HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I John F Kennedy s Death II Vietnam War III Lyndon Johnson IV The 1960 s Outline of Current Lecture I Guest Speaker Dr Olsen Current Lecture CIA Agent Dr Olsen The Cold War o It was actually two wars Above the line Was rhetoric the arms race circuit wars propaganda diplomacy Below the line Was espionage sabotage and invisible Was fierce brutal ruthless and was fight to the death b w to large and intelligent soviet services Olsen is a veteran of this war It was an epic confrontation b t US and Soviet Union Capitalism vs Communism Democracy vs Dictatorship God vs Godlessness The US must have the very best intelligence o To get intelligence you need spies He and his wife were undercover o Needed to be undercover for effectiveness and safety Was born and raised in Iowa Attended the University of Iowa and had a Mathematics Economics major The US navy was waiting for him when he graduated While in Law School he got invited by the CIA to go to Washington for questions and test as a part of the process Had 2 years of training before overseas assignment o Takes place in a place in Virginia called The Farm These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Used weapons that are used in military and some that are designed specifically for them o Was also taught to kill with their hands to blow things up jump out of airplanes o All 25 of them were men You must have the best foreign language skills to be able to speak fluently in the country that you are assigned He was first assigned to Paris as an International Banker Him and his wife had many different identities They had forged passports license plates ect to go with the different identities They hid spy gear in furniture that looked like regular furniture It was illegal to spy in France When they told their children that they were spies the children were older college aged Some CIA kids felt betrayed that their parents lied to them In Vienna o Some terrorists sent a death threat to Olsen and his wife o They stayed in Vienna and were able to finish the assignment In Moscow during the Cold War o Olsen was undercover as a secretary of the US embassy o Was also working inside the CIA station inside the embassy o A Russian note came to them saying I am a major in the KGB and I want to volunteer my services to the CIA it also mentioned a meeting time They were 80 sure that it was a trap but they decided to go anyway it was a potential intelligence gain Olsen was chosen to go b c he was good at speaking Russian The man wanted the CIA to exfiltrate him and his family The man gave him a shoe box of photographs of KGB cryptographic material When he got to him apartment he got the beating of his life The Russian man turned out to be a very valuable intelligence gain
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