EP.5: Freedom with strings attached

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The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance

Katarina Urban Richterova

28 episodes

6 days ago

“The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance” podcast takes listeners on a tour of the Cold War’s most secretive battlefields. It details the various ways spies, intelligence agencies, military and security services on both sides of the Iron Curtain “played” the Cold War and it finds that the conflict was very much a global and, at times, a very “hot” Cold War. This award-winning podcast takes recently declassified documents and reveals that not every alliance was sacred, that military assistance was an ‘export commodity’, and that fake news was an old tool from the Cold War spy kit.

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EP.5: Freedom with strings attached

The Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance

32 minutes 25 seconds

5 years ago

EP.5: Freedom with strings attached

A wave of independence swept across Africa in the early 1960s - triggering not only freedom-induced euphoria, but also considerable instability. What happens when you reclaim power from a colonial power and find that there is little to no security and intelligence infrastructure in place? And how does a newly-independent state build its security apparatus almost from scratch?

In Episode 5, Dr. Thomas Maguire looks at how the country known today as Tanzania manically shopped around for new allies, money and expertise shortly after gaining independence. And how its leaders soon discovered that 'aid' from countries such as Britain, Israel, China or Moscow was by no means provided for free.

The Secret Struggle won a Lovie Award and we are officially the Best Podcast in Science and Education in Europe!

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This podcast is produced independently by: Katarina Urban Richterova
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