The CIA’s Most Valuable Spy

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Adolf Tolkachev became the CIA's most valuable mole. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman: https://a.co/d/0nvd8Mk David E. Hoffman’s website: https://www.davidehoffman.com/the-billion-dollar-spy-home/ Watch my video on CIA mole Aldrich Ames: https://youtu.be/DP7x6Zs1gP0 Chapters: 0:00 The CIA’s Jack-in-the-Box Ruse 0:46 Life Under a Brutal Regime 1:40 Tolkachev Reaches Out to the CIA 2:19 The Letter That Changes Everything 3:12 The CIA Makes Contact 4:20 The First Meeting: New Year’s Day 1979 4:49 How He Stole Secrets 5:31 The Intel That Changed Everything 6:15 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant 7:27 A New Handler, A New Danger 8:28 The KGB Closes In 9:12 Tolkachev Prepares to Die 10:01 The CIA Traitor: Edward Lee Howard 11:51 Arrest and Trial 12:37 The Final Goodbye 13:12 The KGB Comes for Natasha 13:40 Why Tolkachev Really Spied 14:09 The Portrait at Langley Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Moscow's Hotel Rossija in 1979: Karl Oppolzer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Moscow, view of the Moszkva river: FORTEPAN / Bakó Jenő, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (gulag): Absukr, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons MiG-31 fighter: Dmitriy Pichugin (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2), via Wikimedia Commons The Pentagon: Mariordo Camila Ferreira & Mario Duran, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Phone booth image: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Pentax ME Super camera: Joe Haupt from USA, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Painting of Tolkachev by Kathy Krantz Fieramosca 1980s Moscow during the Olympic Games: Derzsi Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Russian Air Force Beriev A-50U (Red 41): Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Russian Air Force MiG-25PU: Leonid Faerberg (transport-photo.com) (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2), via Wikimedia Commons 73-1580 Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call over Nellis AFB: Tomás Del Coro, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Led Zeppelin performance: Jim Summaria, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons MiG-29: Artem Katranzhi from Bakashikha, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Summer dacha: Figure, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Soviet/Russian consulate in Washington, DC: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Soviet/Russian embassy in Vienna: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Lefortovo prison in Moscow: A.Savin, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons Perm-36 gulag: Gerald Praschl, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons U.S. embassy in Moscow: NVO, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Woodstock Music and Art Fair: Woodstock Whisperer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons