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The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | The Stranger In Red Square | 1

2024/7/9
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In August 1960, American student Eldon Cox encounters a mysterious Russian man in Moscow who claims to have vital information about Soviet nuclear secrets. This encounter sets off a chain of events that leads to the CIA considering the man, Oleg Penkovsky, as a potential asset.

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It’s 1960. The world hangs on the brink of nuclear war. But in Moscow, a man’s about to emerge from the shadows with an offer for the CIA. His name is Oleg Penkovsky and he wants to supply the US with the Soviet Union’s greatest nuclear secrets. But is he for real or part of an elaborate trap?

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