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HIST2304 Cold War Spies

“There are very few reliable histories of espionage, and with good cause. The sources lie, are lost, are nonexistent, are withheld. Journalists (often) lack the patience, scholars (often) lack the clout to gain access, to stay the course, to outlast those who would with both good and malign intent seek to influence the writer’s conclusions.” --Robin Winks, 1994

This course explores the history of espionage during the Cold War era (1943-1991) and its immediate aftermath through a series of case studies. This lecture course will lead students through the history of covert operations over the past 50 years focusing on these sub-themes: the origins of the Cold War in World War II; the postwar battle for German scientists; Containment and Rollback; Operation Gladio; Venona and codebreaking; nuclear spies; defectors; proxy wars; insurgencies and counterinsurgencies; terrorism; technological espionage; cyberespionage; propaganda; the psychology of betrayal; and mind control.

• Origins of the Cold War in World War II
• U.S. Operation Paperclip versus Soviet Operation Alsos
• Foundations of the U.S. National Security Apparatus, 1947-1952
• The Control of Secret Information
• Atomic Spies, Rosenbergs
• VENONA: Signals Intelligence
• The Culture of Cold War Spies
• Defectors
• The Psychology of Betrayal
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Nosenko Affair
• Proxy Wars: The Vietnam Wars
• Proxy Wars: Arab-Israeli Conflicts; Latin America
• Mind Control, MKULTRA
• Sex & Espionage
• Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare & Counterinsurgency
• Assassination
• Technological Espionage
• Cyberespionage
• Propaganda Wars
• Counter-Intelligence in America in the Last Years of the Cold War

HIST1389 History of Espionage

Commonly referred to as the world's "second oldest profession," espionage is an intrinsic part of the relationships between communities, institutions, states. This course explores the history of espionage through a series of case studies: from ancient Rome, Greece, China; the Reformation; the Age of Discovery; the French Revolution; the American Civil War; World War I and the Russian Revolution; World War II; the Cold War; and the post-Cold War era.

• Espionage Among the Ancients
• The Age of Exploration, Part One: Espionage in the Time of the Religious Wars; Part Two: The British Gunpowder Conspiracy, 1605
• Native American Intelligence & the European Settlers in New England; Pirates as Non-State Agents
• The American Revolution
• Spies and the French Revolution; Spies in the Age of Napoleon
• American Civil War
• The Great Game: The Russian-British Confrontation in Central Asia; The Age of Colonial Empires
• The Information Revolution: Intelligence & the Rise of Modern European Nation-States
• Spies & the Russian Revolution
• The Interwar Period
• World War II
• Cold War
• The Dawn of the Cold War: Operation Rollback: From World War to Cold War
• Atomic Spies; VENONA & the McCarthy Era
• Espionage & the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Late Cold War; Post Cold-War
• Spying and Guerilla Wars of the Late-Twentieth Century; Corporate Espionage
• The Main Enemy: Soviet-American Espionage in the Late-Cold War Era

HIST2387 Soviet Secret Police

"The Chekist has two paths--promotion, or prison." -Joseph Stalin, 1951

". . . violence does not consist so much in injuring and annihilating persons as in interrupting their continuity, making them play roles in which they no longer recognize themselves, making them betray not only commitments but their own substance." -Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity

No theme has more powerfully captured the Cold War imagination than the virtual obsession with Soviet spies. Repressing their own citizens at home, the Bolsheviks craved world domination. They sent spies abroad to sabotage our progress, to infiltrate our governments, to penetrate into the hearts and souls of freedom-loving peoples everywhere. Or so the story went.

The collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 and the opening up of the archives of Soviet and East European totalitarian regimes, has provided us with an unprecedented opportunity to glimpse those clandestine institutions from the inside, to test our beliefs and challenge our most fundamental views about Soviet police and society at home and abroad. Studying Soviet history through the prism of clandestine police and espionage organizations, we will survey the institutions, role, and significance of Soviet state power, 1917-1998. Using a vast array of primary and secondary sources, some of which have been translated from KGB archives specially for this course, supplemented by literature and film, we will trace the roles of the domestic and international branches of the Soviet secret police throughout its seventy-year history. Besides a general chronological survey, we will develop specific themes: the role of ideology in Soviet clandestine organizations; the use and limits of memoirs and other sources in Espionage history; the role of political terror and denunciations; informants' networks; recruitment of agents at home and abroad; the British spy scandals of the 1930s-1950s; Soviet intelligence successes and failures in World War II; the origins of the Cold War; the Atom Spy networks; the popular culture of spymania in the McCarthy era; the Cuban missile crisis; the Brezhnev era; the KGB and the Soviet collapse; spies and spying in the post-Soviet era.

• Introduction to the History of Soviet Espionage. Themes.
• Antecedents. From the Third Department to the Tsarist Okhrana
• The Origins of the Soviet Secret Police. Red Terror and the Cheka
• Soviet Espionage in the 1920s. Soviet Industrial Espionage
• A Popular Culture of Denunciation?
• Verbovka: Soviet Recruitment Strategies
• Stalin's International Security Networks
• Soviet Interrogation
• Soviet Intelligence on the Eve of Operation Barbarossa
• Razvedka: The Role of Intelligence in the Soviet Victory
• Espionage in Modern History
• The Soviet Union vs. OPERATION ROLLBACK
• Case Study of Soviet Sister Services: The East German Stasi
• The Red Scare, Venona
• The Soviet Nuclear Program & Atomic Spies
• Red Defectors: Soviet Defectors since the Second World War
• Context, Course & Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Oswald in Russia, Nosenko Affair

• Tabula Rasa theories of the mind
• Frames and phantasms of the ‘closed world’ discourse: the birth of ideational and informational complex
• History of experts of the Other
• Homo Pavlovius: from behavioral experiments to a manchurian philosophy of science
• Engineering opinions (1): history of (mass) (public) opinion research
• Engineering opinions (2): serendipities of strategic radio and communication research
• Methods and criticism of surveys – the case of interviewing refugees
• Communist hermeneutics of the soul: questioning, interrogating, investigating
• Subservient science? Assessing public opinion in the Soviet bloc
• Spying and its fantasies
• Secrecy
• Optimizing the unknown: machine dreams and cyborg sciences in East and West

• What Investigators & Analysts Need to Know about Online Social Media.
• OSINT and Criminal Investigations
• Successful Use of Online Social Media in Criminal Investigations
• Counterintelligence & Liabilities Involving Online Social Media
• Facebook: Tools, Tricks, & Techniques Investigators Need to Know
• What Investigators Need to Know about Hiding on the Internet

• Understanding Wireline Telecom Infrastructure, Interception and Related ISS Products
• Understanding Mobile Wireless Infrastructure, Interception and Related ISS Products
• Understanding the Internet, Interception and Related ISS Products

• What is Communications Data & What is Communications Intelligence?
• How is the Data Used in Investigations & Prosecutions?
• Legal Issues Regarding Communications Data?
• Introduction to Physical Forensics for Mobile Devices.
• Interpretation vs. Analysis of Data: Making the Data "Intelligent".
• Introduction to Surveillance Capabilities, Courtroom Presentations, &, the Future.

• Facial Recognition Readiness: An Overview of What Criminal Investigators and Intelligence Analysts Need to Know
• Panel of Government Executive Currently or Planning to Deploy Facial Recognition Technology Programs
• "Best Practices" for Deploying Facial Recognition Technology into Existing Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering Operations

• Track 1: ISS for Lawful Interception and Criminal Investigations
• Track 2: ISS for Big Data Analytics and Social Network Monitoring
• Track 3: ISS for Mobile Location, Surveillance and Signal Intercept
• Track 4: Encrypted Traffic Monitoring and IT Intrusion Product Training
• Track 5: Cyberthreat Information Sharing – Business Opportunities and Cyber Security Initiative Developments
• Track 6: Facial Recognition Technology for Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Gathering
• Track 7: ISS Product Training and Demonstration

Brainwashing, Mind Control, and the Inner History of the Cold War
An Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History

March 5, 2010
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
Organized by Stefan Andriopoulos and Andreas Killen Deutsches Haus

Located at 420 West 116th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive.

Schedule of Events

10 am to 12 pm:
Timothy Melley (U of Ohio):
Terrorism, Mind Control and the Cultural Legacy of the Cold War

Andreas Killen (CUNY):
Homo Pavlovius: Conditioning, Cinema, and the Cold War Subject
Respondent and Moderator: Andreas Huyssen (Columbia)

2 pm to 4 pm:
Alison Winter (Chicago):
Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the Cold War

Stefan Andriopoulos (Columbia):
The Sleeper: Hypnotism, Mind Control, Terrorism

Joao » Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:12 am wrote:

HIST1389 History of Espionage
Commonly referred to as the world's "second oldest profession," espionage is an intrinsic part of the relationships between communities, institutions, states. This course explores the history of espionage through a series of case studies: from ancient Rome, Greece, China; the Reformation; the Age of Discovery; the French Revolution; the American Civil War; World War I and the Russian Revolution; World War II; the Cold War; and the post-Cold War era.

The Modern Scholar: The Second Oldest Profession, Part 1: A World History of Espionage
Written by: Jeffrey Burds
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins



Professor Jeffrey Burds of Northeastern University delves into the history of espionage in this eye-opening lecture series. The course opens with espionage activity in the ancient world and the Roman Empire and continues with the American Revolution, Age of Napoleon, and American Civil War. Throughout this compelling discussion it becomes evident that spying is not only a never-ending source of fascination but also a major contributor to world history and the development of nations.

Hidden Hands: A Different History of Modernism (1995)
This four-part series argues that leading figures of modernism were driven by motives which were often less than worthy and sometimes bizarre and that they were guilty of intellectual deception.

Hidden Hands: Art and the CIA
In the 1950's the CIA used covert funding to promote the work of American Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. This programme reveals the reasons why.

Director: CASH, Tony
Producer: SAUNDERS, Frances Stonor
Production Company: Fulmar Television and Film