Vitaly Yurchenko

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When KGB Colonel Vitaly Yurchenko defected to the US, it was a coup for the CIA, but when Yurchenko shook off his handlers and re-defected back to the USSR, it left a lingering question: was he ever for real—or was the entire episode an elaborate setup by the KGB? This week on TSD, Joe & Vincent solve the mystery of Vitaly Yurenko.

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0:51.3	This is The Shocking Details.
0:55.0	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I'm Joe. As always, joined by
1:03.0	Vincent Caldoni. Oh, yeah, filmmaker extraordinaire and podcaster as well. I guess that's me.
1:10.7	Yeah, absolutely.
1:11.8	Well, so this week, we are going to talk about another Cold War mystery.
1:17.7	I'm sorry to bore you all, but I find this cloak and dagger stuff to be endlessly fascinating.
1:21.6	I mean, these are really, honest to God, legit mysteries, you know?
1:25.7	Yeah, totally.
1:26.9	They are with clues and just intimations and all sorts of possibilities.
1:33.1	And lots of stuff to really like twist and, you know, like sort of turnover in your brain.
1:38.4	Much more fascinating to me than the story of, you know, Billy Joe who went down to the corner,
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