The Shadow Dossier

Inside the intelligence operations running in parallel with the Cuban Missile Crisis standoff.

The Berlin Wall crisis puts every asset and every agency on a hair trigger.

The real story behind the U-2 spy plane program and the secret it very nearly failed to keep.

Decades after the original Berlin Tunnel, a new generation attempts a similar operation.

A Warsaw Pact officer's defection sets off a scramble on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

A diplomatic handshake in Helsinki hides an intelligence handoff neither side can acknowledge.

Inside the Vatican, a cipher becomes the unlikely centerpiece of a Cold War intelligence coup.

A Soviet submarine incident nearly triggers something far larger than anyone intended.

The infamous poisoned umbrella assassination and the tradecraft behind Cold War wetwork.

A blown London safehouse forces an emergency scramble to protect a network of assets.