How valuable his information was for the west

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Assignment:

1. John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (Penguin, 2006)

2. Carole K. Fink, Cold War: An International History, 2nd Edition (Westview Press, 2017)

I ordered this assuming it was cheaper, but you can also buy the 3rd edition if need be.

3. Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor (Broadway Books, 2018/2019)

Part one:

The reading assigned in both Fink and Gaddis this week document the spiral downward in relations between the US and the USSR. Provide some cogent details from either of these readings on one or two of the events that add to the basics presented in the lectures from the regimes of Presidents Carter and Reagan up to 1984. Give your discussion post a title indicating what issues(s) you are focused on. be sure to provide proper in-citation.

Part two:

These intermediary chapters in the saga of Oleg Gordievsky give us more insight on the workings of MI6, the KGB, and even a bit on the CIA (when we finally meet the traiter in, Macintyre). Integrating specific information from two of the chapters, post a comment on one of the following three options (note which option you are commenting on at the start of your post) provide proper in-citations:

1. How MI6 "handled" Oleg in London, and how valuable his information was for the West.

2. The condition of the KGB at this point in the Cold War. These chapters give a lot of information on the shortcomings of the KGB's work at this time. Elaborate.

3. Compare the motives of the traitor Aldrich Ames to those of Koba

4. What did Operation RYAN and ABLE ARCHER reveal about Cold War relations at this time?

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