Cold War Tradecraft

Continuing on the topic of Cold War tradecraft from the last post, there is a great article on the CIA's Web site that outlines some very in-depth tradecraft used in Moscow in the 1970's and 1980's.

The article was written by Barry G. Royden, a former Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence, and first appeared in the agency's journal, Studies In Intelligence (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2003).

The article is about A. G. Tolkachev, a Russian engineer who volunteered to spy for the U.S., who was eventually compromised by a disgruntled CIA employee in 1985; Tolkachev was executed in 1986.

The article is 31 pages long, but it's worth the read; you can find it here.