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A 3 page paper which examines whether or not the Soviet Union could rightly have been called the “counterintelligence state.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the Soviet Union was very much a counterintelligence state. It was a system that relied heavily on deceit and espionage. The following paper examines how and why the Soviet Union
was a counterintelligence state and discusses how effective the KGB was in the final stages of the Cold War. Counterintelligence State As mentioned, the counterintelligence in the Soviet
Union was filled with deceit and espionage. In addition it was also filled with a great deal of confusion, something that perhaps was partly responsible for the fall of the
Soviet Union. In better understanding some of this we look at an interview with a man, Aldrich Ames, who was a mole in the CIA and worked for the Soviet
Union. He was responsible for sending a great deal of information over to the Soviet Union, to the KGB, in the final years of the Cold War. In an
interview Ames (2004) states that the information he gave to the Soviet Union "certainly helped the counterespionage organs of the Soviet Union. ... It helped them to carry out their
duties, which is to identify, find and prosecute people whove broken Soviet laws." It also helped the KGB know more about the workings of the CIA. But, at the same
time "They found themselves, no doubt, with much more information than they could ever possibly use in the short span of time left to them" (Ames, 2004). In short,
there was too much information and too many possibilities in relationship to the intelligence they received, and the intelligence they possessed. In addition, when we understand that perhaps everyone involved
in the KGB had different information, different purposes, with no person really knowing everything that went on, this counterintelligence focus was damaging in the end, leading to the downfall of
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