Vacationing spies As a child, I fantasised about travelling to America while watching movies. I believe the majority of people still dream of that. While reading and researching for a podcast, I stumbled across this 1956 photo of BND travellers to the United States. She attracted my curiosity, and the

I was born in a time when you were told from birth what society’s core values are: that leadership is here to create a better future, that the police are here to protect us from criminals, the fifth column, traitors, saboteurs, and those who steal from workers, and that the

The most dangerous year of the Cold War. When I was approximately 11 years old, I heard elders say that the world was on the edge of another battle, this time a major one. As a child, I had little understanding of what a nuclear war or nuclear missiles were,

Do you know how revolutions around the world start? I grew up in a world where communication was predicated on “be careful what you say, because you don’t know who is listening,” but those who were listening to what regular people said understood that the greatest thing they could do

The “Cold War” era, which began with the end of World War II, was marked by “strained” relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their allies. During the Cold War, open conflicts prevailed alongside international political, ideological, and economic rivalry. The United States used diplomacy