S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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What Happened During Able Archer?
The first CIA report on what happened during the war scare and what happened during Able Archer. This document is a crucial piece of the Able Archer puzzle because it reveals what the CIA thought about the crisis at the time. The report says yeah sure it looks scary but in hindsight we don't think the Soviets were actually going to do anything. So the conclusion was that the war scare is not real.
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