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Cold War humor turns to cow deodorant and CIA secrets
Dave Barry riffs on 1950s school drills and Cold War paranoia, recalling desks storm shelters and a secret CIA project in Virginia. He skewers nanny-state fear, decrying excess health rules while praising odd Ballin’ covert ops and the era’s bizarre national security myths.
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James Bond
Russia
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Kazaebistan
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CIA
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J. Edgar Hoover
United States
Richard M. Nixon