The Last Spy review – former CIA station chief tells it like it was from inside the tent

Peter Sichel gives a scrupulous and revealing insider’s view of the secret service and Washington circles in Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s documentary This is a straightforward, scrupulously assembled documentary that pays tribute to retired spymaster Peter Sichel, a German Jew who escaped the Holocaust, joined the United States’s first espionage bureau OSS, and then became the chief in a number of crucial CIA stations after the war, such the ones in Berlin and Hong Kong. Still fully in possessi...

By Leslie Felperin