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Spies - The U.S. and Russian Espionage Game from the Cold War to the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Spies - The U.S. and Russian Espionage Game from the Cold War to the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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In the post-World War II era, the Soviet Union and the United
States wanted to gain the advantage in international security. Both
engaged in intelligence gathering. This book provides a
comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game.
For more than four decades after World War II, the quest for
intelligence drove the Soviet Union and the United States to
develop a high-stakes "game" of spying on one another throughout
the Cold War. Each nation needed to be aware of and prepared to
counter the capabilities of their primary nemesis. Therefore, as
the Cold War period developed and technology advanced, the mutual
goal to maintain up-to-date intelligence mandated that the process
by which the "game" was played encompass an ever-wider range of
intelligence gathering means. Covering far more than the United
States and Soviet Union's use of human spies, this book examines
the advanced technological means by which the two nations'
intelligence agencies worked to ensure that they had an accurate
understanding of the enemy. The easily accessible narrative covers
the Cold War period from 1945 to 1989 as well as the post-Cold War
era, enabling readers to gain an understanding of how the spies and
elaborate espionage operations fit within the greater context of
the national security concerns of the United States and the Soviet
Union. Well-known Cold War historian Sean N. Kalic explains the
ideological tenets that fueled the distrust and "the need to know"
between the two adversarial countries, supplies a complete history
of the technological means used to collect intelligence throughout
the Cold War and into the more recent post-Cold War years, and
documents how a mutual desire to have the upper hand resulted in
both sides employing diverse and creative espionage methods.
Details how and why the United States and the Soviet Union
maintained and evolved their robust spying capabilities from the
end of World War II to the present era Highlights how the espionage
and spying employed by the United States and Soviet Union involved
far more than just people placed to obtain and transmit information
Provides a foundation of knowledge to understand the tension
between United States and the Soviet Union over current issues such
as Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, as well as the expansion of NATO
into Central and Eastern Europe Includes compelling stories in
espionage history, including the Manhattan Project, the convicted
Rosenberg spy couple, the U-2 incident, and the discovery of
Russian "sleeper" cells in the United States in 2010
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