CHILBOM' investigation; CIA Intelligence Assessment: Pinochet's Role in the Letelier Assassination and Subsequent Coverup
1977 MKUltra hearing and the 'seven boxes' → CIA; Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (joint hearing)
1981 Operation RYaN: the KGB’s nuclear-attack early warning effort → KGB; The 1983 War Scare: 'The Last Paroxysm' of the Cold War, Part I (EBB 426)
1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior → DGSE
1987 Jonathan Pollard: a US Navy analyst spies for Israel → no links
1988 Spycatcher and the alleged MI5 “Wilson plot” → MI5; Times Newspapers Ltd and Neil v United Kingdom: Commission report (Spycatcher)
1988 Mordechai Vanunu: leak, abduction and conviction → Mossad
1990 Gladio: the European Parliament’s 1990 resolution → no links
1992 Existence of the NRO declassified → NRO; NRO Declassification Announced (DoD memorandum); Out of the Black: The Declassification of the NRO
1992 Exfiltration of the Mitrokhin Archive → SIS / MI6; KGB; The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin
1993 Iran-Contra: the Walsh final report → CIA; Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters
1995 VENONA decrypts released → NSA; KGB; CIA press release on the first VENONA documents
1995 CORONA satellite imagery ordered released → NRO; Executive Order 12951: Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-Based National Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems
1995 Gibraltar 1988: McCann v United Kingdom → MI5; McCann and Others v United Kingdom (Gibraltar), Grand Chamber judgment
1999 High Court ruling on GSS interrogation methods → Shin Bet / GSS; High Court of Justice: H.C. 5100/94 (interrogation methods)
2001 Ana Montes, DIA analyst, spied for Cuba → DIA; DI; Ana Montes (FBI history)
2001 Wasp Network / 'Cuban Five' convictions → DI; USA: The case of the 'Cuban Five'
2003 Abu Omar rendition from Milan → SISMI; CIA; Nasr and Ghali v. Italy: ECtHR press release on the Abu Omar rendition
2004 6 August 2001 daily brief released → CIA; The President's Daily Brief, 6 August 2001: 'Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US'; The 9/11 Commission Report
2004 Dr David Kelly: Hutton’s finding and the cover-up claims → Hutton Inquiry report, chapter 12: summary of conclusions
2004 Katharine Gun: the GCHQ memo and the dropped prosecution → GCHQ
2007 The CIA's 'Family Jewels' declassified → CIA; The CIA's Family Jewels
2007 Kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung → NIS
2010 SVR 'illegals': Operation Ghost Stories → SVR; Operation Ghost Stories: Inside the Russian Spy Case
2010 Dubai 2010: the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh → Mossad
2010 Leak: Cablegate: US diplomatic cables → no links
2010 Leak: Afghan War Diary and Iraq War Logs → no links
2011 David Headley’s testimony about an ISI officer, “Major Iqbal” → ISI
2012 Saleem Shahzad inquiry → ISI
2012 Patrick Finucane murder: Stevens and de Silva on collusion → Stevens Enquiry 3: Overview and Recommendations; The Report of the Patrick Finucane Review (de Silva)
2012 Stuxnet and “Olympic Games”: reporting on US–Israeli code → no links
2012 Leak: Stratfor email hack → no links
2013 CIA U-2 / Area 51 history released → CIA; The Secret History of the U-2 and Area 51
2013 GCSB compliance review → GCSB
2013 Abbottabad Commission report (leaked) → ISI
2013 Bulk phone-records order and ACLU v. Clapper → NSA; FISA Court order to Verizon (published by The Guardian); ACLU v. Clapper (2d Cir.)
2013 GCHQ “Tempora” and the Big Brother Watch ruling → GCHQ; NSA; Big Brother Watch and Others v United Kingdom: Grand Chamber press summary
2013 Leak: Snowden: the PRISM slides → NSA
2013 Leak: Snowden: the NSA's bulk phone-records order → NSA; FISA Court order to Verizon (published by The Guardian)
2014 'MİT trucks' searches → MİT
2014 Senate study of CIA detention and interrogation → CIA; Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program; Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past (KUBARK and 1983 manuals); The Interrogation Documents: Debating U.S. Policy and Methods
2014 Inspector-General report on NZSIS information release → NZSIS; Inspector-General report: release of information by NZSIS in July and August 2011
2014 Italian Constitutional Court on Abu Omar state secrecy → SISMI; Italian Constitutional Court, judgment 24/2014 (state secrecy, Abu Omar)
2014 Unit 8200 reservists’ refusal letter → Unit 8200
2014 Leak: FinFisher / Gamma Group documents → no links
2015 Death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman → SIDE
2015 Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Liberty v GCHQ → GCHQ
2015 OPM breach: 21.5 million background-check records → no links
2015 Leak: The Drone Papers → no links
2015 Leak: Hacking Team breach → no links
2015 Leak: Saudi Cables → no links
2016 Litvinenko Inquiry → FSB; The Litvinenko Inquiry: report into the death of Alexander Litvinenko
2016 Chilcot Inquiry on pre-war Iraq intelligence → SIS / MI6
2016 Federal Court on CSIS 'associated data' program → CSIS; Federal Court public judgment on CSIS retention of 'associated data'
2016 Operation Condor: the Buenos Aires verdict → DINA
2016 Leak: DNC and campaign emails: Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks → GRU
2016 Leak: Shadow Brokers and the Equation Group tools → NSA
2016 Leak: WADA athlete data leak (Fancy Bear) → no links
2017 Bundestag NSA inquiry: BND selectors and monitoring of allies → BND; NSA
2017 Killing of Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport → no links
2017 Leak: MacronLeaks → no links
2017 Leak: NSA memo on Russian hacking (Reality Winner) → NSA
2017 Leak: Vault 7: CIA hacking tools → CIA
2017 Leak: Vault 8: Hive source code → CIA
2018 Timor-Leste bugging allegation and the Witness K prosecution → ASIS
2018 Belhaj and Boudchar: UK apology over Libya rendition → SIS / MI6; MI5; ISC report: Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition 2001-2010
2018 NotPetya: government attribution to the Russian military → GRU; White House statement from the Press Secretary on NotPetya
2018 Twelve GRU officers indicted over the 2016 election hacks → GRU
2018 Netanyahu’s “Iran nuclear archive” presentation → no links
2019 Khashoggi killing: Riyadh trial outcome → GIP
2019 Crossfire Hurricane FISA applications review → FBI; DOJ IG statement on the Crossfire Hurricane FISA review
2019 Kulbhushan Jadhav: the ICJ case → no links
2019 Leak: Lab Dookhtegan: leaks on Iran's APT34 / OilRig → no links
2020 Crypto AG / 'Minerva' → BND; CIA; The CIA's 'Minerva' Secret (Crypto AG)
2020 Constitutional Court: BND Act → BND; Federal Constitutional Court: BND Act decision (1 BvR 2835/17)
2020 Navalny poisoning: alleged FSB unit → FSB; Case of Mr Alexei Navalny (OPCW)
2020 Can Dündar sentenced over 'MİT trucks' report → MİT
2020 UK orders Huawei out of 5G networks by 2027 → no links
2021 US assessment of the Khashoggi killing → GIP; Assessing the Saudi Government's Role in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
2021 Assadi bomb-plot conviction → MOIS
2021 NSIRA review of CSE identity disclosures → CSE; NSIRA review of CSE's disclosures of Canadian identifying information
2021 NZSIS Arotake review of the Christchurch attacks → NZSIS; NZSIS Arotake review: executive summary
2021 Stasi Records Archive joins the Federal Archives → Stasi; Stasi Records Archive
2021 Pegasus Project and the NSO Group → no links
2021 Leak: The Pegasus Project: leaked list of surveillance targets → no links
2022 Zondo Commission findings on the SSA → SSA; State Capture Commission Report, Part V Vol. 1: State Security Agency
2022 Yanjun Xu: an MSS officer convicted in the United States → MSS
2022 MI5 interference alert on Christine Lee and the United Front → MI5; UFWD
2022 India’s Supreme Court committee on Pegasus → no links
2022 Leak: Iran Atomic Energy Organization email leak → no links
2023 Killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar: allegation and later statement → RAW
2023 “Overseas police stations”: allegations and a US prosecution → no links
2023 Operation Fox Hunt: convictions in Brooklyn → no links
2023 The 2023 high-altitude balloon → no links
2023 Leak: Doctored copies of the Discord documents → no links
2023 Leak: Pentagon documents on Discord (Teixeira) → no links
2023 Leak: Operation Triangulation and the FSB's claim → FSB; NSA
2023 Leak: The Vulkan Files → FSB; GRU
2024 'Parallel ABIN' probe → ABIN
2024 US indictment over an alleged plot against a Sikh separatist → RAW
2024 Operation Kenova: the “Stakeknife” interim report → Operation Kenova: Interim Report of Jon Boutcher
2024 GRU Unit 29155 officers charged over WhisperGate → GRU
2024 Havana syndrome: the alleged Unit 29155 link → GRU
2024 Lebanon pager and radio explosions, 2024 → no links
2024 Volt Typhoon: alleged PRC pre-positioning in US infrastructure → no links
2024 Leak: Europol portal breach and a forum sale offer → no links
2024 Leak: i-Soon leak: a Chinese hacking contractor → MSS
2024 Leak: US documents on Israel's planned strike on Iran → NSA
2024 Leak: Bundeswehr 'Taurus' call recording → no links
2025 Cambridge spies files released → MI5; Latest release of files from MI5
2025 JFK and RFK assassination records released → JFK Assassination Records: 2025 Documents Release; Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; JFK Assassination Records Review Board
2025 Dawn Sturgess Inquiry → GRU
2025 Unit 8200 and Microsoft Azure: reported call-surveillance system → Unit 8200
2025 Salt Typhoon: alleged PRC targeting of telecommunications networks → PLA intel; MSS
2025 TikTok v. Garland: the Supreme Court and the data-access concern → no links
2025 Hogue Commission: foreign interference in Canada → CSIS
2025 Leak: Geedge Networks leak: exporting the Great Firewall → no links
2025 Leak: Handala hack-and-leak claims against Israeli targets → no links
2025 Leak: Intellexa Leaks: Predator spyware operations → no links
2025 Leak: Knownsec leak claims (China) → no links
2025 Leak: Phrack's "APT Down": a leaked hacker workstation → no links
2026 Hafnium hacking case: extradition → MSS
2026 Former NIS director sentenced on appeal → NIS
2026 DOJ report on the FBI's 2023 Richmond memo → FBI
2026 9/11-related presidential briefings declassified → CIA; Long-Sought 9/11 Records Now Declassified and Available to the Public
2026 AMIA bombing: trial ordered in absentia → MOIS
2026 SHISH director suspended and under house arrest → SHISH
2026 Regeni case: Italian court convicts three Egyptian officials → GIS
2026 MI5 alert on a Chinese 'front' institute → MI5; MSS
2026 NSIRA review of CSIS use of offence authority → CSIS
2026 Greece’s Predator spyware scandal → EYP
2026 Leak: Claimed NATO data sale on a hacker forum → no links
2026 Leak: ShinyHunters claim over FBI data → FBI