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Growing up in the Stasi town (278)
Season 16 Episode 278
Dirk lived in the town of Bernau about 15 miles from East Berlin. Just outside Bernau was Wandlitz the residential estate of the East German leadersh…
3 years ago
The most damaging female spy in US history (277)
Season 16 Episode 277
Ana Montes was the most damaging female spy in US history.
For nearly 17 years, Montes was one of the government's top Cuba experts, with easy access …
3 years, 1 month ago
The 1989 US Invasion of Panama & the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre (276)
Season 16 Episode 276
Every weekday on the History Daily podcast, Lindsay Graham takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in histor…
3 years, 1 month ago
Missile away, missile away! - A Cold War US Peacekeeper nuclear missile launch officer (275)
Season 16 Episode 275
Tim Lyon was an officer assigned to the 400th Strategic Missile Squadron located in Cheyenne Wyoming. The Squadron was maintained 50 Peacekeeper ICBM…
3 years, 1 month ago
Red Elvis on tour, aka Dean Reed the US Cold War music star (274)
Season 16 Episode 274
Warning: This episode does cover the subject of suicide. If you need help please use these links:
UK https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/cont…3 years, 1 month ago
The Bridge of Spies spy (273)
Season 16 Episode 273
On 10 February 1962, Gary Powers, the American pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace, was released on “The Bridge in Spies” in Be…
3 years, 1 month ago
Two weddings and a teaching post in Cold War Berlin (272)
Season 16 Episode 272
Marie-Claude Hawkes continues her story with her return to Berlin in 1985 as a French teaching assistant at the Havel School RAF Gatow, teaching Fren…
3 years, 2 months ago
The girl in a Cold War East German coal mine (271)
Season 16 Episode 271
In 1981 Marie-Claude Hawkes was an 18-year-old living in Amiens, France when she embarked on a trip to East Germany looking for adventure…
Among her …
3 years, 2 months ago
In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 2 (270)
Season 15 Episode 270
Part 2, of a two part recording.
Part 1 is here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode268
In October of 2022, I was asked by the West Pennines Milita…
3 years, 2 months ago
Able Archer - The military exercise that almost started World War 3 - a look in the archives (269)
Season 15 Episode 269
In 1986 Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said “Never perhaps, in the post-war decades has the situation in the world been explosive and hence more dif…
3 years, 2 months ago