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Featuring a mix of personal recollections and scholarly presentations, the conference presented a broad view of Cold War intelligence operations in Berlin that ran the gamut from agent operations, to the Berlin tunnel, to US Air Force reconnaissance missions.
In the early days of the Cold War, the United States, faced with the need to protect its long northern border against the prospect of Soviet long-range bombers equipped with nuclear weapons, built a chain of radar stations, called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, along the northern coast of North America. Consisting of sixty-three stations
In 1940-41, during the first Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, Serov had been responsible for the deportation of some 134,000 “class enemies” to slave labor camps. 3. A confidant of Nikita Khrushchev, in 1953 Serov engineered the overthrow of Stalin’s Internal Security Chief, Lavrenty Beria.
international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar era, and explains the global dynamics of the Cold War international system. It emphasizes how the Cold War bequeathed conditions,
During the Cold War, direct deterrence involved discouraging a Soviet nuclear attack on U.S, territory; extended deterrence involved preventing a Soviet conventional attack on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members.9 For obvious reasons, extended deterrence is more challenging than direct deterrence.
Espionage and Covert Operations Need for Intelligence Agencies. Armies are useful for full-scale conquest or liberations and defence but not much else. Mobilization requires lots of preparation – can't really slip under the radar. Pesky details involving war.
This article examines the concept of ‘stay-behind’ as a war-fighting tactic used by North Atlantic Treaty Organization to maximize its defensive efforts against a possible Soviet onslaught during the Cold War. It outlines how the concept developed, describes the military and clandestine
