📂 Dossier Drop 2 Memory, Power, and the Triple Edge
An Introduction to Charles Keane’s Investigation
The Triple Edge series boldly offers a fresh perspective on the Cold War era, challenging the traditional 'Us vs Them' narrative. It's not just another espionage piece but a unique exploration of the era's complexities and ambiguities, inviting you to broaden your historical horizons.
It is a forensic investigation covering 1881–2016, unravelling how both East and West distorted Europe's history and memory. Charles Keane, Laura Pellegrino, and the Cambridge Group are on a mission to reconstruct a truth buried under decades of covert influence, misplaced triumph, and deliberate forgetting. The significance of their discoveries will weigh heavily on you as you realise the depth of the deception.
Delve into the heart of the matter: Was Europe ever truly free? This thought-provoking question lies at the core of the Triple Edge series, inviting readers to ponder the complexities of Europe's history and the forces that have shaped it, sparking a lively intellectual journey.
The story begins on the night of 9 November 1989. the night Charles Keane received a broken man — "the Aristocrat" — at the Berlin border from a KGB officer who should have been his enemy: Viktor Pavlov. That exchange — supposedly a moment of "diplomatic cooperation" —was, in fact, a carefully planted trap.
At the heart of the betrayal: James Friggington, Head of the British SIS Station in Berlin, was already preparing the groundwork for a different kind of Europe — one far darker, far more cynical, than the dream of 1989.
📜 Historical Anchors
1881–1916: 35 years between the start of Tsarist Okhrana manualised espionage provocations in Paris and the Gallipoli Campaign disaster, resulting in Churchill's resignation and 250,000 casualties on both sides
1914 – 1947
35 years from the start of WWI and 1947 WWII, baby boomers were able to walk confidently
1922 - 1957
35 years from Lenin's New Economic Plan (A forerunner to the Triple Edge Strategy), which Lenin characterised as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control", while socialised state enterprises would operate on "a profit basis".
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1945 - 1980
35 years from Clement Atlee’s Labour coming to power and the introduction of a comprehensive welfare state to the destruction of the 'post-war consensus' by Margaret Thatcher
1959 – 1994
35 years from Fidel Castro being installed in Cuba and the first post-Apartheid elections in South Africa.
1968-2003
35 years from the 1968 predominantly baby boomer student uprisings against the discovery of former fascists and nazis continuing as captains of industry and 2003 European Commission President Romani Prodi stating Ukraine should not join the EU
1954 – 1989
35 years between the end of WWII food rationing in the UK and the breaching breaking of the Berlin War on 9 November 1989
1990 – 2025
35 years between the last 1 May USSR Celebration in Moscow and the Triple Edge Series starting on 1 May 2025
➔ In every cycle, Europe's amnesia serves those who would corrupt it.
🧠 European Memory – The Weaponised Narrative
Memory isn't history — it's power.
Europe's "victory" was deliberately staged.
Today's crises trace back to errors and plans — from before 1989.
✍️ How Charles, Laura, and the Cambridge Group Work
Charles: haunted, disciplined, skeptical.
Laura: fiercely academic yet daring; refuses easy narratives.
The Cambridge Group: hackers, researchers, idealists, and realists.
Their Mission: not to rewrite history — but to expose it.
They know that what happened in 1989 was not an ending — it was the start of a more subtle occupation. This 'occupation' refers to the continued influence and manipulation by powerful entities, even after the Cold War seemingly ended.
📚 Why This Matters for Triple Edge
No simple heroes. No simple villains.
No clean West vs. East dichotomy.
Only power games, compromised dreams, and a race against deliberate forgetting.
"The truth isn't buried. It's camouflaged." — Laura Pellegrino.