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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, and it was devastating, you know, because we had to say what happened? why wasn't he there? is he sick or something happened to him? >> who knows, because there are a lot of innocent reasons why he might...

Intelligence. we had total control at that time. >> the kgb ran that city, and they had virtually unlimited resources. the number of people that they threw at us in terms of surveillance and technical coverage was unbelievable. >> the kgb kept an eye on all foreigners who came to moscow, plus the soviets who had contacts with the foreign organizations. total surveillance of everyone. >> they were everywhere. they controlled every institution. they had people in every housing block. >> at the time of the cold war, the kgb was really a most powerful organization in the world. >> so once trigon w...

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He was not a true believer. >> so we arranged for a meeting with him in the turkish bath in the hilton hotel. >> we started to talk to him. he wanted a better life. he wanted to do something that he could really believe in. and ideologically he was clear ly on our side. he did not like communism. he believed that the american system was superior. all of those things kind of came together. we realized we could make a deal with him. and we did. that was aleksandr ogorodnik, a foreign ministry official for the soviet union and of course, the first issue that came up, we needed a code name for him...