Fragment of an interview with President of the Independent Analytical Center for Geopolitical Studies “Borysfen Intel”, Doctor of Military Sciences, Lieutenant General Victor Hvozd on the ICTV channel, dedicated to the role of intelligence in world history.
An Intelligence Officer or a Spy?
What drives a person who becomes a spy? Is it possible to make a separate analysis of ideological, purely mercantile motivations, or those when a person is forced to cooperate under the threat of revealing of compromising materials?
Illegal (deep-cover) agents are in fact just the highest level, they are the people who are most at risk.
Methods of the exchange of information between agents: dead drops, secret meetings… how it worked and how it works today…
Intelligence in the Comintern, Richard Sorge, the Cambridge Five, Aldridge Ames, Oleg Penkovsky…
Watch the movie (in Ukrainian):
To be continued…
