The Redefector

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The Redefector episodes

May 21, 2025 Holy Fool | Chapter 10
After two years building a mosaic of research about the Vitaly Yurchenko mystery, finally a full picture emerges: the truth.

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58 min
May 14, 2025 In Search of a Spy | Chapter 9
The modern day hunt for Vitaly Yurchenko, the 90 year-old spy.

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40 min
May 07, 2025 Joyride | Chapter 8
Some old veterans from the Soviet and Eastern Europe division decide to take matters into their own hands and start a new hunt. It's unconventional, it's personal, and this time, it's successful.

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53 min
April 30, 2025 It’s Hard to Find a Leak | Chapter 7.5 BONUS
BONUS EPISODE: Bodies continue to drop, despite the leaks identified by Yurchenko. Despite intensifying debate over his legitimacy, the SE division has a new desperate focus: to find answers. It creates a special task force to identify the remaining leak before any more lives are lost. In this bonus episode, we track the three fascinating reasons why the task force took years: Masterful deception campaigns by the Soviets; the ghost of James Jesus Angleton; and a scandal at the White House.

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57 min
April 23, 2025 Whiplash | Chapter 7
Yurchenko... reappears, sowing chaos. A debate begins to rage in the press, at the CIA, and even in the White House: Was Vitaly Yurchenko a plant from the very beginning?

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52 min
April 16, 2025 Vanished | Chapter 6
To cheer up the despondent Yurchenko, the CIA takes Yurchenko on a road trip through the American Southwest, complete with a stop in Sin City. Soon after he returns from the trip, his spirits still low, Yurchenko... disappears.

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53 min
April 09, 2025 Valentina | Chapter 5
Yurchenko travels to Canada to be reunited with the love of his life, but plans go awry...

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45 min
April 02, 2025 The Safe Safehouse | Chapter 4
Yurchenko and his team of CIA and FBI officers start over in a new safehouse in the Virginia countryside. Meanwhile, the mole Yurchenko revealed... makes a run for it.

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56 min
March 26, 2025 Goat Rodeo | Chapter 3
Vitaly Yurchenko is a fountain of intelligence and quickly becomes a celebrity in US intelligence circles. But the higher his profile, the greater the threat to his safety...

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37 min
March 19, 2025 Meet the Team | Chapter 2
The CIA and FBI have less than 24 hours to prepare to welcome the KGB colonel who, in the defector world, appeared to be the catch of the century.

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35 min

About The Redefector

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It was 1985, the so-called “Year of the Spy”. The CIA had been losing Soviet assets left and right; the first loss seemed like bad luck, but four in a row? That wasn't coincidence — it was a deadly leak. And just as the Agency was scrambling to find answers, across the world, a KGB colonel named Vitaly Yurchenko walked into the American embassy in Rome and volunteered his services in exchange for immediate exfiltration to the United States.