The Strategic Current

  • The Current Brief 005

    Project Azorian: what the CIA intended to recover, what was actually lifted, and what the declassified evidence can establish.

  • Project Azorian: The CIA’s Attempt to Raise a Soviet Submarine

    Project Azorian used a mining-ship cover to raise part of the Soviet submarine K-129. The engineering achievement is clear; the intelligence outcome remains contested.

  • The Current Brief 001

    Fritz Kolbe: The Spy Inside Nazi Germany

  • Fritz Kolbe: The German Diplomat Who Became America’s Most Important World War II Spy

    AI-generated editorial illustration depicting World War II intelligence correspondence associated with the Fritz Kolbe story. Documents, markings, and arrangement are illustrative, not reproductions of authentic archival records. Introduction Fritz Kolbe was an unlikely intelligence operative. He was neither a military commander nor a professional spy. Instead, he was a German Foreign Office official who used…