James Harper | The Silicon Valley Spy

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uz0KJtCDy3U Ways to support my channel: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Listen to Spy Valley podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/spyvalley?at=1010l39W4&sid=fm.website https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXiMXx2shRmuWNxsPkYdlQEzR3oM2_Nnr Episode Description: James Durwood Harper Jr. was an electronics engineer living in Silicon Valley during one of its many tech booms in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the quintessential tech businessman seeking his fortune in the Valley. He was also a boozer, an embezzler, an adulterer and a spy. After meeting up with an old girlfriend, James Harper saw an opportunity to sell the US’s most classified ballistic missile secrets to the Soviet bloc. During one of the most tense periods of the Cold War nuclear arms race, the US had a mole. The CIA and FBI would stop at nothing to catch him and put him behind bars. But first, they had to identify the man betraying the country’s secrets. This is the story of James Harper, the Silicon Valley Spy. #truespystories #philipthompson #siliconvalleyspy