new war was just beginning. The Cold War: denoting the open yet restricted

rivalry that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union and

their respective allies, a war fought on political, economic, and

propaganda fronts, with limited recourse to weapons, largely because of

fear of a nuclear holocaust.1 This term, The Cold War, was first used by

presidential advisor Bernard Baruch during a congressional debate in 1947.

Intelligence operations dominating this war have been conducted by the

Soviet State Security Service (KGB) and the Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA), representing the two power blocs, East and West respectively, that

arose from the aftermath of World War II. Both have conducted a variety of

operations from large scale military intervention and subversion to covert

spying and surveillance missions. They have known success and failure. The

Bay of Pigs debacle was soon followed by Kennedy's ft handling of the Cuban

missile crisis. The decisions he made were helped immeasurably by

intelligence gathered from reconnaissance photos of the high altitude plane

U-2. In understanding these agencies today I w

cannot assure peace. With the knowledge supplied by each to its leaders,

up in his U-2 over the Soviet Union from the United States Air Force Base

disclosure of 'functions, names, official titles, and salaries or number of

The agencies discussed above are integral to the peace that exists

importance to Beria was the race for the atomic bomb. The Soviet Union and

the status quo and power base remains relatively stable with the East and

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