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Title From Typewriters to TikTok: How Espionage Evolved from Ink to Algorithms Media name/outlet RTE Brainstorm Media type Online Article - RTE Brainstorm Country/Territory Ireland Date 30/04/25 Description In the early 1950s, the Cold War was at its height, and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were escalating. Amid the nuclear arms race and ideological battles, both sides were locked in a relentless struggle for intelligence, trying to outwit and outmanoeuvre each other at every turn. Interestingly however, one of the most audacious acts of espionage came not from high-tech equipment or clandestine spies, but from something far more mundane: a typewriter. URL https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0430/1509216-cold-war-russia-us-project-gunman-espionage-tiktok/ Persons Stephen Treacy