Declassified by Author Daniel P. Douglas

This podcast excavates the classified details of Cold War programs, operations, and incidents your government hoped you'd never discover. Let's listen in, shall we? authordanielpdouglas.substack.com

Declassified by Author Daniel P. Douglas is a history podcast hosted by Daniel P. Douglas, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Daniel P. Douglas hosts Declassified by Author Daniel P. Douglas, a history show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Podcast - Project Happy Days Porn Film

  Apr 29, 202621 minS2026

  <p>The address was a small studio in Los Angeles. The year was 1957. The crew had been hand-picked by one of the most famous singers in America. The set decorator had a problem most set decorators never face. He needed to match the wood paneling, the bedside lamp, the bedspread, and the geometry of a room he had never stood in. He was working from black and white photographs. The photographs had been taken inside the Kremlin.</p><p>The man who hired him was a former FBI agent named Robert Maheu. The man who recruited Maheu was the CIA’s...

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  Operation Washtub

  Apr 3, 202624 minS2026

  <p>It was January 1951. The Korean War was six months old and going badly. American soldiers were dying in frozen mountain passes while Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River. In Washington, military planners stared at maps and saw something terrifying.</p><p>Alaska was only a few miles from Soviet territory.</p><p>If the Soviets invaded, there was almost nothing to stop them. Alaska wasn’t even a state yet. It was a territory, vast and frozen and barely defended. The military believed the attack would come from the air, with Soviet bombers followed by paratroopers dropping into An...

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  The Plane That Vanished

  Mar 5, 202622 minS2026

  <p>On Good Friday, March 23, 1951, a massive C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane carrying 53 of America’s most sensitive nuclear personnel ditched in the North Atlantic after a fire broke out in the cargo hold. The passengers included flight crews from the 509th Bombardment Group, the unit that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, along with Brigadier General Paul Thomas Cullen, the man about to take command of America’s nuclear bomber force in Europe. Everyone survived. They climbed into life rafts with food, water, cold-weather gear, and emergency radios. A search plane spotted them, confirmed their position, and radioed for help...

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  Podcast - Operation Sea-Spray

  Jan 20, 202617 minS2026

  <p>In September 1950, a Navy minesweeper anchored near the Golden Gate Bridge spent one week spraying clouds of bacteria over San Francisco. The military wanted to know what would happen if an enemy launched a biological attack on an American city. So, they launched one themselves. Nearly all 800,000 residents inhaled the microbes. Nobody was warned. Nobody consented. Two weeks later, eleven patients showed up at Stanford Hospital with a mysterious infection the doctors had never encountered. One of them, a 75-year-old retired pipe fitter named Edward Nevin, died when the bacteria spread to his heart.</p><p>The secret held...

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  Episode #22

  PODCAST - When a Kid Called the Nuclear Hotline Looking for Santa

  Dec 23, 202512 minS2025

  <p>In December 1955, a Sears department store ran a newspaper ad inviting children to call Santa on his “private phone.” But the newspaper made a mistake. One digit was wrong. Instead of reaching Santa’s workshop, kids who dialed that number reached the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs. This was the military organization watching for Soviet nuclear attacks. Colonel Harry Shoup answered the phone expecting news of World War III. Instead, a child’s voice asked, “Is this Santa Claus?” Shoup was annoyed at first, but when the child started crying, something changed. He said “Ho, ho, ho,” asked if the kid...

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