Mobile-readable quote: > But because their masters in Moscow wanted to hear there was potential for a first-strike, to please their bosses, that’s what the spi

Mobile-readable quote: > But because their masters in Moscow wanted to hear there was potential for a first-strike, to please their bosses, that’s what the spies delivered. > “These people were close to the West, they lived in the West and knew there were no plans for a first strike but they reported what they were told to report,” Jones explains. > [...] > It was a dangerously vicious circle. “It’s a failure of the Soviet system,” says Jones, “Soviet intelligence did not act rationally.”