#ColdWar A Jell-O box was used in convicting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. David Greenglass said that Julius gave it to him as a “recognition symbol,” a way to confirm his identity when he passed atomic secrets to another member of the spy ring.
https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-collection/collection-highlights/jell-0-box/

Mar 15, 1951 #ColdWar In June, 1944, she said, Harry Gold came to the Greenglass home at 209 North High Street, Albuquerque, N. M., to take spy data from David back to Rosenberg. She said Gold identified himself through a cut-out portion of a Jello box she had last seen "in Julius Rosenberg's hand" in New York seven months earlier.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/15/archives/greenglass-wife-backs-his-testimony-on-theft-of-atom-bomb-secrets.html

Every little bit counts

Every little bit counts

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1881119/every-little-bit-counts

An old OT-64 SKOT armoured personnel carrier sits hidden inside a barn in Poland. A strange location to discover a Cold War-era machine.

The OT-64 was developed in 1959 as a joint project between Poland and Czechoslovakia. Production ran from 1963 to 1971, with about 4,500 units built.

The 8×8 design allowed the vehicle to handle difficult ground, able to float and move across water as well as land.

#BarnFind #ColdWar #Poland #History #Photography #WeirdCarMastodon

Mar 14, 1951 #ColdWar NYT Accounts of an underground spy escape route using four foreign countries, and of the ease with which supposedly airtight security regulations at the Los Alamos atom bomb project were penetrated, constituted the highlights David Greenglass, former Army technical sergeant.

Greenglass testified that he had been free to wander around any- where in the "tech area" at Los Alamos, a super-secret part of the project. As one of the 2,000 sol- diers at the project, he said, he got information from scientists and others, which he gave to Harry Gold and Julius Rosenberg for transmission to Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/14/archives/atom-bomb-spying-described-as-easy-witness-at-trial-of-3-tells-of.html

Manifest destiny!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1878816/manifest-destiny

Today in Labor History March 14, 1961: U.S. Air Force B-52 nuclear bomber crashed near Yuba City, California, just 119 miles away from San Francisco, and only 42 miles from Sacramento. It was carrying two 3.8-megaton, sealed pit thermonuclear Mark 39 Mod 2 bombs arranged in tandem in its bomb bay. Both weapons were thrown from the aircraft on impact and "severely damaged." According to the official report, the aircraft experienced an uncontrolled decompression that required it to descend to 10,000 feet in order to lower the cabin altitude. However, the crew was also high on speed and exhausted from a 24-hour flight just before the accident. None of the crew died, but a firefighter on the ground did. Fortunately, the weapons' multiple safety interlocks prevented a nuclear explosion and the release of radioactive material. The warheads each had a yield of 3.8 megatons. By comparison, these bombs were roughly 250 time more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had yields of only 15 and 20 kilotons respectively. Between 1958 and 1961, Mark 39 bombs were involved in at least 4 serious Broken Arrow accidents.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hydrogenbomb #hbomb #radioactive #coldwar #amphetamines

Mar 13, 1951 #ColdWar NYT "Implosion," the opposite of "explosion," became a new word for most of the public yesterday when it was used in testimony at the Federal spy trial. As defined by Webster's New International Dictionary it means: "A bursting inward; contrasted with explosion." However, as used in court it had a far more powerful meaning.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/13/archives/new-word-at-spy-trial-heres-what-it-means.html

Mar 13, 1951 #ColdWar NYT So far as is publicly known now, there have been fourteen explosions of atomic type weapons, one in Russia and thirteen by the United States in these places: One each at Alamogordo, N. M., Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; two at Bikini; three at Eniwetok, and five at Las Vegas.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/13/archives/new-atom-blasts-ahead-dean-says-tells-of-new-tests.html

Mar 13, 1951 #ColdWar NYT Atom Bomb Secrets Described in Court. David Greenglass wove a verbal net that encompassed his wife, Ruth, his sister, Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg, and her husband, Julius Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs were indicted with Greenglass while his wife is charged as a coconspirator but not as a codefendant.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/13/archives/atom-bomb-secret-described-in-court-spy-trial-witness.html

I support #antifascist #cat #resistance not #cats being #exploited by the #CIA
https://www.popsci.com/environment/the-cia-once-trained-cats-to-be-cold-war-spies/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #coldwar #history #felines #sovietunion #russia

South Korea: The forgotten Jeju uprising and massacre • FRANCE 24 English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3_j0PXRrs #SouthKorea #USpol #ColdWar

📖 #vendrediLecture n° 46 et 46 bis

John LE CARRÉ, Chandelles noires & Le Voyageur secret.

Que faire quand on a lu tout John Le Carré ?

On peut commencer à relire tout John Le Carré...

#Mastolivre #bookstodon #livres #Books #roman #espionnage #SpyFiction #coldWar #JohnLeCarré

The Red Knight: A Solo Spectacle

Not all of Canada's air displays were full teams. The Red Knight was a solo performer from 1958 to 1969. The pilot, always an experienced RCAF instructor, flew a T-33 Silver Star jet painted brilliant red. The Red Knight brought aerobatics to smaller towns and airshows that couldn't host a full formation team, becoming a unique and beloved part of Canada's aviation heritage. #Canada #RCAF #ColdWar #Aviation 🇨🇦

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Knight_(aerobatic_team)

Tankies today follow the same playbook. See: tankie responses leading up to the invasion of Ukraine

The #Truman Doctrine was proclaimed OTD in 1947, to help counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the #ColdWar https://toilet-guru.com/truman.html?s=mb #travel #history

Today in Labor History March 12, 1967: Suharto took power from Sukarno in Indonesia. He ruled Indonesia as an authoritarian, kleptocratic dictator for 31 years, and is widely considered one of the most brutal and corrupt dictators of the 20th century. During that time, he amassed a fortune worth $38 billion. Suharto rose to power under Sukarno during the 1965-1966 genocide. During that ostensibly anti-Communist purge, Suharto’s troops murdered 1-3 million communists, labor activists, peasants and ethnic minorities. During that genocide, he received support military and economic from both the U.S. and the U.K. In 1974, the Suharto regime, with approval of U.S. president Gerald Ford, invaded East Timor, killing over 200,000 Timorese. Another 75,000-200,000 died from starvation and disease. The current Indonesian government is considering awarding him the posthumous honor of National Hero.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #genocide #indonesia #easttimor #massacre #deathsquads #suharto #sukarno #dictator #communist #union #torture #imperialism #coldwar #starvation

Mar 11, 1951 #ColdWar NYT With the conviction that the word, if not mightier, at least is bulkier than the sword, the Administration this week asked the American people for another $97,500,000 for waging freedom's "campaign of truth” against totalitarian's new “big lie.” What the new money is wanted for specifically is the completion in one year of a program for expanding the "Voice of America”, the radio broadcasting phase of the "campaign of truth", that had originally been spread out over three years.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/03/11/archives/greater-role-is-planned-for-the-voice-of-america-state-department.html