Tag: History
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I was recently reviewing a file of quotes that I've collected over the years, and the following stood out as timely for the state of today — "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying…
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I just finished a highly recommended podcast interview with Andrei Cherny over at the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago about his book "The Candy Bombers." It is a great intro and overview to the history of the Berlin Blockage, and the remarkable airlift that changed history. While listening to the…
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The Yale University Press Podcast has a great interview with the Tennent H. Bagley the author of Spy Wars – Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. If you are interested in 1960’s CIA vs. KGB stories and insight then you should enjoy the podcast. The book sounds very interesting and is…
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I am a big history buff. I am particularly interested in stories about World War II and The Cold War. I came across a bunch of recently released Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) docs at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS.org): "The Secret War in Korea, June 1950 to June 1952,"…
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American Thinker has a very interesting article by Herbert E. Meyer entitled "The Big Secret of that Leaked NIE (National Intelligence Estimate)". If you are a Cold War history buff, the insight into how intelligence data was presented to President Ronald Reagan is pretty interesting.
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I found the following article on the "Entebbe Operation" pretty interesting reading from a historial and political perspective. More via Wikipedia. As a Cold War history buff, I wish a similar in-depth article was written to expand on this short blurb about CIA efforts in Istanbul in the 1980s.
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