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 ...

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

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 ...

Adolf Tolkachev was no typical spy. He was an engineer and designer, not part of the military or intelligence realm — and not even a member of the Communist Party.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hoffman’s billion-dollar spy is Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet radar engineer who grew weary of his regime’s failed promises and propaganda and became the first active Soviet citizen working as a ...

Adapted from the book by David E. Hoffman and produced by Walden Media and Weed Road, the feature project is based on the true story of Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man whose extraordinary bravery ...