| Summary/Abstract |
The agent Stombaugh was supposed to meet was named Adolf Tolkachev. Tolkachev was, or claimed to be, a senior designer employed at a secret defense facility, the Scientific Research Institute for Radio Engineering, which developed radars for military aircraft. The CIA considers him to have been its most important Soviet agent after Col. Oleg Penkovsky, a military intelligence officer who spied on the eve of the Cuban missile crisis.
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