Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204)
Emanuela Grama was born in the mid-1970s’ in a small provincial town in Eastern Romania. She provides us with a great insight into life in...
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Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203)
Pete Curran served with BRIXMIS, the British Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. Their operation was established by a post-WWII...
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MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202)
Frank Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare...
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Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201)
Squadron Leader John Robinson AFC (ret’d) was an RAF pilot who was tasked to fly into the mushroom clouds of nuclear bomb tests to capture...
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Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 3 (200)
We hear of Joanna's heartbreak when her visa is refused, preventing her from marrying Yuri. However, using an ingenious method she manages...
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Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199)
Joanna is questioned by the KGB and the FBI, falls in love with Yuri and starts to smuggle the bands' music out of the Soviet Union to...
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Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 1 (198)
Joanna Stingray was only 23 years old when she first set foot in the USSR and started meeting now-legendary musicians and artists of the...
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Popular Cold War culture of the 1980s (197)
Over the past, nearly two decades, the Stuck in the 80s podcast has emerged as the go-to for all aspects of 1980s nostalgia from a North...
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Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions & US Counterintelligence SOXMIS & USMLM (196)
I speak with Aden Magee who operated as the commander of a highly specialized Counterintelligence (CI) unit in West Germany during the last...
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Ron - a veteran of the Korean War & the Malayan Emergency (195)
Ron Knight served in the Royal Marines on HMS Belfast during the Korean War of 1950-53. He was a gunner and describes the shore...
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The Gouzenko Affair - the start of the Cold War (194)
Igor Gouzenko exposed Soviet intelligence's efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The...
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Flying the F-111 nuclear bomber (193)
Rick Shreve was a USAF F111 pilot based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. We hear about his early USAF career as a fighter pilot, then we move...
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The forgotten cosmonaut (192)
This week it's the 60th anniversary of the flight of Gherman Titov on Vostok 2. The forgotten 2nd cosmonaut overshadowed by the exploits of...
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A workers view of Poland from Łódź in 1986 (191)
Evan McGilvray has written a number of books on Poland as well as biographies. He is well versed in Poland and Polish society and away from...
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin (190)
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North...
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Philippe - A French soldier in Cold War Berlin (189)
The French Forces in Berlin were the units of the French Armed Forces stationed from 1945 until the end of the Cold War-era in West Berlin...
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A Czechoslovak family's escape to Austria (188)
We continue Drea Hahn’s story with her family’s escape to Austria and the realities of being a refugee. In 1986, under the pretext of a...
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Drea - A Cold War Czechoslovak childhood (187)
Drea Hahn was born in Czechoslovakia in 1980 in Teplice. Her mother was a secretary and her father was an engineer but refused to join the...
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An evening with Kim Philby (186)
Ben Brown is the writer of A Splinter of Ice, a play that portrays the meeting in Moscow in 1987 of one of the greatest novelists of the...
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Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 2 (185)
We return to the 2nd part of Tom Favia’s story with the US Military Liaison Mission which the Soviet Union permitted to operate in East...
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