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The incident occurred at a time of severely strained relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. [1] Responding to the Soviet Union's deployment of fourteen SS-20/RSD-10 theatre nuclear missiles, the NATO Double-Track Decision was taken in December 1979 by the military commander of NATO to deploy 108 Pershing II nuclear missiles in Western Europe with the ability to hit targets ...
June 2, 1919: Attempted assassination of A. Mitchell Palmer during the 1919 United States anarchist bombings: Anarchists linked to Luigi Galleani exploded a bomb in front of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's home at 2132 R Street, NW, Washington D.C. In April of the same year, a mail bomb was intercepted and defused before it reached ...
Pavel Fitin, the 34-year-old chief of the KGB First Directorate, was directed to seek American intelligence concerning Hitler's plans for the war in Russia; secret war aims of London and Washington, particularly with regard to planning for Operation Overlord, the second front in Europe; any indications the Western Allies might be willing to ...
The FBI earlier this month searched the homes of two Americans with ties to Russian state media, including a former United Nations weapons inspector and an adviser to Republican presidential ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has gathered highly sensitive intelligence about Russian anti-satellite weapons that has been shared in recent weeks with the upper echelons of government, according ...
The Soviet Embassy building (pictured in 2006 as the Russian Embassy) Operation Monopoly was a secret plan by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to construct a tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., to gather secret intelligence, in effect from 1977 until its public discovery in 2001.
Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new lawsuit jointly filed Tuesday by attorneys general for ...
Reagan and Gorbachev discussed regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Central America, and Southern Africa, arms control issues for chemical weapons as well as conventional weapons, the status of START negotiations, and human rights. A notable accomplishment of the Washington Summit was the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.