[buccaneer81]

I think this story will make a great script for a movie though...

Done. Over 30 years ago...

Telefon is a 1977 spy film, starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick, and was directed by noted action-film director Don Siegel. The film is based on a 1975 novel about mind control by Walter Wager. C During the Cold War of the 1950s, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they didn't know they were agents; they could only be activated by a special code phrase (a line from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" followed by their real given names). Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure as a precursor to a possible US/USSR active conflict or war.

Over twenty years pass, and the Cold War gradually gives way to détente. Nikolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence), a rogue KGB officer, defects to America, taking with him the Telefon Book, which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the agents. He starts activating them one by one. American counterintelligence is thrown into confusion when seemingly-ordinary citizens start blowing up what are, in some cases, long-abandoned facilities and commit suicide right afterwards.

[Perdogg]

great movie!!!!! Lee Remick was great!

[Perdogg]

Alan Bedal played the Interior Minister in “Day of the Jackal”

[Othniel]

An episode of that tv show "Alien Nation" had something like this. One scene showed an alien, who was now a cop, pulling out her pistol and killing a room full of people, then killing herself.

[pepsionice]

Correct...actually a five-star movie from Bronson.

[Pan_Yan]

the Telefon Book, which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the agents.

Was 202-456-1414 one of the numbers?

[valkyry1]

That was an intense movie. And Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence all gave stunning performances.