Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent

*Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent*
Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent
Written by	Stephen Davis
Directed by	Mick Jackson
Starring	Tommy Lee Jones; Josef Sommer; Oleg Rudnik;
Music by	Peter Howell
Production
Executive producer	David Elstein
Producers	Graham Massey; Elizabeth Small; David Streit;
Cinematography	David Feig
Editor	Jim Latham
Running time	89 minutes
Production company	HBO Showcase
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	7 September 1986

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.

References

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

External links

Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent at the Internet Movie Database

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[1] "Picks and Pans Review: Yuri Nosenko, Kgb".

[2] ROSENBERG, HOWARD (5 September 1986). "'Yuri': On The Edge And in the Dark". Los Angeles Times.

[3] (U.S.), Center for the Study of Intelligence; Vaart, Andres (1 February 2010). Studies in Intelligence, Journal of the American Intelligence Professional, V. 53, No. 4 (December 2009): Journal of the American Intelligence Professional. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160849442 – via Google Books.

[4] Panorama newspaper TV Highlights; 16/03/1987; Page 7

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