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The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

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The Evolution of the KGB

The Russians, the Soviets, you know, they were often thought to collect the assessment is they collected vast amounts of information, but they were much less good at using it. The Americans were much slower. You know, Pearl Harbor was the sort of wake up call to them for intelligence and they had a variety of organizations between 1941 and the end of the war. It was only 1947 with the National Security Act that the CIA was created.

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