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The Counterspy
Season 1 · Episode 4

The Counterspy

James Olson, CIA

I Spy

November 26, 201934m 26s

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Show Notes

The CIA thought it had thoroughly penetrated Cuban intelligence, with scores of agents and informants in Havana, until one day a Cuban officer walked into the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and broke the news—the agents were actually double agents.


James Olson was the CIA station chief in Vienna at the time. He would go on to serve as the agency’s head of counterintelligence.

 

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