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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 was to place this package and i saw no one. so i put the package down, and walked then to the embas...

Up that ambush is if they had prior knowledge. that meant that they had trigon's communications plan. that meant they had trigon. >> the source reported to us on june 20th, the kgb went into trigon's 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 didn't show up because i had been arrested. and i spent that night being interrogated. but for trigon's 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 learned that marty had been ambushed, i knew instantly, as everybody else did, what that meant. the ...

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 people get killed on both sides. >> in order to make dead drops, you have to show up at a certain pl...

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 didn't 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 a person that you can sustain, and i was flirty marty.