thanks for watching. good night. [dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where we re gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling and said, well, you up there, which did we agree? and to my amazement, within about two or three hours, somebody had slipped in a note under our front door saying, well, you had agreed on koskovo, or timiryazev. or whatever it was. anyway, some picnic place. and i thought that was a kgb surveillant who had a good sense of humor, actually. [crowds 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 t
thanks for watching. good night. [dramatic music playing] [raymond asquith] the listeners, as they were, the kgb, who had all the surveillance equipment, lived on the floor above us in moscow. and you knew they were there. on the whole, one just endured it. i mean, i remember my wife and i had some kind of argument about where we re gonna take the children for a weekend picnic. in a rather unmanly way, i sort of addressed the ceiling and said, well, you up there, which did we agree? and to my amazement, within about two or three hours, somebody had slipped in a note under our front door saying, well, you had agreed on koskovo, or timiryazev. or whatever it was. anyway, some picnic place. and i thought that was a kgb surveillant who had a good sense of humor, actually. [crowds 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 t
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-
good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [ronald reagan] people want to raise their children in a world without fear and without war. a nuclear conflict could well be mankind s last. [ken adelman] there is a cat-and-mouse relationship between intelligence agencies. it was white-hot with the emotions on both sides. [aldrich ames, on recording] he has access to some of the top secrets of the united states. he feels that people don t recognize his importance. they have underestimated aldrich ames. [bianna golodryga] the cia were itching to find out, who is this mystery spy? [aldrich, on recording] [oleg gordievsky] [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 sha