In 1965, at the height of the Cold War, the comedy series Get Smart premiered on U.S. television. The show, which quickly became popular, featured the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, who represented the American counterespionage agency CONTROL in its fight against its archenemy, an organization called KAOS – one of whose agents was virtually always Russian.
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The American flag flies atop the U.S. Capitol Building on July 24, 2021 in Washington, DC.
