KGB Espionage, Theft, and Murder: The Farewell Dossier - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Farewell dossier, as we see how both the American CIA and the French tried to recruit the KGB colonel Vladimir Vetrov
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[@beepboop204]

im for sale but no one is buying!

[@queenofdramatech]

I love reading Jonna Mendez's book, "The Moscow Rules." She is ex CIA and talks about what it was like to be a CIA agent in Moscow during the cold war. She describes tactics and tools used to outwit the KGB. It is so amazing!

[@Mortimer_Duke]

Even more fascinating was Jonna Mendez’s 2020 follow-up titled “Looks Like Russian Disinformation To Me”.

[@queenofdramatech]

@@Mortimer_Duke Never read it! But can't seem to find it online. Can you possible post a link?

[@militustoica]

It was mostly Tony, actually. She wrote about 15-20% of it id you read the intro carefully. Amazing woman and man, though.

[@KannabisMajoris]

Just keep in mind they have a vested interest in making themselves and the CIA look good. She has a lot of interesting stories on KZbin videos

[@queenofdramatech]

@@KannabisMajoris I agree. I know there is propaganda in there. But the tactics are still fascinating.

[@samwill7259]

Imagine living in Vienna in the cold war. Your neighbor? spy. Your boss? spy. That cute bellhop at the hotel? spy. Every third person you meet on the street is a spy for someone or other and you're just trying to eat your damn schnitzel on your lunch break for god's sake

[@Edimonde]

Austria still feels the effects of being a spyhub in the cold war. Its intelligence department is so rife with russian spies and corrupted personell that its been called an "FSB field office" by the european intelligence community.

[@PaulZyCZ]

I went with friends to roadtrip through northern Romania, Moldova and... Transnistria back in 2015. At that time it wasn't typical tourist location, so we had not only the 7hour limit to eff-off, but also some question in flawless English from a pair which seemed suspiciously curious why we were curious in Transnistria. Well, they had soldiers with machineguns at customs and mentions of KGB here and there.

[@MicaiahBaron]

Great Tetris jokes. Gaming Historian probably has the best documentary going into details on the Soviet Union and Tetris. Always here for that content.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

An excellent historical coverage of that important part of hardware and software competition between the USA 🇺🇸 and USSR during the Cold War...poverty is always obligating agents' patriotic conscience ....

[@---uf2zl]

Fascinating video! We owe Vetrov a lot.

[@onesandzeros]

"the long awaited straight tetromino" lolol In the last live stream, someone mentioned Toshiba in the context of the cold war. They were probably referring to the Toshiba Kongsberg scandal. You guys might be interested in it as a topic. Thanks for the great videos!

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

The Cold War, can you please make a video on the history of Portugal during the Salazar regime. Can you also please make a video on the history of Macau during the Cold War. Thank you very much.

[@padawanmage71]

He freaked out and killed a man because he was ‘drinking champagne’ with a woman in a car? Is that Cold War double speak for boinking in the backseat? 😊

[@tremendousbaguette9680]

You really researched the subject this far to find a clip of Joe Dassin? I'm stunned.

[@wiktorberski9272]

Really interesting. Thank you cery mucfh

[@TheMormonPower]

What a pair of classical Russian names. Svetlana and Vladimir...You just can't get any more Russian than that 😮

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating.

[@andyreznick]

Happy Canada Day, David.

[@michealoflaherty1265]

I love cold wsr spy stories. Keep up the good work!

[@Bettytinish]

I would love to try the CON, but I admit I am bad at it. It sounds great

[@gavinneedham2013]

I would love to see a video on Operation RYaN.

[@pyeitme508]

Netflix & Chill... WHAT?! 0:04

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Its paid promotion...😂

[@kgizzle92]

One of the most successful double agents of the Cold War being brought down because he was horny for a Secretary is insane!

[@angheloiumarius]

Try to research: Pacepa ( Romania)

[@smhorse]

Oh God, Mihai Ion Pacepa - the man who more or less single-handedly undermined and/or destroyed Romania's overseas spy network. Fascinating man. He defected to the US and forever after lectured on the subject of espionage, amongst other subjects. Ceausescu was reportedly so incensed by Pacepa that he seriously considered sending agents to try to liquidate him.

[@robbielewis4740]

is there any record as to what Confession of a traitor actually said?

[@brokenbridge6316]

Wow. Too bad their's no movie about this affair. Because it sounds like a Greek tragedy.

[@ggbpartystarter5958]

PACEPA?

[@genesorianoautor3973]

It's nasty, spy shit like this for which I originally subscribed.

[@Zorglub1966]

Le contrôleur de Vetrov s'appelait Clouzeau, pas Prévost.

[@henrimichelpierreplana4332]

Peter sellers was a spy?

[@Zorglub1966]

@@henrimichelpierreplana4332 Ben oui! C'est bien connu!😄

[@F_Tim1961]

L'Inspecteur Clouseau de la Securité francaise - a ta service !! (avec un Man-kee en assistante)

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Tetris😂

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Do the KGB used the shoe trick again. They (or their predecessor) used it when visiting RR when we sold then the Nene engines.

[@JonWintersGold]

Would'ya imagine that! All this time i thought Tetris was a fun game! Turns out it was one big Soviet PsyOp.

[@F_Tim1961]

What is depicted here with Vetrov at the end is not accurate. According to the French version, he sent a letter to his wife telling her to contact the Fr embassy and get Prevost to go to Moscow where he thought something might be worked out. Svetlana immediately passed this letter on to the KGB. Vetrov may have defeated the normal mail system when he moved the letter to his wife. TE Fidler

[@beepboop204]

[@JenniferinIllinois]

I always knew Tetris wasn't just a game but in fact a Soviet plan to destabilize western economies. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Mrgunsngear]

🤙🏽

[@zight99user]

They should had also executed the judge who gave him 12 years

[@michaeldunham3385]

12 years for murder ???? If it was the US you could add a 0 to that

[@nvelsen1975]

Uh, big ol' nope. If you're a rich woman, that's 0 weeks in prison, sometimes not even an arrest at all (such as when a rich woman in Texas opened fire on two homeless people and she wasn't arrested until the media kicked up a frenzy). But if you're a poor man murdering rich woman, that's 300 years in prison, or more. In Russia however, murder is outright legal, as long as you pay off the Powers That Be.

[@Healermain15]

Unless you're a cop of course. Then you multiply by 0.

[@andyreznick]

Well, as it turned out it was the time-tested Russian system of twelve cents worth of lead to the back of the head.

[@BTScriviner]

​@@Healermain15Or if the person you murdered was black or brown.

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@BTScriviner most of the people in prison for murdering black or brown people are themselves black or brown. Most murders are committed against people the murderers know or live near. I would guess that most white people that murder do so against white people because that is who they associate with. The internet gives a skewed impression of actual crime in that it only reports those crimes that they think will sell airtime, and they ignore a lot of others, thereby giving a false view of crime in general.

[@djlondon7956]

David I think you're confusing imply and infer in this video. Just FYI.

[@spartanx9293]

3:54 it's almost as if capitalism incentivizes more than communism does who knew what offering proper incentives actually gives people a reason to offer better products

[@halmstadrapbeats8084]

Yep, not like France being one of the foremost imperial powers for centuries while Eastern Europe remained technologically repressed has anything to do with it at all. Its almost as if communism tends to arise in nations that are already poor and underdeveloped thus making it harder to close the gap even after a communist takeover, you know, because the population was already poor and lacked access to basic necessities? its almost as if capitalism incentivizes the extraction of natural resources to the detriment of the local populations in underdeveloped regions such as countries in Africa, The Americas and Asia, who knew that modern day capitalist greatpowers benefitted for centuries through colonialism. Surely not capitalisms fault that much of africa is still underdeveloped? I mean, it was ruled by capitalist power right, they should be utopias?

[@thorthewolf8801]

​@@9skyman945That doesnt maximize profit as very few people will buy your product.

[@MrChewie1138]

@@halmstadrapbeats8084 it's not like Russia wasn't an imperial power...

[@halmstadrapbeats8084]

@@MrChewie1138 they weren't a colonial power. For much of history Europe was a backwater compared to Asia and the Middle East, we even call this period the "Dark Ages". That started to change for some reason around 1400's. And Russia being an imperial Power is kind of irrelevant as they weren't communist. The fact is that once the Soviet Union was established the republics were not nearly as developed as Western Europe. Comparing them in this way simply does not make sense. Again, many African, Asian and Latin American countries are capitalist. France and the UK controlled much of Asia and Africa even after the second World War. Sure, France or the UK was a nice place to live, but how true is that for much of Africa? These places were parts of the British and French Empires. Wealth and resources were extracted from these places for centuries in the name of profit. Its still being done to this day. If you claim the wealth and prosperity of Western Europe is an example of the success of capitalism the you are by extension claiming that colonialism was a success and that the suffering of these areas of this world to this very day does not really matter. Paris is nice, so who cares that Sudan isnt nearly as developed or prosperous? Surely Sudan isnt an example of capitalism?

[@MrChewie1138]

​@@halmstadrapbeats8084 True, but we aren't talking about the USSR in the 1920s, by 1970s it was an industrialised superpower and a military peer of the US. That the Soviet life despite that was pretty shit is a testament to the failure of their system, and can't be excused by pointing to the evils of colonialism.

[@nemanjajovanov]

I have just one question. WHO THE HELL EATS RICE AND BEANS?

[@hairy_putin]

Admittedly me (I am poor and cannot cook). Just make sure to add grated cheese and mix. Lots of carbs, lots of protein.