Cold war space sleuths : the untoled secrets of the Soviet space program Cold War Space Sleuths reads like a Cold War espionage novel but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold War is just as exciting and absorbing. Told in the sleuths own words each chapter unfolds a piece of the hidden history of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain. Coming from all over the world including Russia itself the amateur spies give first hand accounts of often forgotten aspects of the Cold War space race.