I definitely think there needs to be more of these biography episodes that covers all kinds of characters from the Cold War, from Generals and world leaders, to individual soldiers and spies, here’s some suggestions: - Nikita Khrushchev - Yuri Andropov - Douglas MacArthur - Ayatollah Khomeini - Saddam Hussein - Hafez al-Assad - Muammar al-Gaddafi - William Westmoreland - Creighton Abrams - Augusto Pinochet - Che Guevara - Oleg Gordievsky - Yuri Bezmenov - Aldrich Ames - Roy Benavidez - Carlos Hathcock - Hans Konrad Schumann
Would add Le Duan since they may have been the real power behind North Vietnam's war against South Vietnam and the United States (as opposed to Ho Chi Minh, who maybe had become a front man by 1963/1964).... then there is Le Duc Tho ...
Small suggestion: If you have the time it would be great to sort all these episodes in playlists for new people on the channel. Eg. Cambridge five, Asian wars of independence, Secret police etc.
Interestingly, the recently deceased John Le Carre's career as an intelligence officer came to an end due to the Cambridge 5 blowing up his cover along with others.
Good video. The story of these spies ultimately is a moral story for all of us to well heed. Definitely find John LeCarré's account of Kim Philby's defectioin in his memoir book The Pigeon Tunnel. I've read a lot about these spies and I have to conclude that they were allowed to defect to the Soviet Union because they were 'upper crust' and to minimize embarrassment or exposure to the other 'upper crusts' who totally missed catching them at it, and who probably blithely handed restricted information to someone who was immediately trusted because he was of the 'right class,' (wore the correct school tie, belonged to the proper club, etc...) This seems to be that chapter published online: (#24 His Brother's Keeper) publicism.info/biography/pigeon/25.html The whole book is terrific as an Audible book read by LeCarré himself. What if anything did happen to more lowly born traitors in the UK? That would make an interesting comparison. I get the feeling spying in the UK was treated more as a hobby. In the U.S. the Rosenbergs got executed, while in the UK, Kaus Fuchs who handed the Soviets everything about the bomb got 9 years even though, his exposure led to the U.S. cancelling plans to share nukes with the UK, and while in prison helped an IRA inmate to escape. After his release he went to the GDR and then helped the Chinese make their first bomb.
no one else is amazed to hear Baron Rothschild be brought up? for a family widely steeped in conspiracies and controversy, they somehow never fail to surprise me by popping up throughout modern history in the weirdest places
There was no such thing as ‘Project Ultra’. Ultra was simply the name for the most high level intelligence from all sources, not just codebreaking. British codebreaking was carried out by GC&CS at Bletchley Park. Neither Blunt nor the Soviets would have known the Intel he was passing on was from Enigma as it was always said to ‘customers’ to have come from a human source called Boniface. Very few people were read-in on what the real source was. I’ve produced The Bletchley Park Podcast for more than 8 years so know a bit about the subject :)
It just seems so odd to find out someone was working against your own government, and then just letting them go on like "nothing to see here." Especially allowing the one guy to have access to the Royal Family after knowing he had worked for the Soviets.
Not if spy games were about Romanov heirs who had not been killed as the "official narrative" which was agreed upon to provide cover. Secret codicils of Brest-Litovsk
Please do a video on Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Also please do a video on the Soviet Major General turned spy for the US Dmitri Polyakov and Adolf Tokachev. Obviously there were many KGB defectors and double agents for the US. But these two stand out. Their ideological convictions and personal experiences with the Soviet state was their reason for spying, they were hugely important. Tolkavhevs espionage work is a big reason for the technological superiority of later Cold War western fighters.
Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen did spying for the Soviets for the money, the sickest reason to betray your own country. Aldrich Ames also fucked up MI6 when he gave the KGB the identity of an MI6 agent working in the Soviet Union forcing the MI6 to bring him out of there. At least the Cambridge Five at least did it for ideological reasons. They will get into them once they get into the 80s of the Cold War. So far, they are just finishing up the 50s after 2 years, and the 60s of the Cold War is a whole clusterfuck of events with the Cuban Missile Crisis would be months worth of videos.
KGB colonel Oleg Antonovitch Gordievsky would be good to see some new information about. He wrote two books after leaving the Soviet Union for Great Britain. (:
Sir Roger Hollis head of MI5. Peter Wright was adamant that the head of the British Security Service MI5 was a KGB agent in his book Spycatcher and gives a damming verdict on the infamous 5 and his reasons for doing so.
I really liked your series, however I do believe Cairncross was more dangerous than what you led on. The Soviets were able to develop the atomic bomb due to him. So critical.
@@TheColdWarTV U know some documentaries portray them as sneaky and intelligent , smart spies. But in reality I dug deep and found out that these guys were way rash , short tempered lazy and a bit psychotic , and egoistic.
they were successful based on the volume of information they successfully smuggled out in such a short time but the best success of a spy you would think would be a steady release of information over time without being caught.
So talk about spy, could you do research on "Perseus"? Since COD Black Ops Cold War, I really interested on hearing about Perseus. They said that only one guy the CIA didn't managed to captured to this day.
Just starting, but I sure hope you tie this in with that insanely popular game all the kiddos are playing right now. Where you gotta catch the traitor...
Was Cairncross the best patriot? The best German forces got chewed up at Kursk. A week later, the Allies landed in southern Italy and took out Mussolini.
@@michaeldunne338 the Lucy ring was an offshoot of Bletchley Park, to make the information more credible for Stalin. Nobody to this day has owned up to Lucy ring. Lol 😆
@@justaroot4315---Yeah but as I see it. The only way we'll know for sure if some sort of evidence that is beyond dispute must surface in order for it to be confirmed.
An art historian' especially one to the Queen will be invited to all the houses of the Upper echelon and go to all the rooms. Better than a cat burglar or James Bond
Long after homosexuality was decriminalised being gay barred applicants from many posts in the civil service, I can remember in the early nineties being told this during a careers day about joining the diplomatic corps. In theory this was because people could be blackmailed if discovered, this makes less sense after legalisation. Being part of 'high society' in part depended on successfully remaining in the closet.
Gets the nature and role of the Apostles wrong. The Apostles was a very exclusive but not especially secret Cambridge fraternity (think Phi Delta Kappa or similar) which had been running for well over a century. Most of its members were not Marxists (though most were gay or bisexual). Only three of the five were ever members.
I definitely think there needs to be more of these biography episodes that covers all kinds of characters from the Cold War, from Generals and world leaders, to individual soldiers and spies, here’s some suggestions:
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Yuri Andropov
- Douglas MacArthur
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Saddam Hussein
- Hafez al-Assad
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
- William Westmoreland
- Creighton Abrams
- Augusto Pinochet
- Che Guevara
- Oleg Gordievsky
- Yuri Bezmenov
- Aldrich Ames
- Roy Benavidez
- Carlos Hathcock
- Hans Konrad Schumann
Would add Le Duan since they may have been the real power behind North Vietnam's war against South Vietnam and the United States (as opposed to Ho Chi Minh, who maybe had become a front man by 1963/1964).... then there is Le Duc Tho ...
Nasser would also be interesting to cover
I agree that seeing more about KGB colonel Oleg Antonovitch Gordievsky would be interesting!
He wrote two books after leaving the USSR.
(:
Small suggestion: If you have the time it would be great to sort all these episodes in playlists for new people on the channel. Eg. Cambridge five, Asian wars of independence, Secret police etc.
I agree
Yassss
Please
Who's moving the furniture? :)
Alta Vendita plan?
Ah, Saturday has officially started.
Yep, gonna watch this and wait for the new WW2 episode
@@MrXenon1994 both the channels work so well together.
@@scarletrazor1102 yes it is
@@kevinbourke1847 Almost like it was planned...
Well it's my birthday and a cold war video is a cherry on the top.
Happy Birthday!
@@TheColdWarTV Thanks
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I sincerely hope you have a very Happy Birthday.
Also Season's Greetings to your family and friends.
@@jonmcgee6987 Thanks for ur wishes . Hope u and ur family are safe in these trying times and I wish u a very good health. Season greetings
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Interestingly, the recently deceased John Le Carre's career as an intelligence officer came to an end due to the Cambridge 5 blowing up his cover along with others.
The cold war
Yes it's quite chilly right here
The thumbnail shows a young Cairncross but Blunt is represented by a pic of Samuel West, who portrayed Blunt in a BBC drama documentary.
Thanks
Good video. The story of these spies ultimately is a moral story for all of us to well heed. Definitely find John LeCarré's account of Kim Philby's defectioin in his memoir book The Pigeon Tunnel. I've read a lot about these spies and I have to conclude that they were allowed to defect to the Soviet Union because they were 'upper crust' and to minimize embarrassment or exposure to the other 'upper crusts' who totally missed catching them at it, and who probably blithely handed restricted information to someone who was immediately trusted because he was of the 'right class,' (wore the correct school tie, belonged to the proper club, etc...)
This seems to be that chapter published online: (#24 His Brother's Keeper) publicism.info/biography/pigeon/25.html The whole book is terrific as an Audible book read by LeCarré himself.
What if anything did happen to more lowly born traitors in the UK? That would make an interesting comparison. I get the feeling spying in the UK was treated more as a hobby. In the U.S. the Rosenbergs got executed, while in the UK, Kaus Fuchs who handed the Soviets everything about the bomb got 9 years even though, his exposure led to the U.S. cancelling plans to share nukes with the UK, and while in prison helped an IRA inmate to escape. After his release he went to the GDR and then helped the Chinese make their first bomb.
Great recommendation. I will definitely check this out.
Another great installment! Love the tone of this one
no one else is amazed to hear Baron Rothschild be brought up? for a family widely steeped in conspiracies and controversy, they somehow never fail to surprise me by popping up throughout modern history in the weirdest places
There was no such thing as ‘Project Ultra’. Ultra was simply the name for the most high level intelligence from all sources, not just codebreaking. British codebreaking was carried out by GC&CS at Bletchley Park.
Neither Blunt nor the Soviets would have known the Intel he was passing on was from Enigma as it was always said to ‘customers’ to have come from a human source called Boniface. Very few people were read-in on what the real source was.
I’ve produced The Bletchley Park Podcast for more than 8 years so know a bit about the subject :)
It just seems so odd to find out someone was working against your own government, and then just letting them go on like "nothing to see here." Especially allowing the one guy to have access to the Royal Family after knowing he had worked for the Soviets.
Things are never quite as they seem at the time and the records that would reveal the truth are often kept sealed.
It is very odd. However, the upper classes and elite always protect themselves and each other. They avoid any whiff of scandal like the plague.
Not if spy games were about Romanov heirs who had not been killed as the "official narrative" which was agreed upon to provide cover. Secret codicils of Brest-Litovsk
You bet.
Cool series !👍
Again a very well told story!
Vital Cold War history to be taken from an HBO docu drama. Thrifty use of one's time!
Please do a video on Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Also please do a video on the Soviet Major General turned spy for the US Dmitri Polyakov and Adolf Tokachev. Obviously there were many KGB defectors and double agents for the US. But these two stand out. Their ideological convictions and personal experiences with the Soviet state was their reason for spying, they were hugely important. Tolkavhevs espionage work is a big reason for the technological superiority of later Cold War western fighters.
Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen did spying for the Soviets for the money, the sickest reason to betray your own country. Aldrich Ames also fucked up MI6 when he gave the KGB the identity of an MI6 agent working in the Soviet Union forcing the MI6 to bring him out of there. At least the Cambridge Five at least did it for ideological reasons.
They will get into them once they get into the 80s of the Cold War. So far, they are just finishing up the 50s after 2 years, and the 60s of the Cold War is a whole clusterfuck of events with the Cuban Missile Crisis would be months worth of videos.
KGB colonel Oleg Antonovitch Gordievsky would be good to see some new information about. He wrote two books after leaving the Soviet Union for Great Britain.
(:
Sir Roger Hollis head of MI5.
Peter Wright was adamant that the head of the British Security Service MI5 was a KGB agent in his book Spycatcher and gives a damming verdict on the infamous 5 and his reasons for doing so.
Whats with the background noise since moving to a new set?
Is there official stories of western spies operating in USSR or other country behind the Iron Curtain?? If yes, it would be good an episode about it!!
I really liked your series, however I do believe Cairncross was more dangerous than what you led on. The Soviets were able to develop the atomic bomb due to him. So critical.
Excellent conclusion to your series!
Love that television in the background!
I do love your videos. Well done and keep it up. Many thanks!
Can we get an episode on communist foods with sergi sputnikov?
Water, they eat water.
Complete with a 12 hour wait in the bread line
Here's idea. We call them 'Cambridge N'. Coz we can never know exactly how many were they.
Amazing video, funny and I loved it.
The Curriculum of Cambridge hasn't changed much.
Just waiting for Perseus comments
"We've got a job to do..."
He’s secret your not supposed to find him
Not good at their jobs...
@@TheColdWarTV U know some documentaries portray them as sneaky and intelligent , smart spies. But in reality I dug deep and found out that these guys were way rash , short tempered lazy and a bit psychotic , and egoistic.
they were successful based on the volume of information they successfully smuggled out in such a short time but the best success of a spy you would think would be a steady release of information over time without being caught.
@@TheColdWarTV Yeah. You're right.
@@TheColdWarTV Really?
Amazing video
So talk about spy, could you do research on "Perseus"? Since COD Black Ops Cold War, I really interested on hearing about Perseus. They said that only one guy the CIA didn't managed to captured to this day.
Dude was real?
Okay, in the video of the Enigma machine being demonstrated, who's the bored kid and what's his role?
Its from this video: th-cam.com/video/ASfAPOiq_eQ/w-d-xo.html where Simon Singh goes into the audience and the machine is beside the kid
Just starting, but I sure hope you tie this in with that insanely popular game all the kiddos are playing right now. Where you gotta catch the traitor...
Was Cairncross the best patriot?
The best German forces got chewed up at Kursk.
A week later, the Allies landed in southern Italy and took out Mussolini.
The Soviets were getting information from other sources prior to Kursk. I believe one source was the shadowy "Lucy Ring" based in Switzerland...
@@michaeldunne338 the Lucy ring was an offshoot of Bletchley Park, to make the information more credible for Stalin.
Nobody to this day has owned up to Lucy ring. Lol 😆
@@beachboy0505 That is a claim that has proven a source of controversy. Others contest that claim.
Guy “Hot Mess” Burgess 😂
What does fermilab channel and the cold war channel have in common.
Unusual furniture sounds
Curious, any chance you'll be doing a video on Perseus?
Who keeps dragging furniture aroud?
6:08 So Baldrick was also a Soviet spy?
Who could that be?
Such a great series. Much love and respect from an old Cold Warrior. #blessings
Half thought it was Perseus at first seeing the title.
Albert Pierrepoint needed five more.
What is going on with sound? Sounds like some heavy thing moved during recording
The Cold War was fought with Spies and Shadow warriors it was a Secrets war but it was as deadly as any war
Bell button's charges of espionage and treason against the subscribe button had been officially forgiven. *clap
Interesting to speculate that their might have been a 6th member of this group. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
I think you are correct. There had to be a 6th.
@@justaroot4315---Yeah but as I see it. The only way we'll know for sure if some sort of evidence that is beyond dispute must surface in order for it to be confirmed.
@@brokenbridge6316 Like a dead Romanov held unawares amongst clandestine operations?
@@justaroot4315---Who knows
Will u post a video today ?
An art historian' especially one to the Queen will be invited to all the houses of the Upper echelon and go to all the rooms.
Better than a cat burglar or James Bond
It seems Cambridge was actually a KGBridge to double agents
And not one word about the head of 6, or 5 !!! That was highly suspected of being an agent ??!!
Actually their name was the" Apostles" and if you make the logical conclusion that would mean there were 12.
Long after homosexuality was decriminalised being gay barred applicants from many posts in the civil service, I can remember in the early nineties being told this during a careers day about joining the diplomatic corps. In theory this was because people could be blackmailed if discovered, this makes less sense after legalisation. Being part of 'high society' in part depended on successfully remaining in the closet.
Sir Roger Hollis?
Make a video on India Pakistan war.
Gets the nature and role of the Apostles wrong. The Apostles was a very exclusive but not especially secret Cambridge fraternity (think Phi Delta Kappa or similar) which had been running for well over a century. Most of its members were not Marxists (though most were gay or bisexual). Only three of the five were ever members.
Triple agents knowingly or unknowingly?
Everyone saying First, nobody cares about third.
The great spys are spys who haven't been caught. Who are still spying!😉😀
Do you have a cat? I can hear the unnecessary noise.
Algorithm boost
Michael Straight. He looks anything but.
It’s my birthday :P
happy birthday!
@@TheColdWarTV much appreciated :)
@@TheColdWarTV sorry Petrov affair can you cover that
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