What would you do if you lost contact with one of your most valuable spies inside the Soviet Union? In 1982, the CIA's indispensable asset was unreachable. He failed to attend five meetings, and the KGB was on high alert. The CIA's Moscow station officers couldn't even get around on the streets.
Sending in Plunket
The CIA did the only thing they could think of, sent in Bill Plunket. Plunket was a six-foot-two Navy aviator in his mid-thirties. He became a clandestine operations officer in Moscow during the summer. On December 7, he, his wife, the station chief, and his wife left the U.S. Embassy and walked to their car. They were being watched by militiamen reporting to the KGB the whole time.
Plunket and the chief sat in front, and the wives were in the back with a birthday cake. Plunket donned a second set of clothes under his street clothes that a Russian man would typically wear. The cake was a dupe. It was a CIA device called a jack-in-the-box. An outline filled the seat when the person slipped out.
The CIA had never deployed the box in Moscow, but it was time to try. Plunket took off his American garb, swapping it for the Russian clothes underneath. He also put on a mask and eyeglasses, which completed his old man look.
The station chief turned a corner, and Plunket quickly got out. The wives put the cake in his seat, and a head and torso appeared. Plunket was four steps across the sidewalk before the KGB tail turned. They just saw an old man and ignored him to follow the American car.
The Asset
The spy they were so anxiously attempting to contact was Adolf Tolkachev. He was an engineer and an airborne radar specialist who worked with the Soviet military.
Tolkachev did not buy what the communist regime was selling, and his wife's dad was sent to a labor camp during the Great Terror, and her mother was executed.
Giving secrets to the Americans was his way of avenging them and making a stand against the system. For six years, he fed vital information to CIA officers. They met 21 times, even with heavy KGB surveillance.
Tolkachev's information saved the Air Force an estimated $2 billion in research and development. He gave them pictures of documents, and they gave him money and Western music albums.
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