Castor and the Cold War

Castor and the Cold War

Introduction

After the Second World War in Europe finally came to an end May 7th, 1945 a new war was just the beginning. The Cold War: denote the open yet restricted, that the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and its allies, the war fought for political, economic and propaganda fronts, with limited recourse to weapons, mainly because of the fear of nuclear holocaust. The term "cold war" was first used by presidential adviser Bernard Baruch during the debate in Congress in 1947. Intelligence operations dominant in this war have been the Soviet State Security (KGB) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), are the two power supply, the East and West, respectively, which are connected with the Second World War. The two held a series of transactions with large-scale military intervention and subversion in espionage and covert surveillance missions.

Origin of the CIA and the KGB

CIA was a direct result of U.S. intelligence operations during the Second World War. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the need for coordination of intelligence to protect the interests of the United States. In 1941, he appointed William J. Donovan to head the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with headquarters in London. Four departments of OSS: support, the Secretariat of Planning, as well as foreign missions. This organization has fallen into disfavor of many participating in the federal administration at the time. This included the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, who did not like competition from rival intelligence organization.

U-2 Incident

In 1953, the CIA contracted aircraft Lockheed Corporation Burbank CA to build a plane that will go above and beyond any additional production. Kelly Johnson made a formulation for the U-2 aircraft that will fly with a record-high ceiling of 90,000 feet and 4000 feet of several U-2 flights, perhaps the greatest triumph of the CIA since its inception. This is because the British success in evading detection for so long, and large amounts of information. 'We can never, that one match. These flights were reconnaissance work on the basis of mass production."

In the fateful day of May 1st, 1960, Gary Powers was sent to his U-2 over the Soviet Union from the United States Air Force Base in Peshawar, Pakistan. His mission was to photograph the areas of military and economic significance and record radio broadcasts. In the plane ...