How the CIA Helped Fuel the Cold War Arms Race #W2W #shorts00:01:36

InIn the early Cold War, U.S. officials panicked over a supposed bomber gap and later a missile gap. The claim? That the Soviet Union had far more bombers and missiles than the U.S. Reality? It was mostly illusion.

At one Moscow airshow, the Soviets flew the same few bombers in loops to make it look like an endless fleetand Western observers believed it. Instead of debunking the bluff, the CIA and Pentagon let it spread. Fear meant funding, and the Cold War arms race kicked into overdrive.

In our linked Short, we explore another covert CIA operationhow the Agency secretly helped shape Italys 1948 election to keep the country out of Moscows orbit.

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