Lindsay Moran
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It's a prearranged place where it could be under a bridge, it could be in a park, it could be in an abandoned building.
Just taking a step back, I've handled different kinds of sources, and I've had sources who've passed over documents, who've passed over technological information.
But I've also handled sources where, you know, I had to ask myself, and I would caveat the intelligence reports that I wrote with, like,
This is what he or she told me, but I assess that some of this information might have been intended to influence us as much as it is to inform us.
And that's kind of the degree of skepticism that even after you have a recruited source, you still have to vet what they're telling you.
Well, in the case of Tolkachev, he was providing the goods.
He passed to the CIA thousands upon thousands of pages of classified technical documents relating Soviet radar systems, avionics, air defense capabilities.
And this was really a treasure trove.
The kind of intelligence that Tolkachev was providing, it was extraordinarily valuable, not only because it revealed so much about Soviet technology, but what that kind of intelligence does, it actually allows U.S.
engineers and U.S.
military planners to design countermeasures.
that enabled us to kind of, I don't want to say cut corners, but make advances in our own technology that are completely catered to what our foreign adversaries' plans and existing technology is.
Tolkachev earned a nickname, the Billion Dollar Spy.
And that is precisely because the intelligence that he provided us saved us, the United States, billions of dollars.
Because we were able to adjust our strategy and we were able to do so with confidence.
At its core, espionage is built on human relationships.
A case officer might spend years building trust with someone who is risking imprisonment and death.
And it can sound very clinical, sources, assets, reporting, but whether you like it or not, you become close to these people.
You care about them.
In some ways, these relationships are the most intimate relationships in your life because handling a clandestine source is one of the most intimate, deep connections you can have.
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