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Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life itself. Hysteria about the \"red menace\" mushroomed as the Soviet Union tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, Mao Zedong rose to power in China, and the atomic arms race accelerated. Spy scandals fanned the flames, and headlines warned of sleeper cells in the nation's midst--just as it does today with the \"War on Terror.\" In his new book,The Fear Within, Scott Martelle takes dramatic aim at one pivotal moment of that era. On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve \"top Reds\" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949. The proceedings captivated the nation, but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence, they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs, not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment, the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then, the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms, too, chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. Martelle's story is a compelling look at how American society, both general and political, reacts to stress and, incongruously, clamps down in times of crisis on the very beliefs it holds dear: the freedoms of speech and political belief. At different points in our history, the executive branch, Congress, and the courts have subtly or more drastically eroded a pillar of American society for the politics of the moment. It is not surprising, then, thatThe Fear Withintakes on added resonance in today's environment of suspicion and the decline of civil rights under the U.S. Patriot Act.

Soğuk Savaş mücadelesinin hız kazandığı 1950'li yıllarda pek çok ülkede casusluk faaliyetleri gerçekleştiren Sovyet Rusya'nın etkinlik sağlamaya çalıştığı ülkelerden biri de Türkiye oldu. Ruslar, İstanbul ve Ankara gibi şehirlerin yanı sıra doğu illerinde de yoğun bir casusluk faaliyetlerine girişti. Çok sayıda casus skandalı, yakalanan casusların tutuklanması ve yargılanması bu döneme damgasını vurdu. Kendini doğrudan Sovyet Rusya'nın tehdidi altında hisseden Türkiye, yakalanan Rus casuslara karşı üst sınırdan cezalar belirledi. Hatta 1950-1960 yılları arasında idam cezası verilen iki casusluk davasından ikisinin de Rusya adına casusluk yapanlar için uygulanmış olması, Türkiye'nin Rus casusluk faaliyetlerine karşı hassasiyetini göstermesi açısından önemlidir. Bu iki davadan birine konu olan Erzurum'daki casusluk olayı, Rusya'nın tarihi emelleri ile örtüşen yayılmacı politikasının doğudaki yansımasıydı. Bu çalışmada; Sovyet Rusya'nın Türkiye'nin doğusunda gerçekleştirdiği casusluk faaliyetlerinin mahiyeti, 1953 yılında Erzurum'da meydana gelen Rus casusluk olayından hareketle ele alındı.

Smith reviews Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence by James Bamford.

Spies, election meddling, disinformation, influence operations, data harvesting: at present, it seems barely a moment passes without another intelligence scandal breaking on our news feeds. Following Russia's \"sweeping and systematic\" attack on the 2016 US presidential election the media frequently labeled the operation \"unprecedented.\" The social-media technologies that Russia deployed in its cyber-attack on the US in 2016 were certainly new, but Russia's strategy was far from unusual. In fact, the Kremlin has a long history of meddling in US and other Western democratic elections and manufacturing disinformation to discredit and divide the West. Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, has reconstituted and updated the KGB's old Cold War playbook for the new digital age. Here, Walton discusses the history of Soviet disinformation and the Western efforts to counter it during the Cold War. Doing so provides policy-relevant conclusions from history about countering disinformation produced by Russia and other authoritarian regimes today.

This essay examines the nostalgic reflections of Sino-Khmer journalist turned Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence agent Vita Chieu (周德 高, 1932-2020) on his time working for the CCP and the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh. The essay engages with Chieu's memoir exegetically to underscore his activities as an intelligence agent and highlight how he reflected nostalgically about working for the CCP even decades after resigning from the party and renouncing communism.

President Donald Trump met with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington today. The leaders said they discussed Zelenskyy's push to receive US long-range weapons, but Trump voiced concern that such a move would escalate the conflict with Russia. Trump, who is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary soon, said after the White House meeting that Kyiv and Moscow must stop fighting now and accept current territorial lines. Zelenskyy, who has vowed not to cede his eastern territory, said deciding boundaries will be the hardest part of peace negotiations. President Trump said that he think Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to \"make a deal\" on Ukraine. Prince Andrew will relinquish the use of his royal titles including Duke of York after discussing the matter with King Charles. Prince Andrew has faced mounting pressure over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his links to an alleged Chinese spy. The prince repeated that he \"vigorously\" denies the accusations against him. The U.S. stock market closed higher after a volatile week on Wall Street. The Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all ending the day in the green after all three slid yesterday. And President Trump's trade war with China, trouble brewing in the banking industry and slower job growth are just a few of the concerning jitters. President Donald Trump casts doubt on his massive tariffs threat against China. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered military exercises in the country's biggest shantytowns after U.S. forces blew up another boat allegedly carrying drugs from the Caribbean country. GUESTS: Don Bacon, Jason Furman, T.W. Arrighi, Mo Elleithee