Fue el amor entre ellos lo que empujó a mi padre a unirse a la CIA
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Fue el amor entre ellos lo que empujó a mi padre a unirse a la CIA
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by 1974, we had recruited trigon, a foreign ministry official for the soviet union, and he was scheduled to return to moscow. now, we have got him recruited and the big issue was, can we handle him after he returns home? moscow was considered the most difficult place in the world to go out and collect intelligence from agents on the street. in moscow, you have to understand that the kgb was all powerful. i spent almost 40 years in the kgb. my most important job was to watch my own citizens, i mean dissidents, people who were for some reason or another unhappy, and that was my job. and moscow was a capital of the country, and the head quarters of the security and
he was not a true believer. so we arranged for a meeting with him in the turkish bath in the hilton hotel. we started to talk to him. he wanted a better life. he wanted to do something that he could really believe in. and ideologically he was clear ly on our side. he did not like communism. he believed that the american system was superior. all of those things kind of came together. we realized we could make a deal with him. and we did. that was aleksandr ogorodnik, a foreign ministry official for the soviet union and of course, the first issue that came up, we needed a code name for him. we could not refer to him in the cable traffic as ogorodnik. it would not be secure. so right from the beginning he became trigon. we knew that he was scheduled to