Spies And The Cold War

This prevents the theft of secret information and detects the presence of spies in the United States. Some think the history of espionage goes back to prehistoric times. The bible tells of Moses sending spies into Canaan. Frederick the Great of Prussia is credited with originating organized espionage. George Washington's spies obtained intelligence and information during the Revolutionary war.

All agencies working together to maintain peace and provide the government with the knowledge to make informed decisions. In hindsight, the nation realized what a huge impact espionage had on war and attempted to use it to their full advantage. Spies now have countless new technologies and scientific breakthroughs to allow them to succeed in many more ways than the women during the Civil War. The Cold War was one event where new espionage techniques were crucial and immigration was limited to try to block Soviet spies from entering the United States. During World War II, Japanese internment camps were set up to try to prevent espionage within the Asian community along the West Coast. The fear of enemy spies tended to consume the American public because of the enormous damage they can inflict. The brave women who served as soldiers during the Civil War had to live in constant fear of superiors learning their true gender. Their courage allowed for women to eventually become integrated into the American Army. Now women are being recognized as war heroes and continue to fight for their

My topic is spies during World War II. During World War II, countries used spies to gather information about each other. It is a specific and broad topic. Since the fifth grade, I have enjoyed World War II history. It’s very fascinating to me. It is a very tragic and fascinating time period. Recently in May, I visited the Holocaust Museum with my school in Washington, D.C. and fell in love with this time period even more. I felt more connected with it. This war was so raw and has great stories behind it. I also feel somewhat connected to it because it was not even that long ago that this happened, we at least all have relatives that are alive that can remember hearing about it, that is what makes it so real to me. Just knowing about World War II occurred was not enough for me; I wanted to know who was behind it all.

The novel, The Culture of the Cold War, is the all about the cold war and how that time period effected America in the 1960s. It talks about how the Cold War era haunted America with constant threats, and the talk of communism all across the nation. The author of the book, Stephen J. Whitfield, described that the Cold War gave the nation an identity crisis and that suspicion started to arise. The novel is very descriptive on that topic and elaborates on certain ideologies during that time.

The Cold War (1941-91) was a time of political and military tension between Soviet Russia and the United States. During this time, there was a great deal of fear between the 2 international superpowers as they both possessed nuclear weapons capable of wiping each other out. The Americans were in constant fear of Communism and Soviet spies. The paranoia was exacerbated by some politicians who suggested that Soviet spies were everywhere. This fear made some Americans to accuse their own neighbors of being Communist sympathizers.

John Le Carre calls upon his own experiences in the world of espionage in his novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. In doing so, Le Carre moves from the action-filled and glamorous world created by blockbusters such as James Bond, and delves deeper into the ramifications of political ideologies, such as the idea that the end justifies the means. With the Cold War a political battle significantly between the US and the USSR, society was plagued with the competition between their two political doctrines - Democracy and Communism, East and West. Le Carre explores this oppositional divide though the extended metaphor of binary opposites hot and cold. The cyclical form of the novel provides a physical example

The spies were created for a lot of reasons but the biggest reason was to collect information and send it back to their home Country.

Knowledge is power. It is as simple as that. Espionage is the secret gathering of information, often referred to as "intelligence". Intelligence refers to the processed information needed to make any decision. This could be used for business, military, economic, or political decisions. More often than not, this term refers to domestic or foreign policy of a country. Espionage is illegal in all countries, yet all countries have some form of espionage organization. The first espionage act was recorded 2500 years ago. The first book on espionage, The Art of War was written by a Chinese emperor/general Sun Tzu in about 500 BC. There is another type of espionage, counter-espionage. This is the

" If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle" (Sun Tzu). Espionage is the secret gathering of information on rival countries for military purposes. However, espionage in other countries is considered illegal: Even though it gains valuable information that could protect our country. Although many spies got caught and was sentence to life in jail or death, the espionage in World War II was effective because it gave information about the enemies and what there next move was going to be. Espionage in World War II had three major components which were code breaking, traditional spying, and deception operations.

The year was 2007. The fall of the Soviet Union occurred about sixteen years prior, and according to all international governments and news sources, the Cold War was over. The hostility between two superpowers had thawed, but upon closer inspection, this was not true. Based on counterintelligence acquired by the CIA, the Russian spy population in the United States had reached Cold War levels. Three years later, in 2010, a ring of ten Russian sleeper agents were discovered to be living normal lives in the northeastern part of the United States. However, these people were deceiving their friends

The spies were created for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason was to collect information and send it back to their home Country.

After WWll leaders realize that they were not too fond of the past because the United States was trying to move away from being isolationist and make the change to interventionism. They looked for new ways to keep the U.S safe and to protect their interest in the world because they were threatened by Stalin. Leaders soon realize that there were going to be people who disagreed with the new rules/policies such as HUAC, Bert the Turtle which were atomic bomb drills, and Joseph McCarthys idea called McCarthyism. All because of these people who disagreed they had to act fast to keep the U.S and its people safe. When Franklin Roosevelt died in April of 1945 the U.S was at a very non stable point in time. The U.S was still at War and one of our most important allies which was the Soviet Union was beginning to break off after WWII from the u.s. due to the Soviets wanted to keep Eastern Europe. This sent us into a great conflict known as the cold war with the Soviets because they didn 't have much in common. The U.S was a capitalist democracy in the Soviet Union was a dictatorship and were communist, the leader of the dictatorship was Joseph Stalin.

Two trillion dollars was the amount spent by the United States on the war with the Soviet Union, which never seen the battlefield. Over four decades of US presidencies were committed to containing communism within the Soviet Union, and existing establishments, driving US foreign policy decisions across the globe. Armed forces, government officials, and US presidents, may have been unable to contain communism on their own. In 1947, the first year of the Cold War, President Harry Truman proposed a six-pronged defense strategy which included the National Security Act of 1947, giving birth to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Roark, et al. 789). The consensus of the Cold War was driven by

The “Cold War” was a unique time period were paranoia ran high and the world was at a stalemate as it watch the competition between the two world superpowers,(U.S. and the U.S.S.R.).

Literature has always provided a means to explore human nature by documenting and dissecting their reactions to events that occur. Authors portray characters that reflect their interpretation on life, in hopes of revealing a deeper understanding on why people live like they do. John le Carré has a similar approach to his stories, by placing his characters in situations that make them face a moral predicament. le Carré use this approach in his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, where British spy Alec Leamas faces various situations that question his moral standards. Leamas’ character is constructed in a manner that contrasts protagonists in all other espionage novels and his ultimate moral standpoint further solidifies this novel as a