The forgotten history of the U.S.’s Cold War presence in Greenland
The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes. It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote ...
The Cold War Broadcasting Apparatus Should Shut Down
Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.
JFK files provide inside look at CIA’s shadowy Cold War history
In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the ...
Oleg Gordievsky, famed Cold War spy and KGB defector, dead at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at ...