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Klaus Fuchs, exposed in 1950, is considered to have been the most valuable of the atomic spies during the Manhattan Project.. Cold War espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War (c. 1947–1991) between the Western allies (primarily the US and Western Europe) and the Eastern Bloc (primarily the Soviet Union and allied countries of the Warsaw Pact). [1]
Declassified photos taken by Cold War-era spy satellites have revealed hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria, a new study found.
A KH-9 image of the Soviet civil Moscow Domodedovo Airport misidentified in the original document as Kubinka airfield. The main camera system was designed by Perkin-Elmer to take stereo images, [17] with a forward looking camera on the port side, and an aft looking camera on the starboard side. Images were taken at altitudes ranging from 90 ...
Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781849839297. Schecter, Jerrold L; Deriabin, Peter S; Penkovsky, Oleg V (1992). The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19068-6.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
At the outbreak of World War II, Burgoyne was living in the Withington area of Manchester. Service records show that she enlisted with the Women's Royal Army Corps first as a translator in the Latin American Section, then from 30 November 1942 as a Grade III secretary to the security services working out of Room 055 at the War Office under the command of Colonel Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens, later ...
The A-12 was designed to optionally utilize one of three different types of high resolution cameras; the highest of which provided a 63 nmi (72 mi; 117 km) wide continuous swath of one foot (1 ⁄ 3 m) resolution. The SR-71 had the simultaneous capability for photography and ELINT. Its imagery was one foot resolution of two separate five-mile ...
The first official trailer of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is out and has revealed some new details about the game’s campaign.