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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the sixyear relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and engineer Adolf Tolkachev who spied on the Soviet Union for the United States. Tolkachev was one of the most productive CIA spies during the Cold War persistent in his undertakings to ensure the undoing of the Soviet Unions aviation developments which he personally had a hand in. He was allegedly betrayed by a disgruntled former CIA agent who gave his identity to the Soviet secret police the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB).