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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

"In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game."

2024-10-10 en 78m
Documentary
In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game. The Great Game traces how both men rose to the tops of their fields following World War II, before falling out of favor with their respectives agencies — on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. For Kalugin, a growing discontent with the KGB’s treatment of Russians radicalized him against the institution. Meanwhile William Colby, an OSS operative and the CIA’s man on the ground in Vietnam, was fired by President Ford after testifying before Congress about controversial CIA programs like MKULTRA and CoIntelPro. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both living on American soil, Colby and Kalugin played themselves in Spycraft, a multi-million dollar game that was among the most advanced of its time — and is now almost entirely forgotten.

Director

Clayton Ashley

Director

Simone de Rochefort

Writer

Clayton Ashley

Writer

Simone de Rochefort

Editor

Clayton Ashley

Sound Recordist

Clayton Ashley

central intelligence agency (cia) espionage cold war kgb russian politics documentary spies video games american politics

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Released

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    Companies

    • Polygon

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