Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent
1986 television film directed by Mick Jackson
Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent is a 1986 American–British television drama produced by the BBC and directed by Mick Jackson.
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1964.
Plot
Three months after the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Soviet KGB officer Yuri Nosenko defected to the CIA claiming to have been Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer, handler or contact. It resulted in a 3-year battle of wits between Nosenko and high-flying career US Government agent Steve Daley within the power politics inside the CIA.
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones as Steve Daley
Josef Sommer as James Angleton
Ed Lauter as Jerry Tyler
Oleg Rudnik as Yuri Nosenko
Edwin Adams as John Collins
Kevin Cooney as Don Fisher
Production
The film was originally produced as Double Image, episode 23 of season 2 of the British anthology series Screen Two, broadcast 6 April 1986.
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