The Cold War and the Space Race

I've maintained for a couple of years now that, for the most part, the reason we had a Cold War was that the Soviets could run rings around us in espionage and counter-intelligence. We never seemed to know what they were doing and they had infiltrated British intelligence at the highest levels. Top American intelligence people believed that there was a very highly placed Soviet agent in the US throughout the 60s.

In any event, as President Bush tells us, it depends on what intelligence you read. JFK gets a bad rap for claiming there was a missile gap when he had been briefed by the CIA that there wasn't one. Hmm. Well, there were earlier CIA documents that claimed a huuuuuge gap.

Anyway. These are some really interesting source documents if you're interested in the Cold War or missile technology or the Space Race.