HIS343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cuban Missile Crisis, Marshall Plan, Double-Cross System
Document Summary
Intelligence in the cold war: virtually nothing in common between cia and kgb traditions, political environments, purposes, relationship with politicians and leadership, fundamentally different views. Ultra, etc. , allies did not keep secrets from each other (expect from soviets) Gouzenko affair: cypher clerk in ottawa, defected september 1945. Interested in atomic research, bomb was an anglo-american-canadian undertaking: canadian officials also privy to ultra, liaised with mi-5, etc. Infiltration of atomic bomb information, nuclear physicist alan nunn may was a spy: alger hiss, state department official, had gone to yalta with roosevelt, many in early. Soviets about all of this: caused trouble because of the spying, but also because it let stalin know that the western allies were keeping things from him (ex. Italy james angleton, part of oss x-2, with basically an unlimited budget the cia bought the election against the communists: letter writing campaign, petitions with forged signatures, mafia rumours, gave money to campaign of christian democratic party.
