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.
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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#polygonathon2024this was the most wholesome Animal Crossing moment #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-09-26 | Remember when Elijah Wood showed up at someone's AC New Horizons island to sell turnips?
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0:00 Garage Simulator 2000 1:29 I don't understand football 3:56 Enter College Football 25 5:57 College Football 25's career mode 9:50 Huddle with Secret Base 13:08 Getting on the field 15:06 What did we learn? 16:47 Garage Simulator 2001
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0:00 Assassin's Creed Unity can't rebuild Notre Dame 0:19 Where did the rumor come from? 1:26 What did Ubisoft do? 2:40 Who restored Notre Dame? 4:40 Why does this matter?
0:00 I've been playing Elden Ring wrong 0:33 Context: I'm bad at games 1:40 Playing Elden Ring 3:15 What's the right way to play Elden Ring? 5:46 Learning that I'm an idiot
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#polygonoverboardFixing Elden Rings terrible co-op #shorts #gaming #eldenringPolygon2024-07-21 | This mod fixes basically everything that makes Elden Ring's co-op so annoying. Find it here: nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/510
#polygonoverboardAre you playing the Elden Ring DLC wrong? #eldenring #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-06-28 | Shadow of the Erdtree wants you running around looking for Scadutree fragments, not banging your head against bosses.
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0:00 Elden Ring's secret weapon 1:12 Make, material, and movement 2:20 How cloth makes monsters 3:46 How material tells stories 9:41 How cloth moves 14:16 Getting ready for Shadow of the Erdtree
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0:00 The Pacific Northwest is always creepy 1:06 What is the Pacific Northwest 1:55 What video games am I talking about? 5:39 The setting 12:26 The people 17:56 The supernatural 20:43 Modern Seattle
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#polygonoverboardDo people age out of streaming video games? #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-05-28 | If you could stream games as a full-time job for the rest of your life, would you do it?