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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 diffi ....
[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 to determine whom you can tr ....
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Mi6 decides to inform 10 downing street. in december 1982, margaret thatcher is told that a highly placed kgb spy now works as a double agent for the british. but she isn t told his name. two months later, gordievsky provides crucial intelligence. operation ryan is now official soviet policy. [tim] what the soviets didn t understand is that there was a possibility that operation ryan could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. operation ryan was a perfect example of starting with a conclusion, and then looking for justification for that conclusion. agents weren t asked, are the american and the british on the verge of nuclear war? they were asked, prove to us, find the evidence that they are so that we ll be ready for it. and that was the fundamental flaw with operation ryan. ....
[narrator] gordievsky s actions make him so valuable, mi6 decides to inform 10 downing street. in december 1982, margaret thatcher is told that a highly placed kgb spy now works as a double agent for the british. but she isn t told his name. two months later, gordievsky provides crucial intelligence. operation ryan is now official soviet policy. [tim] what the soviets didn t understand is that there was a possibility that operation ryan could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. operation ryan was a perfect example of starting with a conclusion, and then looking for justification for that conclusion. agents weren t asked, are the american and the british on the verge of nuclear war? they were asked, prove to us, find the evidence that they are so that we ll be ready for it. and that was the fundamental flaw with operation ryan. ....