Benjamin B. Fischer, the CIA’s former chief historian, writes in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence that during the Cold War, the agency recruited hundreds of agents from Cuba and the Soviet bloc who turned out to be working for Communist intel agencies. The scale of the intelligence failure was massive, considering the fact that a lot of the disinformation supplied by the double agents helped inform policy makers and assisted in developing policies. Washington Free Beacon: The large-scale deception included nearly 100 fake CIA recruits in East Germany, Cuba, as well as the Soviet Union (and later Russia) who supplied false intelligence that was passed on to senior U.S. policymakers for decades. “During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency bucked the law of averages by recruiting double agents on an industrial scale; it was hoodwinked not a few but many times,” writes Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA’s former...(Read Full Post)