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Blackford Oakes Series

A series of Cold War spy novels by William F. Buckley centered around the CIA agent Blackford Oakes. While there is some moral ambiguity, the author had a conscious intention to assume the Soviets were the bad guys and the books reflect that.

This series provides examples of:

Born in the Wrong Century: Count Wintergrin in the novel Stained Glass
CIA
Commie Land: the whole premise of the series.
Dead Little Sister: Clemanta Tod who is dead as far as her brother Henri knows
Did Not Do the Research: A letter-to-the-editor from a friend of Buckley's accused him of being sloppy about Central European culture in a couple of novels.)
Black and Grey Morality (good guys are grey but more or less ok. Communists are Black though sometimes have likable enough traits to make them dark grey .)
Historical Domain Character
Intellectually Supported Tyranny: Sir Alastir Fleetwood, a scientist that uses a supertelescope he invented to read American diplomatic messages in Hi Jinx, and then gives them to the Russians.
Insufferable Genius(Fleetwood)
La Résistance: The title character of the novel The Story of Henri Tod is leader of an underground group in East Berlin.
The Spymaster: Rufus.
Too Good For This Sinful Earth: Count Wintergrin
Worthy Opponent: Bolgin, the Russian Chief of Station in London in the novel High Jinx.