please go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [tim naftali] he sells their souls to the soviets. he sells their lives. aldrich ames is voluntarily killing people. [aldrich ames, on recording] [sir david omand] gordievsky knew that they had surreptitiously entered his flat, and that his flat was bugged. [oleg gordievsky] [alexander vassiliev] so, what do you do to officers who betray their own motherland? you execute them. [crowd cheering] [narrator] this is the unseen story of the cold war. fought not by politicians. but by secret agents. [jack barsky] there was complete misunderstanding on either side. it s very difficult to determine whom you can trust. [narrator] as the soviet union faces off with the west in the early 1980s. two spies play a dangerous game from the shadows. they seek to win the upper hand while the world stands on the brink of nuclear war. these are their stories in their
please go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [tim naftali] he sells their souls to the soviets. tiously entered his flat, and that his flat was bugged. [oleg gordievsky] [alexander vassiliev] so, what do you do to officers who betray their own motherland? you execute them. [crowd cheering] [narrator] this is the unseen story of the cold war. fought not by politicians. but by secret agents. [jack barsky] there was complete misunderstanding on either side. it s very difficult to determine whom you can trust. [narrator] as the soviet union faces off with the west in the early 1980s. two spies play a dangerous game from the shadows. they seek to win the upper hand while the world stands on the brink of nuclear war. these are their stories in their own words. testimony pieced together from interviews over the years. [oleg] after 11 years of secret work, maybe i develop paranoia. .and never-before-
Welcome to the International Spy museum and thank you so much for coming out this evening. Im peter ernest, the executive collector of the museum and im very pleased to introduce craig floyd whom ive known for a number of years who keeps trying to build a competitor museum. Although ive put obstacles in his way progress continues and im sure it will go very well. We look forward to his joining and that museum joining us here in this city of museums. Im very, very pleased to welcome him and all of you to the International Spy museum this evening. So have a great evening. Enjoy. Let me welcome everyone here tonight. This is our 8th in a series of events that we call witness to history. It gives us a very important opportunity to get a first hand glimpse of the major moments in Law Enforcement history from those who actually participated in those events. Tonight we take a look into what the u. S. Department of justice has called, quote, possibly the worst intelligence disaster in u. S. Hi