Cold War espionage describes the
intelligence gathering activities during the
Cold War between
NATO and the
Warsaw Pact. Because each side was preparing to fight the other, intelligence on the opposing side's intentions, military, and technology was of paramount importance. To gather this information, the two relied on a wide variety of military and civilian agencies. While several such as the
CIA and
KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, many other organizations played key roles in the collection and analysis of a wide host of
intelligence disciplines.
During
World War II the various
allied nations held a tenuous relationship with the
Soviet Union, but cooperation persisted due to a common enemy. Never quite trustful of each other, this resulted in
espionage of tactics and technology between the
Western bloc and
Soviet bloc. After
World War II ended, the two sides became increasingly confrontational, culminating in the
Cold War.
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Intelligence (abbreviated int. or intel.) is information valued for its currency and relevance rather than its detail or accuracy —in contrast with "data" which typically refers to precise or particular information, or "fact,"
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord
Flag of NATO
NATO countries shown in blue
Formation 4 April 1949
Type Military alliance
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Membership 26 member states
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Warsaw Treaty Organization,
Warsaw Pact
Договор о дружбе, сотрудничестве и
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Central Intelligence Agency
Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency
Agency overview
Formed 26 July, 1947
Preceding Agency Central Intelligence Group
Headquarters Langley, Virginia, United States
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KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security (Russian: (help info ) ;
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Intelligence Gathering Disciplines - HUMINT - Human Intelligence - gathered from a person on the ground.
- GEOINT - Geospatial Intelligence - gathered from satellite, aerial photography, mapping/terrain data
..... Click the link for more information. Allied powers:
Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
...et al. Axis powers:
Germany
Japan
Italy
...et al.
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Allies spelled with a capital "A", usually denotes the countries who fought together against the Central Powers in World War I (see Triple Entente or Allies of World War I), or those who fought against the Axis Powers in World War II.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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Espionage (a word from Latin espionnage) or spying is a practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
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The Western Bloc during the Cold War refers to the powers allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The latter were referred to as the Eastern Bloc, a more common term in English than Western Bloc
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Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
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Allied powers:
Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
...et al. Axis powers:
Germany
Japan
Italy
...et al.
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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The Cambridge Five (also sometimes known as the Cambridge Four) was a ring of Soviet spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s.
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Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs' ID badge at Los Alamos.
Born December 29, 1911
Rüsselsheim, Germany
Died January 28, 1988
Dresden, East Germany
Residence Germany
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Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists who received international attention when they were executed for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
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The U–2 Crisis of 1960 occurred when an American U–2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane, but was forced to admit it when the U.S.S.R.
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The Venona project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved the cryptanalysis of messages sent by several intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, mostly during World War II.
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CI Reader: American Revolution into the New MillenniumA Counterintelligence Reader Volume 3, Chapter 1: Cold War Counterintelligence. PDF file. office of the Director of Central Intelligence. Retrieved June 21, 2005.
Proyect, Louis.
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James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917–May 12, 1987), known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for
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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB.
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