Over her 40-year career in journalism and public affairs, Carol James found Kaarlo Tuomi’s tale as a communist turned counterspy to be her scariest undertaking. She will speak about the little-known Tuomi and what he shared with her in 1972, when she was editor of The Cooperative Builder, a newspaper circulated throughout the rural, largely mining communities of Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Tuomi would not allow a contemporary photo, only this accompanying dark, early image. She will share the stories he told her about the role he played in The Cold War and how he felt as a participant.

According to www.fi.wikipedia.org, Kaarlo Tuomi was recruited by the KGB in 1954. Because he could speak English fluently and still had a U.S. passport, he was trained by the KGB and the GRU and sent to the United States in 1958 as a spy. However, the FBI found out about Tuomi's actions and made him become a double agent. Tuomi worked under the direction of the FBI, but he still continued as a KGB/GRU spy, supplying the Russians with material provided by the FBI. This continued until 1963.