A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244)
In the early 1980s East Germany had just 5000 members of the Church of Latter-day Saints, many of which had been members since before World...
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US Navy Cold War airborne electronic reconnaissance (243)
KC flew the US Navy’s airborne Electronic Reconnaissance during the 1980s in the Lockheed EP-3 which is an electronic signals...
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My life laid bare through secret police files (242)
What is it like to be under secret police surveillance? On 10 March 1983, 12-year-old Carmen Bugan returned from school to find Romanian...
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Royal Military Police versus the Soviets (SOXMIS) in Cold War West Germany (241)
Keith Bailey Joined British Army at 16 in 1973. He was recruited into the Blues and Royals, (Household Cavalry) and served in West Germany...
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The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240)
Graham Bate was 30-year-old Civil Servant when he built his own nuclear bunker in the garden of his rural home 20 miles outside Hull in the...
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Cold War number stations (239)
You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting...
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Air warfare in the Cold War (238)
The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense...
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Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War.Don't...
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The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her...
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The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)
The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It was the largest...
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Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)
Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one of the...
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Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)
In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an...
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A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232)
During the 1970s and 1980s, Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a...
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Escaping from Cold War Romania (231)
Zsolt Akos Pall was 17 when he decided to flee Cold War Romania for a better life in the West. It’s a heart-warming story of the generosity...
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A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230)
Zsolt Akos Pall was born in a small town in the Hungarian speaking part of Romania. For ordinary people, life in Romania in the 1980s was...
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The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229)
The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States...
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Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228)
In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent...
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The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227)
Maura McCormick was posted to Berlin as a Signals Intelligence voice interceptor (Russian). Her workplace was the Teufelsberg U.S....
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Betrayed by comrades (226)
Liz Kohn has been researching Alice Glasnerová, who was imprisoned as part of the early Cold War Czechoslovak show trials known as the...
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My father, the KGB spy (225)
In 1978, Ieva Lesinska was a university student in Soviet Latvia with dreams of becoming a writer. She had just spent a heady month in New...
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