One of Russell Crowe's most accomplished performances came in a Showtime limited series where he brought a real-world figure ...

A painting of Adolf Tolkachev, by Kathy Krantz Fieramosca, hangs at CIA headquarters. KATHY KRANTZ FIERAMOSCA / From the book The Billion Dollar Spy The spy had vanished.

Now shooting in Budapest, “Billion Dollar Spy” is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman’s book by the same name, about the true story of Soviet spy Adolf Tolkachev.

Now shooting in Budapest, “Billion Dollar Spy” is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman’s book by the same name, about the true story of Soviet spy Adolf Tolkachev. Ben ...

A portrait of Tolkachev, with spy camera in hand, still hangs in the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters; it’s the only portrait of a non-American there.

Between 1978 and 1985, Russian radar expert Adolf Tolkachev passed Soviet military secrets to his CIA handlers that saved the United States an estimated $2 billion in defense research developments.

Adolf Tolkachev was among the CIA’s most invaluable assets during the Cold War. Disillusioned with the Soviet regime, Tolkachev risked his life to pass thousands of pages of top-secret ...

Additionally, Tennyson Crowe joins as Sasha Tolkachev, Adolf’s son in the Amma Asante directed adaption of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman’s book.

Tony Goldwyn, Rufus Sewell and Justin Theroux are the latest recruits to join a cast of the true-life story of CIA asset Adolf Tolkachev.

The true story of Soviet spy Adolf Tolkachev stars previously announced Crowe in the lead, with Harry Lawtey as his Moscow-based CIA handler Tom Lenihan, Vera Farmiga as Tolkachev’s wife Natasha ...

Billion Dollar Spy will follow the real-life story of Adolf Tolkachev, a man who risked everything to share top-secret Soviet intelligence with the U.S.