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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]
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 book received mostly positive reviews. [1] [2] Lawrence D. Freedman, writing for Foreign Affairs, described it as a "must-read" and praised it for "[describing] in such detail what it meant to run American agents in Cold War–era Moscow". [3]
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.
Fedora was the codename for Aleksey Kulak (1923 [1] –1983 [2]), a KGB-agent who infiltrated the United Nations during the Cold War. One afternoon in March 1962, Kulak walked into the FBI's NYC field office in broad daylight and offered his services. Kulak told his American handlers there was a KGB mole working at the FBI, leading to a decades ...
Greville Maynard Wynne (19 March 1919 [1] – 28 February 1990) was a British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky.
Vladimir Vetrov was born in 1932 and grew up within the Soviet Union. After college, where he studied electronic engineering, he was enlisted in the KGB.. He lived in France for five years, beginning in 1965, when posted there as a Line X officer working for the KGB's 'Directorate T', which specialized in obtaining information about advanced science and technology from western countries.
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. The first official trailer of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War ...