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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

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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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

October 10, 2024
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Cast (9)

Jamelle Bouie
Narration
Kirill Voloshin
Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)
Jacob Geller
John Prados (voiceover)

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Chris Plante
Executive Producer
Clayton Ashley
Associate Producer
Tara Long
Executive Producer

Sound

Phil Nolan
Sound Recordist
Angélica Ponce
Sound Recordist
Clayton Ashley
Sound Recordist
Patrick Gill
Sound Recordist
Clayton Ashley
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Patrick Gill
Cinematography
Clayton Ashley
Cinematography
Phil Nolan
Cinematography
Angélica Ponce
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