General Terms: National Security Council (NSC); Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); National Security Agency (NSA); Office of Strategic Studies (OSS); National Security Archive; Strategic Studies Institute( SSI); US Army War College (USAWC); National Archives; Committee on Secret Correspondence; Continental Congress; Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI); Central Committee of the Communist League; 1775, 1777, and 1778 in US History; Cold War, Russian Civil War; Soviet Marxism; US Constitution; Spectrum of Conflict; Escalation; Nuclear Escalation; Democracy in America; foreign affairs; Watergate; Iran-Contra scandal; Leninism; Marxism-Leninism; Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM); Rheinishe Zeitung; 1848 in European history; The Manifesto of the Communist Party; History of class struggle, Capital; Working class, The Development of Capitalism in Russia; The Spark; Forward; Where to Begin; Terror; Terrorism; Russian revolution; Germany; Proletariat; Bourgeoisie; The Communist Party; Cheka; Red Terror; Great Terror; 1917 in world history; Bolsheviks, WWI; WWII; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Red Army; 1933 in world history; Lend-lease; US Army Military Intelligence Division (MID); National Guard; FBI; Central Intelligence Group (CIG); Cold Warfare; The Long Telegram; quid pro quo approach; patience and firmness; Containment; PPS#23; NSC 10/2 June 18, 1948; National Security Act of 1947; Soviet foreign and military policy; National Security Memorandum #68; Operation Ajax; Tudeh Party; AIOC; Bay of Pigs; PGT; IRCA; EBS; United Fruit Company, B-26; US Army; Operation PB Success; NSC 54/12 committee; Organization of American States (OAS); Communist Bloc; AVO; Allied Control Commission; Berlin Airlift Crisis; Lublin Poles, London Poles; Committee for a Free Europe (CFE); Radio Free Europe (RFE); Policy of Liberation; Iron Curtain; The American Liberation Center; Voice of America (VOA); US Information Agency (USIA); Agency Release Panel; Executive orders 12958, 10501, and 11905; Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); Plausible Deniability; United Nations 1945 to 1991; Cuban Missile Crisis; Caribbean Crisis; Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM); Operation Zapata; Department of Defense (DOD); Berlin Wall; Operation Quick Kick; Operation Mongoose; Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM); Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM); Surface to Air Missile (SAM); MIG fighter aircraft; Free Rocket Over Ground (FROG); Excom - executive committee during Cuban Missile Crisis under Kennedy; Kennedy Assassination; The Washington Post; The New York Times; The Pentagon Papers; Dien Bien Phu; Gulf of Tonkin incident; Special Unit; The Plumbers; Watergate; US Agency for International Development (USAID); Tet Offensive; War Powers Resolution; Hughes-Ryan Amendment; Capitol Hill; Operation Chaos; Congressional oversight; Détente; Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA); Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I); ABM treaty; Vladivostok Accord; SS-X-20; SS-20; B-52; B-1; Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM); Sea Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM); Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM); Pershing II missile; Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF); North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO); Warsaw Pact; State Department; Committee on the Present Danger; American Security Council; Backfire bomber (Soviet); FSLN (Sandinistas, Nicaragua); FMLN (Salvadoran Marxists); US Marines; Alliance for Progress; Point Four; La Prensa (Nicaraguan newspaper); Group of 12; US Army; Class war; Anti-Communist; Alexander Haig (former Army General and Secretary of State); Restricted Interagency Group (RIG); Revolutionary Democratic Front (ARDE); Political Prisoners; Unilaterally Controlled Latino Assets (UCLAs); FARN, FDN, UNO - anti-Sandinista guerilla groups; Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980; World Court; Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare - (CIA); Gray and Company - Contra public relations firm; World Anti-Communist League (WACL); United States Council for World Freedom; Iran-Contra; Contras; Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance; National Emergency, National Security; Genocide; Iran-Contra diversion of funds; Covert Action; Contadora Group; Mujahedeen; Afghan Arabs; KGB, Stinger missile; Blowpipe missile; Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS); International Situation - Moscow radio show; Taliban; Operational Maneuver Group (OMG); Competing Strategies for the 80s; On Strategy; On War; Tiananmen Massacres; Red Army.

Names: Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov 1870-1924); Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein 1879-1940); Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili 1879-1953); Colonel William "Wild Bill" Donovan of the OSS; William Colby (Director of CIA); Major General Strong (critic of OSS); J. Edgar Hoover (FBI); US Secretary of State James Byrnes; Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal; Dean Rusk; General Walter Bedell Smith (CIA); Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (CIA); Kermit Roosevelt (CIA); Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Shah Reza Pahlavi; Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; General Fazlollah Zahedi; General Riahi; John Foster Dulled (Sec. of State); Allen Welsh Dulles (CIA); Nikita Khrushchev (Sec. General USSR); Jorge Ubico (Guatemala); Francisco Arana; Jacobo Arbenz; Jorge Toriello; Anistasio Somoza (Nicaragua); David Atlee Phillip (CIA); Tracy Barnes (CIA); Ambassador John Peurifoy; E. Howard Hunt (Nixon Administration); Author Nathan Miller; Robert P. Joyce (OSS); Marshall Tito; Henry Luce (publisher); John F. Kennedy; Karl Marx; Alexis de Tocqueville; James Meese, Benjamin Franklin; Robert Morris; Silas Deane; British Lord Rochford; Captain Weeks; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; Czar; Alexander Kerensky; John Lewis Gaddis; George Kennan (Mr. X); General Poole; General Pershing; US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer; US Secretary of State Colby; Hitler; Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers); Lee Harvey Oswald; David Ferrie (paramilitary); Guy Banister; Attorney Gerald Posner; Dealy Plaza; No Dinh Diem; Lt. Colonel Lucian Conein; Captain Nicholas Pacalo (USN); Richard Helms (CIA); James Schlesinger; Seymour Hersh; Lock Johnson; Brezhnev; US Ambassador Lawrence Pezzulla; Eden Pastora (Nicaragua); Interior Minister Tomas Borge (Nicaragua); Daniel Ortega (Sandinista leader); Admiral Bobby Inman (CIA); John Hughes (DIA); Iran Contra personalities: Robert Owen, Aldofo Calero (Nicaraguan Resistance), Senator Dan Quale; General Jack Singlaub, Joseph Coors; Lt. Colonel Oliver North (USMC), William Casey (CIA), National Security Advisor Bud McFarland, General Richard Secord (USAF), Robert McFarlane, Admiral John Poindexter, Albert Hakim, Thomas Clines, Carly Channell, Richard Miller, Clair George, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Joseph Fernandez, Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, Elliot Abrams, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh; Costa Rican President Oscar Arias; Violetta Barrios de Chamorro (Nicaragua); Usama bin Laden; Author Peter Bergen; Gulbuddin Hikmatyar (Afghan resistance); Gorbachev; Colonel Keith Barlow; Dr. Keith Dunn Phd (SSI); Colonel William O. Staudenmaier (SSI); Dr. Samuel P. Huntington Phd; Colonel John D. Wagelstien (Special Forces); Clausewitz; Colonel Harry Summers (USAWC), Dr. Edward Platt Phd.; Other Presidents involved: Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Geography: Soviet Union (USSR); United States of America; Korea; China; Taiwan; Vietnam; Great Britain; North America; Paris; Guatemala; Afghanistan; Cuba; Nicaragua; Honduras; El Salvador; Costa Rica; Kazan University; St. Petersburg University; Belgium; Siberia; Archangel; Princeton; Angola; Romania; Bulgaria; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); German Democratic Republic (GDR); Finland; Hungary; Eastern Europe; Moscow; Mediterranean Sea; Czechoslovakia; Greece; Iran; Fort Leavenworth Kansas; Indonesia; Latin America; Central America; Laos; Thailand; Malaya; West Berlin; Hanoi; Kent State; Indochina; Guantanamo Bay; Kabul; The Pentagon; Langley, Virginia; Lebanon; Pakistan; Glasgow; Liverpool; Jamaica; France, Yorktown, Saratoga.