Espionage

with Joseph McCarthy. This particular incident was the beginning of McCarthy’s fall in power. Throughout Joseph McCarthy’s unsuccessful leadership in America as US Senator of Wisconsin, his accusations of the secretary of the army holding communist espionage, and his attack on the army earned him distrust from U.S. citizens and the censure of the U.S. Senate. These actions carried forth by Joseph McCarthy caused the Red Scare to reach its peak, and the government, HUAC, to continue with further…

bond with the United States. He spoke of a iron curtain that had fallen between Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. The phrase “iron curtain” would soon become very popular when discussing the cold war. During the cold war espionage was running rampant. Espionage is the process of gathering information about a rival or an enemy, usually through secret operations. Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had spies that they used to gain information of how the other was fairing.…

People who are involved in espionage usually must remain unknown during their lifetimes. Achieving anonymity even in history is especially true of African American spies and particularly of women spies. When people think of a civil war spy, they imagine a male. Nevertheless, women played a huge role and were perfect because they were easily trusted and viewed as a non-threat. African Americans were also great spies because they had direct access to conversation as they were serving and cooking…

political skirmish, further noting that the United States’ relationship with China is, “…far too important to sacrifice on the altar of partisan political posturing” However, he notes that Chinese authorities’ “systematic espionage”, encompassing the realm of cyber espionage attacks, needs to be addressed and diplomatically resolved, rather than…

The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary. In many people’s eyes, there were four causes to World War I. They were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the alliance system. Through the alliances, the world became involved in the war. The two opposing forces were the Central Powers and the Triple Alliance. The Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. The Triple Alliance consisted of Britain, France, Russia,…

Before the evacuation an estimated 56% of workers in some counties were Japanese. The japanese internment was unjustified for a multitude of reasons. When the army evacuated the japanese there was absolutely no proof to the japanese committing espionage. The order 9066 was based upon “secret military” intelligence none of which was released to the public. Which begs the question how valid or even real is this supposed evidence. Citing a direct testimony in the National Defense migration in Wa D…

the government and the Hollywood film industry. The climate of fear and oppression caused from the Red Scare finally began to lessen by the late 1950s. Thoughts like this were not totally based on fact. The USSR had long carried out espionage activities inside America with the help of U.S. citizens, mainly during World War II. As disbelief about Soviet influence grew as the Cold War heated up, U.S. leaders decided to take action. On March 21, 1947, President Harry S. Truman issued…

The question of whether or not Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti received a fair trial is still in dispute today. Many people during the time of the case believed that the men were “executed on murder based on doubtful ballistic evidence” because of the hostility towards immigrants due to the Red Scare and World War 1 (“Perfect Suspects, Unfair Trials”). The evidence provided during the trial showed that the men were found guilty due to the fact that they were in anarchist groups and were…

John Le Carré’s fictional spy-espionage novel “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” written in 1963 is shaped by contextual values that reflect a true delineation of Cold War espionage through the exploration of intelligence work between the political ideologies of Eastern and Western Germany. Le Carré uses his own personal experiences of working in British Intelligence and which explains the deep sense of realism this novel portrays. Le Carré’s biographer Alex Sisman suggests the “plots,…

in science and history, or who likes “a quick read” can easily understand the creation of the atomic bomb by reading this book. Along with the science and mathematics of the atomic bomb, Sheinkin adds suspense and intrigue from the viewpoints of espionage agents from the Soviet Union, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Bomb is a book that contains abundant…