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I arrived in Moscow in November of 1975
during the Cold War.

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The Soviet Union was the main
intelligence target of the U .S., and so

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a big job.

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The danger of getting identified as a
CIA officer

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would be devastating.

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After I was arrested, the Soviets wrote
this about me.

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A chiseled, almost ideal, medium -sized
figure. She was actually, if not

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beautiful, then very, very pretty.

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And very smart, too.

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And Martha loved to drink.

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In general, if she was not a drunk, then
she was amenable.

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And if not a slut...

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than a very free -spirited woman.

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It

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was

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obviously very complimentary to me.

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I'm not sure about the drinking. I don't
know when they would have seen that.

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I never knew my mom was a spy. I never
had a clue.

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She led a normal life.

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She just was really busy.

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And if you were to tell me today that...
How do I put this?

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If she hadn't told me back then and she
just let the lie go... Not the lie, but

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the secret. I should call it a secret.
It's not a lie.

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If she had let it go to today, I still
would have never suspected it.

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during the Cold War, working for CIA.

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I knew it was a very dangerous time in
history, and you're taking the ultimate

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risk. But that was just going to be a
fact of my life.

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It was a very exciting life.

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I am Marty Peterson. I worked for the
CIA for 32 years.

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People are always surprised because I
look like someone's grandmother at this

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point, and I tell them people who work
for CIA, you know, look like

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eventually. You know.

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Servicing the CIA is not easy. You're
living a double life, but you are

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You are fortunate that everybody has the
opportunity to serve our country this

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way.

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My name is James Olson.

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I served undercover in the CIA during
the Cold War when the United States and

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the Soviet Union were building up their
capabilities and about to destroy the

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other many times over.

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At the time, I really wanted to make a
mark of some kind for the world.

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The Soviet Union was a very, very
powerful adversary, so we had to bring

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-game.

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Being considered for a case officer
position was not the norm for a woman.

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You have to think about the fact that
women weren't even expected to work.

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My name is Tracy Walder. I'm one of the
few women who served on both the

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operations side of the CIA and the FBI.

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Women couldn't even have their own
credit cards until the 70s. Women

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special agents of the FBI until 1972.

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They said.

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Well, we would love to hire you. We have
several jobs as secretaries. And I said

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I would like to be interviewed for the
officer program.

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I found out about a man working with CIA
who was looking for someone to go

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to Madrid.

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And it became very clear that he was
looking for a Girl Friday, a little roll

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the hay as well. I didn't go.

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CIA is patriarchal. The reason was,
well, women eventually will get married

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have babies. What good are they? I
didn't want to be a secretary. I had

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skills.

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They saw that I had potential, and
eventually I was hired as a career

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trainee.

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And the CIA, the bread and butter of
intelligence, is the overseas agent, the

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source.

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the foreigner who has access to
information that our country needs for

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security, who knows what their plans
are.

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And so we were so hungry during the Cold
War for Russian sources that getting a

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Foreign Service officer anywhere was
going to be valuable for us.

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At the end of 1974, we had recruited
this great source down in Bogota,

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Alexander Ogorodnik, codenamed Frygon, a
foreign ministry officer for the Soviet

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Union. He probably had some disaffection
from the Soviet Union. He lived in the

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West, so he saw the difference. He saw
what a democratic society could look

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like. And he was about ready to go back
to Moscow.

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But getting that information from Trigon
to us was going to be a major challenge

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because all of our people in Moscow were
under constant KGB surveillance.

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We had to get somebody free of KGB
surveillance.

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We said to ourselves, we know that the
KGB does not use women

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for high -risk operational jobs.

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They probably assume that we don't
either.

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I got a call one day from a wonderful
man, and he offered a job in

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Moscow as a case officer.

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We had the perfect candidate sitting
right there.

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That was momentous for us. And we said,
all right, let's do it. I had no

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experience. I was fresh out of training.

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I mean, Moscow was the main target of U
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was big time.

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I just hoped that I could do the job.

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Finally, we had the person who had great
access going back to Moscow, and we can

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handle him with Marty Peterson.

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I flew from Florida to Moscow. The
flight landed and I was instantly

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paranoid.

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I thought they knew who I was.

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And it was frightening.

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The KGB was vicious.

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It was cruel.

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It routinely engaged in assassinations,
torture.

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They were a brutal foreign service.

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My name is Alexander Vasiliev. I am ex
-KGB intelligence officer.

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If you don't want to be executed, don't
become a spy for the CIA.

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The punishment is obvious.

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It's death.

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We were trained to believe that we were
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.S. administration.

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And the KGB surveillance was the best of
the best.

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We are watching you.

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To most people in the embassy, both my
American colleagues and Soviets who

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worked in the first floor, I was doing a
low -level job and then would go up

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to the CIA station at noon and at the
end of the day.

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Our hope was that the KGB would overlook
her and that they would then not

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surveil her.

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And we told Marty, we want you to be
portraying yourself as frivolous.

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you know move around town in fact he
developed the nickname of party marty

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comfortable sometimes with being
underestimated can actually be sort of

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quiet skill that you have that really
works out in your fever

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my first job was to determine

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whether i had surveillance

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In the beginning, I thought, well, I
just wasn't seeing it. I also invited

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secretaries with me to take trips around
town.

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And I had reason to turn around and look
with other people with me, and nobody

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seemed to be following me.

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I would go into the station, of course,
and say, I didn't see any surveillance.

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And the men...

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Doubted the fact that I could actually
spot surveillance. There were some old

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male chauvinist curmudgeons back at CIA
headquarters that said, she's just not

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safe because it's there.

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We didn't know for sure if Marty was
being followed.

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KGB was using a certain type of radio
transmission among their surveillance

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teams.

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What was discovered was we can intercept
those communications.

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I'm Robert Wallace. I was director of
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director of science and technology.

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In Moscow, that technology was
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to be accomplished.

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They gave me a receiver, the SR -100.

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Our agents would be able to hear now the
communications of surveillance teams

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who were tracking them.

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So if we made a move on the street, we
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So when the men went out, they could
hear.

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When I went out, this is what I heard.

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There was no one following me, ever.

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Marty was our ace in the hole.

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I had a way to operate in Moscow that
everyone else didn't.

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Marty became the handler for Trigon, and
that was historic.

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For the first time ever, we were handing
a source inside Moscow.

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And also, this was the first time we'd
ever used a woman.

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in an advanced operational role, a high
-risk, dangerous operation.

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It was life and death what she was
doing.

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I had been in Moscow about two and a
half months.

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We needed to know what was going on in
the Kremlin.

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The White House was relying on us
because it was so important that we

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our policymakers with good inside
information on the Soviet Union.

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I knew there were a lot of risks, but
this wasn't the first time that I

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for myself in a dangerous place.

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My first week at college.

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I met my husband, John Peterson, and he
made the choice in 1967

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to go into the Army to enlist.

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He became a Green Beret in 1969.

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To me, of course, that was going off to
sure death.

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You know, that's how we thought about
Vietnam.

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But he survived.

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And then he told me he had applied for
CIA.

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I was shocked. I was.

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I didn't know anything about CIA.

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John said, I got my notice of my first
assignment.

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It's Paxe Laos, and you can come along.

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I said, yes, absolutely.

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This was an adventure we were going to
take on.

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That's John in Paxe after we got there,
and he's getting ready to get on a plane

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to put his troops into the field.

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His business was war.

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I worked in the office. He worked in the
field.

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John and I always looked at life as
partners.

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I was part of his team.

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It was him and me.

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Often when I would be coming home from
work, I would hear a big explosion.

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It made a metal taste come to your
mouth. That is tremendous fright.

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So it became right up front and very
personal that there was danger there.

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I had been out on the street so much and
had logged many hours and never had

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surveillance.

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Because she could slip away and was not
followed.

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We sent Marty out to do what we call
dead drops.

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A dead drop is classic CIA tradecraft.

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Dead drop means leaving a package at a
certain area.

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And in this case, our Russian diplomat,
Trigon, will come at a later time and

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pick up that package.

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These packages are concealed.

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But inside that concealment is a cavity
for us to have whatever materials are

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being transmitted through the dead drop.
It can be instructions, of course. It

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can be money. It can be medicines. It
can be camera. Anything that the agent

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needs to carry out is in her business.

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Say just a very nice rock laying along
the side of the road someplace, but

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inside is a major cavity that an agent
could use.

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The tech person in the field is crucial.

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There's no book telling them what.

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to do. They're some of the most gifted
people in the world because they're

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constantly thinking quickly and making
do with what's available to them.

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One of the classics is a dead rat.

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You have a nice little cavity.

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Perhaps you want to put a small camera.
Not likely to be picked up by anybody

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except the intended agent.

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How do you prevent cat from grabbing it?
Treat it with a little Tabasco sauce

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because cats hate Tabasco sauce.

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Originally, Trigon had taken pictures of
documents with a 35 -millimeter camera,

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but that was very risky, taking the
camera into the embassy. So we realized

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he was a good candidate for this very
unique miniature camera hidden within a

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fountain pen. And this was my first dead
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We told him where it would be and how it
would be disguised, that it was

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concealed in a Soviet cigarette pack.

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He would take the top off, hold the pen
over a piece of paper with his elbows

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up, and that was the right focal
distance, and then he would plunge this

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down, and it would take a full -page
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Dead drop deliveries always make you
nervous.

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Usually, you would pitch the package out
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The problem was we didn't know whether
the camera's mechanism would survive.

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So at the last minute, the station
decided that I would deliver the package

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foot.

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I drove my car for two hours looking for
surveillance.

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When I determined that I had no
surveillance, I went into the Soviet

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system. I rode three stops. I got out
and changed to another subway line

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and walked to the site where the package
was to be delivered to Trigon

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that night.

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My heart was going a million miles an
hour.

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I was really...

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alert and terrified all at the same
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As I approach the dead drop site, I
pause, take a Kleenex out of my bag and

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my nose, and at the same time, I take
the package out of my purse.

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And I spend an hour walking.

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Trigon is supposed to come and pick up
my package.

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But when I returned, I looked down, and
my package is still there.

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And I'm horrified to see, several blocks
away, a man

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in the shadows watching.

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They caught me red -handed.

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When I saw that man at a distance, my
huge concern was that that was a KGB

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officer. I didn't want to be known as
the woman who got caught.

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I didn't know who he was or why he was
there.

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But I glanced back to see that man has
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So I recovered the camera in the package
and went on my way back into the

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subway. I go in the next morning and
report what has happened. After much

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discussion, we realized that man in the
shadows was

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probably trying on watching for a car.

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And of course, he hasn't seen a car.

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Ultimately, the next month, I was able
to deliver the camera in the pen to

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Trigon.

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I knew that I could put a package down
on foot and then leave

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the area and then return and pick up
Trigon's package.

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And what was crucial for us...

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Trigon was assigned to the
communications center.

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And that's where the cables came in from
Soviet ambassadors overseas reporting

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back to Moscow of what they were doing,
what their policy recommendations were.

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Trigon had access to that.

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Over time, you get more confident, and
you realize the agent is going to be

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there to pick up that dead drop. And
that mutual understanding gives you a

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feeling.

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And so we began to receive his
intelligence, and we learned he

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is a very capable agent.

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He became so adept at this. He had
access to frontline, high -level

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on arms control, but also on foreign
policy in general. The intelligence that

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was produced, thanks to Marty, was going
right to the president's desk.

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One of the most pleasant surprises that
I have had has been the quality of work

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done by the Central Intelligence Agency.

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The intelligence was pouring in. One of
the major players... in U .S.-USSR

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relations was the Soviet ambassador in
Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin.

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I hope that relations between our
countries will develop.

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And Kissinger was meeting regularly with
Dobrynin.

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Kissinger loved the Trigon reporting
because he would have the meeting with

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Dobrynin, and then he could see how
Dobrynin was interpreting it back to

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or misinterpreting it back to Moscow.

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And a lot was going on. We were in the
middle of the SALT II negotiations.

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We were trying to trade negotiations.

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The Russians were deploying cruise
missiles. It was gold for us.

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We'd never seen intelligence like that
before.

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Over time, I felt such a connection with
Trigon, even though I have never met

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him. He and I never exchanged a word.

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But I had a feeling of we're in it
together.

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We are a team.

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And, of course, keeping him safe and
alive is the most important thing to me.

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The relationship between officer and
asset is critical because the reality is

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that you have someone's life in your
hands, period, the end, because they are

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committing a crime.

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They are committing a crime by giving
you.

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information that they shouldn't be
giving you. In our country, that's

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treason.

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Trigon knew that if he were caught, that
his fate would be horrible. His fate

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was sealed as soon as he fell into KGB's
hands.

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KGB investigated all their citizens,
especially those who had been overseas.

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He told us in his packages to us that he
had undergone a security check, and

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each time he was deathly concerned
because they could uncover what he was

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And that means torture and the bullet to
the back of the head.

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Trigon was a traitor.

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Traitors, all of them were executed.

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If you think about the gravity of what
Trigon was doing in 1975 Russia, for

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him to be willingly providing us with
information was a death sentence if that

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information came out.

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Trigon is under incredible stress.

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If anyone went and searched his
apartment, it could be the end for him.

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Then, end of April 1977,

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we received a package from Trigon. And
when our tech opened the package, he

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realized that there were some
differences in his photography.

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Maybe in his stress, he had become
careless. He had become reckless.

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The stress was causing him physical
problems.

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He had stomach problems. He had
breathing problems.

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Eventually, Trigon requests that he be
provided with a means to commit

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suicide in the event that he is caught.

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We didn't want to encourage a potential
asset to kill himself.

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So we said no.

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And only over time, with persistent
requests, we felt that it was a moral

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responsibility to answer his request.

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The CIA determined that the best
concealment device would be the same

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pen that Trigon had the camera in. And
now...

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that contained an ampule of poison in
the barrel where the ink was, and this

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would cause instant death.

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I was able to deliver the pen to Trigon.
I just hoped that he would never have

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to use it.

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On October 19th, John kissed me goodbye
and headed to work.

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I worked all day.

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I came home, and I was working in the
kitchen, and I heard the truck drive

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our driveway, which had gravel.

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It was kind of like our doorbell.

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I went to the door, expecting John to be
there, and it was the chief of our

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unit. I said, Bill, John didn't tell me
you were coming for dinner. And Bill

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just looked at me.

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He said, Oh, Marty.

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And I realized in a second that
something had happened to John.

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I was told his helicopter should have
taken off below the tree line,

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but his pilot, for whatever reason,
lifted up too high, and the North

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got a good angle.

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There was a man in a second helicopter.

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John was his very best friend.

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So he tried to turn around and go back,
but there were too many enemy in the

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area.

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And that night, sitting there, he said,
Marty, I tried to get to him. I tried to

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get him out, and it was impossible.

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The next day, his soldiers, they kept...

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Telling me for getting the body out, and
I thought, it's just a body.

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He wasn't there.

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I just knew that he wasn't coming home.

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When I was offered a position in Moscow,
the agency said, we think that you are

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the right person to go.

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You have had difficult life experiences,
so we know you could withstand the

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difficulties.

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June 28, 1977, I went into this park
where

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Trigana and I had exchanged packages
before.

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I had a log with his new schedule and
resupply of the pen and cartridges.

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I walked down the wooden path and put
the package at the base of the lamppost.

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On the road, a small panel van.

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I had never seen any car parked in that
park.

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And it had its dome light on and the
windows were steamed over.

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And I thought, either this is an ambush
or it's lover's lane.

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And then...

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All of a sudden, a man appeared in front
of me. We almost collided.

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And I stepped off the side of the path.

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I stood there for about 20 minutes.

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And then I decided to cross the road.

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The van was no longer there.

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And there on the ground by the lamppost
was the log.

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Trigon hadn't been there that night.

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All my alarms went off. I knew there was
something wrong.

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I realized this was not coincidence.

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There is no such thing as coincidence in
espionage.

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So I drove my car by the signal site the
next morning.

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A signal site is a location where an
agent would come and make a mark.

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When one of our case officers.

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sees that mark, we know the dead drop
has been loaded.

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The child crossing sign was the actual
signal site that we had described to

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Trigon. I wasn't very close to it when I
could see the signal that he made.

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It was like it had been stenciled. This
was bright red. It looked like an

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artist had drawn it carefully so we
wouldn't miss it.

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Trigon never made signals like this.

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Even though we had all these red flags
that indicated there was a problem with

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Trigon, we never aborted an operation.

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When an agent's life was on the line, we
had to know whether he was okay or not.

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I worked my day job. It was very
difficult to concentrate.

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At 6 o 'clock, I went up to the station,
and my colleagues were all there.

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They had the package packed.

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It was a piece of asphalt, and it
contained all the elements that we knew

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needed. The camera in the pen,
equipment, documents, rubles in low

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denominations. Put it in my bag and
began a long surveillance detection

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route.

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I continued on to the river to where the
site was located on the top of a

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railroad bridge.

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I took the piece of asphalt out of my
purse and slid it into a narrow window.

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I turned around and came back through
the tower.

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and started down the stairs.

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I was about the fourth step from the
bottom when these three men came at me

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across the street.

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A van came from underneath the bridge,
and the men

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got out.

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This was the moment that I was arrested
by the KGB.

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I remember the moment so clearly.

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I attached this receiver on my bra using
Velcro, which they had no idea about,

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and they had a real problem getting it
undone because they didn't know you had

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to pull it apart.

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When they have their hands inside your
blouse, you know, it's pretty bad.

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Yeah, pretty bad.

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I realized at that moment, I did not
know what has happened to Trigon,

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he's been held in a cell, brutally
tortured, or he is already

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dead.

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They took me to Lubyanka prison.

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Russians suspected of being spies.

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They were sent to Lubyanka prison, and
they were executed.

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She was interrogated, and she was an
American. You know, America was an

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the enemy number one.

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I

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knew to

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take absolutely nothing.

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The chief interrogator asked his
technical officer to open the package.

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They began taking out all the equipment
and the documents in the package.

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They got to the pen, and the chief
interrogator said,

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don't touch it.

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Lay it on the side. Nobody touch it.

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And it was at that moment that I
realized.

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He thought that pen had poison in it.

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And I knew it was just a camera.

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And the only reason he would be afraid
of that pen was if he

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had been there and seen Trigon use it.

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So I knew that something really awful
had happened to Trigon,

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something he wouldn't survive.

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We knew that if Marty was ambushed, that
Trigon was already dead or would

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be dead soon. That was devastating.

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I'll never forget that.

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That was one of the lowest moments in my
CIA career.

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The chief interrogator was so angry, I
thought something violent was going to

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happen to me.

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But after many hours... The chief
interrogator said to me, you may go.

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Most people think that's odd that they
would let me go, but I had diplomatic

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immunity.

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When I arrived back at the embassy, I
went up to the CIA station, and as I

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through the door, all my colleagues were
there waiting for me.

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The chief, who had only newly arrived,
said to me, oh, I'm so glad you're back.

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Blackboard in his office, he had
written, our little girl.

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And I told him, I am nobody's little
girl.

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Even though I knew Moscow better than
anyone ever would, I think he believed

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that if a man had gone out, this
wouldn't have happened.

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Soviet Union said that Martha Peterson,
an American vice consul, was expelled

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from the Soviet Union last July as a
spy.

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I left Moscow the next day and flew back
to Washington.

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I came back to CIA headquarters and I
began working again in Washington.

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But I had this thought in the back of my
head that it was something I had done

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and that somehow I had made a mistake.

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For the next seven years.

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I kept myself busy.

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I got married. I began a family.

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And it was in 1984 when they finally
arrested the man who had caused

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Trigon's death.

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A former employee of the CIA was
arrested in New York City today and

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with spying for the government of
Czechoslovakia. He is identified as Carl

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Kocher.

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We learned from a source a CIA
translator had been working secretly

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Czech intelligence and through Czech
intelligence back to the KGB.

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Once the KGB knew that someone in the
Soviet embassy was being targeted by the

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CIA, they began an investigation of all
those who had worked in the

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Soviet embassy and returned to Moscow.

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There's nothing more despicable to us
than someone who betrays us from within.

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Karl Kocher, without any question, was
not only a traitor.

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But he was a killer. He murdered Trigon
by giving the KGB that information.

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After Carl Kocher's arrest, we learned
the details of what had happened to

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Trigon.

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He was in his apartment, and they were
watching him.

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They saw him take out normal, everyday
things from the bookshelf. A flashlight.

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some batteries but then they watched as
he opened the secret compartment

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and took out pieces of paper they
realized he was

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preparing for another drop they barged
through his door

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they stripped him down and told him that
he should

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confess

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and he said, I will write a full
confession.

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He saw his pen laying on the table. He
picked it up, and he began to write.

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As he saw that they weren't watching
him, he put the pen in his mouth,

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bit down, and immediately became
unconscious.

467
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,840
They tried to revive him.

468
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,120
But he died.

469
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,640
That was a week before I saw the van in
the woods.

470
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:56,700
Losing John and now Trigon, I was
horrified.

471
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,980
I was so sad.

472
00:39:01,340 --> 00:39:05,880
I deal with grief head on. I acknowledge
what's happened.

473
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:09,060
I realize that Life goes on.

474
00:39:09,460 --> 00:39:12,900
You have to continue on the path.

475
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:16,780
I'm affected by it, but I don't dwell on
it.

476
00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:20,780
It's part of my own place.

477
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,640
intelligence service, including the
Russian intelligence service, you put

478
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,040
life at risk. And I wouldn't recommend
anyone to do that.

479
00:39:39,860 --> 00:39:46,120
I felt so sad and yet so relieved to
know

480
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,640
that it wasn't something that I had
done.

481
00:39:50,260 --> 00:39:54,920
I think it brings up a bigger issue.
It's not necessarily the case officers

482
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,580
are compromising the identity.

483
00:39:57,260 --> 00:40:02,400
A lot of times our assets have been
discovered because of double agents and

484
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,860
mold. He had used that pen and that
poison as he had intended.

485
00:40:08,220 --> 00:40:15,200
He avoided the torture, all the
brutality, and the bullet to

486
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,200
the back of the head.

487
00:40:19,630 --> 00:40:25,890
After my husband John died, I got a call
from CIA headquarters that I had to

488
00:40:25,890 --> 00:40:28,150
come sign some insurance papers.

489
00:40:29,670 --> 00:40:35,770
I flew to Washington, and I was met by
very dear friends who were in Laos with

490
00:40:35,770 --> 00:40:42,590
us. And they said to me, Marty, why
don't you consider joining the CIA and

491
00:40:42,590 --> 00:40:44,810
a case officer like John would have
been?

492
00:40:45,770 --> 00:40:48,830
I realized that maybe that was a plan.

493
00:40:51,150 --> 00:40:55,310
I started work on July 3rd, and that was
John's birthday.

494
00:40:56,930 --> 00:41:02,110
It was a very satisfying career, but it
was at a certain time when I realized

495
00:41:02,110 --> 00:41:06,730
that I was going to have to tell my
children who I worked for.

496
00:41:07,010 --> 00:41:08,910
I had given them a story.

497
00:41:09,690 --> 00:41:11,690
Who is Marty Peterson to you?

498
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:13,470
That's my mom.

499
00:41:14,870 --> 00:41:19,450
Me and my sister were off for the day of
school, and we get a phone call from my

500
00:41:19,450 --> 00:41:23,140
mom. saying, hey, I need you to meet me
at this time.

501
00:41:23,820 --> 00:41:25,680
And that's all she kind of left us with.

502
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:33,400
I drove them to headquarters, and we
went into the front lobby.

503
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,640
My mom showed her badge, and we just
rolled right on into the CIA.

504
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,900
I ended up just learning how mom's a
spy.

505
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,140
And we all started laughing, but it was
like a nervous laugh.

506
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:55,260
There is a memorial to all the CIA
officers who have been killed in the

507
00:41:55,260 --> 00:41:59,720
of duty. And among them was the star for
John Peterson.

508
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:06,280
It was then that I told them about John
and all that he gave to our country.

509
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:14,440
And I told them about my long career and
how John was so

510
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,120
responsible for my...

511
00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:23,640
And then she showed me his star, and she
just pointed straight to it and said,

512
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,080
that's John's, with absolute conviction
that that was his.

513
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,600
It still gives me goosebumps. I'm
literally sitting here with goosebumps

514
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,800
now just thinking about that wall.

515
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:37,740
But you never see anything to hint that
Mom ever worked at the CIA or that that

516
00:42:37,740 --> 00:42:39,140
wall would ever mean anything to her.

517
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,800
I think she was relieved to give up that
secret finally to us and be able to

518
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:46,800
share that with us.

519
00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:52,140
I'm literally coming to terms still
every single day with the life that she

520
00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:54,060
versus the life that we knew.

521
00:42:57,540 --> 00:43:01,980
Marty Peterson is an inspiration to all
of us. Marty became one of our trainers.

522
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,460
She was a role model.

523
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:04,800
She was a mentor.

524
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,400
If women want to pursue careers in these
industries, then they absolutely

525
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,060
should. And it's really because of
people like Marty and the women who came

526
00:43:13,060 --> 00:43:14,060
before her.

527
00:43:14,430 --> 00:43:17,570
that it's made it into a more mainstream
career for females.

528
00:43:18,870 --> 00:43:25,130
Despite all the hard moments in my life,
the tragedy, the disappointment,

529
00:43:25,410 --> 00:43:31,830
the fear, the concern that maybe I made
a bad mistake,

530
00:43:32,010 --> 00:43:35,030
all of that, I would do it again.