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Declassified, she recounted her her cover was blown during a dead drop, she was arrested and ter gated all night then kicked out of the country. >> they put the dead drop down in the middle of the table on a piece of prop, a newspaper. they then began the interrogation. the chief interrogator was a very angry middle aged man. >> reporter: saifer says an american spy in russia has to always assume they are being monitored. >> if i got up at 2:00 in the morning and walked outside there would be a team of people there to follow me everywhere and then they would have people to listen to the tapes ...

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 weren't ready to give up on trigon. this was a very valuable operation. we didn't want to lose it by seeing ghosts or seeing problems that the didn't really exist so we had to go forward. >> he always had a schedule of several drops many months do...

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...

>> then there are travel records. >> andy says sky writing. >> me? >> no, the other andy. >> sky writing as long as it is in code. >> yes. >> you have to write it it backwards so only if you have a mirror can you read it. >> i am loading a dead drop. >> by the way, mike, i am thinking of explaining how dead drops work to a lithuanian hooker probably not the easiest thing in the world. >> look, i am not saying that if you are in charge of some highly secretive organization and you decide to have an affair it is going to be easy. that's your call. you have to expect it will be labor intensive. >...

Travel. >> then there are travel records. >> andy says sky writing. >> me? >> no, the other andy. >> sky writing as long as it is in code. >> yes. >> you have to write it it backwards so only if you have a mirror can you read it. >> i am loading a dead drop. >> by the way, mike, i am thinking of explaining how dead drops work to a lithuanian hooker probably not the easiest thing in the world. >> look, i am not saying that if you are in charge of some highly secretive organization and you decide to have an affair it is going to be easy. that's your call. you have to expect it will be labor inte...