secret intelligence. yuri andropov is the head of the soviet intelligence service, the kgb. the kgb have been running the russian life for years. andropov was getting more and more convinced of the menacing west. he was a full-blown kgb person who thought that it s either us or them. and basically, it better be them. [tim naftali] yuri andropov concludes that the superpowers are on the verge of a nuclear war. and so he begins a process of collecting information that would be indicators of the approach of nuclear war. [narrator] this running tally of signs is called operation ryan.
secret intelligence. yuri andropov is the head of the soviet intelligence service, the kgb. the kgb have been running the russian life for years. andropov was getting more and more convinced of the menacing west. he was a full-blown kgb person who thought that it s either us or them. and basically, it better be them. [tim naftali] yuri andropov concludes that the superpowers are on the verge of a nuclear war. and so he begins a process of collecting information that would be indicators of the approach of nuclear war. [narrator] this running tally of signs is called operation ryan. and every time andropov gets new intelligence,
putin spoke was not a particularly enthusiastic audience. i mean, they were people in military uniforms and they were kind ofjumping up and down every time he would say something important, especially about the menacing west. but i was closely looking at sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, and it seemed like he was in horrible pain most of the time. and every time, he would just do this kind of hiding his eyes. so i didn t really see the conviction at all, but basically the necessity because they have to continue on, there is really no not that there is no room for the opposition in the elite, but it doesn t seem that they know exactly, if there is, how to go about it. and i m not sure that the people were really eating it up although that message on the western it is all the west s fault and we are going to be one people,