Episode #21 – Highly Unusual Friendship: The Bond Between a CIA Officer and a KGB Agent

https://youtu.be/ZQiHsmk9QPI KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko and CIA case officer Jack Platt were inseparable as friends, despite their positions in opposing intelligence agencies. Against all odds the pair became as close…

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Episode #20 – The True Story of the Poison Gun and the KGB Defector with Dr. Serhii Plokhy

https://youtu.be/C5ibix1ZsEY An unwilling Soviet assassin killed two Ukrainian expatriates in West Germany before his own dramatic escape and defection. Bogdan Stashynsky was recruited by the Soviet NKVD at the age…

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