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The Billion Dollar Spy

A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

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The Billion Dollar Spy

By: David E. Hoffman
Narrated by: John Moraitis
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January 1977. While the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car.

In the years that follow, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, becomes one of the West’s most valuable spies. At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conduct clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, props, and private codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard - until a shocking betrayal puts them all at risk.

Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War.

©2017 David E. Hoffman (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Intelligence & Espionage Freedom & Security Politics & Government
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the Cold War’s most consequential spy helped the West win that great conflict but was consumed by it as inevitably as the lies he was told and those he told himself…

A fascinating but grim story of the underlying depravity that underlies spy craft

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It’s insane to think this is a true story. Well written, well performed, well rounded.

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