CIA Archives: Small Town Espionage – Soviet Spy School Training (1960)
More CIA films: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The GRU (military intelligence) recruited the ideological agents Julian Wadleigh and Alger Hiss, who became State Department diplomats in 1936. The NKVD's first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934. Throughout, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its Gen.-Sec'y Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, and industry. Other important, high-level ideological agents were the diplomats Laurence Duggan and Michael Whitney Straight in the State Department, the statistician Harry Dexter White in the Treasury Department, the economist Lauchlin Currie (an FDR advisor), and the "Silvermaster Group", headed by statistician Greg Silvermaster, in the Farm Security Administration and the Board of Economic Warfare. Moreover, when Whittaker Chambers, formerly Alger Hiss's courier, approached the Roosevelt Government—to identify the Soviet spies Duggan, White, and others—he was ignored. Hence, during the Second World War (1939--45)—at the Teheran (1943), Yalta (1945), and Potsdam (1945) conferences—Big Three Ally Joseph Stalin of the USSR, was better-informed about the war affairs of his US and UK allies, than they about his. Soviet espionage succeeded most in collecting scientific and technologic intelligence about advances in jet propulsion, radar, and encryption, which impressed Moscow, but stealing atomic secrets was the ...
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When you don't know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
What are your values?
@daddyavenue Lucky them!!
Bizzaro world.
This film states the recruited people from all walks of life but yet I don't see any blacks or Hispanics
preventive cost barriers, operational security
@CounterCultureLives That reply was so helpfull you must really be a polish spy.
A "study" of American Motels?? Motor hotels?? Motor courts??
Yet, there's NO mention of collecting the motel soap, stealing the towels, or the TV, NO mention of drunken brawls, no drug dealings gone bad, no black people lurking in the shadows, waiting to mug the guests or break into their cars outside.............
And they call this a TRAINING FILM??
@jjk9999 I can't answer that question. I'm a dyslexic Pollack intelligence officer. If I answered your question, then I'd have to kill myself!!
I never saw this video.Neither did you, You never posted, and I never responded to you post. Got that??
There must be some remnants of spy cities in russia or former soviet satelites.
Was this meant as instructional material for the CIA, FBI or Police? Was it made to be shown in American puclic schools? Was it for tv or shown before a feature presentations in movie theaters?
neat gadgets, thanks for posting this!