The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — How Fear Became Evidence
What if the most dangerous intelligence failure is not missing information—but finding exactly what a system has been ordered to find?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre as our lens, this investigation follows Oleg Gordievsky, the senior KGB officer who secretly worked for British intelligence and provided the West with extraordinary insight into the Soviet system.
Beyond the espionage story lies a larger institutional problem. Through Operation RYAN…
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