But the recent chance reading of the riveting book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, quickly followed by The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, led me to Operation Gladio, and it is a powerful eye-opener. Its estimated publication date is 1/1/52. The post-war Soviet occupation led to the formation of a communist "people's republic" in 1947 and the abdication of the king. They were considered so vital to the “Cold War” effort that they would be brought into the US and Canada. 6, 7. The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery.He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. ... American History CIA Cold War Human Rights Illegal Drugs. As the Cold War began, however, two seemingly unrelated developments on opposite sides of the world stunned the newly created Central Intelligence Agency and gave Detrick a new mission. Both Canfield and Cowles were trustees of the CIA's Farfield Foundation, discussed in the Rockefeller CIA chapter, and thus part of the CIA's "Cultural Cold War". CIA activities in Vietnam were operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in Vietnam from the 1950s to the late 1960s, before and during the Vietnam War.After the 1954 Geneva Conference, North Vietnam was controlled by communist forces under Ho Chi Minh's leadership. CIA MORI ID 140401, pp. Xinjiang—two and a half times the size of France—is now at the epicenter of a cold war not of its own making. In 1940, Romania allied with the Axis powers and participated in the 1941 German invasion of the USSR. The nature of the BLUEBIRD research was very similar that of Project MKULTRA. How the U.S. Air Force Investigated UFOs During the Cold War Pigeon Cameras and Other CIA Cold War Spy Gear Inside the Government’s Top-Secret Cold War Hideouts This post is a comprehensive timeline of the Cold War, from the origins of the Russian-American conflict following World War Two to the final dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 20th century. This article was produced by Globetrotter . The Cold War was a geopolitical chess match between the United States, the Soviet Union, and both parties’ allies in which the major power players sought to project their respective ideologies across the globe in the wake of colonialism’s collapse following World War Two. Scroll down to learn more. This is a declassified CIA document dealing with mind control from Project BLUEBIRD, the immediate precursor to Project MKULTRA. It appears indeed that with Mockingbird we were mainly dealing with an informal relationship between the top of the CIA and the top of various media corporations. In all, at least 80 institutions and 185 researchers participated, but many didn’t know they were dealing with the CIA. Three years later, overrun by the Soviets, Romania signed an armistice.