2016年1月2日 · Tolkachev provided access to information of a sort never before seen in its Soviet operations, in terms of both its huge value to US military planners and its highly technical nature. In addition, Tolkachev was to be handled extensively via face-to-face meetings in Moscow rather than by deaddrops, which were normally used for Russian assets ...

2023年7月27日 · Bad title wording but I recently read about Adolf Tolkachev during the cold war who leaked critical documents on missiles and MiG projects. Apparently this led to the Soviets completely redesigning their jets and radars and missiles due …

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2015年9月24日 · Adolf Georgievich Tolkachev Адольф Георгиевич Толкачёв (1927 in Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan – September 24, 1986) was a Soviet Union electronics engineer who provided key documents to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the years between 1979 and 1985.

2020年7月12日 · Tolkachev was ultimately betrayed by Aldrich Ames, a CIA employee in the Soviet division who had secretly worked for the KGB for years. Tolkachev was arrested at a roadblock, forced into a KGB van, and hauled away to prison. Three months later he was given a show-trial, found guilty, and executed all on the same day.

2019年5月21日 · That’s badass, and a lot of badass people have held that name. Mathematicians, zoologists, monarchy; many awesome people have held the name Adolf. But beyond all of that (IMO) is one brass-balled man by the name of Adolf Tolkachev. If you don’t know Adolf Tolkachev, please read up on this BAMF.

2018年12月22日 · TIL of a soviet engineer named Adolf Tolkachev who from 1979-1985, leaked soviet military secrets to the CIA which saved the United States hundreds of millions of dollars in military research. He was therefore dubbed "The Billion Dollar Spy."

2021年6月24日 · A year after being fired, he was arrested following a violent brawl. By later that same year (1984), he'd become a stringer for the KGB. And a year after that, a defecting senior KGB officer accused him and another agent of exposing Tolkachev, leading to his execution. But, only three months later, that same KGB turncoat returned to the USSR ...

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