Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of soviet information of the Cold War. A piece of history largely unknown until now, which Ronald Reagan called "one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century." Directed by Christian Carion. (Trailer)
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The movie does reflect the reality of the “Farewell” material: that it revealed to Western intelligence the extent to which Soviet economic development in the 1960s and ’70s was almost entirely the result of industrial espionage... The obsession in the early 1980s with the problem of “technology transfer” arose as a direct result of the Farewell dossier, and in a 1983 National Security Decision Directive, preventing technology loss became a key element of American foreign policy. (more)
