#Cold War

10 entries tagged Cold War.

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Isabelle Pettie Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee (1950-1971) and wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, confirmed by FBI Vault documents that also record her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union.
Richard Ober Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was the CIA officer who directed Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its 1967 creation through its 1974 termination, reporting to James Angleton and maintaining a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals.

Propaganda 2 Propaganda 2 (P2) was a fascist secret society linked to the Golpe Borghese coup attempt a decade earlier.
Safari Club The Safari Club was a 1976 informal intelligence alliance organized by SDECE director Alexandre de Marenches to conduct anti-Soviet operations in Africa and the Middle East when the CIA was constrained by Church Committee oversight, with France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran as core members.
SDECE The SDECE was France's foreign intelligence service from 1946 to 1982, reconstituted as the DGSE under Mitterrand, whose director Alexandre de Marenches (1970-1981) organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance.

Korean War 1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea that involved U.S. intelligence programs and connections to later covert operations in Southeast Asia.

Mind Control Mind control as a field of intelligence research emerged from the CIA program MKUltra, which sought to discover effective methods of modifying human behavior to create brainwashed operatives.

Afghanistan Afghanistan is a Central Asian country whose Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), CIA-backed Mujahideen funding network, and arms-for-drugs exchanges appear throughout this vault's coverage of Iran-Contra, the Golden Triangle heroin trade, and intelligence operations.
China China is an East Asian country and major Cold War power whose nuclear weapons program, Lop Nor test site, Chinese state parapsychology research, and PROMIS software transfers are the primary contexts in which it appears in this vault.
U.S. Embassy in Moscow The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was a central site of Cold War espionage, targeted by the Soviet Moscow Signal microwave beam for decades, and subject to repeated KGB penetration attempts that exposed the limits of CIA counterintelligence under James Angleton.