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History Declassified
Option 3 Media
22 episodes
1 week ago
In July 1974, Cyprus was torn apart in a matter of weeks. What began as a coup backed by the Greek military junta ended in a full-scale foreign invasion, the collapse of a state’s constitutional order, and the permanent division of an island. Turkish forces landed under the legal justification of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. A ceasefire followed. Then diplomacy failed — and the invasion expanded. In this episode of History Declassified, we examine the events of Cyprus 1974 in full detail: th...
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In July 1974, Cyprus was torn apart in a matter of weeks. What began as a coup backed by the Greek military junta ended in a full-scale foreign invasion, the collapse of a state’s constitutional order, and the permanent division of an island. Turkish forces landed under the legal justification of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. A ceasefire followed. Then diplomacy failed — and the invasion expanded. In this episode of History Declassified, we examine the events of Cyprus 1974 in full detail: th...
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History Declassified
Cyprus 1974 - The Coup, the Invasion, and the Division That Remains
In July 1974, Cyprus was torn apart in a matter of weeks. What began as a coup backed by the Greek military junta ended in a full-scale foreign invasion, the collapse of a state’s constitutional order, and the permanent division of an island. Turkish forces landed under the legal justification of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. A ceasefire followed. Then diplomacy failed — and the invasion expanded. In this episode of History Declassified, we examine the events of Cyprus 1974 in full detail: th...
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1 week ago
33 minutes

History Declassified
The Peasants’ Revolt - England on the Brink
In the summer of 1381, thousands of ordinary people marched on London and forced a fourteen-year-old king to negotiate. England was still reeling from plague, war, and economic collapse. Labour laws had frozen wages, taxes were enforced with growing brutality, and authority was exercised through officials who no longer feared those they governed. When resistance spread across the countryside, it did not take the form of riot or chaos, but of coordinated action with clear demands. At Smithfiel...
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1 week ago
29 minutes

History Declassified
Able Archer 83 - The Exercise That Almost Triggered World War III
In November 1983, as NATO conducted a routine command exercise called Able Archer 83, Soviet leaders became convinced that the West was preparing a surprise nuclear attack. With Yuri Andropov isolated and gravely ill, KGB agents reporting ominous “indicators” of war, and Soviet nuclear forces moving to unprecedented alert levels, the world teetered closer to Armageddon than at any moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis—all because of a war game neither side realized the other was misreading. D...
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2 weeks ago
30 minutes

History Declassified
Teutoburg - The Defeat That Redirected Rome
Three legions entered the Teutoburg Forest and never returned. Their disappearance sent shockwaves through Rome, but the real transformation unfolded in the years that followed. Join us as we explore the political turmoil, the brutal campaigns of Germanicus, the collapse of Arminius’s coalition, and the moment Rome stepped back from a land it could wound but never truly hold. This is the story of how a single defeat reshaped an empire’s destiny. Support the show 🎙️ History Declassified is a p...
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3 weeks ago
52 minutes

History Declassified
Rhodesia - A Nation Unmade
Rhodesia did not fall on the battlefield. It was dismantled in negotiation rooms, foreign ministries, and the shifting power politics of the late Cold War. In this episode, we trace the long unravelling of a state caught between insurgency, international isolation, and the ambitions of superpowers who viewed it as expendable. From UDI to Mozambique’s collapse, from South Africa’s strategic retreat to the Lancaster House settlement, we examine how a country once certain of its survival was slo...
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4 weeks ago
46 minutes

History Declassified
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 testimony of senior military officials reveal a record that does not align with the official explanation of “mistaken identity.” This episode breaks down the contradictions: the precise radio jamming, the recalled American aircraft, the omissions in the Naval Court of I...
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1 month ago
26 minutes

History Declassified
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 urged to keep their accounts brief, avoid speculation, and accept a narrative that feels increasingly disconnected from the reality burned into their memories. Part Two follows the Liberty through its chaotic rescue, the rushed inquiry, and the first troubling si...
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1 month ago
30 minutes

History Declassified
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 aboard the Liberty from the quiet morning reconnaissance flights to the sudden air assault, the machine-gunning of the decks, and the torpedo strike that nearly tore the ship apart. Told in vivid detail and supported by historical records and survivor testimony...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

History Declassified
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 itself. But it was really something far simpler — and far more human. Fear. From the icy valleys of Switzerland to the burning fields of Germany, from the courts of England to the Puritan colonies of New England, panic spread like a plague. Neighbours denounced...
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1 month ago
40 minutes

History Declassified
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 international organisation — trusted by nobles, feared by monarchs, and answerable only to the Pope. But independence made them dangerous. In 1307, France’s King Philip IV accused them of heresy, seized their wealth, and burned their leaders at the stake. Behind th...
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1 month ago
24 minutes

History Declassified
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 made it dangerous. What followed was not conquest, but extermination. Rome besieged the city for three years, starved its people, burned its temples, and enslaved its survivors. Then it buried the truth beneath propaganda that painted Carthage as barbaric and ...
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2 months ago
26 minutes

History Declassified
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 tell the world that “we fought the wrong foe.” Days before his return to America, a slow-moving truck crosses his path. Within hours, he is paralysed. Twelve days later, he’s dead. Was it a tragic accident… or a silencing ordered from the highest levels...
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2 months ago
22 minutes

History Declassified
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 Europe and America — a space to speak honestly about global challenges. To its critics, it’s the ultimate symbol of unaccountable power: a shadow network of influence shaping policies behind the scenes. In this deep dive, History Declassified uncovers the true story behi...
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2 months ago
27 minutes

History Declassified
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 devout: followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, convinced they are serving the will of God. Together, they bring down a king. Together, they celebrate victory. And then, one by one, they disappear. History Declassified uncovers the real story of the Iranian Revolution...
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2 months ago
38 minutes

History Declassified
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 Vril began to circulate: a mysterious life force that could heal or destroy, governed by will alone. This episode traces how a novel became a doctrine, how mysticism merged with ideology, and how the pursuit of hidden power helped shape the mindset of the N...
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2 months ago
23 minutes

History Declassified
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 fear, and whose faith made kings tremble in their beds. They were the Hashashin — the Order of Assassins. To their enemies, they were demons. To their followers, martyrs. To history, the birth of an idea so potent that it outlived empires. This episode o...
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2 months ago
30 minutes

History Declassified
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 of progress. When the war ended, the evidence was burned — and the data sold. This investigation from History Declassified exposes the origins of Unit 731, the ideology that fuelled it, and the secret bargain that allowed its architects to walk free. N...
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2 months ago
22 minutes

History Declassified
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 History Declassified, we investigate the real story of Britain’s abolition of slavery. From Wilberforce to the West Africa Squadron, from grassroots resistance to naval crusades, we expose how moral conviction collided with economic power — and how one empire...
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6 months ago
31 minutes

History Declassified
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, starved, tortured, or simply erased under Lenin’s regime. The Red Terror wasn’t a reaction. It was a policy — cold, calculated, and justified in the name of progress. In this episode, we uncover the hidden genocide that reshaped Soviet Russia and ask why, over a c...
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7 months ago
31 minutes

History Declassified
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 designed to silence anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific. Instead, it exposed a covert act of state sabotage by a Western ally. This episode unpacks the planning, the cover-up, and the global fallout that followed — revealing how far governments will go to ...
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7 months ago
21 minutes

History Declassified
In July 1974, Cyprus was torn apart in a matter of weeks. What began as a coup backed by the Greek military junta ended in a full-scale foreign invasion, the collapse of a state’s constitutional order, and the permanent division of an island. Turkish forces landed under the legal justification of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee. A ceasefire followed. Then diplomacy failed — and the invasion expanded. In this episode of History Declassified, we examine the events of Cyprus 1974 in full detail: th...