Author(s): Bogdan Alexandru TEODOR, Mihaela TEODOR
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: December 31, 2018
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 19-20/2018
DOI:
Abstract
An ideological clash between Soviet communism and American anti-
communism was central to the Cold War conflict. American policymakers, such as
George Kennan and John Forest Dulles, acknowledged that the Cold War was essentially
a war of ideas; a war largely fought out on two fronts: intelligence and propaganda.
Since the late 1940s, in Eastern and Central Europe, institutionalized
intelligence organizations resulted from direct subordination to a foreign state secret
service, the Soviet one. After the World War II the Red Army and NKVD units were
present at the organizing session of all intelligence services in Eastern and Central
Europe (Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, East German, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian). It
was copied the Soviet security apparatus model, their structure and operational
guidelines were based on verbatim translations from Russian documents. This paper
aims to provide a short overview of intelligence structures evolutions in Eastern Europe
during the Cold War, in order to highlight some important moments in the history of
“institutional (in) dependence” on the Soviet Union for most of these structures.
Keywords: Cold War, Intelligence, soviet model, Eastern and Central Europe.
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