The Billion Dollar Spy with Author David E. Hoffman

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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During the Cold War, the CIA and KGB were in a constant game of cat and mouse to steal each other's secrets. David E. Hoffman talks with us about the work of one incredibly important spy, who is the subject of his latest book.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, on howstuffworks.com.
0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry.
0:43.7	And I'm Tracy V Wilson.
0:45.7	And today, we're going to touch on history that's a little more modern
0:49.7	than what we usually cover on the podcast,
0:51.7	and that is the cold war between the US and the USSR.
0:54.7	I recently was lucky enough to get to chat with author David E. Hoffman,
0:58.7	who as you will hear in the course of this interview,
1:00.7	is really an expert on that conflict and its roots.
1:03.7	Mr. Hoffman has been a journalist for three decades,
1:06.7	and he was covering politics during the Reagan presidency,
1:09.7	including working as a White House correspondent during the US Soviet summit,
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