Guyon Espiner

And he effectively, I mean, I think he initially put up some sort of ethical or geopolitical argument.

But in the end, he did it for the money, right?

And I think he admitted as much to you, didn't he?

Susan Miller, the former head of CIA counterintelligence, worked on CIA's Moscow station in the 1980s.

Their assets, Soviets working for them inside the system, kept turning up arrested.

Or did?

Some days she was carrying bags of gold and diamonds around.

But he's not telling them everything, is he?

So this is what we call a dangle, right?

Now this prologue operation is carried out directly by the Chief of Station, with the information tightly held.

So people like Susan were working on it, but without knowing everything about the case.

In fact, Prologue is all about covering up for Aldrich Ames so he can continue to work in place for the KGB.

And one of those names was Oleg Gorievsky.

And within a year, Gorieski is here in New Zealand on the first of four trips.

Yeah, because aims won't be busted for years.

And just in terms of that connection to New Zealand, it's pretty interesting here, isn't it?

Because while he comes here four times, he only goes to Australia twice.

And he says the work he did in New Zealand was, quote, particularly important because the country had been under massive propaganda and ideological attack from the KGB.

And he says, quote, the ruling Labour Party seemed unaware of the extent to which the fabric of their society was being damaged by subversion.

And what were they up to?