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Mikhail Gorbachev, with Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Gorbachev's accession to power helped bring to an end the Cold War. |
April 22
The CIA and the End of the Cold War
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Mikhail Gorbachev, with Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Gorbachev's accession to power helped bring to an end the Cold War. |
| Assessing the Soviet threat represented the most important reason for the founding of the CIA, and, as we have seen throughout the term, became one of its most controversial tasks--just think of Team B. So how did the agency fare in terms of understanding the end of the Cold War? That's today's subject. The Gates is for background; all the documents are CIA National Intelligence Estimates, all recently declassified as part of Langley's own program of glasnost. |
READING:
 | Robert Gates, From the Shadows, pp. 375-390, 438-531. | |
| Reading Notes | |
| Gerald Haines, "At Cold War's End" |
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