Telecommunications equipment of the Cold War

Soviet communications satellite

NATO communications system

SOUD, standing for System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data was a computerized intelligence exchange system where information acquired by the intelligence and security agencies from participating Warsaw Pact countries was stored. thumb|The application form for the SOUD system The intelligence exchange organization was founded in 1977, and its initial goal was to safeguard the USSR from 'foreign threats' during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Stasi engineers conceived the system using stolen Western technology, and it was operational in 1979. Its main computer was based in Moscow, the input lang

military communication system

computer networking effort of the United States Department of Defense from 1983 through 1995