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In that episode, the guy at the Soviet embassy says the USSR used the propeller on the wrong size sub, and that's what caused the sub to crash.

For a good historical movie on espionage in the 1980s, see Farewell (it's about 20% in English, 30% in Russian and 50% in French, and it therefore has a lot of subtitles).

“In that episode, the guy at the Soviet embassy says the USSR used the propeller on the wrong size sub, and that's what caused the sub to crash.”

Yes, thanks for the correction. In any case, I don't know of anything remotely similar that actually occurred as a result of the real US disinformation program. Mostly what happened is that the Soviets spent a lot of money trying to build stuff based on faulty blueprints, which was the programs main objective.

“For a good historical movie on espionage in the 1980s, see Farewell (it's about 20% in English, 30% in Russian and 50% in French, and it therefore has a lot of subtitles)”

I rented “The Farewell Affair” a couple of years ago. I was vaguely familiar with the true saga of Vladimir Vetrov, around which the film was based. Like the TV show, “The Americans”, the film's basis in reality was close enough for me to enjoy it as an “historical drama” even though the film takes considerable liberty with some facts and details.