Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent Explained

Starring:	Tommy Lee Jones Josef Sommer Oleg Rudnik
Director:	Mick Jackson
Executive Producer:	David Elstein
Producer:	Graham Massey Elizabeth Small David Streit
Company:	HBO Showcase
Network:	HBO
Cinematography:	David Feig
Editor:	Jim Latham
Music:	Peter Howell
Runtime:	89 minutes

Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent is a 1986 American–British television drama produced by the BBC^{[1] [2] [3]} 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 with the power politics inside the CIA.^[4]

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.

External links

• Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Picks and Pans Review: Yuri Nosenko, Kgb.
2. Web site: 'Yuri': On The Edge And in the Dark. HOWARD. ROSENBERG. 5 September 1986. Los Angeles Times.
3. Book: Studies in Intelligence, Journal of the American Intelligence Professional, V. 53, No. 4 (December 2009): Journal of the American Intelligence Professional. Center for the Study of Intelligence. (U.S.). Andres. Vaart. 1 February 2010. Government Printing Office. 9780160849442. Google Books.
4. Panorama newspaper TV Highlights; 16/03/1987; Page 7