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Of state henry kissinger, and they loved what they were getting from trigon and he was right on target for our most serious concerns about the soviet union. >> only from a position of strength can we negotiate a balanced agreement to limit the growth of nuclear arms, and minimize the threat of nuclear confrontation. >> at the time, the soviet union and the u.s. were locked in a dreadful conflict over nuclear weapons. >> we were trying to engage in arms control talks, and we were fighting for our...

Time, handling a well-placed agent in moscow, itself. we had not done that before. trigon was the beginning of what turned out to be a golden age of intelligence in moscow. and secondly, we made history by using a woman for this dangerous high-risk operation. it was a whole new era at the cia after marty peterson. barriers were broken down. stereotypes were broken down. and the cia began a much wiser, much more effective use of the women case officers in the cia. i often think of marty as a pion...

I drank jarlsburg beer and enjoyed the social scene in moscow, and that is what filled the kgb camera. i was selling that role to them, and that took maybe three or four months. >> marty was comfortable in moscow, and so we realized that now was the time to begin operating. lets see if they will ignore her and not surveil her, because we needed somebody free to get to trigon and somebody to get black as we call it. >> going black in moscow means that you get out without surveillance following yo...

>> you know, when i was arrested, i didnt know how they found out about trigon. and i have to tell you, even though intellectually i know that it wasnt something id done, i will never be relieved, because i was charged with protecting his safety. thats what id committed myself to doing. >> the legacy of the trigon case is very clear. we made history in that operation by, for the first

Him as i would ever be. >> we were running with trigon for a little bit over two years. it was unbelievably productive. until about the spring of 77. >> in april, i went to pick up a dead drop as i always did in the same place near the lamp pole. nothing seemed different about that drop, so i put the package down for trigon, and then, well, i had been instructed after an hour or so to go back to check to make sure that he had picked it up. the package i put down was still there. it was devastati...

Event that he was arrested. because he knew that he would face a long and brutal interrogation, and he didnt want to have to do that. >> we were taken aback by that and we didnt want to be a party to a potential suicide, and so we put him off. and he would keep coming back to us and became very insistent. i dont think that we had any choice, because we didnt want to lose him, but we really had to proceed, because this is a really valuable operation. >> the first package we devised to trigon was ...

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Trigon was extremely well placed sitting there in the foreign ministry of the american section with access to the secrets and to see the quality of the intelligence that he was able to provide to us, it was mind boggling and it was an effective and efficient operation, until he missed a dead drop. whatever it was that happened, it really was kind of suspicious. we were hoping against hope that the operation was still valid. we werent ready to give up on trigon. this was a very valuable operation...

Happened? why isnt he there? is he sick or something happened to him? >> who knows, because there are a lot of innocent reasons why he might have missed a dead drop. but we were very worried that trigon was gone. are you haunted by your cable service? have you noticed strange, frightening fees on your monthly bill? do you experience feelings of dread when you pass by your cable box? if the answer is yes... who you gonna call? directv stream. now save $30 over 2 months. meet three moms who each l...

Became trigon. that was going to be our payoff. thats where he was going to have the access that was going to make a lot of difference. but the big issue was can we handle him after he returns home? >> moscow was considered the most difficult place in the world to operate. >> we had never done it before. how can we operate in moscow under the noses of the kgb? and get our job done without getting caught? in terms of risk, it was life and death.