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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 country's security. >> even with treaties, people still had a button to push if things got to that ...

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 pioneer. she was a superb case officer. she was a role model for all of us who followed, men and women. ...

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. let's 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 you. so, to verify that i was without surveillance following me, i wore my sr 100, a radio receiver o...

>> you know, when i was arrested, i didn't know how they found out about trigon. and i have to tell you, even though intellectually i know that it wasn't something i'd done, i will never be relieved, because i was charged with protecting his safety. that's what i'd 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 devastating. you know? because we had to say what