CIA Secrets Documentary Ep.2 - Spies CIA & KGB The Cold War

The Cold War was a period of diplomatic and strategic acrimony between the Soviet Union and the United States and its Western European allies. During the war, the CIA was concerned about Soviet espionage activities, but these worries became more pronounced after the war ended. The KGB's influence on world affairs arguably reached its height during the early part of the Cold War.2 The CIA and KGB became synonymous with Cold War espionage, and both relied on a wide variety of military and civilian agencies in this pursuit.1 In the late Cold War, the KGB was successful with intelligence coups in the cases of FBI counterspy Robert Hanssen and CIA Soviet Division officer Aldrich Ames. It was Cold War policy for the KGB of the Soviet Union and the secret services of the satellite states to extensively monitor public and private opinion, internal subversion, and possible revolutionary plots in the Soviet Bloc.0