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The Making of a Cold War Spy
Books & the Arts / The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American ...
They passed intelligence, intercepted communications, stole blueprints and mapped targets. But ultimately they drove the deep-seated paranoia and distrust that would forever change the course of ...
Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...
A German Jewish refugee, he became a decorated CIA officer, facing off with the Soviets in Berlin, before resigning to lead ...
Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years ...
The screen’s newest undercover agents give James Bond a run for his money (and there’s not a bikini in sight).