THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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CIA
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FBI
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Corona program was headed by the Central Intelligence Agency along with the Air Force. Corona satellites were used to photograph Soviet and other installations. The first successful Corona mission began on August 10, 1963. The Corona satellite system was expedited largely in part to the U-2 incident in 1960.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the KGB? The KGB was the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -The emergence of the CIA. The United States was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers.
Detailed explanation-4: -As early as the 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its GRU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB intelligence agencies, used Russian and foreign-born nationals (resident spies), as well as Communists of American origin, to perform espionage activities in the United States, forming various spy rings.