Cold War

A collection of 7 Posts

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Hans Welser and John Rayner: Experts of Cold War British Propaganda

Rory Cormac tells us about Hans Welser and John Rayner two British propaganda agents who operated from WW2 through the Cold War.

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Martha Dodd: A Yank in the KGB

Brendan McNally describes the strange sequence of events that took a girl from Chicago to Nazi Berlin

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The Summer of 69 (Part 2 of 2)

The Moon landings gave the summer of 1969 its defining story. But elsewhere in the world many other events of consequence were playing out

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The Summer of 69 (Part 1 of 2)

The Moon landings gave the summer of 1969 its defining story. But elsewhere in the world many other events of consequence were playing out

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The Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (1950)

"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"

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Sixer for Twenty-seven Years

What happens when an enemy intelligence officer walks through the door?

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The Fact of Who I Was

Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man