I appreciate your stories. I was friends with a CIA Agent and his wife many years ago. He had been in Vietnam and some of his friends had been at the same party.
The fact that the CIA allowed a 10-year backlog on polygraphs and didn't make eliminating the backlog an administrative and financing priority, suggests to me that they didn't want to uncover any moles in the first place.
I think I finally found the last piece of my YT puzzle. These are the videos I never knew I was missing. Excellent job sir, excited to see what's cooking for year 2024!
❤great videos and in answer to the question-I don’t know why there’s not more people watching it’s because they are thick they would rather be on tick tock or celebrity videos and stupid things like that!!
What an excellent, well-constructed and thoroughly satisfying video. I'm delighted to have found this while searching the web for real-life stories of Cold War espionage. I was subscribed by the time the video ended. I'm looking forward to checking out more! Thank you!
Best wishes to you as well...🤟 But, really a big thank you for posting this. History, always and definitely more interesting than the other thing. 😉 31:25
What an informative and interesting video! Loved the content, I’ve read about all of these events in the past and your editing, narration and commentary are top notch Sir. I’m a new sub and just wanted to pass along my respect for a job well done.
Hi5 on your due diligence & thanks for sharing it! Excellent delivery too🏆 "What is conviction? How do we identify it? How can we know that we should be guided by it? Is it to be found in the heart, or in the intellect? And what if it is only to be found in the one and not the other?" le Carré - Absolute Friends
Excellent video! Everything about this was great. What truly grabbed my attention was the mans accent in the beginning. Did anyone else notice a lovely Australian accent with a hint of a Louisiana southern accent? Especially with words like "CIA" and "NINEteen eighty FIve"
Dude, your videos are great. I have watched many of them and enjoyed every one. But I HAVE to figure out where that accent is from. To this American ear, it sounds almost British...except for the way your pronounce your short "i"s and "y"s. Those, you pronounce like an American from Alabama. It's neat...but it is pouncing all over my curiosity. If you read your comments, tell us where your accent originates.
I do read all the comments on my videos, and so many people have said the same thing as you - that I sound British mixed with a bit of southern US 😂 I am in fact originate from South Africa, but am now living in the UK.
Looked interesting but sadly there's some kind of banal music thing happening in the background. Gave up in less than a minute. Try recording in a quieter location,
Even though your videos are interesting, I find myself having a headache watching them. Spies usually end with a painful death or a long prison term. I do not like the energy the profession emits.
Why so many ads? Literally every 2 mins there’s an ad. Listening on the RUclips app so can’t use Adblock. I know you need to make money but can you remove a few?
You guys need a new AI to narrate your videos, becaus this bots speech impediment is seriously aggravating. It literally can't pronounce a single wordd correctly.
George Blake significantly aided the Soviet Union, resulting in considerable harm and adversely affecting numerous lives. Despite his ostensibly English name, appearance, and attire, he professed a lack of belonging to England, even though he had embraced and adopted aspects of English culture. He said he did not betray England. Yes, he did.
Just had your channel recommended to me. I found the first 2 stories I listened to fascinating. I recognized bits and pieces of those stories as in the 80's and 90's I was in my 20's to 30's. Thank you for such quality work, very easy to listen to and don't need to actually watch the video if you are busy doing your daily chores.
❤❤It is a life of deceit and misery with no family ties.I would tell young people never join CIA or KGB (FSB) as only way out is death or promotion.Dezernsky imprisoned 23 years in exile to run re education camps 5.-6 years & his life was shortened by prison.Any other job is better!!
I understand why Aimes did what he did. Sounds like management was constantly picking at him because he wasn’t in their cliques. Also that pic of the polygraph interviewer. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oleg Gordievsky's is unique. He spied not for money l. But because he thought freedom was worth defending. And horror was worth averting. A great Russian and probably a better person than any of us.
This is great because I need to watch all of these more than once anyway, all of their stories are so complicated. These stories have everything, much better than tv. Thank you again!
Thank you everyone for a wonderful 2023! Wishing you all an excellent start to the new year 🕵️ - PT
And you also!
Stumbled upon your channel via RUclips suggestions and for the first time I'm glad to have!
Excellent work!
Thank you for your amazing documentaries, may you have an excellent 2024 too! ✨
Where's the other guy. The narrator?
I'm sure it's safe to say that we appreciate all your hard work!!!!!
Feliz año nuevo🎉
Dmitri Polyakov’s arrest video is more and more heartbreaking as you learn more and more about the man. I’m very ‘un-proud’ of what Ames did.
I appreciate your stories. I was friends with a CIA Agent and his wife many years ago. He had been in Vietnam and some of his friends had been at the same party.
4 hours? you madman!! i love it
Right.... when you double one story, and have several other duplication's as well.
Wow! Almost done watching this and I didn't even notice. Good work!
Omg.
Loved it!!!
Loved it!
The fact that the CIA allowed a 10-year backlog on polygraphs and didn't make eliminating the backlog an administrative and financing priority, suggests to me that they didn't want to uncover any moles in the first place.
I assume most of them are moles themselves that’s why
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
Polygraph is rubbish. Not a scrap of evidence that it works.
What the CIA releases for public information is directed at our enemies. I do not put much weight on these.
How does Ames not get the Death Penalty? People have done far less and put to death.
I think I finally found the last piece of my YT puzzle. These are the videos I never knew I was missing. Excellent job sir, excited to see what's cooking for year 2024!
That's great to hear! Thank you for joining, and I look forward to seeing you around these parts next year!
This was incredible! Thank you for feeding my spy documentary obsession! Well done. 👍🏼
I don’t know how you don’t have way more subscribers this content is amazing honestly, keep it up 👏
❤great videos and in answer to the question-I don’t know why there’s not more people watching it’s because they are thick they would rather be on tick tock or celebrity videos and stupid things like that!!
The Portland spy ring was one of my favorite spy novels from this channel. Great work this year Mr Thompson. Looking forward to 2024.
Excellent. Informative. Very watchable. Thank you.
Such a captivating upload.
What an excellent, well-constructed and thoroughly satisfying video. I'm delighted to have found this while searching the web for real-life stories of Cold War espionage. I was subscribed by the time the video ended. I'm looking forward to checking out more! Thank you!
This was Absolutely Fascinating I listened from start to finish 10/10
Congratulations on a well thought out channel. Hoping your content keeps it's high quality in 2024. Great work so far. Long may it continue. 👌😻👍
Thanks Colin! Lots more in store for next year.
Thank you. Watching from Alaska.
Thank you, again. Watching from Alaska.
Addicting! 😊 I’m rewatching.
Happy Holidays! Keep up the great research and presentation, thanks from everyone
Your work is terrific. Thankyou for sharing it!
Great STUFF, love it! Thank you so very much!!!
I am enjoying your work. Thank you for sharing it!
Ames so photogenic.😂
Fascinating resumé of the world of spying and the characters who inhabit it . Blake comes across arguably as the most tolerable of these players .
Well done on getting to 100k subscribers
Thank you!
Best wishes to you as well...🤟
But, really a big thank you for posting this.
History, always and definitely more interesting than the other thing. 😉 31:25
What an informative and interesting video! Loved the content, I’ve read about all of these events in the past and your editing, narration and commentary are top notch Sir. I’m a new sub and just wanted to pass along my respect for a job well done.
Thank you very much! There are many more videos to come this year.
just earned yourself a sub with this gem of a video. amazing work.
Great work on this channel I genuinely appreciate your effort
22:20
The Pentax ME Super with 1,8 lens1983
Amazing
He loved the camera 📷 more.
I had one.
Fantastic work. Thx. Subbed
Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge!
Ernest Volkman wrote many books on the American mafia. Highly respected author.
Love the stories.
Fantastic, thank you! 🍻🎄🚀
Thank you
the billion dollar spy is ultimately a sad yet intriguing story
Excellent content!
One note: 21:37 camera is Fujifilm X-M1 and was released 2013.
1:29:25
..you have the wrong man 🙅♀️!
Says the man in the Jaguar car 🚗
Muchas gracias por todo señor Thompson.
Feliz año nuevo.
Thank you so much for the wonderful content !
That is a South African accent for sure. Hope I'm not exposing him to the KGB😂
I wouldn't worry about my reputation,, I'd worry about ensuring that future investigations were done better.
“Certainty”, not “absolute certainty”. The latter is a tautology.
Having not watched yet, not knowing if they're included, I'm still pissed at those Cambridge bottom feeders.
I would not be a good spy. My blood pressure is high just listening
Hi5 on your due diligence & thanks for sharing it! Excellent delivery too🏆
"What is conviction? How do we identify it? How can we know that we should be guided by it? Is it to be found in the heart, or in the intellect? And what if it is only to be found in the one and not the other?"
le Carré - Absolute Friends
I have suggestion,make a video about Dusko Popov,the Serbian ww2 spy and man who inspirated James Bond character😁😁
Thank you!
Interesting thank you for this information
Great video
So good.
Excellent video! Everything about this was great. What truly grabbed my attention was the mans accent in the beginning. Did anyone else notice a lovely Australian accent with a hint of a Louisiana southern accent? Especially with words like "CIA" and "NINEteen eighty FIve"
He's South African
@@HallsteinI thank you! I wasn't able to distinguish exactly where it came from.
South African.
Hero.
Are all the voices and art AI?
appalling, sustained cia & fbi incompetence.
A traitor or a hero it depends on the goals, bad or good.
Can you share name of storyboard artist??
Who is they guy on the cover photo with the beard, he looks maybe hispanic ?
Dude, your videos are great. I have watched many of them and enjoyed every one. But I HAVE to figure out where that accent is from.
To this American ear, it sounds almost British...except for the way your pronounce your short "i"s and "y"s. Those, you pronounce like an American from Alabama. It's neat...but it is pouncing all over my curiosity. If you read your comments, tell us where your accent originates.
I do read all the comments on my videos, and so many people have said the same thing as you - that I sound British mixed with a bit of southern US 😂 I am in fact originate from South Africa, but am now living in the UK.
@@PhilipThompson Awesome. Thanks for solving the mystery. Keep up the good work, brother. I love your product!
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Fresno is not "The Bay Area."
The psychiatrist would be no match for the likes of Robert Hanssen but, psychiatry being a teleological exercise, no damage done!
This beginning is rough
He was a back stabbed as usual
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Looked interesting but sadly there's some kind of banal music thing happening in the background. Gave up in less than a minute. Try recording in a quieter location,
33 :) get lost
Even though your videos are interesting, I find myself having a headache watching them. Spies usually end with a painful death or a long prison term. I do not like the energy the profession emits.
Why so many ads? Literally every 2 mins there’s an ad. Listening on the RUclips app so can’t use Adblock. I know you need to make money but can you remove a few?
I don’t know who did it first, but it seems like you copied this word from Word from another channel or vice versa
These are all my videos, which I also posted individually to my channel over the course of last year.
that's why I said vise versa, then another person copied you exactly word for word. @@PhilipThompson
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IF YOU PUT A COMMENT THAT IS NOT THE OPINION OF THE CREATOR IT IS IMMEDIATELY REMOVED!
Who needs another Ames when you have Trump?
How’s that?
Insane how incompetent our government can be!
The grand repackaging
You guys need a new AI to narrate your videos, becaus this bots speech impediment is seriously aggravating. It literally can't pronounce a single wordd correctly.
YOU'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN YOUR RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION! OUTSTANDING WORK !
One of the greatest things about youtube is everyone has the availability to share stories in their own way and damn you do an awesome job of it.
I've been looking for a podcast type show with a chill voice to help me sleep.. SUBSCRIBED!
unfortunately, the chill voice is AI
‘Ethics and morals” does not belong in the same phrase as the term CIA.
Kim Philby was in charge of MI6 during Penkovsky's time as a double agent. He also could have been the one to expose him to the KGB.
Aimes too
Ames was a particular odious example in the murky world of spy craft .
big adrenaline rush i would love a video on the grey wolf the u boat that sank 49 sum odd ships absolutely love the content
George Blake significantly aided the Soviet Union, resulting in considerable harm and adversely affecting numerous lives. Despite his ostensibly English name, appearance, and attire, he professed a lack of belonging to England, even though he had embraced and adopted aspects of English culture. He said he did not betray England. Yes, he did.
Why is there a Russian flag and map when talking about a Soviet spy?
Is smirnoff involved
Just had your channel recommended to me. I found the first 2 stories I listened to fascinating. I recognized bits and pieces of those stories as in the 80's and 90's I was in my 20's to 30's. Thank you for such quality work, very easy to listen to and don't need to actually watch the video if you are busy doing your daily chores.
Welcome to the channel! Hope to see you again in 2024!
u old dabbb lmfaooo
Money was the driving force for Tolkachev.
Ames sold a few secrets got life ol joe seels entire us and gets away with it
And 45’s DIRECT contact w/ Russia should pass without comment?
Never happened. @@raymondmuench3266
❤❤It is a life of deceit and misery with no family ties.I would tell young people never join CIA or KGB (FSB) as only way out is death or promotion.Dezernsky imprisoned 23 years in exile to run re education camps 5.-6 years & his life was shortened by prison.Any other job is better!!
Fantastic show. Thank you.
I understand why Aimes did what he did. Sounds like management was constantly picking at him because he wasn’t in their cliques. Also that pic of the polygraph interviewer. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I had a slightly used Jaguar, sold it and bought a used Town Car, the Lincoln was much nicer
60 some pair of shoes.
For 2 damn feet.
wtf man
Talkin’ bout a “Dead End Job” !!! But women stayed w/them !!!
Nice documentary but too many ads which make the video boring
Oleg Gordievsky's is unique. He spied not for money l. But because he thought freedom was worth defending. And horror was worth averting. A great Russian and probably a better person than any of us.
This is great because I need to watch all of these more than once anyway, all of their stories are so complicated. These stories have everything, much better than tv. Thank you again!