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Radio 4,03 Apr 1987,15 mins

Surveillance and espionage in the Cold War

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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The case of US marine Clayton Lonetree accused of espionage in Moscow reminds Cooke of how electronic surveillance was feared at the founding of the UN in 1945.

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