L'une des plus incroyables histoires d'espionnage de la guerre froide

It's one of the greatest secrets of the Cold War: the Farewell Affair. An incredible story of espionage, betrayal... and revenge. In 1980, Vladimir Vetrov, alias "Farewell," a sidelined KGB agent, decided to strike hard. He approached the French secret service—the DST—with an explosive offer: to hand over hundreds of names of Soviet agents infiltrated abroad, double spies... and, above all, the list of strategic technologies that the USSR had been stealing from the West for decades. Behind this leak was a shock: the Western powers—France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and especially the United States—discovered the extent of industrial plunder orchestrated by the KGB to make up for Soviet losses in the nuclear, military, and civilian sectors. When François Mitterrand passed the information on to Ronald Reagan, the latter launched a relentless counterattack. A plan as ingenious as it was fearsome, which some believe contributed to precipitating the fall of the USSR. In this video, we reveal the behind-the-scenes of this secret operation that changed the course of history. __ Directed by Michèle Fines