[mikeash]

Thanks for the historical perspective. I'm only 35, so I really only saw the "new story." Obviously the phrase "secret agreement" implies that it wasn't known right away, but I didn't realize it became known that recently.

Still, being out there for almost two decades, and being incorporated into the plot of a major movie about the crisis, it doesn't seem like it should still be described as "most people don't hear."

[mturmon]

In general, it seems like a surprisingly lot of the stuff that was known to be fact, surrounding the Cold War, was not actually true at all. This has only become hazily evident with the drip-drip release of sealed archives.