KGB Essays

United States Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) launched a secret program with efforts to gather and decrypt (and later exploit) Soviet diplomatic communications. It took nearly two years before American cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption. The information that was gained – in more than 2,000 messages – provided “insight into Soviet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees” (“VENONA”). The Venona files are most famous for exposing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The film one has chosen to review and analyse is George Clooney's “Goodnight and Good Luck”. It is set in America in the 1950's, a full decade after World War II ended, a period of economic growth and recovery after the Great Depression. It was a time of revolution in terms of social, economic and cultural advancement. Having said that, it was also a period of political turmoil, paranoia and intimidation under Senator Joseph McCarthy. This movie explores the way journalist Edward Murrow used his

When one thinks of espionage between the United States and the Soviet Union, the first time period that usually comes to mind is the Cold War. The Cold War is perhaps the point when Soviet Intelligence was at its peak performance in obtaining large quantities of intelligence at an exceptionally expedient pace against the United States. This superb performance, however, did not materialize overnight; it took vast networks of agents and procedures for recruiting and handling assets that required trial

such as, their access to resources not available to the Soviets, their ability to gather new recruits, and their skill to not draw attention to their work. Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev created Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (2009) to exemplify the history of the KGB in America and the USSR’s reasons for needing American agents. Because the Americans offered so many outlets to gather information, the Soviets sought them out in order to gain a competitive advantage over a world that wanted

The KGB, or the Committee for State Security, was a Soviet intelligence agency and security force established in 1954. The agency's primary responsibility was to maintain the Soviet Union's domestic security, as well as conduct intelligence operations abroad. The KGB's tactics were known for being ruthless, including censorship, propaganda, and the use of secret police to suppress dissent and maintain the Communist Party's power. During its existence, the KGB had a significant impact on Soviet society

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War offers an in depth analysis and account of the most heated period of espionage warfare in Berlin. The book’s conclusion with the building of the Berlin Wall is a logical endpoint to the story as the almost overnight construction of the Berlin Wall represented the closing of the Iron Curtain – as clandestine meetings between agents were no longer possible, thus ended Berlin’s role as a unique operational asset in it’s access to the East. The main strengths

counterparts, like the KGB or Stasi. Thus, to better ascertain the nature of American policing, it is important to determine the extent to which the FBI may be considered a secret police force. As defining the characteristics of a secret police force can be a topic of discussion unto itself, this analysis will not focus on identifying the precise features of secret police organizations. To highlight how the FBI may be considered a secret police force, it will compare the FBI to the KGB, an organization

collection that were utilized in the case are dead drops, signal sites, and double agents. The deception method used in the case are the KGB efforts to divert attention from Aldrich. Aldrich used the dead drops method to pass documents and receive money through impersonal clandestine communication sites. It was used to increase the security of Aldrich’s communications with the KGB. Aldrich would leave signals to the Soviets to indicate the sites where the dead drops site will be. He did so by using placing

the height of the Arms Race between the United States and Soviet Russia and it was intended to create the first nuclear bomb. The creation of this bomb would eventually escalate the arms race into a full out Cold War. Conclusion: The result of the KGB operative infiltration into the manhattan project was an increased speed at which Russian nuclear scientists developed their own bomb. The Soviets took the US by surprise as they had created the bomb five years before predicted. The creation of their

and that is the reason for him defecting to the USSR. Many believe the KGB (CIA version for the USSR) came into contact with him when he arrived (Dillion). While the KGB did not recruit Lee to be a spy it seems like they met and help spread anti-us sentiment into Lee. While Lee was defected the famous bay of pig’s incident happen. This is the closest the USA and the USSR have been to nuclear war and it would make sense for the KGB want to get rid of a leader who almost launched missiles at them for

relationship after World War II. Although the USSR and the US were allies, tensions had started to increase between the two nations because of their different political ideologies. During this time, spies were used by both the CIA in the US and the KGB in Russia to try to gather inside information about the other nation’s government and their nuclear weapon technology. Spies from both nations were scattered throughout the world, mainly in Russia, America, Germany, and England. This book details countless

species, when one is given such a large amount of power, corruption is soon to follow. Joseph Stalin was a cruel leader that played a key role as a propagandist in the Russian Revolution and made numerous achievements during his ruling, such as the KGB; George Orwell portrays Stalin through his character Napoleon, is was a manipulative and cunning leader that cares much less about the general well-being and happiness of his citizens

In the book The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman , he gives a history lesson about how one spy saved the government 2 billion dollars by infiltrating the Soviets. This book is really based off politics, a person, and a group of people. The book is based off the Cold War and how one spy betrayed the Soviets to give the United states a opportunity to acquire classified information.This book is meant to be read by young adults that are interested in history books about wars and it is overall

Stalin”, to be viewed as one of the people. Throughout his leadership in Russia, Stalin was known to enjoy living lavishly while his people lived in famine. He was able to live in luxury by eliminating those who oppose his decisions with the use of the KGB, in which Stalin used as personal assassins (ABC-CLIO). With the

Throughout Animal Farm, George Orwell employs rhetorical devices to construct parallels between the novel and Russia in the early 1900s and when it was under Stalin's reign in the 1920's. During this time Communism started to go to downhill as the “perfect government” that Karl Marx had envisioned started to go in an opposite direction. Karl Marx believed in a society where everyone was equal, but when Joseph Stalin came to power it became evident that there will always be some kind hierarchy with

ended up worse than before the revolution. Everyone agrees that the animals and Russians revolted and both clearly share similar characteristics in three similar people: Mr. Jones and Czar Nicholas II, Napoleon and Joseph Stalin, and the dogs and KGB. First, Mr. Jones and Czar Nicholas II behaved

leader. This was also the case for what Stalin did except he had a force of people called the KGB… According to the article Relating Animal Farm to History: KBG vs Napoleon's Dogs, “The KGB eliminated rebellions and anti-USSR groups.” This quote show that like Napoleon's secret police of dogs would kill anyone who a threat to napoleon or disagreed with what he was doing would get kill just like the KGB would kill anyone who was against how stalin was ruling and people who disobeyed the

crazier version of the Tom Clancy novels with an insane plot full of fast-paced action and romance. It starts with a man infiltrating the American embassy in plain sight of the personnel and security with the help of a false identity. The man is a KGB agent Arkady Lurshin who is in the embassy on a mission to plant bombs that are sure to bring down the embassy. Meanwhile, the man he is impersonating is whiling his time with one of his lover with no clue of what is happening at the embassy. He arrives

information that Canada had on the atomic bomb, to mark them as ones that he would take. On September 5, 1945, Gouzenko stuck 109 documents underneath his shirt and walked out of the embassy right under the noses of the Soviet Union’s security agents, or KGB agents, at the embassy. After stealing the documents, he went to the Ottawa Journal to leak the information to the public. Infact, to sell his point, when he got there he said the words, “It’s war. Its Russia.” However,

Are dystopian societies ethical? To answer this question, we first need to define ethical. Ethics are what each person considers right or wrong. This can be influenced by many different variables such as: upbringing, social norms, and parents. If someone grew up in a family of criminals, they would have very different moral standards from someone who grew up normally. I consider societies to be ethical when they do what is proper and necessary for their citizens given the circumstances. Dystopias