HIS343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stasi, Walter Ulbricht, Analog Science Fiction And Fact
Document Summary
The cold war kgb and its clones: americans saw technology as way to solve intelligence problems, soviets were successful with human intelligence in the 1930-40s, were less successful after but humint remained primary soviet collection method. Intelligence failure is difficult for a dictatorship to explain away. New challenges for the soviets: were now an imperial power in a way they had never been before, satellites, formerly independent states now under soviet occupations, given communist governments fully aligned with moscow. Traditional challenges for the soviets: how intelligence officers realted to political leadership of the state, stalin died 1953, before his death he never considered changing the role of the intelligence system in the political hierarchy. Union and so they basically gave up trying to directly attack the soviet bloc, but the soviets continues to chase a phantom enemy in their own territory for decades: don"t understand american intentions and typically don"t understand capabilities.
