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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."
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]
In 1950, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) surreptitiously created the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) to counter the Cominform's "peace offensive." At its peak, the Congress had "offices in thirty-five countries, employed dozens of personnel, published over twenty prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned a news and features service, organized high-profile international ...
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]
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 CIA, renowned for its secrecy, has long kept its maps and cartographic methods under wraps. These 11 declassified maps show how the CIA saw the world at the height of the Cold War Skip to main ...
Amid the intensifying Cold War, the National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA, headed by a director of central intelligence. The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 exempted the agency from most Congressional oversight, and during the 1950s, it became a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
One day in 1975, John Greenagel was contacted by a friend on the San Francisco Police Commission. A simple question was raised: "What do you think of the CIA?" In the years that followed ...