KGB CIA: Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Operations
KGB CIA: Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Operations
Exeter Books | 1987 | ISBN: 0671089293 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 26.5 MB
When World War II formally came to a close on 2 September 1945. a new secret war was only just beginning: the underground conflict between the security services of the two great superpowers, the KGB from the Soviet Union and the CIA from the United States of America. The history of postwar intelligence operations is naturally dominated by the efforts of the KGB and the CIA. Both have conducted a variety of operations, from direct large-scale military intervention and subversion to covert spying and surveillance missions. Both have had their successes and their failures. The fiasco of the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was soon followed by American success in the Cuban missile crisis in which President Kennedy's deft tactics were assisted by intelligence supplied by a Soviet defector.