Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov, a high-ranking
KGB official who defects while he is in
France, possesses highly classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the
United States. The debriefing is held at
Langley by
DCI Allan Davies and
MI6 representative Philip Boyle. Vlassov hands a list that he has of enemy agents in
Western Europe, including a deep penetration into
NATO. Davies wants to begin operations to arrest the agents, but those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov had been taken in the
Soviet Union, not in
Turkey, because of the contours of
Mount Ararat in the background. Vlassov outsmarted a
lie detector test of the CIA by telling a minor lie to cover his real intentions. ==Cast==