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Billion Dollar Spy

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Adolf Tolkachev was a high-ranking radar engineer in Russia. Driven by a vengeance over his family’s treatment during the Stalin era, he leaked thousands of documents and photographs to the CIA in the 1970s, detailing Soviet radar and missile systems. David Hoffman of The Washington Post reporter tells the story of "The Billion Dollar Spy."