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Billion Dollar Spy Sophia Wyant
Characters
Richard Helms
Mr. Tolkachev
Willing to take risks as being a spy for the Soviets
KGB deception operation
Wants greatest possible harm on the Soviet Union
Electronics engineer
Burton Gerber, Soviet division chief
Revolutionary politician of the Soviet Union
Guilsher
Tolkachev's first case officer
Marti Petersen
Works two jobs as part time in the CIA and part time in the U.S Embassy
David Rolph,, second case officer
Ogorodnik
Agent of the CIA, gets arrested for holding secrets with the CIA and the KGB
Commits suicide after being caught
These are generally the main characters
Hoffman
Portrays the greatest amount of espionage
Quotes
"Post nuclear guerrilla force" - what the CIA named a program to train 5 thousand people against the Soviets
Themes
Ideaology
Political theories
Betrayal
Choosing to be disloyal to your country
Alienation
A state in which people are put among-st
Symbols
The term billion
Maybe symbolizing strength and power?
Codes with hidden messages
Used for sending threats and secrets
Operational tradecraft
Thoughts and questions
Who is the billion dollar spy and why is this referred as the name?
What is the true meaning of the billion dollar spy?
Intelligence activities can be seen as valuable and extremely expensive
Essential Questions
What does the "billion" in the name represent?
I feel like it represents the agent who set out for the greater good ate the biggest risks
It turned out that billion represents how much money one would pay to receive secret information
Who it involves
The United States
CIA
The Soviet Union
KGB
What's the main idea?
The CIA was created after the attacks of Pearl Harbor to unify power of the government
Plot
So far, an agent for the CIA stationed in Moscow is out one night when he is interrupted with a strange note in his car. He is suspicious of the KGB trap
People who wroked in the CIA are complaining about working under the rules of Moscow
Both the CIA and the KGB are being pressed for answers as to what happened within the conflic
Both sides of the CIA and the KGB are sending their best known agents to either sides to find more answers
The CIA ran multiple espionage operations against the KGB
His identity is exposed after somebody among the CIA turned in his identity to the KGB as betrayal
Time and setting
The Cold War
American government
Locations
Moscow
London
What I learned
The national idea of how intelligence activities are mostly valued as expensive,
People who spy or betray are willing to take consequences in order to recive the accolades and money as they wish