The Soviet Union benefitted from allied intelligence, after the cracking of the Enigma Code the British supplied to Soviet Union with crucial intelligence of Nazi positions and plans. Hinsely, a historian who worked at Bletchley Park said that without this intelligence the Wehrmacht would have "carved up Russia " . ...
RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. ... Why would the Intelligence Community think it out of the question that the Soviets wouldn't use Cuba as a base? ... When JFK met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko before the discovery of weapons in Cuba was exposed, JFK didn't tip his hand. ... The fact that they waited until their deception was discovered underscores their misc...
The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...
