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During the Cold War not much was known about the activities of the Russian state security organization by western intelligence agencies. However after the collapse of the Soviet Union, documents that have been smuggled out by KGB agents (Wilson 1) have allowed agents to see just how much this agency knew and how far the Soviets managed to penetrate into western society. The question is where the KGB operations during the Cold War successful or not? …

…of the intelligence and espionage of the Cold War turned out not to be worth the money that was put into it, because it was not being used properly or when the timing was right. While these were only a few of the many events that occurred during the Cold War, it can be said that while the Soviet Union lost the economic battle of the Cold War, the may have won the espionage war.