During the Cold War period, spying and espionage between the United States and the Soviet Union was a common thing. The CIA spied for the United States while the KBG was spying for the United Soviet Union in a bid to understand what was happening in the opposite camp. It was during this period that direct and more often than not indirect approaches were common in learning what was going on in the opposite camp. Most of the time spies were used to gather intelligence information. It is at the onset of these happenings that David Hoffman writes a detailed narrative of Tolkachev who was a United States spy caught in the middle of the distrust that existed between U.S. and U.S.S.R. This paper is going to discuss his writings extensively as put in the Billon Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage & Betrayal (Hoffman 1).