Cast
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Jamelle Bouie
Narration
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Kirill Voloshin
Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)
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Jacob Geller
John Prados (voiceover)
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Kenneth Berris
Self
Kirk B.R. Woller
Self
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Carl Colby
Self
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Maya Vinokour
Self
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Andrew Hammond
Self
Justin McElroy
Self
MovieDocumentary
The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft
20241h 18mDirected by Clayton Ashley
In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game. The Great Game traces how both men rose to the tops of their fields following World War II, before falling out of favor with their respectives agencies — on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. For Kalugin, a growing discontent with the KGB’s treatment of Russians radicalized him against the institution. Meanwhile William Colby, an OSS operative and the CIA’s man on the ground in Vietnam, was fired by President Ford after testifying before Congress about controversial CIA programs like MKULTRA and CoIntelPro. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both living on American soil, Colby and Kalugin played themselves in Spycraft, a multi-million dollar game that was among the most advanced of its time — and is now almost entirely forgotten.
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