She believed in free love – at the time it was all I could afford. ibid. Leamas to Fiedler
London couldn’t have run him [Mundt] without my knowing about it. ibid.
London sent you, didn’t they? ibid. Mundt to Leamas
You all know why we are here. This is not a trial but a tribunal convened especially by the presidium. ibid. chair of tribunal
For these charges we say there is no objective evidence and that Comrade Fiedler is intoxicated with dreams of power. ibid. Mundt’s advocate
I’ll tell you what you were never never to know. Mundt is London’s man – he is their agent. They bought him while he was in England. We’re witnessing the lousy end to a filthy lousy operation to save Mundt’s skin, to save him from a clever little Jew in Mundn’t own department who had begun to suspect the truth. ibid. Leamas to Nancy
There’s only one rule – expediency. ibid.
Who the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy squalid bastards like me. Little men. Drunkards. Queers. Henpecked husbands. Civil servants. Playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their little lives. ibid.
October 1962: the United States Strategic Air Command moved the military to Defense Condition II, one step away from nuclear war. Defcon 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Discovery 2002
The fate of the world was at stake. There could be little doubt that if war came about it would be nuclear. ibid.
Khrushchev could see more than Jupiter missiles in Turkey; he could see the Soviet Union’s weak strategic position, and he didn’t like what he saw. ibid.
Fidel Castro’s Cuba: a communist island in a sea of American power. It was his one small foothold in the western hemisphere. But Cuba was an ally that could be lost at any moment. ibid.
At Soviet ports eighty-five cargo ships were prepared for departure; together they would transport sixty ballistic missiles, jet aircraft and more than forty thousand men to an unknown destination. Even the ship captains had no idea where they were heading. ibid.
The Soviet soldiers wore civilian clothing and were not allowed to speak Russian. ibid.
The fact that the Soviets had installed sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons indicated that they were protecting something much larger. ibid.
The [Kennedy] group became known as the Executive Committee of the National Security Council or EXCON. ibid.
In Washington the president decided to send Bobby Kennedy to meet with the Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and make an offer: the Soviets would dismantle and immediately remove their missiles from Cuba and in return the US would end the quarantine and promise not to invade the island. ibid.
Khrushchev announced that the missile sites would be dismantled and returned to the Soviet Union. ibid.
Of the Cold War spy stories two days stand out: the shooting down of America’s top-secret U2 spy plane and the day the Soviet Union and the USA traded spies on the Glienicke bridge in Berlin. Days That Shook the World s2e9: Cold War Spies, BBC 2004
President Eisenhower approved a $35,000,000 programme to produce twenty high-altitude surveillance aircraft. After eight months of trials the U2 was born. The test pilots nicknamed it the Angel. ibid.
For the next ten hours Gary Powers will be completely alone in miles and miles of deep blue sky. ibid.
The U2 is hit: as the pellets tear into the tail and rear fuselage, Powers loses control and begins to lose altitude. ibid.
As a result of the U2 incident the Paris summit ends in disaster. ibid.
Just two years later Gary Powers would be thrust into the Cold War spotlight once again. Berlin February 1962: Germany’s largest city is divided ... An ambitious and unprecedented spy swap. ibid.
Found guilty of espionage Rudolf Abel was sentenced to thirty years and fined $3,000 for spying. ibid.
On his return to the US, Powers will attend the CIA Board of Inquiry into the circumstances of his crash. ibid.
The Soviets are putting medium range Ballistic missiles into Cuba. Thirteen Days 2000 starring Kevin Costner & Bruce Greenwood & Steven Culp & Stephanie Romanov & Dylan Baker & Lucinda Jenney & Michael Fairman & Bill Smitrovich & Frank Wood & Ed Lauter & Kevin Conway & Tim Kelleher et al, director Roger Donaldson, Bundy to president et al
There is something immoral about abandoning your own judgement. ibid. JFK
We now count forty missiles. ibid. general
They want a war, Jack, and they’re arranging things to get one. ibid. Costner
‘I am prepared to wait for my answer till hell freezes over’. ibid. US delegate to UN
The Intelligence Service suspect trade union dissent is orchestrated by the Soviet Union. Legacy 2013 starring Charlie Cox & Romola Garai & Simon Russell Beale & Geraldine James & Christian McKay & Olivia Grant & Richard McCabe & Andrew Scott & Tessa Peake-Jones & Robert Ashby & Charlotte Randle & Barrie Martin et al, director Pete Travis, caption
We want you to turn him. ibid. big white chief
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. Joseph Rotblat
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. John le Carre
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. John le Carre
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. David Remnick
At the height of the Cold War whenever the USA and the Soviet Union met in the sporting area it was against a backdrop of highly tense political negotiations and the very real possibility of nuclear war ... When the USA met the Soviet Union in the Olympics at Lake Placid nobody was expecting an upset. Hall of Fame: The Upsets
The American team went on to beat Finland and win the Olympic gold. ibid.
On April 12th 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go into space. It was the height of the Cold War. Storyville: Knocking on Heaven’s Door – Space Race, BBC 2012
Kim – an Englishman who spied for the Soviet Union. Storyville: The Spy Who Went Into the Cold, BBC 2013
Harold Macmillan was asked a question about it in Parliament ... He had no option but to clear Philby: ‘There was no reason to conclude that he had, at any time, betrayed the interests of Britain, or to identify him with the so-called third man, if there was one.’ ibid.
From 1947 to 1991 the world stood on the edge of oblivion. We were gripped by the Cold War ... A shocked theory: that the Cold War was down to the lies of a Nazi trying to stay out of jail. Conspiracy: Cold War Fears, Channel 5 2015
Reinhard Gahlen ... singlehandedly created the threat of the Cold War. ibid.
In 1947 one Western country in particular popped on the anti-communist radar: Italy ... The CIA continued to meddle in Italian elections for decades ... The US along with NATO went far further: brutally murdering Italy’s most popular prime minister - Aldo Moro … ibid.
Gladio was so secret that their existence was only revealed as a result of a judicial enquiry in 1990. ibid.
Nobody ever wins a cold war. The Quatermass Xperiment 1955 starring Brian Donlevy & Jack Warner & Margia Dean & Thora Hird & Gordon Jackson & David King-Wood & Harold Lang & Lionel Jeffries & Sam Kydd & Richard Wordsworth et al, director Val Guest, Warner to Donlevy
Governments will do anything to make their armies stronger. Even experiments on their own soldiers. From the top secret CIA program M K Ultra, to the paranormal investigations ... Did the US government use psychic powers to spot enemy targets? Codes and Conspiracies: Experimental Soldiers s2e6
Remote viewing: California 1979 ... Jim Channon ... The First Earth Battalion ... A super-soldier who can employ non-lethal tactics, harness the skills of a hunter. ibid.
Task Force Delta embraced Channon’s philosophies. ibid.
Remote Viewing [of submarines]: ‘There was no correlation whatsoever’. ibid. Michio Kaku
Korean War: Hunter coined a new expression: brain-washing. ibid.