Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources

CIA: How Covert (and Overt) Operations Were Proposed and Approved during the Cold War​.
667th ed. Washington D.C.: National Security Archive, 2019.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2019-03-04/understanding-cia-how-
covert-overt-operations-proposed-approved-during-cold-war​.

This source includes information about how the U.S. was doing its operations. It also explains
the process of approval. It gives many proposals and talks about them.

Corke, Sarah-Jane. "U.S. Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare,
and the CIA, 1945-53." CIA. Last modified February 5, 2013.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studi
es/studies/volume-54-number-1/u.s.-covert-operations-and-cold-war-strategy.html​.

This source includes information about how the U.S. was doing its operations. It also gives
information about the approval process of each operation and strategy used on the field. It also
gives examples of operations discussed.

Haynes, John E., and Harvey Klehr. "Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials That Shaped
American Politics." Cambridge University Press, June 8, 2007.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studi
es/studies/vol51no2/intelligence-in-recent-public-literature.html.

This source explains how politics in the US were affected by the Cold War. It also includes some
stuff about the CIA. In it, they talk about a book that was being made around the time of the
event.

“Truman: The Beginning of the Cold War.” PBS LearningMedia. American Experience,
September 22, 2020.
https://myarkansaspbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.now.coldwar/the-
beginning-of-the-cold-war/​.

This source provides information regarding the beginning of the Cold War. It explains how
President Truman attempted to stop the spread of Communism after WWII. It talks about the
Truman Doctrine. This will be useful to my research by giving me a timeline of events from
post-WWII to the beginning of the Cold War.
Raymond, Jack. "Espionage: it plays an important role in the cold war." ​New York Times​, April
14, 2000.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290028-8.pdf​.

This source discusses the background of the war, and what was going on before the war leading
up to the war. It discusses the planes they were building and what made the governments have
hatred toward each other. It also goes in detail about the military and gives information on both
sides of the war.

Secondary Sources

Corbett, P Scott, and Volker Janssen. “28.2 The Cold War - U.S. History.” OpenStax. OpenStax,
December 30, 2014. ​https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/28-2-the-cold-war

This source provides how the Cold War started after WWII. This source goes over the US’s
response to the Communist influences found on our home territory. It also goes over how the US
attempted to resist the spread of Communism in Europe and Asia.

Crosby, Alan. “For Your Spies Only: A Brief History Of Cold War Prisoner Swaps.”
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, January 4, 2019.
https://www.rferl.org/a/for-your-spies-only-a-brief-history-of-cold-war-prisoner-swaps/2
9691372.html.

This source explains the process of exchanging prisoners. During the Cold War, this process was
used when each side would have a prisoner. each side would agree to then swap each other’s
prisoners. This would be done to free their own of any further suffering or pain. This source will
prove useful to my research because it explains to me an aspect of the war that I didn’t
understand. Before reading this article, I didn’t know how prisoners of war were retrieved. This
source will help me prove my thesis by showing how the US retrieved the U2 Spy plane pilot.

“Fall of the Soviet Union.” Cold War Museum. Accessed September 11, 2020.
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp​.

This source includes the aftermath of the Soviet Union after the Cold War. It goes into detail
about how the USSR broke up after the war. It shows how the Cold War negatively affected
them. This source is useful to my research because it can provide a short and long-term impact
on my paper. I will use this source to show the USSR’s inevitable demise.

Herbig, Katherine L. “Changes in Espionage by Americans 1947-2007.” Fas, March 2008.

https://fas.org/sgp/library/changes.pdf​.
This source talks about the use of espionage throughout American history. It also lists all the
spies America has used throughout history. I will be using this source to explain that the
USSR’s espionage experience outmatches the US.

Kuromiya Hiroaki. “Stalin’s Terror and Espionage” Indiana University. September 14, 2009.

This source was about the USSR espionage and its effect on other countries. This source
discusses how other countries fear espionage. This source will be useful to me by
providing information on the USSR’s leader and how he enforced his countries methods
of espionage

Matacic, Catherine Matacic. "Cold War espionage paid off—until it backfired, East German spy
records reveal." ​Science Magazine​, July 31, 2017.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/cold-war-espionage-paid-until-it-backfired-ea
st-german-spy-records-reveal​.

This source is about Hans Rehder’s life.​ It starts with him struggling and then getting an offer
that was too good to turn down. It also talks about his side hustle and how he never got caught.

“On the Trail of a Fourth Soviet Spy at Los Alamos.” September 2019. Studies in Intelligence
Vol. 63, No. 3. September 2019
The USSR sent spies to the US to gain information regarding their nuclear information. This
information would be important in finding out how to approach the situation. This source is
about the US discovering the hunt for the fourth spy sent by the Soviets.
Pike, John. "Functions and Internal Organization." ​FAS​, edited by Steven Aftergood, 26 Nov.
1997, ​www.fas.org/irp/world/russia/kgb/su0515.htm​.

This source discusses different types of chiefs. The main purpose of it was to give a description
of each chief's purpose. It’s also about the KGB and their role during the Cold War. The nine
different chiefs each had differing roles and responsibilities which helped keep order and
balance.

Sulick, Michael Ph.D. “Intelligence in the Cold War” Associations of Former Intelligence
Officers. 2015

“The Start of the Cold War.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed October 2, 2020.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/nuremberg-cold-war/​.
This source provides information on the start and beginning of the Cold War. It discusses early
conflicts between the US and the Soviets. It also talks about the relations between the US and
Britain. This will be useful to my research by providing me information about the relationship
between the US and some of the important figures in the arms race.

Wise, David. "Thirty Years Later, We Still Don’t Truly Know Who Betrayed These Spies."
Smithsonian​, November 2015.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-unexplained-cold-war-fbi-cia-180956969/​.

This source is about how he couldn’t go to Moscow to officially get promoted because he was
being targeted and “knew it was a death sentence.” It also gives exact dates of when stuff
happened during that time.

Poteat, Eugene Poteat. "The Attack on America’s Intellectual Property Espionage after the Cold
War." ​South Carolina Gamma​ ’57.
https://doi.org/https://www.tbp.org/pubs/Features/W01Poteat.pdf​.

This source talks about new people graduating from engineering school and going to war. It talks
about how they needed brains and not just fight. It gives a mix of background research,
during the war research, and long term effects. It is also from the point of view of an
American.