In June 2010, 11 such agents were arrested.Īs in The Americans, these spies were living in plain sight: They assumed American identities and did things like enroll in colleges, get jobs, and have kids, all with the goal of infiltrating policy making circles, according to The New York Times the federal complaint about the spies' activities "read like an old-fashioned cold war thriller": by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The Illegals Program consisted of a ring of sleeper agents who were placed in the U.S. It's not the first time est was on TV: A 1979 Mork & Mindy episode, “ Mork Goes Erk,” parodies est with a pre- Late Night David Letterman as Ellsworth, an Erhard-like character. Sandra, the wife of CIA agent Stan Beeman, is an est-devotee and eventually leaves her husband for an “est man.” Stan tries to become an est man himself, although without much success. The seminars ran until 1984 and were a combination of Zen, Scientology, and Erhard’s contributions that was designed as a “human potential movement.” Standing for Erhard Seminars Training, est was founded in 1971 by “critical thinker” Werner Erhard. Like the Cold War, est was the epitome of the early 1980s. In The Americans, Philip bugs the ARPANET to get information about America’s stealth technology. Initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA (later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, birthplace of creepy robots), the ARPANET was one of the technical foundations of the Internet. The Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. During the Reagan and Carter eras, U.S.–Soviet relations deteriorated even further with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan mutual Olympic boycotts (in 19) the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, derisively known as Star Wars and the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007. and Soviet Union began sometime around the end of World War II (historians debate this point). COLD WARĬold war originated as a general term for “a state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war.” The first to use the phrase in print was George Orwell in 1945. The latest season of The Americans is wrapping up tonight, so it's time to make like deep-cover 1980s Soviet agents Philip and Elizabeth Jenkins, put on a wig, and take surveillance of these 10 spy and Cold War terms.
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