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Spying for America in Russia
Witness History: Witness Archive 2016
English - July 29, 2016 07:50 - 10 minutes - 4.65 MB - ★★★ - 8 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In July 1977, CIA case officer Marti Peterson was detained and deported from the Soviet Union for spying. She was the handler for Alexandr Ogorodnik, one of America's top Soviet moles at the time. It was her first assignment for the US intelligence agency. Peterson speaks to Witness about her cloak and dagger life in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
Photo: the KGB building in central Moscow (NIKOLAI MALYSHEV/AFP/Getty Images)