[0092-2300] Oleg Penkovsky – Audio Briefing (MP3)

Description

The walls have ears in this 4-hour 22-minute audio documentary that reconstructs Oleg Penkovsky’s dangerous double life through reconstructed surveillance tapes, intercepted radio transmissions, and dramatized debriefings with CIA handlers. From the first brush contact with American students on a rainy Moscow street to the Minox camera sessions where he photographed Soviet war plans, this immersive audio experience uses binaural recordings to place you inside the GRU headquarters during the Crisis’ most tense hours. Features newly uncovered audio of KGB interrogation techniques and the actual BBC World Service broadcasts Penkovsky used to verify his handlers’ code phrases. Full-length runtime delivers unprecedented access to the sounds of Cold War espionage.