One of the few photos of Adolf Tolkachev that has become available. CIA release
One of the few photos of Adolf Tolkachev that has become available. CIA release
Hillary!™?
There was a book about his life and effort entitled “The Billion Dollar Spy”. I think it’s only been out for a couple of years.
The Russians execute their spies and ours run for President.
Another interesting post Sukhoi. Where to you keep finding this stuff? Thanks.
Who wrecked the “Soviet Warplane Industry”? . . . I don’t know for sure, but Ronald Reagan had a big part in it.
Years from now, “Who wrecked the American Warplane Industry?” will be answered with: “The two President Clintons and George H. Bush.”
Sukhoi: a comment and a question:
The comment is that Russian aircraft usually look odd. I have always believed a plane that looks good will fly good. Soviet aircraft usually look like something out of a 1940’s Flash Gordon comic book, BUT the Su-27 is a beautiful exception. (Opinion, obviously)
The question is “Why did Tolkachev do it?” Surely, it wasn’t simply for the money.
Oldplayer
Sukhoi: a comment and a question:
The comment is that Russian aircraft usually look odd. I have always believed a plane that looks good will fly good. Soviet aircraft usually look like something out of a 1940’s Flash Gordon comic book, BUT the Su-27 is a beautiful exception. (Opinion, obviously)
The question is “Why did Tolkachev do it?” Surely, it wasn’t simply for the money.
Oldplayer
The Russians have come a long when since then.
Their S300, S400 and soon S500 are the best SAM systems in the world. The Russian military is growing and fully funded.
Our military has been drastically cut under obama.
Hopefully we don’t rely on the hubris of the past instead of the reality of today...
Good article. “A Soviet spy in the United States revealed Tolkachev’s own spying in early 1985. The Soviet government executed Tolkachev in 1986.”
He should be honored in the US. Maybe name a school after him or something?
And this should be a lesson to the liberal elites who think they are our masters. He turned against his government because they mistreated his inlaws. How many people in the US have been tormented by the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, etc? Get a clue, liberals. The brains and the brawn that this country runs on are heavily conservative, since a large percentage of the liberal base is unemployed.
I hope that conservatives do NOT use their power and access to be traitors to the US, but I do hope they use their power to take down liberal “elites”.
YET THE RUSSIANS KEEP SELLING MONKEY MODEL DEFENCE EQUIPMENT.
Mr. Cooper is full of it here. Much of the Iraqi Air Force was sitting on the tarmac at Riyadh International Airport during the Iran-Iraq war, How can your air forces be 'shaped and seasoned', when its materiel assets are sitting in the 'custody' of a third party?
How do I know this to be a fact? Simple, in 1981 I was working at Riyadh International, and had some of those same Iraqi Air Force planes, with Iraqi Air Force markings, parked right next to the hangar I was working out of.
So, go peddle your Bravo-Sierra elsewhere Cooper, I *know* better...
the infowarrior
Despite fierce resistance from Libyan air defenses, the Americans lost only one of their fighter-bombers.
The memorial service, and the missing man formation fly by, for the lost F-111, was held at Travis AFB, California, in 1986. I was the supervisor on duty in the control tower, during the fly by. It was solemn and impressive.