Billion Dollar Spy

Description:

Leaving the American embassy in Moscow one evening in 1978, the CIA station chief heard a knock on his car window and was handed an envelope containing Soviet military technology research unknown to U.S. intelligence. Over the years, Soviet engineer Adolf Tolkachev handed over tens of thousands of pages of secrets, allowing America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar. Hoffman's compelling account unfolds like an espionage thriller.

subjects: Aeronautics,  Cold War,  American Espionage,  United States. Central Intelligence Agency,  Research,  United States,  Biography,  Large type books,  Engineers,  Spies,  Foreign relations,  History,  United states, central intelligence agency,  Engineers, biography,  Aeronautics, research,  Espionage,  Cold war,  United states, foreign relations, soviet union,  Soviet union, foreign relations, united states,  Soviet union, biography

Places: United States,  Russia (Federation),  Moscow,  Soviet Union

Times: 20th century