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The Cold War, which stretched from 1945 to 1991, was not a war fought on the front lines, but rather, back in home countries, particularly the US and the USSR. This war was a war of attrition between the CIA and the KGB, each countries intelligence agency. Although the CIA and KGB had successes throughout the Cold War, the KGB found itself being the superior agency due to their emphasis on inserting moles in foreign countries, their expertise on reconnaissance tactics, and how the agency rebuilt during a time of backstop.

During the Cold War, there was a type of agent called a mole. These spies were agents inserted in different countries to try and get information out of that country, such as names, private tactics, private documents; back to the agent’s home country. There are two cases of super-moles, or, a mole that is far up in the chain of intelligence. A great example of one is Aldrich Hazen Ames. Ames was an agent who was a “31 year old veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)” (fbi.gov). He was someone who was a very valuable asset because of his ability to speak Russian. His primary mission was figuring out KGB methods and he was quite good at it. Yet he ultimately fell to the KGB’s wishes. The case on Ames from fbi.gov states, “On April 16, 1985, while assigned to the CIA’s Soviet/ East European Division at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he secretly volunteered to KGB officers at the USSR Embassy, Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter, the KGB paid him $50,000.” This demonstrates how Ames decided to betray the US and the CIA and join the KGB to feed them information about the US. Ames, even though he was sentenced life in prison, proved to be a very great mole for the KGB. There was an even bigger mole, but this man had the honor of being “the most damaging spy in Bureau history” (fbi.gov). Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested in 2001 but his work dates back to 1985. He used methods such as encrypted communications and “dead drops” to get his work done. Hanssen compromised “numerous human sources, counter-intelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified U.S. government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value” (fbi.gov).

The KGB had a very well rounded idea of espionage and reconnaissance but there are a few well known operators. Names such as William Kampiles, Henry Barnett, and Joseph Helmich stand out among the KGB double agent ranks.

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The Cold War, which stretched from 1945 to 1991, was not a war fought on the front lines, but rather, back in home countries, particularly the US and the USSR. This war was a war of attrition between the CIA and the KGB, each countries intelligence agency. Although the CIA and KGB had successes throughout the Cold War, the KGB found itself being the superior agency due to their emphasis on inserting moles in foreign countries, their expertise on reconnaissance tactics, and how the agency rebuilt during a time of backstop.

During the Cold War, there was a type of agent called a mole. These spies were agents inserted in different countries to try and get information out of that country, such as names, private tactics, private documents; back to the agent’s home country. There are two cases of super-moles, or, a mole that is far up in the chain of intelligence. A great example of one is Aldrich Hazen Ames. Ames was an agent who was a “31 year old veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)” (fbi.gov). He was someone who was a very valuable asset because of his ability to speak Russian. His primary mission was figuring out KGB methods and he was quite good at it. Yet he ultimately fell to the KGB’s wishes. The case on Ames from fbi.gov states, “On April 16, 1985, while assigned to the CIA’s Soviet/ East European Division at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he secretly volunteered to KGB officers at the USSR Embassy, Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter, the KGB paid him $50,000.” This demonstrates how Ames decided to betray the US and the CIA and join the KGB to feed them information about the US. Ames, even though he was sentenced life in prison, proved to be a very great mole for the KGB. There was an even bigger mole, but this man had the honor of being “the most damaging spy in Bureau history” (fbi.gov). Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested in 2001 but his work dates back to 1985. He used methods such as encrypted communications and “dead drops” to get his work done. Hanssen compromised “numerous human sources, counter-intelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified U.S. government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value” (fbi.gov).

The KGB had a very well rounded idea of espionage and reconnaissance but there are a few well known operators. Names such as William Kampiles, Henry Barnett, and Joseph Helmich stand out among the KGB double agent ranks. Kampiles sold the manual to the KH11 satellite the US launched into space. This satellite was a huge buffer to the US as it gave them control over a lot of space. Since the KGB and Soviets had the manual, they could make their own satellite that’s even better along with shutting down the KH11. This would cause disastrous problems for the US. Burnett tried to become a higher up within the US Intelligence Community even after he self-confessed that he himself was a mole. This would create a slew of issues because the CIA didn’t know if they could trust Burnett. Helmich also sold a piece of confidential information, but this was about a “’Top Secret’ US Communications System” (“cia.gov”). This would enable the USSR to possibly listen in to US plans and work around them. All of these examples were because of payouts, blackmail, and double agents, which crippled the CIA. The CIA had no idea who to trust as they had no idea if the people in their department were KGB moles or CIA double agents.

Reconnaissance within the Cold War was a huge factor in getting the upper hand over the US. The KGB used quite a few tactics for this. These are; the relative trick, the false flag approach, offering financial aid, and the biggest one that’s common for intelligence, double agents. The relative trick is basically “If a foreign intelligence agency learns that a targeted individual has relatives in Eastern Europe, the individual is in a vulnerable position” (cia.gov). The agent would then call the individual posing as a relative in hopes to elicit private information. There is also the false flag approach. This is similar to the relative trick, only now, the agent is posing as a citizen from a country that the US is friendly towards. One of the last personal ones the KGB uses is offering financial aid to those who are poorer in the US. There was a man who had an engineering job. “He had recently been befriended by an East European businessman who, upon hearing of the engineer's difficulties, offered monetary assistance.” (cia.gov). What the engineer didn’t know was that this businessman was actually a KGB agent and asked for unclassified information. He knew that it would only be a matter of time before his new “friend” would ask for classified information. Unsurprisingly, the businessman eventually asked for it and the engineer was all too willing to give it because of the trust that was established between the two men.


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