I think the signing of nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naivety and at worst an unsupportable negligence. ibid. Scott
The president trusts Russia; the people don’t. ibid. bloke at drinks party
Stay close, Jiggs. I want to see you after this meeting. ibid. Scott
I’m suggesting, Mr President, there’s a military plot to take over the government. ibid. Jiggs
This country’s in trouble, Jiggs. Deep trouble. ibid. Scott
The enemy is an age. A nuclear age. ibid. president
Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet leader from 1985 to 1991: to the West a statesman and a star, to Russia a figure of controversy. Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World, History 1997
Gorbachev didn’t seem to have the Cold War mentality. ibid.
Gorbachev was fighting for the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. ibid.
Why are you defecting? The Game I II III IV V VI, Russian spy to Joe, opening scene, BBC 2014
We had to give up three of our most prizes catches to get you back. I mean what were you even doing there? ibid. Bobby
I have information about a major KGB operation about to take place on United Kingdom soil. It has been named Operation Glass. ibid.
It’s just a game, Bobby. ibid. Joe
We have a mole … in this room. ibid. Sarah
I have to trust someone and I’ve decided it’s you. ibid. Daddy
You lied to me, Joe. You’re a traitor. ibid.
Work can only ever be a mistress, Bobby. ibid. Daddy
Operation Glass is a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the UK. ibid. Sarah
The game is still on. ibid. Daddy
The Americans have nuclear weapons on our soil. ibid.
Arrest me? I’m MI6, you bloody idiot. ibid. bird on train
They wanted to send us on a wild goose chase. ibid. Daddy
We need to know who we’re dealing with. ibid.
We need all information linked to the operative codename Odin. ibid. Joe to Russian dude
Phoenix is one of you. You have a mole. ibid. Arkady
Aircraft bred a new kind of hero. The fate of entire nations depended on the bravery of a handful of men. Wings of War II: Bandits, Secrets & Spies, Discovery 2018
The Nighthawk – the world’s first stealth bomber. ibid.
In 1954 President. Eisenhower approved the ultra-secret project the U2. ibid.
Gary Powers’ trial began on 17th April 1960. He apologised to the Soviets and was sentenced to three years imprisonment. ibid.
Enter the Blackbird – generally regarded as America’s most successful spy plane. ibid.
131,387. A shocking theory: that the Cold War was down to the lies of a Nazi trying to stay out of jail. We ask whether a Soviet submarine tried to start World War III. And whether the United States was behind the brutal murder of Italy’s most popular prime minister. Conspiracy s1e6: The Cold War Files, Channel 5 2021
For half of the 20th century the world was on the brink of destruction as America and the Soviet Union built more and more deadly nuclear weapons. ibid.
Some of the biggest war criminals of World War II simply reinvented themselves with the help and money of their former enemy the Allies. ibid.
What Reinhard Gehlan: he single-handedly created the threat of the Cold War. ibid.
Many believe that the CIA continued to meddle in Italian elections for decades, making sure Italy was always governed by a right of centre government. But some historians claim that wasn’t the end of interference in Italian politics. They claim that after three decades of anti-communist parties in Italy, the US along with Nato went far further, brutally murdering Italy’s popular prime minister Aldo Moro. ibid.
1945-1991: the Cold War infused itself into our consciousness in incredible subtle and incredibly brutal ways. You have to ask yourself, in a war with no casualties, how do you know when you’re winning? Through cultural victories. Rich Hall’s Red Menace, BBC 2019
How in the wide wide world of sports did we not blow ourselves up? ibid.
Strangelove tapped into our darkest fears; Americans and Russians had reached a stage where they could destroy each other ten times over … The only response was to laugh. ibid.
The job of explaining atomic power was left to pulp science magazines … ‘Planes will be powered by a puff of atomic dust’. ibid.
There’s never been a time in my life when Russian wasn’t an existential threat to America. ibid.
In the morning the adults got up and went to work with their little tiny communist hammers. ibid.
How did the USSR become America’s designated nemesis? How did the Cold War begin? Well, the short answer is spies. ibid.
But the confirmed presence of spies was all that bullet-head Neo-Cons needed to ignite a domestic red scare. ibid.
‘This generation always has the sense it can be taken away in a heartbeat … The Soviet Union becomes the focus of those anxieties.’ ibid.
560 were dismissed or denied government jobs. ibid.
North Carolina: one of the bombs parachuted into a tree and the other landed in a farmer’s field. Both bombs had passed through five of the six steps to detonate them. ibid.
You know a situation is critical when folk singers start wading in. ibid.
That game of chess still goes on to this day. ibid.
Meeting Gobachev by a German is burdened by History. The Nazi invasion left Russia a devastated country with some 25 million dead. Mikhail Gorbachev witnessed the war as an adolescent. Meeting Gorbachev, Werner Herzog reporting, Sky Documentaries 2020
He was 87 years now … [born] 1931 as the son of peasants … All of his family has been laid to rest … He lived much of his time with his maternal grandparents who treated him with tenderness. ibid.
‘I entered politics in my final year of school. That’s when I joined the communist party.’ ibid. Gorbachev
‘He proposed, as we all remember, Perestroika and Glasnost. He really believed that he could reform communism.’ ibid. Lech Walesa
‘The proposals to end the Cold War first came from the Soviet Union.’ ibid. Gorbachev
‘I still believe we need to keep moving forward, and rid the world of nuclear weapons – just as Reagan and I proposed.’ ibid.
‘We were able to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons … I believe we can resume our cooperation and nuclear disarmament.’ ibid.
‘Some people were in a rush. They wanted to seize power and they had plans of their own.’ ibid.
Cuba ‘plane bomber’ was CIA agent: Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the CIA. BBC news online article 11th May 2005
Dean Reed lives in East Berlin because he likes it better over there. An entertainer who has become the Soviet version of a superstar: he sings, he acts, and he speaks with what seem to be genuine conviction the Soviet line. Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy ***** 60 Minutes, Sky Documentaries 2022
Six weeks after the 60 Minutes interview is broadcast he disappears. ibid. historian
From that point on there is no way back; he is an enemy of the government of the United States. ibid.
By the late 1960s Dean Read is a fully fledged political radical. ibid.
He is rebelling against the government [East German] he previously cooperated with. ibid.
The accidental end of the Cold War. The 90s: How They Changed the World, History 2018