Weirdest-Craziest Stories of the KGB & CIA 2018 by Fabio https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le Add a summary of a crazy-weird story starred by either the KGB and/or CIA agencies, your name, a picture/video and the bibligraphy for extra points! en-us 2018-04-16 13:00:01 UTC 2025-10-28 12:08:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png Animal Farm wasn't published, at first because of a KGB spy (Fabio Romanell) fabioshui https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/252116795 The famouse Brittish author, Orson Wells, in 1945, wanted to publish the book Animal Farm (which very obviously is a parody of Totalitarian Stalinist Russia), but it was rejected by a goverment official of the Ministry of Culture of United Kingdom P. Smollet as it could bring about problems with their ally, Russia, in their joint endevour of taking down Hittler. It was eventually published and this Brittish official was found out to be an infiltrated KGB agent! 
Source: J. O'Brien (2015, August 17). 12 things you probably didn't know about Animal Farm. Retrieved April 26, 2016, from http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/17/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-animal-farm-for-17th-5317058/]]> 2018-04-16 13:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/252116795 Diana Marina García https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254362358 The CIA Produced pornography
President Sukarno ruled Indonesia from 1959 until 1966. He was deposed by one of his generals and Sukarno had been deemed pro-Communist by the CIA, which meant there would inevitably be an attempt to at least make him look bad. The CIA produced a porno film starring a Sukarno look-alike, titled “Happy Days”, for distribution in Indonesia. The film went as far as production, and stills were made, but for some reason it was never deployed. This idea resurfaced shortly before the Second Gulf War, when the CIA suggested that a fake gay porno featuring Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden be produced in order to discredit these men in the eyes of their followers. This went nowhere.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRK_J_cjdw
10 Dirty Secret CIA Operations (2013) https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/


]]> 2018-04-23 12:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254362358 Sukarno president https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254363427 2018-04-23 13:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254363427 CIA used sleight of hand first developed by magicians (Andrea Galicia A01177643) aerdna4567 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254364669 Agents were discovering how to pass informations without being seen. They got the idea from a magician, to pass information they appeared from a gap and in those seconds they will slip information without being seen.
Source:

David W. Brown (25, June 10). 11 Amazing Facts About CIA Operations in the Soviet Union. Retrieved from:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/64872/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-cia-operations-soviet-union
]]> 2018-04-23 13:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254364669 The Mujahideen anacriscg01 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254371777 Ana Cristina Cantu
Afghanistan had a civil war in 1978  with 2 communists parties. Anti-communists rebels began to come out and rebel. The CIA started to fund, give weapons and train the rebels. This camps to  train the rebels against the soviets were known as Mujahideen. Nowadays they don't exist anymore but there are still  veterans that are now part of a lot of terrorists groups including the Al-Qaeda.

10 Dirty Secret CIA Operations. (2014, June 20). Retrieved from https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/
  ]]> 2018-04-23 13:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254371777 anacriscg01 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254380590 2018-04-23 13:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254380590 KGB hacked US military computers (Paula Galli A01177540) https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254617474 During 1980, the KGB wanted to stole information from the US, that is why they hire a man named Markus Hess (who is know one if the most famous hackers in history) to hack US military computers in order for them to have access to their secrets. Hess was able to accomplish his job and hacked 400 US military computers which allowed the KGB to gain access to all their documents and information. 

Source: 
10 Dastardly Secret Operations Of The KGB. (2015, August 28). Retrieved from:
https://listverse.com/2015/08/29/10-dastardly-secret-operations-of-the-kgb/   

The man in the picture is Markus Hess:  ]]> 2018-04-23 21:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/254617474 CIA wives were used as spies. Diego Cantú a01284145 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255440908 "n the earliest days of the Moscow station, almost all of the CIA’s case officers were male. To pull off operations convincingly, it sometimes meant an officer including his wife in the plan, if not recruiting his wife to do the job outright. If the officer needed someone to meet with an agent without arousing suspicion, he might send his wife to make contact. If the officer had to disappear and needed someone to cover his or her tracks, that, too, might fall to a spouse. "
(Brown,2015)

david Brown. (2015). 11 Amazing Facts About CIA Operations in the Soviet Union. april 25, 2018, de Mental-floss Sitio web: http://mentalfloss.com/article/64872/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-cia-operations-soviet-union



]]> 2018-04-25 20:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255440908 Diego Cantú a01284145 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255441912 2018-04-25 21:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255441912 Tania Cantú https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255478201 In 1963, the assasination of John F. Kennedy was inconclusive and still theoretically unsolved. There is a famous theory that the supposed murderer of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was also a known supporter of the Soviet Union, was part of the KGB as an agent. During this time, there was tension between the countries because of the Cold War. Adding to suspicion, Oswald was seen at Mexico City's Russian Embassy a few weeks before the assassination of JFK. All of this unproved, it is a famous theory that has hard evidence. 

B. (2017, September 29). The Suspicious Assassination of JFK. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZweMXXY6Y  ]]> 2018-04-26 01:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255478201 Fernando De Alejandro A01177291 CIA officer and Soviet Spy Aldrich Ames caused the death of Several US agents https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255854732 Aldrich Ames started to spy for the Soviets in 1985, 22 years after he started with the CIA. His work was to recruit Russians officials for the American Cause. In 1985 in Virginia he met with some Russian officials which offered him $50,000 for important information from the CIA. For nine years he provided the KGB with information.The CIA and the FBI started to figured that something wasn’t ok. They make an investigation and found that Ames have possessions of large sums of money that can’t be legitimized. The agencies searched his home to find some documents that can connect him with the Russians officials. He was arrested in 1994 because of espionage and sentenced for life. Aldrich Ames was responsible of many deaths of FBI & CIA agents.

14 Crazy Stories of Russian Spies in the US That Will Freak You Out. (n.d.). Retrieved from
 https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-of-russian-spies-in-the-us/chase-christy

Aldrich Ames:]]> 2018-04-26 23:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/255854732 Marifer Chapa Pérez mariferchapa02 https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256353366 Operation PBSUCCESS

It was a code name backed by the CIA, which was created to go against Jacobo Arbenez president of Guatemala, it was a democratic government.
This event is in a list of suspicious CIA interventions in the government of only foreign countries. Jacobo Arbenez in 1950 starts to give a huge amount of government lands back to the citizens, because "he set about instituting reforms aimed at making his country self-sufficient" . This put US government very frustrated, but in a very wrong way.

- 10 Dirty Secret CIA Operations. (2014, June 20). Retrieved from https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/  
    
]]> 2018-04-29 23:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256353366 Phoenix Program//Jimena Marian A01177672 jimenapuente https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256714957 Phoenix was a program headed by the CIA, in conjunction with US Special Forces and Australian and South Vietnamese commandos, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was simple: assassination. And although this was a military unit, their targets weren’t military, but civilian.
From 1965 to 1972, Phoenix was involved in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of thousands upon thousands of citizens. People deemed critical to the infrastructure of the Viet Cong, or thought to have knowledge of VC activities, were rounded up and taken to regional interrogation centers, were they were subjected to: “rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock . . . rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the ‘water treatment’; the ‘airplane’ in which the prisoner’s arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners…”

10 Dirty Secret CIA Operations. (2014, June 20). Retrieved from https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/


]]> 2018-04-30 22:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256714957 Operation RYAN https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256736347 Raúl de León González
In 1980s, in the Cold War , the then-leader of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev claimed to have knowledge that the US was actively preparing for a war against the Soviet Union and might launch a surprise nuclear attack at any time. So, in preparation for this supposed impending doom, the KGB sought to launch Operation RYAN, one of largest surveillance operations in history.

The KGB wanted to photograph US military bases , monitoring them closely for signs that the US would launch nuclear weapons at the USSR.

The operation also sought to monitor all uses of radar within the United States for any dramatic increases that would indicate preparation for an attack. Furthermore, Operation RYAN was meant to monitor the activities of all American citizens and military personnel when they exited the US. The operation even tried to intercept telephone calls made throughout the United States and Europe.

- 10 Dastardly Secret Operations Of The KGB. (2015, August 28). Retrieved from; https://listverse.com/2015/08/29/10-dastardly-secret-operations-of-the-kgb/


]]> 2018-05-01 01:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256736347 Operation Mockingbird andrealealtellez https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256737558 (Andrea Leal A01177513)
Journalsts were hired by the CIA to gather as much information as possible of what the CIA wanted. The purpose of all this was that the CIA wanted to make people believe that communism was very scary then to achieve this the CIA bribed the journalist to do everything possible to do that and this happened for years
https://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/]]> 2018-05-01 01:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256737558 Trying to kill Tito, from the KGB (Regina Macías Ortíz/A01177498) https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256965999  When Josip Bros Tito (who was the head of Yugoslovakia), want Yugoslavia to step back on the USSR and U.S.A. war, problems started. Because Stalin didn´t like this he decided to send his best agent to kill Tito and stop this step back, but when he didn´t reach his objective another agent was sent to do the same, and like the first time he failed, once and another an agent was sent and then failed. after some of them Tito sent a card to Stalin saying that if he didn´t stop, he will send one to kill him and a second agent will no be required. After this Stalin didn´t give up. He even want to poisonhim and have some big plans but neither of thos were carried out. So at the end Stalin didn´t reach this objective and Toti die at the age of 87 for natural causes.

Wold, N. (29 de August de 2015). 10 Dastardly Secret Operations Of The KGB. Obtenido de LISTVERSE: https://listverse.com/2015/08/29/10-dastardly-secret-operations-of-the-kgb/

]]> 2018-05-01 17:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/256965999 A treasury employee that provided information directly to Stalin (Juan Ávila/ A01177616) https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257009944 Harold Glasser was born in Chicago. He attended Harvard and later worked for the government in the  treasury department. While he was working there, and with the help of his boss that was also a spy, he managed to get sensitive information that was very useful to Stalin, as it contained details of the secret political and economic data.
Later on, investigations began and until the 90's it was known that he was a spy, with the nickname Ruble, and provided information to Stalin.

Bibliography:
Christy, C.( Unknown). 

14 Crazy Stories of Russian Spies in the US That Will Freak You Out. Ranker. Retrieved the 1/4/2018 from https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-of-russian-spies-in-the-us/chase-christy  




]]> 2018-05-01 19:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257009944 Acoustic Kitty https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257104240 Ana Paula Cruz A01177474
The CIA spent more than 20 million dollars in espionage cats by the 1960s. The cats had surgically implanted microphones in their ears and were set lose near the Russian Embassy to gather intel. This operation didn't last long because the cats ended up dying very soon especially by being run over by cars.

Andrews, E. (2016, February 19). Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs. Retrieved from http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weirdest-cia-programs.php

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggmK4zUVlKk

]]> 2018-05-02 03:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257104240 Nikita Khrushchev and Disneyland https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257882985 Mariana Rivero
In the year 1959, Nikita, de Soviet leader, visited the United States because he had a meeting with the president Eisenhower. Therefore, in his visit, he went to Hollywood and visited the 20th Century Fox studio, were he met some famous actors. Moreover, the problems arose, when the president of 20th Century Fox, named Spyros Scours, that was an anti communist by the way, said that he wasn't interested in showing someone from his circle on his industry. And it is known that he did it because they were mad that the soviets, covered and hidden completely the capitalism. So as it should be predicted, Nikita got angry about the comment. Moreover, the Americans prohibit him to enter and visit Disneyland by telling Nikita that over there they had a good security. And Nikita just laughed and make a sort of comment about it.
10 Strange And Obscure Incidents From The Cold War. (2015, June 19). Retrieved from https://listverse.com/2015/06/19/10-strange-and-obscure-incidents-from-the-cold-war/]]> 2018-05-04 01:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fabioshui/tygt4nhbk5le/wish/257882985