CONJUNCTIONS EXERCISE #2 
 
1.  The Cold War was not a conventional war, but it was a quiet war. 
 
2.  Legions of spies moved in and out of foreign countries to collect intelligence. 
 
3. On the forefront of these spy games were men and women highly-trained and highly-skilled to infiltrate 
even the most secure locations. 
 
4. The Soviets moved spies into the halls of the White House, and Americans moved spies into the 
depths of the Kremlin. 
 
5. Despite these intrusions, every precaution was taken to neutralize threats to national security including 
securing phone lines, securing computer networks, destroying documents, and finding ways to 
communicate with the homeland without such conveyances. 
 
6. In fact, many of the U.S. embassies in the United States had special rooms designed for holding secret 
conversations on the phone and in person. 
 
7.  But, even the opposition developed ways to listen to such conversations. 
 
8. Both the United States and the Soviets developed very sensitive listening devices to permeate walls 
into rooms where such conversations were held. 
 
9. Messages from informant to spy were often intercepted, prompting spies to adopt more aggressive 
tactics. 
 
10. Often, spies would drop cylinders of secret materials in special “pick up/drop off” areas for their 
patriotic colleagues.   
 
11. However, because of the threat of interception of such messages, some cylinders were rigged with 
explosives or poisons to eliminate security risks, including interceptions by enemy spies. 
 
12. As an enemy spy moved to intercept his package, he or she would be annihilated upon pickup of the 
carrier (dispatched by a small explosive or later killed by tactile contact with a lethal poison). 
 
13. As a result, spies became increasingly bolder, incepting the actual personnel who would carry the 
cylinders. 
 
14. CIA and KGB operatives would have to save themselves from being killed or abducted, so they 
adopted more militant characteristics such as learning self-defense, carrying small arms, and adopting 
protected routes for delivery. 
 
15. CIA operatives began to carry small concealed weapons such as small pen-sized daggers, small 
pistols, and even other more sinister and secret countermeasures. 
 
16. Chasing after each other became a classic game of “cat and mouse” between spies as the war 
escalated, so technologies adapted to accommodate such conditions.  Things such as encryption and 
concealment became more and more important.