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The report compares with other contemporary Cold War documents such as George Kennan's "X" article in Foreign Affairs, which recommended a policy of "containment" rather than direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, and NSC 68, the secret policy document produced in 1950, which recommended a similarly restrained policy of “gradual coercion ...
The Cultural Cold War was a set of propaganda campaigns waged by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with each country promoting their own culture, arts, literature, and music. In addition, less overtly, their opposing political choices and ideologies at the expense of the other.
The CIA has declassified 5210 documents on Guatemala. [4] Analyzing these documents will be necessary to fully understand how the Guatemalan operation fit into the broader Cold War context. Gen. James Doolittle did an extensive report on covert actions, specifically for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. [5]
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]
The CIA analysis of Russia during the entire cold war was either driven by ideology or by politics. William J Crowe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted that the CIA "talked about the Soviet Union as if they weren't reading the newspapers, much less developed clandestine intelligence."
Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU) (founded in 1948), and subsequently by NATO (formed in 1949) and by the CIA (established in 1947), [1] [2] in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War. [3]
The international world order is under threat in a way not seen since the Cold War, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned.. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and ...
Za'im had extensive connections to CIA operatives, [86] and promptly approved the construction of America's TAPLINE oil pipeline in Syria, considered an important Cold War project and blocked by Quwatly's pre-coup government. [87] The exact nature of U.S. involvement in the coup remains controversial. [88] [89] [90]