The Widow Spy

[@davedrifter416]

One of my friends brought their niece from Poland to the US for a visit in the early 80’s. They took her to a grocery store…and she just stood there and wept. She never saw so much food in her life. Now in this country we have people clamoring for fascism and a totalitarian run government.

[@bobkonradi1027]

I'm just at the 21:50 mark and I have to say this is equal to the most enjoyable talk I've every heard. She just talks factually, she has an excellent method of explaining things and the information is just exactly on point.

[@ruthjocaccivajjio274]

Marty you are an inspiration to me and my son and we appreciate your service and are grateful for your safety and career. What an incredible first hand account of the Soviet Union. Thank you for sharing.

[@CynStone]

🎖🏆🏅🎖🏆🏅 WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE AMERICAN !!! I cant thank you enough for your work and dedication. Please keep telling your story. Cynthia 🌷 Texas

[@zigwil153]

I made the mistake of clicking on this. I had things I needed to get done. I watched the entire thing. Man, that was good.

[@jackharle1251]

Meanwhile, Mika Bezinsky proves her hate for America on Morning Joe. Joe, being the guy allegedly murdered the secretary he was diddling.

[@sophiesmith5922]

I loved her comment about language learning. "You just turn your brain off in English and learn these new sounds." Its surely much easier to learn like this, though much harder to be translating. Kudos to all live translators.

[@athomemediamom3469]

Wow. “Assume nothing in life, Everyday is a gift” Such wise advice. This is an incredible story. Thank You for your service It touches me deeply ❤🇺🇸

[@sandradevlin1344]

Thank you for quoting "assume nothing in life, every day is a gift " I needed to read this

[@jillcrowe2626]

What a fabulous lecture!!! Holy cow, you're the most courageous woman I've ever heard of!!! What a hero!

[@joeamorey4]

Rest in peace Trigon

[@user-pl9sk3ic1p]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@joeamorey4]

I like the fact that she says that she would not go back into service and that it is more dangerous now.

[@aztecacalendario]

Kudos ma'am for holding integrity dear to your heart and not selling American intel.

[@peterreston6478]

A great spy story from a very accomplished professional.

[@davewielhouwer11]

She is awesome. What a great listen. She is an excellent speaker

[@eddielindaa]

Thank u for fighting for freedom and democracy. U are a true hero

[@karencalderwood9058]

Thank you for standing up for our freedom!

[@gwendolyn7462]

The first woman---THAT WE ADMIT TO

[@melinda5777]

Thank You Mame for what you did for our Country! I was inthrawled by your story! GOD BLESS YOU! 🙏❤🇺🇸

[@a.k.maclellan54]

What courage, what resolve and determination to procure results. I admire you and your work. Albeit "the giant in the land" is the attitude, heart and genuine care with which it is given. Please accept a deep and honoring bow. Thank you again. Every possible blessing for you..

[@shafur3]

Great video and I thank her and all that protect us.🙏🙏🙏🌹

[@topiasr628]

This was an incredible presentation! So thankful to you guys for sharing! Wow!

[@mr19471985]

Worth the time to listen

[@maryatkinson2006]

If one doesn't write a book, the best time to tell your children may be never. In my teens I travelled Aeroflot a few times (in the 1970s they had cheap international flights) and I remember 1. the young guard on the tarmac who had no gloves despite the great cold and he was rubbing his hands together all the time 2. the sentry style box with a full length curtain, opposite the queue to show one's passport, from which a man suddenly emerged to talk to a passenger standing behind my sister and myself 3. the passport officer actually dared to smile when checking our passports because we were smiling 4. everyone, but everyone, was afraid, us and the Russians. They spoke nothing but Russian and passengers spoke other languages but no Russian. Communication was almost impossible. 5. there was no currency exchange so they took our pound sterling to pay for a coffee in the airport cafe and might give you Italian lira as change! The cashier was frightened and confused and certainly did not know the value of any foreign monies so it was bizarre, it was a lottery 6.reboarding one flight, we passed a young British woman who was desperately demanding her passport back so that she could get on our plane to go home to London but they ignored all her pleading 7. a friend of my sister was arrested, aged 17, when flying Aeroflot from UK to Australia (like us he was British and Australian) when he was in transit and held for 2 days in a locked hotel room until the Australian consul could finally get to see him and get him out! the reason: his father's family had fled Russia after WWII and gone to Australia - and this was real. He never flew Aeroflot again. 8. a few years later as a university student, one of my friends told me that he flew Aeroflot from Istanbul to London and had hidden some money in his shoe, while in the passport queue in Moscow. A man promptly sailed out of the sentry box to demand what he had put in his shoe! The money was confiscated. I was amazed he would even dare hide it while in that queue, the sentry box could clearly only be an observation post. Communist Russia governed by fear.

[@lynnhauenstein4136]

Mary thank you, I had heard these stories. My biggest fear flying or transiting Moscow were these. I am your age. I did travel 2018 to World cup. Very friendly, yes even cops smiled. Then now back to bad old days. I had plans to go back. But Covid but now I doubt allowed back in by both countries rules. So river cruise from St Petersburg to Moscow. Never happen for me. Just when we think we are all friends, crap happens.

[@zoundstreetop]

I was with you until you said “communist Russia ruled by fear.” Ditto the current regime. They may have had a brief respite from the horror under Yeltsin.

[@maryatkinson2006]

@@zoundstreetop Do not imagine that I think Putin has left Russia free. At least they can practise the Christian Russian Orthodox faith but it seems that Russia has always ended with autocratic rule. I do think that communism was the most soulless and soul destroying for the Russians but with Putin my expectation was once a KGB man, always a KGB man. I now think that he has dreams of historic Russia, and restoring some of the empire, however, he is not going about it in a good way. I sympathise with the dreams a nation may have of glory days - despite no nation's population being necessarily much able to share in wealth - so let us hope he ceases posioned umbrellas and so forth (not likely, though).

[@carolynvanderslott7575]

😊

[@Murgatroyd999]

What a Badass!!! Great lecture.

[@joeamorey4]

As a kid I grew up in a country like that where there wasn't much in the way of freedom in the country my father was assigned to I was a military brat for all practical purposes, without having to be on a base or having to deal with any of the actual military trappings.

[@heythave]

I wonder if the CIA ever gives Trigon’s money that’s been saved in his reserved account to his daughter.

[@michaelcavella4597]

Trigon will be an awesome movie one day I'm sure.

[@gwendolyn7462]

Martha Peterson??? WOW! thats a big name

[@maryatkinson2006]

Thank you, Trigon.

[@kateg7298]

Speak truth to power. That phrase is more gobbledygook. There is truth and there is untruth. Not my truth or your truth.

[@doboily2630]

Amazing, gave me goosebumps. Thank you for your service Ma'am. To the organizers: PLEASE next time have a chair set up - she had to stand there for 1:30 minutes! Thank you, great, great presentation.

[@v.dargain1678]

She survived to tell quite a bit of her first hand experience as a participant in the post WWII cold war .. Awesome . She is living history . Excellent political name dropping ! Nestlé makes the very best . . .

[@MrHristoB]

Well, she's such tough spy, standing for 1.5h should be nothing for her.... Got caught like a complete idiot... What a bunch of wankers you are...

[@joeamorey4]

I wonder if Ms Peterson still looks at what's happening in America and also realizes that the world outside looks at American now as a banana Republic a place with omigosh so many problems it really does come off like a Latin American country, and is no longer really a democratic, and free country.

[@Jinka1950]

You are so right George Soros, Obama, in the worldwide socialist powers have commandeered the country.

[@gwendolyn7462]

Truth: The best friends I have ever had was when I worked for the CIA via the USAF during Desert Storm OUT OF USAs (that means overseas) in the 1990s; I have never had any friends since then

[@GrumpyYank26]

I am sorry your friends are not with you now. I felt sad when i read your note. Maybe because i relate. Take good care of you, it is a beautiful world (even tho humans can really suck- we r also kind of amazing at times). I fight the idea that ultimately i am here alone. There doesnt seem tb a way around that. Weird. Breathe.

[@jillcrowe2626]

​@@GrumpyYank26 you're not alone. I'm here, and so is my husband. We've been happily married for 44 years. We adore each other. We've NEVER spoken to each other using insulting language. He has the highest moral standards of anyone I've ever met, except for my daughter. We don't drink because I'm a recovering alcoholic, since I was 24. I met him when I was 25, and chose him because he didn't drink. My kid quit drinking out of respect for.

[@melinda5777]

​@@GrumpyYank26AMEN! ❤

[@melinda5777]

​@@jillcrowe2626Your very blessed to have someone like that and for all these years. 🙏

[@melinda5777]

Your not alone. ❤

[@j.b.9581]

Despite the fact that 'Trigon' did indeed die, his family was able to honor him by burying him and saying goodbye. So many, so so many people who were Russian and who spied FOR the United States were summarily shot and buried in unmarked graves . . . . The families often NEVER KNEW when their loved ones died, or where they were buried. These Russians who were murdered for spying are my UNSUNG HEROES. May the Creator rest their souls with a special light . . . in the afterlife.

[@panrmk]

“A place where there’s one newspaper, where they denounce each other…” - welcome to today’s Russia. Déjà vu.

[@gwendolyn7462]

CIA for 32 years; that must have been a sweet job; yeah its easy when they are nice to you

[@richt6353]

A very Neat BRAVE LADY!!

[@dl7562]

Also integrity in the intelligence community has been lost. Not everyone I'm sure, but many.

[@gwendolyn7462]

PROBABLY: KGB smarter than CIA

[@michaelcavella4597]

so sorry to her that her daughter passed away.

[@ninirema4532]

Dear great gentle very sweet good morning and nicy have good day. Thank you very much.

[@uraniumu242]

So many things have not changed.

[@ninirema4532]

Very smart lecture 😅

[@marybeckham4495]

What happened to the money, his paycheck, stored away? Did it go to ex wife? Girlfriend? Children? Grandchildren?

[@robync7358]

Was wondering the same thing

[@Itwontfitn]

This lady is a beast. It gives me perspective as to how she joined the company. I can go to sleep to this kind of stuff.

[@stiwinter1]

How is she a beast?

[@lulumoon6942]

👀Just wish her lived message could be heard by confused youth. We are throwing away freedom!

[@gordonjohnston684]

Look back at past, so you can learn for the future.

[@scotttaylor4694]

Thx u for your service, God bless !!!!

[@benjy6358]

she really love herself huh, for someone that spill all the secret as soon as confronted by the enemies..

[@joeamorey4]

You were in good company that's where Raul wallenberg ended up.

[@user-py5kg4yw1r]

Да-Уж. Это больше чем я-бы хотел знать.

[@ninirema4532]

vert graet all dear gentle🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎

[@icarustheother8591]

You haven't been alive that long best comment ever especially in this scenario. OMG I'm laughing so hard right now I can't do this hang on a minute. Okay so literally the first thing to hit my brain bone on this one is that people just don't pay enough attention anymore. It's not about overthinking it it's about thinking it over perhaps how's that there's my contribution to this one wow this is crazy stuff but I like it LOL thank you have a great Sunday.

[@colinstewart1432]

Moscow Rules baby

[@icarustheother8591]

Tell Jonna hello world🥰🇺🇸

[@tonyfrench2574]

Fatuous. Where's the beef ?

[@icarustheother8591]

Very inspiring I've been trying to kick the front door in for a minute. Come on guys what's wrong. Threat assessment. Job please

[@joeamorey4]

I know there was filmed it was tiny film I was a big fan even as a kid about getting micro cameras making my own my question is how long was such film that's that small around 4 I'm wondering because my grandfather during the second world war the French underground film in a tiny little pin which can I mean it's like a tie clip or type in it's not very big but it has a secret compartment in it. So that's why I'm asking wondering if he used it from for micro dots or four actual film I mean I know how to make rolls of film much tinier it's something that I was always trying to make my own little tiny spy camera like you see in the magazines cuz I could never get them from the gumball machine so I decided to make my own and make my own little spy camera if you will as a kid and for that you had to have film right so I figured I'd have to make my own film so I got to be pretty good with cutting film pretty little holes in so that it would fit I'm just wondering if there wasn't clean my fooling around with film if there wasn't anything already on the market going back to the time of my grandfather... And yes I can imagine that lady here could be one of my parents she'd be a very young version my parents were old enough to be my classmates parents their parents their grandparents I'm handicapped I use voice-to-text my hands no longer work properly this makes sense because voice to text is notorious for putting words the way it thinks it should be and not the way it actually is.

[@j.b.9581]

Letticia, please find the book titled "A Woman of No Importance" by Sonia Purnell. The book goes into deep detail about the French Resistance\French Underground. And, you learn about the greatest spy whom you have never heard of, Virginia Hall. She is STILL a French National Hero. Virginia Hall saved France with her leadership and deep LOVE of FRANCE. READ IT.!!!

[@brigitalarsen7335]

And/or search bar her here on KZbin:)

[@HamzagicElvedin]

In my country, which is not Russia, we used to put cabbage into salted water over the winter and let it ferment there over a period of a few months. We used the water from it to drink as very delicious and healthy drink and we used the fermented cabbage to make many delicious dishes, which are valued more than the same dishes from fresh cabbage. To say that such cabbage is rotten is such ignorance and undermining of other’s culture and such bullshit I haven’t heard in a long time.

[@jillcrowe2626]

I'm from Southern California. We ALL love Kimchee, which is fermented cabbage from southeast Asia. It's expensive in the regular grocery store.

[@sophiesmith5922]

its fermented. Rotten is rotten, which is also, unfortunately, possible. (eeew... )

[@mastertechnician3372]

Cabbage, green tomatoes, Cucumbers, it is called Pickled Cabbage, and yes, it is used to cook Borscht in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and in many other countries. Kosher version of it is also in Jewish cuisine. In Chekhoslovakia it is also used to cook broiled meat.

[@mastertechnician3372]

@@jillcrowe2626 Kimchee is Korean Vinigrette. I like it too but it is a side to a salad, never a main course.

[@icarustheother8591]

I didn't know you before the Western but I didn't know you because I am is right there in Miami

[@spuffyfan3]

I love how Americans conflate totalitarianism with socialism / communism. Social democratic governments have been in power on / off in Europe but they would instead focus on rather extreme case studies and frankly failed experiments in communism. Yes these governments called themselves communists but that was / is largely propaganda and a facade. Yet, we willingly take what they say at face value in order to discredit an ideology that very few people truly understand / know about but every Tom, Dick & Harry has an opinion on. I'm neither for or against communism - but it's ridiculous how it has crystalised as some sort of bogeyman in the America psyche to the extent that it derails any meaningful programme of reform. With these so-called communist governments, granted the ideology may have come from Marx / Engels, over the years various schools of thought had emerged and obviously the ideas were adapted to suit different contexts. In Russia, the Bolsheviks were a fringe party even on the cusp of the Russian Revolution and to consolidate power they had to stamp down on the workers' councils. Then Lenin died followed by a lot of in-fighting, assassinations, etc. and the eventual winner Stalin was more a pragmatist rather than an ideologue / intellectual. Another added incentive for the frenetic pace of change in the interwar years was to keep up with the growing international attention. It was by and large an experiment and a lot was riding on its success. For the powers that be, the ends justified the means i.e. they allowed a lot of people to die in name of a building a supposedly communist utopia. Equally what emerged during the Cold War was more a product of the war years - the huge toll on the Russian war effort - rather than an ideologically driven plan But geez enuf already. I think the world will be a better place if people actually studied world history / world affairs rather than this tendency to take rather biased national histories at face value. And if anyone cares, I am not Russian and neither have I been to Russia. I have spent a large chunk of my adult life studying history

[@sophiesmith5922]

Correct, socialism is not totalitarianism. But many philosophies of Marxism push totalitarianism. Sooo....its all about who is in charge and whether they are wise or abusive of power.

[@icarustheother8591]

And talk to text is a bad deal if you don't edit. Also how can we figure out how to get connotation into texting?

[@dl7562]

This is a lady that loved her husband.

[@icarustheother8591]

67 you got to be kidding me

[@gwendolyn7462]

I think she said she is 72, not 67

[@mastertechnician3372]

Most of what you say Martha is on KZbin, Including real footage of your changing your cloths, arrest, cussing and fighting Alpha Agents in Moscow, in a park, and Trygone ( Tryanone - trice unknown) his arrest, Pilar Barcala, and of course Aldrich Ames. Compared to Top Hat Ogorodnik was a mediocre spy. Cold war real life dramas were entertaining. Today we do not see much of anything interesting.

[@TheBezugly]

Россказни про долбление черепов и про необорудованные больницы - в Москве 80-х годов - так это вообще полная чушь и ложь. Где угодно, но только не в Москве. )))) "Вымоченная в солёной воде капуста" - одно из блюд национальной кухни, называется "квашенная капуста". Вываривание мяса с костями использовалось для приготовления "холодца". Что ж, кому-то было не до изучения русской кухни - "полезный фастфуд" на родине вам в помощь. :) В дипломатические магазины бабка ходила, потому что импортных западных товаров, к которым она привыкла, в СССР практически не было. Как и торговли за доллары. Такие товары были только в валютных магазинах типа "Березки". А рассуждения о свободе так вообще неуместны. Наказывали за последовательную антигосударственную деятельность - как Солженицына. Наверное, тёте следовало бы почитать "Исповедь экономического убийцы", признаниях отставных ЦРУшников о пытках, общеизвестную информацию о наркоторговле ЦРУ в Латинской Америке, чтобы точно знать, какую "свободу" несло её государство. Ваша свобода - это свобода грабить весь мир и убивать людей "второго сорта".

[@alexanderspektr8075]

Марта плохой шпион. Проработала в Москве с 5 ноября 1975 года по 15 июля 1977 года. Это очень мало. Была поймана 15 июля 1977 года, как ребенок. Женщины шпионы это хорошо только в кино…. (Martha is a bad spy. She worked in Moscow from November 5, 1975 to July 15, 1977. This is very small. She was caught on July 15, 1977, as a child. Women spies are only good in movies....)

[@jT-qn4pc]

How is she a bad spy? a traitor in our cia gave up trigon and subsequently got her thrown out of Moscow the. She had a long career as an intelligence officer…. You guys are so funny you know you lost the coldwar right??

[@maryatkinson2006]

And what are you? a good one?

[@lynnhauenstein4136]

Now stop being a butt hurt old KGB man.

[@gwendolyn7462]

You know I was thinkjng the same thing

[@7gu85g]

​@@jT-qn4pc Man, your country is messed up by leftists 😅😅😅

[@obwan398]

Why do they speak of the cold war as past tense?

[@light-yi2me]

Cause now it’s hot war;) us is technically in war with Russia.

[@panrmk]

“A place where there’s one newspaper, where they denounce each other…” - welcome to today’s Russia. Déjà vu.