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>> you would look at me and see a nice lady, probably very happy person, very outgoing. an older woman, who has a retired life and goes to church. but my life was not normal. it was a lie. everyone thought that i was just a mom. they never knew what i was actually doing because i lied to everyone about who i was. for almost 32 years. but i didnt do it for the thrill of it. i did it because i had to do it. ♪ october 1972, i became a widow. after that, i needed to work. i thought about...

The kgb was really a most powerful organization in the world. >> so once trigon went back to moscow, he was in a cooling-off period. he was being alert to any indications that he was under suspicion, and we wanted to do that before we ran the risk of actually operating with him in moscow. if he were captured, it is a question of survival. >> well, all of the traitors in the soviet system would be just sentenced to death. you will not live anymore. >> it was dangerous for our people, too, but we ...

Whoa. in 1975, i was assigned to moscow to work with a cia covert agent called trigon, but before i began to work with him, the

The only thing that we could determine to do was to drop a concealed message inside of a cigarette lighter through the fly window of his car. in the lighter, there was a schedule of drops and locations where he would find the next drops. putting a drop into an agents car is more dangerous, because that car has an identity attached to it. you can look at the license tag and look it up and say, trigon owns that car. trigons car was parked in front of an apartment building and there were always peo...

To communicate between themselves. and i had a wireless earpiece, and i would listen as i drove away from the embassy. and when i was with a man, i could hear on the sr 100 as the kgb reported to one another the location of this man. but when i went out by myself, i would hear absolutely nothing. they werent following me. >> our next step, we needed a communications plan for trigon. the trade craft that we devised

Without attracting attention. >> i would put that package down to him next to lamp pole, and trigon would have a sketch of the area, and know what number the lamp pole was, and i would leave the area, and he would come to pick it up. inside would be the spy materials, the package contained a black fountain pen which had the reservoir of poison in the barrel. and second black fountain pen where he had his miniature camera. the site was along a road that ran through this park, and i got to where i...

Up that ambush is if they had prior knowledge. that meant that they had trigons communications plan. that meant they had trigon. >> the source reported to us on june 20th, the kgb went into trigons apartment, and they arrested him. and he said, i will provide you with a full written report about what i have done, a confession. he said, get me a pad of paper. they handed him the paper and his pen. he began to write, and then he bit down on the barrel of the pen, which had the reservoir of

That night, of course, i didnt show up because i had been arrested. and i spent that night being interrogated. but for trigons safety, i told them absolutely nothing. nothing that could incriminate him. and then after a long time, they said because i was an american working in the embassy, you may leave. persona non grata, to be thrown out of the country. they would never let me back. i would never go. >> when i walked into the ussr desk on that saturday morning and everybody was crying and i le...

To work with trigon in moscow was primarily dead drops. a dead drop is a pre-cased hiding place where an agent can put down a concealed package. mark a signal, and then the other comes and picks up the package, and marks the signal to indicate that the package had been recovered. the risk of dead drops is to avoid having the two people together at any point, but they have to be done extremely discretely and extremely carefully. espionage is not a game. it is serious and it is life and death and ...

Up the profiles to make it hard for us to get a fix on them. >> well, the kgb could be anyone. that is just the matter of the imagination. kgb provided the people with all the necessary equipment and camouflage if they needed it. no problem. >> the kgb owned the city, and they followed everyone everywhere. so i didnt want to be anyone -- anyone noticed, so that no one suspected that i was eventually going to be working with trigon. but i also was just trying to be who i was. you have to present ...