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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Who needs the KGB now that our phones are spying on us all day?
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: On a June day in 1953, 14-year-old Jimmy Bozart found a sliver of KGB microfilm hidden inside a handful of change from a customer.
The story of Jimmy Bozart reconstructed on A Cold War Of Spies (PBS), in a flickering collage of archive news film and footage featuring actors in gabardine raincoats Hayhanen betrayed one of the most notorious, an artist calling himself Rudolf Abel, whose studio in Brooklyn was crammed with more gadgets than James Bond's car — everything from cameras to shortwave radios concealed within ordinary objects such as shaving brushes. Abel sent a steady stream of information about normal American life: what people talked about, what they thought of their government, the prejudices they betrayed in private...things that can't always be gleaned from official media such as television.
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