Dec 8, 2022
5 min read
Why The USSR Had Such Good Spies
Soviet human intelligence
At the beginning of the Cold War, the United States was seized by the Red Scare. Paranoid politicians and jumpy citizens saw Russians everywhere. Anyone could be a communist. People were hauled in front of tribunals and grilled about their loyalty to the United States. Actors, writers, and artists were blacklisted from major gigs on suspicion of being communists…
