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Gustaf Skördeman's 2020 book Geiger shows a sleeper agent being activated in Sweden during the Cold War. [2] The 2021 film Black Widow involves Russian sleeper cells in the United States during the Cold War, raising and brainwashing adopted girls, eventually bringing them to Russia, where they are trained to be Black Widow operatives.
Active measures have continued in the post-Soviet era in the Russian Federation and are in many ways based on Cold War schematics. [3] [13] Active measures, as first formulated in the Soviet KGB, were a form of political warfare, offensive programs such as disinformation, propaganda, deception, sabotage, destabilization and espionage.
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]
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Marian Zacharski, Polish Intelligence officer arrested 1981. Among other things, he won access to material on the then-new Patriot and Phoenix missiles, the enhanced version of Hawk air-to-air missile, radar instrumentation for F-15 fighter, "stealth radar" for B-1 and Stealth bombers, an experimental radar system being tested by U.S. Navy, and submarine sonar.
According to Soviet agent Pavel Sudoplatov, five spy rings for the Soviet Union were targeting the United States during World War II: one was based in Amtorg in New York City, another spy ring was based in the Soviet Embassy in the United States at Washington, D.C., another was based in the Soviet Consulate General in San Francisco, another was ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were ...
The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover.An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) culminated in the arrest of ten agents on June 27, 2010, and a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010.