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Ebook About From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the years that followed, the man, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air, giving the United States near total superiority in the skies over Europe. One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risks—but so did the Americans. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev was a singular breakthrough. Using spy cameras and secret codes as well as face-to-face meetings in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. Stirring, unpredictable, and at times unbearably tense, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage thriller.Book The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal Review :
„The billion dollar spy” is the true story of an electronics engineer at a secret military aviation institute in Moscow who for almost seven years provided the CIA with a huge volume of sensitive and valuable intelligence on Soviet research and development (R%D) activities concerning radars, avionics, AA missiles, and other technologies.At the beginning, I hesitated in buying this book, since I read Barry Royden’s internal monograph (good, but objectively less detailed) on the operation issued in 2003, but in the end I decided to purchase the book hoping to find some missing aspects of the aforementioned account. I didn’t regret since the volume is laced with startling revelations - about double agents, human dimensions and problems, covert operations, human and technical operational capabilities, spying techniques and betrayals.For the first time, we get an in-depth story about the Adolf Tolchacev (codename CK Sphere, later GT Vanquish) operation, one of the CIA’s most productive agents, who driven by anger and vengeance, provided United States with intelligence it had never obtained. What makes this operation more audacious was the fact that all 21 personally meetings between him and his six case officers (last three of them “deep cover” officers) happened in a surveillance-heavy environment of the omnipotent KGB.The book is fast-paced and starts in the “Prologue” part with such a meeting which took part in December 1982, introducing - apart the case officer W. Plunkert – a CIA device, simply called Jack-in-the-box (JIB), designed to escape from KGB surveillance. Throughout the book’s 21 chapters the author uncovers several espionage techniques to “move through the gap”, that is, avoid blanket surveillance, and allow CIA to carry out its life-and-death meetings with its valuable source:, identity transfer/deception and street disguise, out-of-country scenarios, JIB or surveillance detection runs. Among electronic devices the book reveals Discus, Buster SRAC device, IOWL or Iskra. Cameras, such as Tropel T50/100, a wonder of optical engineering, or Pentax ME 35mm and Molly are also presented.Next to Tolkachev’s profile, stand those of his handlers, no doubt, CIA’s crème de la crème: J. Guilsher, D. Rolph, W. Plunkert or “deep cover officers” such R. Morris and P. Stombaugh. (and John Yeagley, not mentioned in the book). Their dedication and sacrifice were amply described in the book; for their huge contribution, perhaps they should be called “billion dollar case officers”. Their patience, quick decisions and attitude help enormously to run this operation. In the opposite corner, in my opinion, stand DCI S. Turner “strange” decisions not to pursue Tolkachev initiative, almost close not to have such a crown jewel of human source.No doubt, Tolkachev was a complex and delicate man to handle with many switches or problems; the author presented the long debates about his money demands, suicide-pill request, exfiltration plans or the difficult moments of that risky relationship.In addition, there is a good presentation of the Moscow CsOS namely R. M. Fulton, G. Hathaway, B. Gerber or C. E. Gerbhardt; oddly, there is not a single paragraph about Murat Natirboff, who held this position from 1984 to 09.1986.Mr. Hoffman dedicated a good portion of the book for presenting the Cold War context or previous cases or other operations. It is a sound idea: the readers can find compelling details about Penkovsky, Popov, Golitsin, Ogorodnik or Sheymov cases among others.Moreover, the author also addresses to a technical operations conducted in that period - CK Elbow wiretap (later GT/Taw, I guessed); sadly, there were no details about GT Absorb, in my opinion, an equally interesting operation.Finally, in chapter 16 (“Seeds of betrayal”), the author takes the readers inside the motives, frustrations and problems of E. Howard in revealing Tolkachev’s identity to the Soviets. He betrayed not only this source, but also a variety of CIA tradecraft procedures and capabilities: CK Elbow, JIB or his “deep cover” colleagues’ identities. CIA also made a huge mistake in protecting their source by losing three pages from a top-secret Tolkachev document, a fact revealed on page 238.The formidable impact of Tolkachev intelligence is summarized in “Note on the intelligence” section: he delivered design and capabilities of radars deployed on MIG-23/29 fighters and MIG-25/31 interceptors, plus SU-27 multirole fighter and IL-76 AWACS. No wonder, after 1985 the Soviets started a long process to modify their radars and avionics, developing a long series of updates for MIG-29/31 or SU-27. Moreover, he compromised the technical deficiencies of the Soviet SAM radars to intercept penetrators at low altitudes (B-1 B bomber or cruise missiles). Never before a U.S. intel source opened such a window on Soviet intentions and capabilities. As the author stated, his intelligence produced a major impact on the training of US pilots and ensured that US would enjoy almost total air superiority over Soviet-built fighters for more than two decades.The book is filled with 30+ B&W photos, showing, mainly, A. Tolkachev and some case officers.In the conclusion part -“Epilogue”- the author analyses the application of the Tolchacev vast intelligence in a short aerial combat episode during Operation Desert Storm.The study concludes with a very useful four-page “Note on the intelligence”, complemented by „Acknowledgements”, an extensive „Notes” section (32 pages) and the usual index.Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal lecture for all Cold War enthusiasts, buffs and pros alike. Highly recommended! I have lost count of the number of books about spies, real and imagined, I have read over the decades and did not believe this would turn out as by far one of the most enthralling. The drama moves along at a fast, sometimes furious, pace. Yet the author takes time to flesh out the characters and their often drab surroundings. I was left with enormous admiration for the subject's extraordinary courage over so many years in the certain knowledge that one false move could result in death. At the same time, the CIA's failure to recognize that one of their own would feed back enough information to enable the KGB to identify the master-spy in their midst, arrest and then kill him contrasts badly - almost callously - with the intense care it took over all the meetings in Moscow. Indeed, its blundering failures in attempting to follow its own mole in the pay of the KGB has an air of Keystone Cops about it, thereby enabling the mole to flee unhindered to Moscow. Had the CIA been more on the ball in its own backyard, Tolkachev might have avoided his untimely fate. A must read! 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