In 1964, three months after President Kennedy's assassination, a KGB major secretly contacts a young CIA officer with information about the KGB's connection to Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, and seeks his help in defecting. This unusual Cold War story unfolds as the CIA searches for a suspected Soviet mole who has infiltrated their organization.
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The daring escape of a former KGB agent to the West in 1962 revealed the innermost secrets of the Soviet Union's espionage agency during the Cold War, inspired by the remarkable true story of Yuri Nosenko.