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4. Interview in French Mediapart: USA-RUSSIA: THE WAR OF THE SPIES (4/4) Cia's first spy in Moscow: Martha Peterson tells
CIA agents stationed in Moscow during the Cold War knew the "rules." On the spot, they would be constantly followed by the KGB. Like Martha Peterson, the first American woman sent to Soviet ground. For Mediapart, she tells the story behind the scenes. Patricia Neves August 24, 2022 at 10:53 am
New York, New York (United States) – Martha Peterson, 77, could look like the character of the old lady of the Titanic. The kind to hide behind her glasses and blonde curls, an incredible story. Just listen to the sound of her voice, the excitement palpable even today when she evokes her past. As if everything had happened yesterday: as if the hands of the KGB agents, who grabbed him on July 15, 1977 in a Moscow street, were still placed on his body, on his chest, trying to contain it, tearing off his headset system secretly broadcasting the opponent's radio messages.
Première espionne de la CIA à Moscou : Martha Peterson raconte
TRIGON / TRIANON - ТРИГОН - ТРИАНОН Books and Websites
- The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman
- Spycraft – The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton
- Spies by Marc Favreau
- The Confessions of a Spy: The Story of Aldrich Ames by Peter Early
- Secrecy and Democracy: by Stansfield Turner
- The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew
- Moscow Rules by Tony Mendez and Jonna Mendez - podcast interview by Greg Myre:
- - 'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB NCPR , June 10, 2019 (Morning Edition)
- The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez
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Spy Dust by Antonio J. Mendez
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The C.I. Desk by Christopher Lynch C-Span podcast
- The Book of Honor by Ted Gup
- TASS is Authorized to Announce by Julian Semyenov / ТАСС Уполномочен заявить, Юлиан Семенов (in Russian)
- Agent Codename TRIANON by Igor Peretrukhin / Агентурная кличка - ТРИАНОН Автор - Игорь Перетрухин (in Russian only)
- Code Name: TRIGON: The Story of How I Discovered My Father was a CIA Agent by Alejandra Suarez Barcala (in Spanish)
- Secret History of a Russian Spy in Bogota by Alberto Donadio; Historia secreta de un espía ruso en Bogotá (in Spanish) 1 January 2014 Article on Donadio / in English
- First Directorate, KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, debriefed Karl Koecher in Prague and believed he was a double agent.
- Special Tasks, Lt. General Pavel A. Sudoplatov / Спецоперации. Лубянка и Кремль 1930-1950 годы, Павел Анатольевич Судоплатов; pg. 263 there is a brief comment about use of toxins, "Agents in the years of the Cold War were often equipped with poisons; Aleksandr D. Ogorodnik, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official who was a CIA agent in Moscow, committed suicide with poison in the course of his arrest in 1977."
ARTICLES
- Soviets Allege In Spy Killing American's Role by Kevin Klose, Washington Post Foreign Service 13 June 1978 also WP
- Woman linked to CIA by David Shipler New York Times 13 June 1978
- Gromyko Said to Warn U.S. on Russians' Arrest, AP, Washington Post 13 June 1978
- Spices Under Glass by Fred Barabash, Washington Post 15 June 1978
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Soviet Harassment a Yardstick for Ties by Kevin Klose, Washington Post Foreign Service 15 June 1978
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Soviet alleges CIA spies ran operation in Moscow, AP: / Washington Post June 1978
- The Girl Next Door Comes in From the Cold Washington Post
- Incredible double-life of the U.S. beauty accused of killing for the CIA, Star June-July 1978
- Detente - Damage Control, Newsweek Magazine 26 June 1978
- Episodes in a Looking-Glass War, TIME Magazine 26 June 1978
- Former CIA spy gives her side of lives on the line, Star News Wilmington 10 Mar 2012
- Russian and American spies square off Adam Goldman, Associated Press May 17, 2013
- The Widow Was a Spy, Drew Magazine Spring 2016
- I Work for the CIA - UK Daily Mail 19 June 2016
- Mom reveals her secret spy life to kids, CNN, TRIGON
- Spies Passing in the Night, CIA News
- Ex-CIA officer sheds light on 1977 spy arrests in Moscow, by J Fitsanakis
- TRIGON Numbers Station: The Case of Alexandr Ogorodnik by Māris Goldmanis
- Secret Victories of the KGB - PBS interview with KGB Colonel Igor Prelin, now author, who has appeared in Russian documentaries and the TV serial on TRIGON and Martha Peterson Shadow Ops, Codename TRIGON. Prelin: "Who told you that the Cold War is over? It is not over, it just has taken new shapes and new forms, and we are still far away, we're still on a long road till we're open to each other-our hearts and all our doors. It's a little bit early to disclose all our secrets, neither Americans nor especially Brits are anxious to do so."
Videos and Podcasts
Video made in Skara, Sweden, featuring Marti on her life in the CIA.
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The Team House: youtube, The first female CIA case officer in Moscow, Marti Peterson the Widow Spy 16 July 2021. Contains numerous added details of Marti's experiences in Laos and Moscow. Co-hosted by Jack Murphy and Dave Parke, former rangers and military affairs experts
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The Team House podcast of above
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Shadow Ops: Codename TRIGON on The American Heroes (formerly Military) Channel
- CNN Special Series: Declassified – Season 1 Episode 1 TRIGON: KGB Chess Game; background interview Marti with Mike Rogers, Wolf Blitzer, Mark Kelton, and KGB General Oleg Kalugin, introduced by Jeff Zucker
- The C.I. Desk by Christopher Lynch C-Span podcast
- Caught by the KGB, SPYCAST – International Spy Museum podcast archive
- SPYTEK: The Deadly Game video - to be added
- Inside the KGB video - to be added
- BBC Channel 4 Radio podcast Spies archive
- Reel vs Real on The Americans TV Series, at UCLA with producer and actors, article
- I Spy podcast on TRIGON Foreign Policy Magazine May 2020
- A Female Spy in the Cold War C-Span – University of Florida, Bob Graham Center
- Interview PBS – WHQR Coastline Radio Broadcast
- SPY: The Exhibit (Interview with Martha Peterson) Franklin Institute, Jun 12, 2013
- 'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watch of the KGB, NPR, 10 June 2019
- Discovery Channel 1995 – Top Secret Missions - to be added
- Active Measures and political disinformation, Thomas Rid / Активные мероприятия / podcasts parts 1 and 2 / Wikipedia for Active Measures / Russian википедия Активные мероприятия
- TRIGON | Shortfilm | Darmstadt, February 2020 Leopold Hotz: "...this is the one I wrote and directed. It briefly shows the life of Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a Soviet diplomat who worked as a spy for the American and Colombian Government during the Cold War. His codename: TRIGON. Shot on campus of Hochschule Darmstadt Mediencampus Dieburg."
Other websites which might be of interest:
Active Measures and Digital Disinformation podcast parts 1 and 2 Thomas Rid
- A history of Active Measures with historical examples
Википедия - Активные Мероприятия
TV documentaries:
Shadow Ops series on the American Heroes Channel AMHC, Covername Trigon
CNN DECLASSIFIED Season 1 Series 1 TRIGON sample