![]() ![]() It wasn’t an expose on officials in the Soviet Union or a worrying account about Cold War attitudes. This exhibition draws upon the BRIXMIS Association, Menaul and 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse archive collections and was curated by Luke Lyons, MA student in Modern History. spies monitoring the Soviet press found an alarming piece in a Russian magazine. These accounts cover Cold War incidents that were not made known to the public until recently, including: the daily threats and skirmishes undertaken by the British military liaison (known as BRIXMIS) the 1966 Firebar Incident and the role of intelligence workers in de-escalating the tensions caused during NATO’s Able Archer exercise in 1983. The archives contain a wide-ranging collection of declassified government documents related to espionage, including military reports, incident reports, daily accounts and photographs from those intelligence workers operating in the field. The following pages have taken advantage of the expanse of primary source material housed within the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives a part of King’s College London Archives. ![]() But a new Cold War-like chill has now made the. For years, Germany seemed to tolerate even flagrant Russian operations on its soil. Cold War espionage was a nightmare of errors, seen darkly in a wilderness of mirrors, raining desperate deceptions in a climate of treason, with assassins. Intelligence gathering came to be seen as vital to the survival of states trying to shift the balance of power in their favour.īRIXMIS Officers in ActionThis exhibition concentrates on this crucial area of espionage work during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on those unfamiliar episodes and expanses not covered in the conventional historical narrative. Discreetly, Berlin Confronts Russian Spies Hiding in Plain Sight. With these fluctuating military developments, each side saw it as imperative to make sure they were not left behind. The speed at which the Soviet nuclear program achieved a working bomb, with so few resources, depended on the amount of information acquired through espionage. The collection of documents and evidence from the. Divided between the Soviets and the leading NATO powers, Berlin brought the representatives of the two blocs into immediate contact like nowhere else.The establishment of the German Democratic. There are three main features to the spying operations that took place during the Cold War. Forces proliferated with each side striving to outmatch constant technological advances made by their ideological rivals. As the frontier of the Cold War after 1945, where East met West, Berlin soon acquired a reputation as the capital city of international espionage. The rivalry was maintained through the periodic build-up and development of military resources by both blocs. The Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) spent the years between 19 opposed to the Western Bloc (the United States and its allies through the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO). LGM-118A ‘Peacekeeper’ missileThe Cold War was an era of ideological rivalry between the countries who had united during World War Two to defeat Germany and its partners. ![]()
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