![]() The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for their support. ![]() See the schedule, speakers, topics, and dates as well as webcasts and podcasts. It meets weekly during the academic year. The Washington History Seminar is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Espionage played an important role in the Cold War and highlighted the ongoing tensions between the two superpowers. This paper was prepared for the Thirteenth Military History Symposium, The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective, United States Air Force. He is the author of The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Beytrayal (2015), The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2009) which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (2002). He was previously foreign editor, bureau chief in Jerusalem and Moscow, and White House correspondent. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post. Hoffman will describe this singularly-important operation, based on declassified CIA cables and his new book, The Billion Dollar Spy, and argue that despite the many achievements of technology in espionage, human sources are still vital.ĭavid E. The Cold War was a period of open hostility and rivalry between two world superpowers following the conclusion of World War II: the democratic United States and the communist.
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