Individuals - Research

Important people from the Cold War as researched through the internet

Konrad Adenauer (01/05/1876 - 04/19/1967)

A Catholic politician who served as the First Chancellor of West Germany under the Christian Democratic Party

Salvador Allende (06/26/1908 - 09/11/1973)

He was a socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 - 1973. He was eventually ousted by a coup secretly orchestrated by the CIA in 1973.

Aldrich Ames (05/26/1941 - Today)

A former American CIA agent who defected sides and provided quite a lot of information to the USSR. After leaking information for years, he was eventually caught, charged for espionage, and is now serving a life sentence without parole in Maryland.

Yuri Andropov (06/15/1914 - 02/09/1984)

A Soviet politician who served as the Chairman of the KGB under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev. From 1982 - 1984, he became the leader of the Communist Party and therefore the leader of the country.

Jacabo Arbenz (09/14/1914 - 01/27/1971)

A Guatemalan military officer and politician who became the 25th President of Guatemala from 1951 - 1954 and the 2nd democratically elected president of the country. he was known for his progressive policies such as agrarian reform, but since that hurt the United Fruit Company, the US orchestrated a coup to have him ousted.