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EspionageEspionage means to discover secrets, mostly political or military secrets. Espionage might be an invention from the movies, but that is not the case. During the Cold War both the Soviet Union and the USA were spying on each other.
During this lesson you will find out more about spying. Assignment 10Watch the video on the right and answer the question.
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Central Intelligence AgencyThe CIA’s main objective during the Cold War was an intense Anti-Communist policy. Because this policy was almost exactly like America’s viewpoint in general; the CIA was given near unlimited power.
They were extremely powerful for what was a civilian organization. They took extreme actions such as organizing Operation Ajax; a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected government all in order to contain Communism. They were mainly concerned with the gathering of intelligence and recruitment of agents in communist nations mainly the USSR. |
Assignment 11Read the document below and answer the questions.
What was operation Ajax about?
Was it necessary to have the Shah return to his throne? Was the operation succesful? |
Assignment 12Watch the video below and answer the questions in a separate Word-document. You don't have to watch the full 51 minutes you only have to watch the first 6 minutes.
Questions: What was the Soviet Union's first intelligence agency? What was the second one? |
KGBThe Komityet Gosudarstvjennoj Biezopasnosti (KGB) was founded in 1954 and is the Soviet Union's CIA. Even though they also were an intelligence agency, they also were the Soviet Union's security agency and the secret police.
The KGB was also the Western fear of the Soviet Union, because their agents were really succesful in getting into intelligence agencies and operated within foreign nations with diplomatic immunity. James BondFor which organization does James Bond work for????
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