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The CIA: Cold War Operations

The CIA: Cold War Operations

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Forty-five years of covert operations the agency fought and rarely admitted to. Each episode takes a single declassified operation: Iran 1953 and Mosaddegh, Guatemala 1954, Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, Phoenix Program, Chile 1973, the Afghan mujahideen pipeline, Iran-Contra, the hunt for Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the Berlin tunnel, the U-2 programme. The dark companion piece to the Cold War. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai 世界 社会科学
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  • Operation Cyclone: The Weapons America Sent — and Left Behind

    Operation Cyclone: The Weapons America Sent — and Left Behind
    2026/07/08
    (00:00:00) Operation Cyclone: The Weapons America Sent — and Left Behind
    (00:00:41) Afghanistan Before the Pipeline
    (00:02:03) Charlie Wilson
    (00:03:38) The Stinger Question
    (00:05:03) The Pipeline Itself
    (00:06:50) The Ideological Frame
    (00:08:05) The Soviet Withdrawal and What Followed
    (00:09:33) What the Operation Tells Us
    (00:11:06) The Legacy

    In December 1979, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan — and inside the CIA, a covert operation began almost before the dust had settled. Operation Cyclone would become the largest clandestine programme in the agency's history: a multi-billion-dollar pipeline of weapons, money, and political will, designed to bleed the Soviet Union the way it had bled America in Vietnam.

    This episode follows the operation from its cautious beginnings under Carter to its dramatic escalation under Reagan. At the centre of that escalation stands Charlie Wilson — a Democratic congressman from Texas with a seat on the House Appropriations Committee and a fierce personal conviction that America was fighting too small. Wilson doubled the CIA's Afghan budget. Then doubled it again. Working alongside CIA officer Gust Avrakotos, he pushed the programme past institutional resistance and toward the weapon that changed the war: the Stinger missile.

    The Stinger debate is one of the Cold War's great hinge moments. CIA leadership feared escalation, technology transfer, and blowback. Wilson and Avrakotos pushed anyway. When the Reagan administration approved the transfer in 1986, Soviet helicopter losses climbed almost immediately. The Mi-24 Hind — the mujahideen's most feared weapon — started coming down.

    But the pipeline itself raised questions that outlasted the war. Pakistan's ISI controlled much of the weapons distribution, shaping which Afghan factions were armed and how heavily. The resistance was never a unified movement. The choices made in the 1980s about who received what would echo long after the Soviets withdrew — and long after anyone in Langley was paying attention.

    This is the story of a covert war that worked exactly as intended — and what that meant for everything that came after.

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    14 分
  • The Church Committee: When Congress Forced the CIA to Answer

    The Church Committee: When Congress Forced the CIA to Answer
    2026/07/07
    (00:00:00) The Church Committee: When Congress Forced the CIA to Answer
    (00:00:59) How the Door Opened
    (00:02:32) Frank Church and the Senate Select Committee
    (00:03:17) The Operations on the Table
    (00:05:24) The Phoenix Program and the Question of Method
    (00:06:25) The Oversight Gap
    (00:07:56) Iran-Contra and the Limits of Oversight
    (00:09:16) What Congress Actually Built
    (00:10:25) The Pattern That Ran Through All of It
    (00:11:58) The Reckoning's Limits

    By 1975, the American public knew the Cold War through its public face: summits, missiles, and headlines. What they didn't know was the other story — the one written in coup plans, assassination plots, and illegal surveillance programmes. The Church Committee changed that.

    Senator Frank Church's Senate Select Committee was the most sweeping public examination of U.S. intelligence ever conducted. It didn't just review individual operations — it interrogated the system that produced them. The authorisation structures. The institutional habits. The deliberate design of plausible deniability that let presidents order assassinations without leaving a paper trail.

    This episode follows the committee's full arc: how Seymour Hersh's 1974 exposé of the CIA's domestic surveillance programme — later called the Family Jewels — cracked the dam open; how the Ford administration's Rockefeller Commission failed to contain the fallout; and why Congress decided it had to act.

    On the table were operations this series has covered in depth: Iran, Guatemala, Chile, the Bay of Pigs. But the committee's investigators weren't just cataloguing scandals. They were tracing the pattern — how eight million dollars in covert funding helped destabilise Allende's Chile, how at least eight plots against Fidel Castro were run through organised crime intermediaries, and how the Phoenix Program in Vietnam had operated through assassination and torture on an industrial scale.

    The Church Committee produced binding legislative change: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, permanent intelligence oversight committees, and executive orders banning assassinations. It remains the clearest moment in American history when a democracy looked hard at its own shadow government and chose — however imperfectly — to impose limits.

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    14 分
  • Washington's Embrace: Recognising Pinochet Within 48 Hours

    Washington's Embrace: Recognising Pinochet Within 48 Hours
    2026/07/06
    Salvador Allende won Chile's presidency through the ballot box in September 1970. Within seventy-two hours of the September 11, 1973 coup that destroyed his government, the United States had formally recognised the military junta that replaced him. This episode examines what happened in the three years between those two moments — and why Washington moved so fast to embrace what came after.

    The CIA funnelled roughly eight million dollars into Chile between 1970 and 1973: funding opposition newspapers, backing right-wing political parties, subsidising truckers' strikes, and running propaganda operations designed to make Allende's government look ungovernable. Simultaneously, the Nixon administration applied pressure at the World Bank and blocked international credit lines to ensure Allende's economic programme failed on the world stage.

    Beneath the political warfare ran a darker current. Nixon had ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration outright. A plot to kidnap General René Schneider — the army commander committed to constitutional rule — ended in his assassination, with CIA-supplied weapons in the hands of those responsible. Allende was inaugurated anyway, but the signal had been sent.

    Henry Kissinger's framework was stark: a Marxist government anywhere in the western hemisphere was a Soviet foothold, regardless of how it arrived. The model of a democratically elected socialist government that could nationalise industry and remain stable could not be allowed to succeed. The example itself was the threat.

    After the coup, General Augusto Pinochet's regime killed more than three thousand people and detained tens of thousands. The credit lines that had been weaponised against Allende began flowing freely to Pinochet within months. This is the story of how a Cold War doctrine translated into a democratic government's destruction — and an authoritarian regime's creation.

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    13 分
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