flower, while it is at its most terrifying and not at all resolved and it seems like we might be having a nuclear war after this issue, on october 22nd, oleg was walking down the street in moscow and the kgb snatched him off the street, arrested him and figured out he was a double agent. we don't know how they got him, if they were able to reverse engineer what information the u.s. had about the site or maybe a american double agent knew about penkovsky being this important asset for the western allies and maybe some american or british double agent gave this guy's name to the kremlin, we don't know. in the middle of the crisis before any diplomatic resolution was in reach, oleg gets snatched