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  • @davedrifter416
    @davedrifter416 Před rokem +10

    One of my friends brought their niece from Poland to the US for a visit in the early 80’s. They took her to a grocery store…and she just stood there and wept. She never saw so much food in her life. Now in this country we have people clamoring for fascism and a totalitarian run government.

  • @bobkonradi1027
    @bobkonradi1027 Před rokem +11

    I'm just at the 21:50 mark and I have to say this is equal to the most enjoyable talk I've every heard. She just talks factually, she has an excellent method of explaining things and the information is just exactly on point.

  • @zigwil153
    @zigwil153 Před rokem +6

    I made the mistake of clicking on this. I had things I needed to get done. I watched the entire thing. Man, that was good.

    • @jackharle1251
      @jackharle1251 Před měsícem

      Meanwhile, Mika Bezinsky proves her hate for America on Morning Joe. Joe, being the guy allegedly murdered the secretary he was diddling.

  • @CynStone
    @CynStone Před 11 měsíci +4

    🎖🏆🏅🎖🏆🏅
    WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE AMERICAN !!!
    I cant thank you enough for your work and dedication. Please keep telling your story.
    Cynthia 🌷
    Texas

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem +26

    Rest in peace Trigon

    • @user-pl9sk3ic1p
      @user-pl9sk3ic1p Před 9 měsíci

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

  • @athomemediamom3469
    @athomemediamom3469 Před rokem +26

    Wow.
    “Assume nothing in life, Everyday is a gift”
    Such wise advice.
    This is an incredible story.
    Thank You for your service
    It touches me deeply ❤🇺🇸

    • @sandradevlin1344
      @sandradevlin1344 Před 11 měsíci

      Thank you for quoting "assume nothing in life, every day is a gift " I needed to read this

  • @jillcrowe2626
    @jillcrowe2626 Před rokem +14

    What a fabulous lecture!!! Holy cow, you're the most courageous woman I've ever heard of!!! What a hero!

  • @ruthjocaccivajjio274
    @ruthjocaccivajjio274 Před 4 dny

    Marty you are an inspiration to me and my son and we appreciate your service and are grateful for your safety and career. What an incredible first hand account of the Soviet Union. Thank you for sharing.

  • @sophiesmith5922
    @sophiesmith5922 Před rokem +7

    I loved her comment about language learning. "You just turn your brain off in English and learn these new sounds." Its surely much easier to learn like this, though much harder to be translating. Kudos to all live translators.

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem +9

    I like the fact that she says that she would not go back into service and that it is more dangerous now.

  • @aztecacalendario
    @aztecacalendario Před rokem +7

    Kudos ma'am for holding integrity dear to your heart and not selling American intel.

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +8

    The first woman---THAT WE ADMIT TO

  • @eddielindaa
    @eddielindaa Před rokem +4

    Thank u for fighting for freedom and democracy. U are a true hero

  • @karencalderwood9058
    @karencalderwood9058 Před rokem +5

    Thank you for standing up for our freedom!

  • @davewielhouwer11
    @davewielhouwer11 Před rokem +10

    She is awesome. What a great listen. She is an excellent speaker

  • @shafur3
    @shafur3 Před rokem +8

    Great video and I thank her and all that protect us.🙏🙏🙏🌹

  • @mr19471985
    @mr19471985 Před rokem +5

    Worth the time to listen

  • @a.k.maclellan54
    @a.k.maclellan54 Před rokem +6

    What courage, what resolve and determination to procure results. I admire you and your work. Albeit "the giant in the land" is the attitude, heart and genuine care with which it is given. Please accept a deep and honoring bow. Thank you again. Every possible blessing for you..

  • @melinda5777
    @melinda5777 Před rokem +2

    Thank You Mame for what you did for our Country! I was inthrawled by your story! GOD BLESS YOU! 🙏❤🇺🇸

  • @topiasr628
    @topiasr628 Před rokem +9

    This was an incredible presentation! So thankful to you guys for sharing! Wow!

  • @Murgatroyd999
    @Murgatroyd999 Před 10 měsíci +1

    What a Badass!!! Great lecture.

  • @maryatkinson2006
    @maryatkinson2006 Před rokem +13

    If one doesn't write a book, the best time to tell your children may be never. In my teens I travelled Aeroflot a few times (in the 1970s they had cheap international flights) and I remember 1. the young guard on the tarmac who had no gloves despite the great cold and he was rubbing his hands together all the time 2. the sentry style box with a full length curtain, opposite the queue to show one's passport, from which a man suddenly emerged to talk to a passenger standing behind my sister and myself 3. the passport officer actually dared to smile when checking our passports because we were smiling 4. everyone, but everyone, was afraid, us and the Russians. They spoke nothing but Russian and passengers spoke other languages but no Russian. Communication was almost impossible. 5. there was no currency exchange so they took our pound sterling to pay for a coffee in the airport cafe and might give you Italian lira as change! The cashier was frightened and confused and certainly did not know the value of any foreign monies so it was bizarre, it was a lottery 6.reboarding one flight, we passed a young British woman who was desperately demanding her passport back so that she could get on our plane to go home to London but they ignored all her pleading 7. a friend of my sister was arrested, aged 17, when flying Aeroflot from UK to Australia (like us he was British and Australian) when he was in transit and held for 2 days in a locked hotel room until the Australian consul could finally get to see him and get him out! the reason: his father's family had fled Russia after WWII and gone to Australia - and this was real. He never flew Aeroflot again. 8. a few years later as a university student, one of my friends told me that he flew Aeroflot from Istanbul to London and had hidden some money in his shoe, while in the passport queue in Moscow. A man promptly sailed out of the sentry box to demand what he had put in his shoe! The money was confiscated. I was amazed he would even dare hide it while in that queue, the sentry box could clearly only be an observation post. Communist Russia governed by fear.

    • @lynnhauenstein4136
      @lynnhauenstein4136 Před rokem +2

      Mary thank you, I had heard these stories. My biggest fear flying or transiting Moscow were these.
      I am your age. I did travel 2018 to World cup. Very friendly, yes even cops smiled.
      Then now back to bad old days. I had plans to go back. But Covid but now I doubt allowed back in by both countries rules. So river cruise from St Petersburg to Moscow. Never happen for me.
      Just when we think we are all friends, crap happens.

    • @zoundstreetop
      @zoundstreetop Před rokem +4

      I was with you until you said “communist Russia ruled by fear.” Ditto the current regime. They may have had a brief respite from the horror under Yeltsin.

    • @maryatkinson2006
      @maryatkinson2006 Před rokem +2

      @@zoundstreetop Do not imagine that I think Putin has left Russia free. At least they can practise the Christian Russian Orthodox faith but it seems that Russia has always ended with autocratic rule. I do think that communism was the most soulless and soul destroying for the Russians but with Putin my expectation was once a KGB man, always a KGB man. I now think that he has dreams of historic Russia, and restoring some of the empire, however, he is not going about it in a good way. I sympathise with the dreams a nation may have of glory days - despite no nation's population being necessarily much able to share in wealth - so let us hope he ceases posioned umbrellas and so forth (not likely, though).

    • @carolynvanderslott7575
      @carolynvanderslott7575 Před rokem

      😊

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem +3

    As a kid I grew up in a country like that where there wasn't much in the way of freedom in the country my father was assigned to I was a military brat for all practical purposes, without having to be on a base or having to deal with any of the actual military trappings.

  • @michaelcavella4597
    @michaelcavella4597 Před 4 měsíci

    Trigon will be an awesome movie one day I'm sure.

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +2

    Martha Peterson??? WOW! thats a big name

  • @richt6353
    @richt6353 Před rokem +2

    A very Neat BRAVE LADY!!

  • @heythave
    @heythave Před 9 měsíci +1

    I wonder if the CIA ever gives Trigon’s money that’s been saved in his reserved account to his daughter.

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +10

    Truth: The best friends I have ever had was when I worked for the CIA via the USAF during Desert Storm OUT OF USAs (that means overseas) in the 1990s; I have never had any friends since then

    • @GrumpyYank26
      @GrumpyYank26 Před rokem +3

      I am sorry your friends are not with you now. I felt sad when i read your note. Maybe because i relate. Take good care of you, it is a beautiful world (even tho humans can really suck- we r also kind of amazing at times). I fight the idea that ultimately i am here alone. There doesnt seem tb a way around that. Weird. Breathe.

    • @jillcrowe2626
      @jillcrowe2626 Před rokem +2

      ​@@GrumpyYank26 you're not alone. I'm here, and so is my husband. We've been happily married for 44 years. We adore each other. We've NEVER spoken to each other using insulting language. He has the highest moral standards of anyone I've ever met, except for my daughter. We don't drink because I'm a recovering alcoholic, since I was 24. I met him when I was 25, and chose him because he didn't drink. My kid quit drinking out of respect for.

    • @melinda5777
      @melinda5777 Před rokem

      ​@@GrumpyYank26AMEN! ❤

    • @melinda5777
      @melinda5777 Před rokem

      ​@@jillcrowe2626Your very blessed to have someone like that and for all these years. 🙏

    • @melinda5777
      @melinda5777 Před rokem

      Your not alone. ❤

  • @maryatkinson2006
    @maryatkinson2006 Před rokem +8

    Thank you, Trigon.

  • @doboily2630
    @doboily2630 Před 3 lety +8

    Amazing, gave me goosebumps. Thank you for your service Ma'am. To the organizers: PLEASE next time have a chair set up - she had to stand there for 1:30 minutes! Thank you, great, great presentation.

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 Před 3 lety

      She survived to tell quite a bit of her first hand experience as a participant in the post WWII cold war .. Awesome . She is living history . Excellent political name dropping ! Nestlé makes the very best . . .

    • @MrHristoB
      @MrHristoB Před 2 lety

      Well, she's such tough spy, standing for 1.5h should be nothing for her.... Got caught like a complete idiot... What a bunch of wankers you are...

  • @j.b.9581
    @j.b.9581 Před rokem +6

    Despite the fact that 'Trigon' did indeed die, his family was able to honor him by burying him and saying goodbye. So many, so so many people who were Russian and who spied FOR the United States were summarily shot and buried in unmarked graves . . . .
    The families often NEVER KNEW when their loved ones died, or where they were buried. These Russians who were murdered for spying are my UNSUNG HEROES. May the Creator rest their souls with a special light . . . in the afterlife.

  • @ninirema4532
    @ninirema4532 Před rokem

    Dear great gentle
    very sweet good morning and nicy have good day.
    Thank you very much.

  • @panrmk
    @panrmk Před rokem +3

    “A place where there’s one newspaper, where they denounce each other…” - welcome to today’s Russia. Déjà vu.

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +1

    PROBABLY: KGB smarter than CIA

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem +6

    I wonder if Ms Peterson still looks at what's happening in America and also realizes that the world outside looks at American now as a banana Republic a place with omigosh so many problems it really does come off like a Latin American country, and is no longer really a democratic, and free country.

    • @Jinka1950
      @Jinka1950 Před rokem

      You are so right George Soros, Obama, in the worldwide socialist powers have commandeered the country.

  • @gwendolyn7462
    @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +1

    CIA for 32 years; that must have been a sweet job; yeah its easy when they are nice to you

  • @ninirema4532
    @ninirema4532 Před 11 měsíci

    Very smart lecture 😅

  • @marybeckham4495
    @marybeckham4495 Před rokem +1

    What happened to the money, his paycheck, stored away? Did it go to ex wife? Girlfriend? Children? Grandchildren?

    • @robync7358
      @robync7358 Před rokem +1

      Was wondering the same thing

  • @uraniumu242
    @uraniumu242 Před rokem +1

    So many things have not changed.

  • @user-py5kg4yw1r
    @user-py5kg4yw1r Před 11 měsíci

    Да-Уж. Это больше чем я-бы хотел знать.

  • @scotttaylor4694
    @scotttaylor4694 Před rokem

    Thx u for your service, God bless !!!!

  • @lulumoon6942
    @lulumoon6942 Před rokem +2

    👀Just wish her lived message could be heard by confused youth. We are throwing away freedom!

  • @kateg7298
    @kateg7298 Před 6 dny

    Speak truth to power. That phrase is more gobbledygook. There is truth and there is untruth. Not my truth or your truth.

  • @michaelcavella4597
    @michaelcavella4597 Před 4 měsíci

    so sorry to her that her daughter passed away.

  • @gordonjohnston684
    @gordonjohnston684 Před rokem

    Look back at past, so you can learn for the future.

  • @Itwontfitn
    @Itwontfitn Před rokem +8

    This lady is a beast. It gives me perspective as to how she joined the company. I can go to sleep to this kind of stuff.

  • @dl7562
    @dl7562 Před měsícem

    Also integrity in the intelligence community has been lost. Not everyone I'm sure, but many.

  • @ninirema4532
    @ninirema4532 Před rokem

    vert graet all dear gentle🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem

    You were in good company that's where Raul wallenberg ended up.

  • @colinstewart1432
    @colinstewart1432 Před 7 měsíci

    Moscow Rules baby

  • @tonyfrench2574
    @tonyfrench2574 Před rokem

    Fatuous. Where's the beef ?

  • @joeamorey4
    @joeamorey4 Před rokem

    I know there was filmed it was tiny film I was a big fan even as a kid about getting micro cameras making my own my question is how long was such film that's that small around 4 I'm wondering because my grandfather during the second world war the French underground film in a tiny little pin which can I mean it's like a tie clip or type in it's not very big but it has a secret compartment in it. So that's why I'm asking wondering if he used it from for micro dots or four actual film I mean I know how to make rolls of film much tinier it's something that I was always trying to make my own little tiny spy camera like you see in the magazines cuz I could never get them from the gumball machine so I decided to make my own and make my own little spy camera if you will as a kid and for that you had to have film right so I figured I'd have to make my own film so I got to be pretty good with cutting film pretty little holes in so that it would fit I'm just wondering if there wasn't clean my fooling around with film if there wasn't anything already on the market going back to the time of my grandfather... And yes I can imagine that lady here could be one of my parents she'd be a very young version my parents were old enough to be my classmates parents their parents their grandparents I'm handicapped I use voice-to-text my hands no longer work properly this makes sense because voice to text is notorious for putting words the way it thinks it should be and not the way it actually is.

    • @j.b.9581
      @j.b.9581 Před rokem +1

      Letticia, please find the book titled "A Woman of No Importance" by Sonia Purnell. The book goes into deep detail about the French Resistance\French Underground. And, you learn about the greatest spy whom you have never heard of, Virginia Hall. She is STILL a French National Hero. Virginia Hall saved France with her leadership and deep LOVE of FRANCE. READ IT.!!!

    • @brigitalarsen7335
      @brigitalarsen7335 Před rokem

      And/or search bar her here on CZcams:)

  • @benjy6358
    @benjy6358 Před rokem +1

    she really love herself huh, for someone that spill all the secret as soon as confronted by the enemies..

  • @spuffyfan3
    @spuffyfan3 Před rokem +4

    I love how Americans conflate totalitarianism with socialism / communism. Social democratic governments have been in power on / off in Europe but they would instead focus on rather extreme case studies and frankly failed experiments in communism. Yes these governments called themselves communists but that was / is largely propaganda and a facade. Yet, we willingly take what they say at face value in order to discredit an ideology that very few people truly understand / know about but every Tom, Dick & Harry has an opinion on. I'm neither for or against communism - but it's ridiculous how it has crystalised as some sort of bogeyman in the America psyche to the extent that it derails any meaningful programme of reform.
    With these so-called communist governments, granted the ideology may have come from Marx / Engels, over the years various schools of thought had emerged and obviously the ideas were adapted to suit different contexts. In Russia, the Bolsheviks were a fringe party even on the cusp of the Russian Revolution and to consolidate power they had to stamp down on the workers' councils. Then Lenin died followed by a lot of in-fighting, assassinations, etc. and the eventual winner Stalin was more a pragmatist rather than an ideologue / intellectual. Another added incentive for the frenetic pace of change in the interwar years was to keep up with the growing international attention. It was by and large an experiment and a lot was riding on its success. For the powers that be, the ends justified the means i.e. they allowed a lot of people to die in name of a building a supposedly communist utopia. Equally what emerged during the Cold War was more a product of the war years - the huge toll on the Russian war effort - rather than an ideologically driven plan
    But geez enuf already. I think the world will be a better place if people actually studied world history / world affairs rather than this tendency to take rather biased national histories at face value. And if anyone cares, I am not Russian and neither have I been to Russia. I have spent a large chunk of my adult life studying history

    • @sophiesmith5922
      @sophiesmith5922 Před rokem

      Correct, socialism is not totalitarianism. But many philosophies of Marxism push totalitarianism. Sooo....its all about who is in charge and whether they are wise or abusive of power.

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety

    You haven't been alive that long best comment ever especially in this scenario. OMG I'm laughing so hard right now I can't do this hang on a minute. Okay so literally the first thing to hit my brain bone on this one is that people just don't pay enough attention anymore. It's not about overthinking it it's about thinking it over perhaps how's that there's my contribution to this one wow this is crazy stuff but I like it LOL thank you have a great Sunday.

  • @HamzagicElvedin
    @HamzagicElvedin Před rokem +2

    In my country, which is not Russia, we used to put cabbage into salted water over the winter and let it ferment there over a period of a few months. We used the water from it to drink as very delicious and healthy drink and we used the fermented cabbage to make many delicious dishes, which are valued more than the same dishes from fresh cabbage.
    To say that such cabbage is rotten is such ignorance and undermining of other’s culture and such bullshit I haven’t heard in a long time.

    • @jillcrowe2626
      @jillcrowe2626 Před rokem +1

      I'm from Southern California. We ALL love Kimchee, which is fermented cabbage from southeast Asia. It's expensive in the regular grocery store.

    • @sophiesmith5922
      @sophiesmith5922 Před rokem +1

      its fermented. Rotten is rotten, which is also, unfortunately, possible. (eeew... )

    • @mastertechnician3372
      @mastertechnician3372 Před 9 měsíci

      Cabbage, green tomatoes, Cucumbers, it is called Pickled Cabbage, and yes, it is used to cook Borscht in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and in many other countries. Kosher version of it is also in Jewish cuisine. In Chekhoslovakia it is also used to cook broiled meat.

    • @mastertechnician3372
      @mastertechnician3372 Před 9 měsíci

      @@jillcrowe2626 Kimchee is Korean Vinigrette. I like it too but it is a side to a salad, never a main course.

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety +2

    Tell Jonna hello world🥰🇺🇸

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety +1

    Very inspiring I've been trying to kick the front door in for a minute. Come on guys what's wrong. Threat assessment. Job please

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety

    And talk to text is a bad deal if you don't edit. Also how can we figure out how to get connotation into texting?

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety

    I didn't know you before the Western but I didn't know you because I am is right there in Miami

  • @mastertechnician3372
    @mastertechnician3372 Před 9 měsíci

    Most of what you say Martha is on CZcams, Including real footage of your changing your cloths, arrest, cussing and fighting Alpha Agents in Moscow, in a park, and Trygone ( Tryanone - trice unknown) his arrest, Pilar Barcala, and of course Aldrich Ames. Compared to Top Hat Ogorodnik was a mediocre spy. Cold war real life dramas were entertaining. Today we do not see much of anything interesting.

  • @icarustheother8591
    @icarustheother8591 Před 2 lety

    67 you got to be kidding me

  • @dl7562
    @dl7562 Před měsícem

    This is a lady that loved her husband.

  • @alexanderspektr8075
    @alexanderspektr8075 Před 3 lety +3

    Марта плохой шпион. Проработала в Москве с 5 ноября 1975 года по 15 июля 1977 года. Это очень мало. Была поймана 15 июля 1977 года, как ребенок. Женщины шпионы это хорошо только в кино…. (Martha is a bad spy. She worked in Moscow from November 5, 1975 to July 15, 1977. This is very small. She was caught on July 15, 1977, as a child. Women spies are only good in movies....)

    • @jT-qn4pc
      @jT-qn4pc Před 2 lety +4

      How is she a bad spy? a traitor in our cia gave up trigon and subsequently got her thrown out of Moscow the. She had a long career as an intelligence officer…. You guys are so funny you know you lost the coldwar right??

    • @maryatkinson2006
      @maryatkinson2006 Před rokem +3

      And what are you? a good one?

    • @lynnhauenstein4136
      @lynnhauenstein4136 Před rokem

      Now stop being a butt hurt old KGB man.

    • @gwendolyn7462
      @gwendolyn7462 Před rokem +2

      You know I was thinkjng the same thing

    • @7gu85g
      @7gu85g Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@jT-qn4pc
      Man, your country is messed up by leftists 😅😅😅

  • @TheBezugly
    @TheBezugly Před 5 lety +6

    Россказни про долбление черепов и про необорудованные больницы - в Москве 80-х годов - так это вообще полная чушь и ложь. Где угодно, но только не в Москве. )))) "Вымоченная в солёной воде капуста" - одно из блюд национальной кухни, называется "квашенная капуста". Вываривание мяса с костями использовалось для приготовления "холодца". Что ж, кому-то было не до изучения русской кухни - "полезный фастфуд" на родине вам в помощь. :) В дипломатические магазины бабка ходила, потому что импортных западных товаров, к которым она привыкла, в СССР практически не было. Как и торговли за доллары. Такие товары были только в валютных магазинах типа "Березки". А рассуждения о свободе так вообще неуместны. Наказывали за последовательную антигосударственную деятельность - как Солженицына. Наверное, тёте следовало бы почитать "Исповедь экономического убийцы", признаниях отставных ЦРУшников о пытках, общеизвестную информацию о наркоторговле ЦРУ в Латинской Америке, чтобы точно знать, какую "свободу" несло её государство. Ваша свобода - это свобода грабить весь мир и убивать людей "второго сорта".

  • @obwan398
    @obwan398 Před rokem +1

    Why do they speak of the cold war as past tense?

    • @light-yi2me
      @light-yi2me Před rokem +1

      Cause now it’s hot war;) us is technically in war with Russia.

  • @panrmk
    @panrmk Před rokem +1

    “A place where there’s one newspaper, where they denounce each other…” - welcome to today’s Russia. Déjà vu.