How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 5

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How The Stories Of These Soviet Cold War Defectors Reveal The Intelligence Abyss pt. 5

As the calendar fell upon the days of late 1962, the mole hunt inside Western intelligence began to expand within the United States. Fears of disinformation, false defectors, and the assumption of a traitor within its ranks began to internally damage the Central Intelligence Agency. Official attempts to discover and track disloyal intelligence employees had yet to render any solid leads or suspects. The effort to seek turncoats within the US intelligence community gained momentum with each new accusation and it began to spread. Other nations soon would be influenced by America’s search for penetration agents based upon the claims of a single defector…

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A Brief History of North American Slavery III

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A Brief History of North American Slavery III

Centuries of Native American tribal bondage and imperial European slavery had been ongoing within North America when further nations of Europe beyond the earliest undertook large scale trade of human beings. No matter how reprehensible any practice might be, the act of profiting at the cost of other people has seemingly forever lurked within humanity’s instinctual depths. Its practice according to some reports predates the existence of written language and slavery has been like a poison coursing through the veins of humanity for millennia. Eventually there was another slave trade competitor beyond the Portuguese, Spanish, and English in the North American colonial period that sought greater power by any means necessary, imperial France…

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Who was WIROGUE-1? part II

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Who was WIROGUE-1? part II

Most human beings are but a mass of contradictions, no more so than some participating in clandestine operations where both legal skills and illicit ones are often required. Seldom are those practicing tradecraft what they appear to be and in rare cases they are far more than even their handlers expect. One noted Central Intelligence Agency foreign contract agent was an inventor, bank robber, photographer, forger, researcher, and potential assassin. Most knew him merely under the shadowy moniker WIROGUE-1 for decades…

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