Word: khruschchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory in China, which Americans eyed as an unprecedented calamity, turned out to be an even greater blow for the Communist comrades in the Soviet Union. By 1962, the Soviets feared China as much as Germany, China, along with Germany, was the target of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that Khruschchev hoped would emerge from the Cuban confrontation...
...with sound assessments of the situation in Viet Nam (which were frequently ignored 6y policymakers). Among its setbacks: the Bay of Pigs, although this was a failure of decision making as well as intelligence, and the failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev's fall from power in 1964. In some cases, the agency was plagued by the ever-present problem of drawing the line between operations and intelligence; the line became unrecognizably blurred in places like Laos and Guatemala...