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Cold War

US President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot, in Dallas, November 22, 1963. Riding with President Kennedy are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left. (Jim Altgens/AP)
March 19, 2025, 10:39 am
Trump administration makes public thousands of files related to JFK assassination
About 2,200 files of over 63,000 pages posted to US National Archives but no narrative-changing revelations expected; some documents deal with CIA ploys against Cuba’s Castro
By Agencies
A royalist tank moves into the courtyard of Tehran Radio a few minutes after pro-Shah troops occupied the area during the coup which ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh and his government on Aug. 19, 1953. (AP Photo, File)
August 25, 2023, 10:55 am
70 years later, a CIA-backed coup still roils Iran-US relations
The 1953 ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh to cement the rule of the Shah still haunts the country and its Islamist rulers
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
Photos of Ted and Joan Hall in 'A Compassionate Spy.' (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
August 12, 2023, 2:43 am
The spy who loved her: How wife shielded US nuclear scientist after intel leak to USSR
New documentary ‘A Compassionate Spy’ reveals the crisis of conscience that led Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall to spy for the Soviets, and how his spouse Joan kept his secret
By Rich Tenorio
Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann (center) assisted Stuart Schulberg (right) and others of the OSS Field Film Photographic Branch - War Crimes Unit examine footage after his capture by Allied forces. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
January 29, 2023, 5:31 am
How 2 brothers dug up Nazi footage for the Nuremberg Trials and the US covered it up
‘Filmmakers for the Prosecution,’ playing in NYC through Feb. 2, shows how in the War Crimes Unit Budd and Stuart Schulberg helped convict top Nazis; Americans never saw their work
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Egyptian prisoners of war are shown during the Arab-Israeli Six Day War in June 1967. Exact date and location unknown. (AP Photo)
May 14, 2022, 11:43 pm
Secret UK propaganda campaign stoked Israel hatred to appear authentic — documents
Declassified files show Britain attempted to sow division between Moscow and its Arab allies using fake reports blaming both sides for Egypt’s defeat in the 1967 Six Day War
By ToI Staff
'The Hidden Nazi,' by Dean Reuter. (courtesy)
January 15, 2022, 3:11 am
How Nazi Germany’s ‘most diabolical’ SS officer evaded postwar justice
In ‘The Hidden Nazi,’ author Dean Reuter asks whether SS general Hans Kammler, who oversaw the construction of death camps, exchanged V-2 rocket secrets for freedom
By Matt Lebovic
A still from 'Adventures of a Mathematician' by filmmaker Thor Klein. (Courtesy Dragonfly Films)
December 24, 2021, 5:51 am
Helping the US get the bomb, this Jewish mathematician faced an ethical problem
New film ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ follows Stan Ulam, who lost nearly his entire family in the Holocaust, as he helps his new homeland’s nuclear efforts during and after WWII
By Rich Tenorio
A still from the new Netflix animated documentary 'Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis.' (Courtesy of Netflix)
December 11, 2021, 9:02 am
How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence
New short animated Netflix doc ‘Camp Confidential’ by Israeli directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan unearths a controversial top-secret program that helped America win the Cold War
By Rich Tenorio
'Sleeper Agent,' by Ann Hagadorn; George Koval as a professor at the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in the 1950s. (Courtesy)
October 2, 2021, 6:44 am
How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb
New book ‘Sleeper Agent’ follows George Koval, a little-known US-born Russian spy posthumously honored by Putin – and possibly one of the 20th century’s most influential operatives
By Rich Tenorio
In this file photo taken in Nov. 15, 2006, George Blake, a former British spy and double agent in service of the Soviet Union, seen in Moscow, Russia (AP Photo, File)
December 26, 2020, 2:12 pm
British-Soviet Cold War double agent George Blake dies in Moscow aged 98
Spy passed names of hundreds of MI6 agents to KGB; escaped London jail with rope ladder; said he hated Nazis ‘because of my background. I was a British subject; I was half-Jewish’
By Max Delany
Left: Jewish-Soviet engineer Anatoliy Davidovich Daron was responsible for the rocket engine that put Sputnik I into space. (Courtesy); Top right: A replica of the Sputnik I satellite in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. (Public domain); Bottom right: This undated picture shows a Russian Vostok rocket on its launcher, the same type which propelled Yuri Gagarin to be the first human in space on April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/File)
December 18, 2020, 8:39 pm
USSR engineer made space flight possible despite facing virulent anti-Semitism
Anatoliy Daron, who recently died in US at 94, fled two Nazi massacres, lost his job in the Doctors’ Plot, then, while living in a cramped shared flat, invented Sputnik’s engine
By Julie Masis
Klaus Meine, frontman of the German metal band Scorpions, performs during the Peace Rock Festival attended by 250,000 on August 13, 1989, at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union. (AP)
May 18, 2020, 6:14 am
Scorpions frontman denies ‘Wind of Change’ was written by the CIA
New podcast series delves into conspiracy theory saying intelligence agency wrote iconic ballad to hasten end of Cold War; songwriter Klaus Meine calls idea ‘very amusing’
By ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Koerber Foundation in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2019. (Hannibal Hanschke/POOL/AFP)
November 8, 2019, 1:10 pm
Pompeo warns against Chinese, Russian clout on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary
‘We are in a competition of values with unfree nations,’ US secretary of state says in Germany, cites Western ‘responsibility to deter threats’ from such governments
By AFP
In this file photo taken on August 22, 2019 Jonas Rothe, founder and CEO of Timeride, a company offering virtual reality tours through a still-divided Berlin, poses next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
October 26, 2019, 3:21 pm
30 years later, Berlin Wall comes back to life with virtual reality
German startup offering visitors and history buffs an ‘authentic’ and immersive Cold War-era tour of the divided capital
By Deborah Cole
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Commander of the Western Military District Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov (R) and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu after the parade of the Russian fleet as part of the Navy Day celebration, in Saint Petersburg, on July 28, 2019. (Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP)
August 5, 2019, 7:41 pm
Putin urges new arms talks with US after nuclear pact collapses
Russian president warns of ‘dangerous consequences’ and ‘chaos’ that could ensue if powers don’t engage in ‘serious dialogue’
By Maria Antonova
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