US special operations forces could be leveraged in ways similar to the way they were in the Cold War as the US military focuses on China and Russia.

After the war, the National Security Act of 1947 REF dissolved the OSS and redistributed its components across departments and agencies with mixed results during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

In the end, the story of Lookout Mountain isn’t just one about the United States and its Cold War operations, but about Hollywood’s complicity and active participation in that battle.

Russia has a long history of spying on the U.S. from the relative safety of Mexico City, dating back to the 1980s. Decades before that, Stalin had his chief rival assassinated there.

The Cold War of the 1980s was mostly quite cold; covert operations promised action. At the agency, Vickers rose fast. Before the end of the decade, the young operative had become an architect of ...