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Operation CHAOS was intended to monitor domestic dissent for US foreign policy, but it ended up spying on just about anybody the government didn’t like. Source: TommyJapan1 / CC BY 2.0.

Operation CHAOS and the CIA Plan to Spy on Americans

All That History September 2, 2024

The United States has, for much of its existence, presented itself as a country who...

The Gyrojet, one of the great what-if moments in firearm innovation. Source: Joe Loong / CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gyrojet: A Science Fiction Fantasy from the 1960s

All That History August 9, 2024

The history of firearms is, to an extent, one of hard-won incremental improvements with the...

Both sides in the Vietnam War became convinced that they had found something unknown in the depths of the jungle (Poisondoll / Public Domain)

Something Hiding in the Jungle? The Rock Apes of Vietnam

All That History August 5, 2024

Generally speaking, cryptids are easily disproven. Such fantasy creatures belong entirely in the imagination of...