Encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret. Changes in espionage by americans since the end of the cold war. What ways did spies during the coldwar try to gain information. Pages in category cold war spy films the following 186 pages are in this category, out of 186 total. Cold war spies were rarely flamboyant james bond types portrayed in literature and film. A new history is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the cold war was never current events.
Cold war espionage was a nightmare of errors, seen darkly in a wilderness of mirrors, raining desperate deceptions in a climate of treason, with assassins trading in treachery using hidden hands running invisible governments. It consists of nearly 300 a to z entries of both spies and secret operations as the main text in 350 pages. This video gives a brief description of spies convicted of aiding the soviet union during the cold war. Cold war documentary spies 1944 1994 video dailymotion.
The encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret operations by richard c. The cold war also saw the increased use of a particular, and effective, means of gaining informationthe honey trap. Because each side was preparing to fight the other, intelligence on the opposing sides intentions, military, and technology was of paramount importance. Kgb colonel stanislav lekarev 19352010 was an especially apt observer of the interplay between intelligence, culture and deep politics. Daphne park britains cold war spy master read online. Get youtube premium get youtube tv best of youtube music sports gaming movies tv shows news live. The spy who went into the cold soviet spy documentary timeline duration. During the cold war, information was the key commodity. Cold war spy fiction in russian popular culture central.
Az entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the subterranean world, events, people and operations of the cold war. Trahair was published by greenwood press, westport, connecticut in 2004. Espionage in the cold ware spionage is a very serious matter for some, a deadly serious business. Secret intelligence has long been regarded as the missing dimension of international relations. During the cold war, specialized tactics were taught to spies in order to teach them ways to elicit information. Almost all the american characters were depicted as spies. One of the greatest secrets of the cold war american and british intelligence agencies are currently in hot water over iraq. The only updated cold war spy encyclopedia in print. The cold war in asia, africa, and latin america 237 14 from the marshall plan to the third world 239 robert e. Secret files reveal techniques of cold war soviet spies. During the 1980s with no end of the cold war in sight, the cia became alarmed at the number of soviet spies working for the u. Perry describes straights career as a soviet spy in declarative sentences that make for a gossipy tale, festooned with. The cold war the cold war was a period of heightened tension between the communist world, led by the soviet union, and the capitalist.
The main forces during the cold war were the united states and russiait was a conflict of the free world versus communism. All major cold war powers maintained at least one government agency dedicated to intelligencegathering and espionage. A cold warthe us and the ussr never engaged in direct combat but competed for influence across the world, thus the cold war. The greatest espionage story of the cold war ebook. Soviet relations for decades and resurfaced as soon as the alliance against adolf hitler was no longer necessary. Kampiles sold the manual to a soviet military attache. A feeling of deja vu permeated my reading of the first chapters, such that i kept flipping to the footnotes to see whether i had read the secondary sources. Soviet response to the truman doctrine at the united nations. It violates international law and normal codes of civilized conduct, and yet it is virtually universal everywhere because it is considered a matter of vital national importance to states countries.
It was vital to know what the enemy was up to, and we did not have the option of using hitech surveillance camera systems. As the war ended, gardner joined the venona effort and. The success of their missions and indeed their survival usually hinged on looking and behaving like ordinary members of society. Throughout the cold war both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. The techniques varied from subtle urging to full blackmail. What didthey do with this information and wasit beneficial to our country. This is a seventyfive page pdf file, excerpts of which can be printed for students. Oxford manual produced by the institute of international law in 1880. The purpose of this website is to unveil the onceclassified activities of the allied military liaison missions in their quest to monitor soviet and east german military operations behind the iron curtain during the period known as the cold war. The spies of the cold war era and now synonymous with james bond films and spy novels however, the reality of cold war espionage was often far less glamorous than movies and books have us believe.
Ebook encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret operations free online. But when communism collapsed and the cold war ended, this is exactly what did occur, and thus it became possible to tell the story of the four most remarkable spies of the cold war, four larger. Wood 15 revolutionary movements in asia and the cold war 251 michael h. Timeline world history documentaries 1,014,739 views. Links to external sites will open in new browser windows and are not endorsed by the cold war museum. However, thanks to the secret files from world wars to cold war project, britains spies, security agents, codebreakers and deceptioneers are no longer missing in action.
The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies, the eastern bloc and the western bloc, after world war ii. As the makers of the pbs documentary secrets, lie and atomic spies imply, had. Cold war espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the cold war circa. In many ways, the cold war began even before the guns fell silent in germany and in the pacific in 1945. But they were very successful in the cold war and the story of that top secret operation has only come to light since the end of the cold war. Cia cold war counterintelligence kgb special operations spetsnaz. Spies in the cold war spies had a great role in the cold war, a lot of spies were in different areas to find out what other countries were doing or planning to do to then bring back the information to the country they were working for. Confronted with the documentary evidence as well as conflicting scholarly arguments, students may well be confused. Have students research and report on one wellknown case of espionage during the cold war. Show the class a documentary or film based on cold war espionage. A very short introduction mcmahon has produced a commanding short narrative of a vital period in recent world history. Best cold war spy books best novels about spies operating during the soviet era.
Feel free to explore areas now open to the public, including audio interviews with real cold war spies. Diplomatic correspondence during the invasion of south korea. This cold war site contains articles, perspectives and sources on global events and tensions between 1945 and 1991. Spies during the cold war gainedinformation by watching, listening, andrecruiting. During the cold war, armies never fought each other in direct combat but instead engaged in a variety of espionage techniques, which have paved the way for modern day tactics. This site is created by alpha history and contains 308,881 words in 405 pages. Also helpful are cold war encyclopedias such as trahairs encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret operations 2004. During the cold war, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the iron. He also responded to audience phone calls, faxes, and electronic mail. Nothing so stimulated the whitehot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that. Spies could become double agents and the whole story has developed a rather romantic image as a result of western film portrayals of spies. Secret files reveal techniques of cold war soviet spies in what sounds like the plot of a spy novel, a soviet agent who gave away britain and americas atomic. Venona project and cold war espionage oah magazine of. However, they fought each other indirectly through proxy wars.
Cold war espionage describes the intelligence gathering activities during the cold war circa 19471991 between the western allies chief us, uk and nato and the eastern bloc the soviet union and aligned countries of warsaw pact. The single most popular and venerable hero of russian spy fiction. Throughout history, modern and ancient, we have heard of individuals who go undercover to fulfill the wishes of his group or country. Powers talked about headline news on cold war espionage and the treat in places towards the u. Early cold war spies communism was never a popular ideology in america, but the vehemence of american anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the cold war. Once they had the information itwas sent back to headquarters to be analyzedand for a plan to be made for its use. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union. Levine 16 stalin and the korean war 265 kathryn weathersby 17 mao and sinoamerican relations 283 chen jian 18 the impact of the cold war on.
Encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret operations. Finally i decided i had read last of the cold war spies already. Both sides in the cold war used spies as a way of acquiring knowledge of what the other was doing or to spread false knowledge of what one side was doing. Download encyclopedia of cold war espionage spies and secret operations pdf online. Collection book encyclopedia of cold war espionage, spies, and secret operations. Bridge of spies, as he tells the cold war story of a secret mission that ended in a very public way.
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