During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the United States was the beneficiary of staggeringly important intelligence information transmitted through the CIA by Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet engineer who ...

Initially, the CIA was suspicious of Soviet aviation expert Adolf Tolkachev. But he earned the agency's trust — and provided blueprints, documents and plans that were crucial to the U.S.

Over a period of several years, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer overseeing a radar development lab at a Soviet state-run defense institute, passed the US information and schematics related to the ...

The spy was Adolf Tolkachev, a middle-aged engineer at the Scientific Research Institute for Radio Engineering (NIIR) with a specialty in radar systems.

President Trump at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., on May 17. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) From 1977 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev relayed secret information about Soviet radar and ...

The wily Russian tweaked the CIA by giving his double agent the improbable first name Adolf. When the KGB exposed its hoax in 1990 it noted that the first thing Tolkachev asked the CIA for was a ...

Adapted from the acclaimed book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, Billion Dollar Spy follows Adolf Tolkachev (Crowe), who in real life risked everything to pass thousands of pages ...

Adolf G. Tolkachev had to approach the CIA seven times over the next year or so, once even banging on the car of the Moscow station chief to get his attention, before they finally accepted his ...