Dans ce podcast, Stéphanie Duncan retrace la vie de cet employé de bureau, qui pendant 12 ans a recopié des documents confidentiels.
KGB archivist Vassili Mitrokhine secretly copied thousands of KGB documents during an office relocation, hiding them until he defected to Latvia after the fall of the USSR. He offered the data to British intelligence, who exfiltrated him to England where he lived under protection until his death. The revelations were considered the largest data leak in KGB history.
