The billion dollar spy by david hoffman5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() They had clandestine meetings in parks and on street corners, and used spy cameras, props, and private codes, eluding the ever-present KGB in its own backyard-until a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.ĭrawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story of intrigue in the final years of the Cold War. But these activities posed an enormous personal threat to Tolkachev and his American handlers. ![]() In the years that followed, that man, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. ![]() His attempts to establish contact with the CIA would be rebuffed four times before he thrust upon them an envelope whose contents would stun U.S. Hoffmans The Billion Dollar Spy ' The Billion Dollar Spy is one of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting. The chief, suspicious of a KGB trap, ignored the overture. One evening, while the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was filling his gas tank, a stranger approached and dropped a note into the car. It was the height of the Cold War, and a dangerous time to be stationed in the Soviet Union. A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year ![]()
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