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