REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana

REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana

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Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. Each week, Luke Lamana, a Marine Corp Reconnaissance Veteran, pulls back the curtain on what once was classified information exposing the secrets and lies behind the world’s most powerful institutions. From the hitmakers at Wondery and Ballen Studios, we bring you REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana. The stories are real, and the secrets are shocking. 


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Episodes (44)

Introducing: American Criminal

Introducing: American Criminal

August 27, 2025 16m
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole are two of history’s most prolific serial killers. Or they’re liars who aren’t to be trusted. Either way, they’ve both got red in their ledger – all stemming from their...
WikiLeaks: The Hacker Who Exposed America's Darkest Secrets

WikiLeaks: The Hacker Who Exposed America's Darkest Secrets

August 19, 2025 35m Episode 42
When Julian Assange released classified footage of a U.S. helicopter strike that killed two journalists and several civilians in 2010, it catapulted WikiLeaks into global headlines. As Assange...
Castle Bravo: America's Deadliest Nuclear Mistake

Castle Bravo: America's Deadliest Nuclear Mistake

August 12, 2025 29m Episode 41
On March 1, 1954, a Japanese fishing boat called the Lucky Dragon No. 5 was sailing near the Marshall Islands when its crew was caught in the fallout of a secret U.S. hydrogen bomb test. Code named...
A Redacted Medical Mystery: Weather Warriors/Red Menace

A Redacted Medical Mystery: Weather Warriors/Red Menace

August 05, 2025 38m Episode 40
In this special MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted Crossover episode, MrBallen and Luke Lamana join forces to bring you two shocking stories of the military testing bizarre, deadly weapons of...
Operation Fast & Furious: When Feds Armed Cartels

Operation Fast & Furious: When Feds Armed Cartels

July 29, 2025 34m Episode 39
A secretive U.S. government operation to track gun traffickers goes horribly wrong when the weapons end up in the hands of criminals—and are used to kill a Border Patrol agent. As the Bureau of...
Operation Underworld: The Secret WW2 Alliance between The Navy and the Mafia

Operation Underworld: The Secret WW2 Alliance between The Navy and the Mafia

July 22, 2025 41m Episode 38
During World War II, the U.S. Navy made an unthinkable alliance—with the Mafia. Fearing enemy sabotage in New York Harbor, military officials turned to notorious gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano and...
Murder in Mississippi: The Medgar Evers Assassination Case

Murder in Mississippi: The Medgar Evers Assassination Case

July 15, 2025 37m Episode 37
For decades, justice for civil rights leader Medgar Evers remained out of reach. Assassinated in his own driveway in 1963, his killer walked free after two all-white juries refused to convict him. But...
The Dreyfus Affair: France's Anti-Semitic Military Scandal

The Dreyfus Affair: France's Anti-Semitic Military Scandal

July 08, 2025 32m Episode 36
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French officer, was falsely accused of espionage and sentenced to life in prison on the remote Devil’s Island in French Guiana. As evidence came to light pointing to...
Deep Cover: The ATF Agent Who Became a Hell’s Angel

Deep Cover: The ATF Agent Who Became a Hell’s Angel

July 01, 2025 36m Episode 35
In the early 2000s, undercover ATF agent, Jay Dobyns, infiltrated the infamous Hells Angels motorcycle gang. To gain their trust, Dobyns had to walk the walk—trafficking guns, staging violent attacks,...
Cambridge Five: The Spy Scandal That Broke M16

Cambridge Five: The Spy Scandal That Broke M16

June 24, 2025 34m Episode 34
They were charming, brilliant, and deeply embedded in the British establishment — but they were also secretly working for the enemy. Later dubbed the Cambridge Five, this ring of Soviet spies passed...
The JFK Assassination: New Evidence Reveals The CIA's Fatal Mistake

The JFK Assassination: New Evidence Reveals The CIA's Fatal Mistake

June 17, 2025 39m Episode 33
In 2025, the Trump Administration released long-classified government files about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At the center of the most obsessed-over murder in American history...
The Secret of Churchill’s Anthrax Island

The Secret of Churchill’s Anthrax Island

June 10, 2025 34m Episode 32
Towards the end of WWII, Winston Churchill decided it was time for Britain to develop deadly bioweapons. He chose a remote island off of Scotland where experiments could be carried out away from human...
The Briefcase Bomb That Could Have Ended World War II

The Briefcase Bomb That Could Have Ended World War II

June 03, 2025 33m Episode 31
Towards the end of WWII, a rogue group of German conspirators realized what they had to do to protect the future of their country: kill Adolf Hitler. But eliminating the Führer was easier said than...
The CIA Puppetmaster Part 2

The CIA Puppetmaster Part 2

May 27, 2025 32m Episode 30
In Part Two of this two-part series, CIA Director Allen Dules' plan to invade Cuba goes disastrously wrong. Though this political mastermind thinks he has everything under control, he quickly learns...
The CIA Puppetmaster Part 1

The CIA Puppetmaster Part 1

May 20, 2025 35m Episode 29
In Part One of this two-part series, the CIA Director and political chessmaster, Allen Dulles, has his eyes set on overthrowing the Cuban Dictator, Fidel Castro. But though Dulles thinks he has every...
America’s Secret UFO Files

America’s Secret UFO Files

May 13, 2025 43m Episode 28
In the early 1950s, the US Air Force launched a top-secret program to investigate reports of UFO sightings and determine whether they posed a national security threat. Dubbed Project Blue Book, the...
Edward Snowden: Digital Whistleblower

Edward Snowden: Digital Whistleblower

May 06, 2025 35m Episode 27
After the tragic events of 9/11, Edward Snowden decides to do his patriotic duty and joins the US Military. When he moves up to systems engineer at the CIA, he stumbles across a secret that will...
Snitches Get Stitches: The Frank Serpico Story

Snitches Get Stitches: The Frank Serpico Story

April 29, 2025 35m Episode 26
In 1960s New York, cop Frank Serpico discovered a brutal truth: his fellow officers were on the take. Gambling dens and drug rings were being secretly protected by the NYPD. When Serpico refused to...
Nukes Below Zero

Nukes Below Zero

April 22, 2025 39m Episode 25
During the Cold War, the US built a secret underground city 100 feet under Greenland’s ice cap. It was disguised as a research facility but was actually meant as a site to launch missiles at Russia....
The Fake Army That Fooled Hitler

The Fake Army That Fooled Hitler

April 15, 2025 35m Episode 24
As World War II raged on, America deployed its strangest weapon yet: a fake army. Known as the Ghost Army, this group of artists, architects, and actors used inflatable tanks and sound effects to...
The Russian Sleeper Agent Next Door

The Russian Sleeper Agent Next Door

April 08, 2025 37m Episode 23
On the night of his 20th birthday, Tim Foley's world was turned upside down when the FBI stormed his home and arrested his parents. At first, it seemed like a terrible mistake. But soon, he learned...
Tuskegee Tragedy: The Medical Study That Hid a Genocide

Tuskegee Tragedy: The Medical Study That Hid a Genocide

April 01, 2025 39m Episode 22
In 1972, Alabama farmer Charlie Pollard discovered a horrifying truth. For 40 years, he thought he was getting treatment for syphilis. Instead, he was part of a secret government study. Hundreds of...
The Plot to Kill George Washington

The Plot to Kill George Washington

March 25, 2025 39m Episode 21
In the summer of 1776 as war with the British loomed over the American colonies, a shocking betrayal was brewing within General George Washington’s inner circle. His personal bodyguards were secretly...
The Iran Contra Scandal

The Iran Contra Scandal

March 18, 2025 45m Episode 20
President Ronald Reagan faced two major problems in 1981. A Communist revolution had taken hold in Nicaragua. And in Lebanon, militants were holding American hostages. Reagan's team created a secret...
America’s Human Test Subjects

America’s Human Test Subjects

March 11, 2025 43m Episode 19
The Cold War made America desperate for new weapons. The military looked beyond nuclear bombs into chemicals and drugs: LSD and Sarin gas. But first, they needed test subjects. They turned to their...
Operation Greylord: Chicago’s Corrupt Courts

Operation Greylord: Chicago’s Corrupt Courts

March 04, 2025 40m Episode 18
In 1979, prosecutor Terry Hake made a bold choice. He agreed to go undercover for the FBI and report on widespread corruption in the Chicago courts. As he navigated a world of bribery and backroom...
Death of Che

Death of Che

February 25, 2025 37m Episode 17
In 1967, the CIA and Bolivian army joined forces to hunt down revolutionary leader Che Guevara through the Andes mountains. After leaving Cuba, Guevara and a small guerrilla force secretly entered...
Ben Franklin: Secret Spy

Ben Franklin: Secret Spy

February 18, 2025 41m Episode 16
Benjamin Franklin is known for his role as a Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat. But he had another role: spymaster. As the American colonies fought for independence against the British, Franklin...
The D-Day Con

The D-Day Con

February 11, 2025 46m Episode 15
In the tense months leading up to D-Day, a daring plan was set in motion to mislead the Nazis about where and when the invasion would take place. British intelligence recruited a motley crew of double...
The Man Who Stopped WWIII

The Man Who Stopped WWIII

February 04, 2025 39m Episode 14
In 1983, the Cold War escalated to new heights after the Soviet Union mistakenly shot down a passenger jet, Korean Air Flight 007, killing all 269 people on board. Just weeks later, Russian Lieutenant...
The Real Argo

The Real Argo

January 28, 2025 39m Episode 13
Amid the chaos of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, six Americans manage to evade capture and find refuge at the Canadian embassy. With time running out and their lives on the line, CIA disguise expert Tony...
The Black Panther Plot

The Black Panther Plot

January 21, 2025 41m Episode 12
On a cold night in December 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old leader of the Chicago Black Panther Party, lay asleep beside his pregnant partner, Deborah Johnson. Without warning, their home was...
Enhance the Paranoia

Enhance the Paranoia

January 14, 2025 45m Episode 11
Fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War, a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971. Their goal: to expose how the agency was suppressing anti-war protests. Calling...
Code Name Blue Wren

Code Name Blue Wren

January 07, 2025 45m Episode 10
Ana Montes was a trusted analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a rising star with access to America’s most sensitive secrets. But beneath her composed exterior she lived a double life. For...
Ames Mole Hunt

Ames Mole Hunt

December 31, 2024 47m Episode 9
In 1985, Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko revealed a chilling secret to the CIA: a high-ranking mole was leaking American intelligence to the KGB. As it turned out, the mole was Aldrich Ames, the...
The Hunt for K-129

The Hunt for K-129

December 24, 2024 42m Episode 8
In 1968, the Soviet submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, carrying nuclear weapons and Cold War secrets. After its location was pinpointed three miles beneath the ocean surface, the CIA tasked a...
Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 2)

Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 2)

December 17, 2024 41m Episode 7
As we dive deeper down the Charles Manson rabbit hole in Part 2, we explore the shocking link between the cult leader, mind control, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Tom O’Neill...
Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 1)

Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 1)

December 10, 2024 40m Episode 6
When journalist Tom O’Neill set out to write a simple story on the anniversary of the Manson Family murders in 1999, he was pulled into an investigation that lasted 20 years. In the first part of this...
634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro

634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro

December 03, 2024 40m Episode 5
Over decades, the U.S. government orchestrated hundreds of assassination attempts on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, both serious and absurd, from poison cigars to exploding seashells. Learn how Castro...
Operation Tailwind: Valley of Death

Operation Tailwind: Valley of Death

November 26, 2024 38m Episode 4
It’s 1998 and CNN produces a documentary blowing the lid off of one America's most secret military operations in the Vietnam war, Operation Tailwind. But after the documentary airs, the news...
The Forgotten Meltdown

The Forgotten Meltdown

November 19, 2024 31m Episode 3
It’s 1961 in Idaho Falls. The US government’s attempt to set the course for America’s nuclear future turns tragic when the SL-1 reactor explodes, leading to the gruesome death of three soldiers. But...
Operation Paperclip: America’s Secret Nazi Scientists

Operation Paperclip: America’s Secret Nazi Scientists

November 12, 2024 34m Episode 2
It’s the end of WWII and the US is on the verge of defeating Germany. That’s when the military launches Operation Paperclip: a plan to bring German scientists to America to turn the country into the...
Operation Ajax: The CIA’s Secret War in Iran

Operation Ajax: The CIA’s Secret War in Iran

November 12, 2024 45m Episode 1
In 1953, Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, has unlimited job prospects. But instead of picking a cushy desk job or following his Nobel Peace Prize-winning grandfather's...
Introducing - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana

Introducing - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana

October 01, 2024 1m
Each week on Redacted, we pull back the curtain on hidden histories behind the world’s most powerful institutions. Shocking stories of covert operations, CIA cover-ups, and military missions gone...

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