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
highway into people s yards. some boats are shoved up into the area and the good news is we are seeing so much activity here. proof of life. as we came and motored in through the harbor, people with the storm shutters open and generators going. stuff drying on their railings and people waving cheerfully. right here things are all things considered, it was good. we were not able to go ashore and if they had diesel they could spare or gasoline is the most precious commodity these days, ice being a close second. all kinds of activity here as people move from search and rescue and the initial shock of what they have seen at their properties to clean up. and recovery. we are reporting from the florida keys.