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This 3-page paper points out some mistakes and weaknesses made both by the KGB and CIA during the pre-Cold War years. There is also some discussion about errors committed during the Cold War. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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- the KGB (the Soviet Union) and the CIA (US). For years, these two organizations stared at each other across oceans; members defected from one to the other (causing great
press and scandal), and each, in their own way, provided covert and overt operations to further the cause of democracy/communism. Its assumed
that the KGB was a smoothly run operation, with few men who would blink at torture. But were there any weaknesses of this organization against the U.S. during the pre-Cold
War period? One way to answer this would be by examining the KGBs history - the predecessor of the KGB was Lenins
Cheka, which was established on or around 1917 (University of San Diego, 2004). Throughout the next several years, the Cheka created different departments to ensure the power of communism among
the people (University of San Diego, 2004). The INO became the foreign intelligence department of the Cheka, and was charged with recruiting agents to gather intelligence outside Russia and to
report back if there were plans from the West to plot against the Soviets (University of San Diego, 2004). This continued under
Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, 2004). It
was during the 1930s, however, when the "democratic world" was facing some trouble - especially in the forms of Hitler and Mussolini (Knightly, 2003). It was also believed that while
there were those in Britain who actually admired the Nazis, it was only the Soviet Union that would be powerful enough to defeat fascism (Knightly, 2003). It was the belief
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