Question by Sam N: How did the USSR use espionage in the Cold War?
Did they spy only on the US or did their espionage involve Great Britain and other countries as well? How good was the information they received?
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Answer by Dmitry
After the termination of the Second World War the West has concentrated on technical investigation, in particular, on use of planes-spies and companions while the USSR, being engaged in technical espionage, simultaneously continued to increase secret-intelligence work.
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Philip L says
USSR espionage actually began long before the so-called "Cold war" as the Soviets used communist sympethizers to gather intelligence for them prior to World War 2. In the UK they spies where Kim Philby and Donald Maclean among others. In the USA it was Congressman Samuel Dickstein (first chairman of the House committee on Un-American activities) and New Deal democrats like Alger Hiss.
The Soviets wanted American and UK military and economic trade secrets and enfluence US and UK foreign policy and determine the extent of anti-Soviet opposition.
Given that many of their agents were highly placed in the US and UK governments the Soviets were very successful.
rukia_ichigot says
they used espionage by spying on other countries. they send spies or moles so that they could get information from the countries they are spying. they also spied on other countries as well like germany, great britain. there are many countries involved because spying is really a covert operation. the information they get, some are good some useless maybe.