The KGB Double Agent Who Stopped Armageddon with Ben Macintyre
An extraordinary story of espionage, betrayal and unlikely friendship during the Cold War.
This is an extraordinary story of espionage, betrayal and an unlikely friendship between spies on opposite sides - and of a man who risked his life and shaped the course of history, for a deeply personal and unlikely reason. In 1981, Washington feared a Soviet takeover of Iran could trigger military intervention and potentially a nuclear war. A KGB officer - Vladimir Kouzichkin - was stationed in revolutionary Iran. He was codenamed Agent Redwood and worked with British intelligence to expose the Soviet Union's operations in Iran... in exchange for a cure to a very private medical problem.
Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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