Despite the debate over the proposed reorganization, there is widespread agreement among senior officials that the government has failed to keep pace with the rapidly changing espionage threats faced by the United States in a post-cold-war, information-age era.
At the beginning of the cold war, the United States Information Agency was created to explain and promote American policies.
During the cold war, the United States Information Agency ran extensive cultural programs, including America Centers that were part of the fabric of many countries.
Mrs. Clinton's sweeping speech with its cold war undertones — likening the information curtain to the Iron Curtain — criticized several countries by name, including China, for Internet censorship.
Just like the "Sputnik" generation committed itself to the Cold War and led the information technology revolution, today's generation must commit itself to the Terawatt Challenge and lead the global energy revolution.
He briefly examines the 1991 Persian Gulf war, NATO's 1999 war over Kosovo, the Afghanistan war, the Vietnam War, the two world wars and the cold war through the prism of information technology.
The labor of scholars studying the Soviet bloc has provided new information about cold war episodes, like the Cuban missile crisis, in which Thomas's subject played a major part.
He understood the cold war as "an electric battle of information and of images".
That the C.I.A. has been so unwilling to release more information about its cold war activities is shameful.
Yet while during the cold war MI5 gleaned a mass of information from a single source – the communist party's headquarters in King Street, Covent Garden – now it is faced with the prospect of intercepting many different, mobile, and encrypted sources of communications.
