The Shadow Dossier — The Defector Who Broke the CIA From Inside

The Shadow Dossier · Oct 9, 2026 · 5m · transcript

In December 1961, a KGB officer stationed in Helsinki walked into the American embassy and asked for asylum. His name was Anatoliy Golitsyn, and he brought with him a claim that would consume the CIA's counterintelligence division for more than a decade: that the KGB had planted a high-level mole deep inside Western intelligence services, and that almost everything the West thought it knew about Soviet operations might be part of an elaborate deception.