The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her story begins in Laos during the Vietnam War where she accompa...
20 Maj 202258min
The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)
The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It was the largest international event staged in North Korea up until then. The even...
13 Maj 202258min
Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)
Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one of the UK's most secretive and controversial military research faci...
6 Maj 20221h 11min
Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)
In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an ad in the Washington Post called Air America. When he was cal...
29 Apr 20221h 26min
A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232)
During the 1970s and 1980s, Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a small corps of Western photographers with ongoing access, he...
22 Apr 20221h 2min
Escaping from Cold War Romania (231)
Zsolt Akos Pall was 17 when he decided to flee Cold War Romania for a better life in the West. It’s a heart-warming story of the generosity of strangers. Young Zsolt finds compassionate border guards...
15 Apr 20221h 14min
A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230)
Zsolt Akos Pall was born in a small town in the Hungarian speaking part of Romania. For ordinary people, life in Romania in the 1980s was very hard and it could be even worse if you were a part of th...
8 Apr 202249min
The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229)
The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States and the Soviet Union had significant nuclear arsenals in 196...
1 Apr 20221h 24min
