The Express is angry at the decision not to prosecute the 87-year-old former Soviet spy, Melita Norwood, and four others.
To general astonishment, this revealed that an 87-year-old great-grandmother from London's southern suburbs, Melita Norwood, had been a Soviet spy for nearly 40 years.
If there was a cloud in his life it may be that his brother John turned out to have been a Soviet spy.
The award represents a belated honor for Mr. Powers, who was held prisoner for nearly two years before being exchanged for a top Soviet spy.
WSJ: Cold War U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers to Receive Silver Star
Michel Leger, a key member of France's delegation to COCOM responsible for technology decontrol matters, was arrested by French authorities and charged with acting as a Soviet spy.
Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded George Koval -- an American-born Soviet spy -- with the highest honour of the Russian state for successfully providing critical information on the U.S. Manhattan project during the Second World War.
Unlike other pet-tracking devices, which can look like decommissioned Soviet-era spy gear, Tagg's waterproof transmitter is thin, light and styled to match Fido's and Whisker's high-tech lifestyles.
The main driver was the falling cost of launching communications satellites: the technology that had once allowed the Soviet Union and America to spy on each other became an inexpensive way to transmit television signals.
The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.
WSJ: Cold War U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers to Receive Silver Star
The spy scare in the United States took place when the Soviet espionage effort was essentially defunct.
Clayton Laurie, a historian at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA, said the spy agency needed highly skilled military pilots to fly the planes over the Soviet Union.
WSJ: Cold War U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers to Receive Silver Star
After a brief bit flying jets, my career turned to flying spy satellites, then to a remote surveillance site, and finally defending Canada and the United States from Soviet attack at NORAD (command post in the mountain).
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