CIA vs KGB - Which Was Better During the Cold War?

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Who was better at spying during the Cold War? Was it the CIA or was it the KGB? Which agency was better at its job? In today's animated video, we're taking a look at how did the two agencies compare!

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[dalek]

CIA: Make people wonder why you’ve disappeared

KGB: makes people forget you ever existed

[johnwayde]

the best agency was and still is the penguins of madagascar
edit: thanks for the likes, and thanks to Bouya for pointing out my misspelling of madagascar (now retconned)

[currentking]

Ofcourse kgb. One of the agents became a president.

[AI-ujff]

The best Intelligence agencies are the ones we don't hear/know about.

[segalman]

CIA is that one kid in class who study the hardest

KGB is that one genius kid in class who appears never study at all

[Tookan]

Fun fact, the amount of KGB agents that were actually in the U.S was very surprising (your professor or even the quiet kid at the back of the class could be a KGB agent).

[MashZ]

KGB: we know about manhattan project
FBI: wait what's that?

[sarpbakrsoy]

0:28 "Great spy agencies"
Fidel Castro: *Laughs in surviving 638 assasination attemps by the CIA*

[hiimbilly]

Evryone is gangsta until the guy in the back whisper the word

"code name:perseus"

[heartlessangel]

CIA: We'll throw $$$ at it.
KGB: Call Natasha. We'll honeypot him.

[wronghouse]

CIA know my location
KGB know our location

[ScrapComputer]

Just imagine the KGB had the money the CIA would have been swimming in. It would have been no contest.

[exaid]

Me: KGB? Oh, they're gone. Nothing to be worried about.
Man behind my back with a gun: Come along, comrade.

[shinomakichuppy]

CIA vs KGB

Bell: Either of these side will win if they had me.

[commandandconquer]

The KGB is happy with this video your family shall live.

[goodservant]

The stealing of the Atomic bomb is the ultimate slap :D

[novemberalpha]

CIA Spy: I have been working as a spy for 25 years and married for 20 years, but even my wife doesn't know what I do.
KGB Spy: My wife and I both have been working as spies for 25 years but I don't know what she does and she doesn't know what I do.
MI6 Spy: I have been working as a spy for 25 years but even I don't know what I do.

[shadowfortress]

"Rebellious colonists"
I see that british still remember when their tea thrown away into ocean

[binaryzero]

The KGB was far more effective when you get to many specific operational facts, the cost to information gathered was far greater for the KGB when compared to what the CIA would have to invest to gather equal data. The CCCP was also much harder to influence and infiltrate when paired to the US, they also had way more linguistic experts and because of its location they also had many ethnic experts in many areas where the US could only buy assets. They also had the same fear aspect that Mossad shares today. In fact the KGB was so influential in their nation they had to break it up into three departments after the cccp collapsed

[alexcc]

My grandad was in the RAF and was stationed on the Berlin Wall.... Well under it in 1960, in a listening post intercepting soviet messages and sending it all back to the HQ. After the collapse he found out the kgb built one right next to his and sent him fake messages and managed to figure out what the HQ was up to and eventually got an agent into it.