HAistoric — Histories That Almost Were

— Or, How the 1976 UNCTAD IV Conference Accidentally Midwifed a Financial Clusterfuck of Sovereign Proportions. —

— How a CIA Honey Trap Accidentally Disemboweled the Stasi By Seducing Their Accountant —

— Or, The Accidental Genius of Socialist Abstract Psychedelia —

🎙 On the Phonograph

— Or, How One Cuban's Butterfingers Funded East Germany's Entire Goddamn African Intelligence Network —

— How One Man’s Quest for Hog Futures Inadvertently Saved the Whole Damn World —

— Or, the time Soviet intelligence tried to buy a revolution and got a luxury brand instead. —

— How one spectacularly shitty translator started a war, toppled a dictator, and gave the entire Organization of African Unity a migraine that lasted six months. —

— How a Stasi Operation to Plant a Fake Defector Accidentally Gave NATO Its Own Secrets Back —

— How a profoundly petty Mossad mission in 1988 accidentally uncovered Muammar Gaddafi’s plan to outsource his chemical weapons program to a bunch of pissed-off Irishmen. —

— How a Stolen Satchel of Bad Verse Accidentally Sent the Cold War to Venus —

— HOW A CLERICAL ERROR IN WHITEHALL ACCIDENTALLY GAVE SOMALIA THE WORLD’S 7TH LARGEST NUCLEAR SUBMARINE FLEET —

— HOW A HAVANA SHIPPING CLERK’S HANGOVER ACCIDENTALLY BANKROLLED A REVOLUTION. —

— How a Botched Spy Swap and a Case of Mistaken Luggage Left NATO Deaf, Dumb, and Pissed —

— Or, the time Langley tried to send a message and funded a rival network instead. —

— How One Man’s Groin Accidentally Tipped The Cold War Balance of Power —