The Farewell Dossier
What was leaked that intelligence agencies couldn’t control?
4.1 (17)
87 mins
Explore a mysterious Cold War document allegedly revealing hidden intelligence operations and defections. Discover how fragments of truth, propaganda, and speculation blurred the line between fact and fiction.
Ep 1:
The Explosion Nobody Explained
A Siberian fireball mistaken for a nuclear strike hides a covert American sabotage operation, revealing decades of Soviet decay behind the myth of a superpower.
Ep 2:
The Illusion of a Superpower
Behind Soviet propaganda of utopia lay stagnant growth, aging leaders, and an economy propped up entirely by oil money masking systemic collapse.
Ep 3:
Ghost Harvests and Buried Truths
Secret grain purchases, a thriving black market, and fabricated cotton harvests expose how deception became the true currency of the Soviet state.
Ep 4:
The Spy Who Sold the West's Secrets
Inside the KGB's Line X network, spies and defectors steal Western technology—until one disillusioned officer in Paris begins plotting something far more dangerous.
Ep 5:
Farewell to the Kremlin's Trust
A KGB colonel's covert defection hands the West a devastating dossier, sparking a CIA scheme to turn stolen technology into a weapon of sabotage.
Ep 6:
Blood, Confession, and Collapse
A drunken act of violence unravels a master spy's cover, while a bold economist's leaked report exposes the truth Moscow tried to bury.
Ep 7:
The Final Betrayal
As oil revenues vanish and disasters mount, currency betrayal and mass defiance bring the Soviet Union crashing down from within.
Discussions (5)
Wally
Level 8 · 3 mo agoYou're overcomplicating the collapse. The tech theft is a sideshow. They just ran out of oil money.
Sarah
Level 5 · 3 mo agoYou’re right that the 1982 pipeline explosion is highly controversial. I looked into it and historians think Thomas Reed exaggerated the whole thing.
Penny
Level 5 · 3 mo agoThe 1982 logic bomb story is highly disputed by actual software historians. Thomas Reed is the only primary source for that explosion claim. Why present unverified CIA lore as objective historical fact?
