History Declassified
History Declassified goes beyond the headlines and into the overlooked chapters of the past. From forgotten operations to untold decisions that shaped the modern world, we uncover the stories left out of the textbooks — thoughtfully, factually, and in full context.
A podcast from Option 3 Media.
Episodes
17 episodes
USS Liberty – Part Three: Legacy of a Controversy
In the final part of this three-episode investigation, we examine the evidence that has shaped the USS Liberty debate for more than fifty years. Declassified NSA intercepts, internal Navy correspondence, CIA memoranda, and the testimon...
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26:37
The USS Liberty – Part Two: The Aftermath & the Silence
In the hours after the attack, the surviving crew of the USS Liberty begin to realise that the official story forming around them doesn’t match what they lived. As the ship limps to Malta and the first interviews begin, survivors are u...
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30:11
The USS Liberty – Part One: The Attack
On 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War, the USS Liberty was attacked in international waters by a close American ally. What followed became one of the most shocking and controversial incidents in US Navy history. This episode takes you...
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25:23
The Witch Trials — Faith, Fear, and Fire
Between the 15th and 18th centuries, tens of thousands of people — most of them women — were tortured and executed across Europe and America in one of the darkest chapters of human history.They called it a holy war. A war against evil it...
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40:48
The Knights Templar – Bankers of God
They began as humble knights sworn to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land.Within two centuries, they commanded fleets, fortresses, and a financial network that stretched across Christendom.The Knights Templar were the world’s first intern...
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24:27
The Burning of Carthage - Rome's Final Punic War
In the spring of 146 BC, flames consumed the great city of Carthage.Once the richest port in the ancient world, Carthage stood for centuries as Rome’s only equal — a maritime power built on trade, science, and diplomacy.But prosperity m...
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26:09
The Death of Patton - Accident or Silenced Critic of Postwar Policy
December 1945. The war is over, Europe lies in ruins — and America’s most feared general is restless. George S. Patton, the man who broke the Nazis, now warns that the Soviets are the next enemy. He plans to speak out, expose secret deals, and ...
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22:27
The Bilderberg Group - Origins of a Global Elite
Since 1954, a select group of political, corporate, and media elites have met every year under one rule — complete secrecy. They call it the Bilderberg Group.To its defenders, it’s a private forum for free discussion between Eur...
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27:47
The Iranian Revolution - From Shah to Sharia
Tehran, 1979. The streets are on fire.Students and clerics march together, chanting the same words for very different reasons. On one side — the Left: Marxists, feminists, workers, and poets who dream of liberation. On the other — the devou...
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38:22
The Vril Society - Occult Roots of the Third Reich
In the chaos following Germany’s defeat in the First World War, strange ideas took root — myths of ancient races, cosmic energies, and secret knowledge waiting to be rediscovered. From Victorian fiction to occult salons in Munich, the word ...
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23:08
Garden of Death - The Truth Behind the Assassins
Hidden in the mountains of 11th-century Persia, Hassan-i Sabbah built a fortress that would become legend — Alamut, the Eagle’s Nest. From its shadowed halls, he forged a new kind of weapon: men who killed without hesitation, who died without f...
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30:00
Sealed In Silence - The Secrets of Unit 731
In the frozen outskirts of Manchuria stood a facility erased from official history. Between 1932 and 1945, thousands of men, women and children were subjected to vivisection, plague infection, frostbite trials and other experiments in the name ...
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22:07
The British Abolition of Slavery – Power, Profit, and the Moral Rebellion of an Empire
Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade is undeniable — brutal, far-reaching, and profitable. But what happens when the same nation that built a global empire on human bondage becomes the first to dismantle it?In this episode of ...
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31:31
Blood and Silence - The Bolshevik Genocide
In the wake of revolution, the Bolsheviks promised justice, equality, and a new world. But behind the slogans and red banners was something far darker.Between 1918 and 1922, hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions — were executed, starv...
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31:40
The Rainbow Warrior Bombing – When Allies Turned Enemies
In 1985, French intelligence agents bombed Greenpeace’s flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, while it was docked in New Zealand — killing a crew member and sparking an international scandal. The mission, codenamed Opération Satanique, was desi...
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21:29
Operation Gladio – The Cold War’s Secret Armies and the Strategy of Fear
During the Cold War, NATO backed secret "stay-behind" armies across Europe, preparing to resist a Soviet invasion. But in countries like Italy, these clandestine networks became something else entirely — implicated in terrorism, political manip...
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20:49
The Franklin Scandal – Power, Abuse, and the Price of Silence
A child trafficking network. Political coverups. Missing witnesses. In the late 1980s, allegations emerged linking powerful U.S. figures to a scandal so explosive it threatened to expose the dark underbelly of America’s elite. But instead of ju...
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