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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Spy story

How the CIA ran a ‘billion-dollar spy’ in Moscow


An identity card created by the CIA in an attempt to replicate Adolf Tolkachev's building pass to facilitate removing secret documents from his Soviet military institute.He was the most successful and valued agent the United States had run inside the Soviet Union in two decades. His documents and drawings had unlocked the secrets of Soviet radars and weapons research years into the future. He had smuggled circuit boards and blueprints out of his military laboratory. His espionage put the United States in position to dominate the skies in aerial combat and confirmed the vulnerability of Soviet air defences — showing that American cruise missiles and strategic bombers could fly under the radar.

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