The Quiet Traitor: How Georges Pâques Sold NATO’s Secrets to the KGB
He was a devout Catholic, an elite civil servant, and a trusted insider at the heart of NATO. For nearly 20 years, Georges Pâques handed the West’s most sensitive military secrets to the Soviet Union—not for money, not for ideology, but in the name of “peace.”
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson uncovers the remarkable story of one of the Cold War’s most productive and puzzling spies: the recruitment in wartime Algiers, the years of silent betrayal, the dramatic 1963 arrest, and the trial that nearly sent him to the firing squad.
A tale of intellect, ego, and the thin…
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