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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > The Americans S3: Strategic Wig Initiative (Wed @ 10ET, FX)
 
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Mar 31, 2004

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Party Plane Jones posted:

The U.S. had successes but they were very much in the realm of signals intelligence (bugging the soviet navy communications) over human intelligence. The 80s saw a lot of programs get screwed by people selling secrets to the Soviets. Most of the human intelligence successes actually came from US allies (the Farewell dossier, Oleg Gordievsky) instead of the CIA.

The U.S. also had a bunch of captured Soviet planes and tanks from various nations that sold or gave them up in exchange for US equivalents. The CONSTANT PEG program was a result of that. It also had the slight side effect of getting an Air Force general killed as he bypassed all the training for the MIG23 he was flying and rode it until it broke up around him,

Thanks for sharing this stuff. Any other history / Cold War buffs who want to chime in I think it is fascinating to hear what was really going on about this time in real life between The Free World and the Evil Empire.

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