Cast and Crew

Creator: Sandra Grimes, Jeanne Vertefeuille

Leading Role :Paul Rhys, Jodie Whittaker, Harriet Walter, Stuart Milliga, Julian Ovenden, Christina Cole, Ralph Brown, Akie Kotabe
 

Summary of The Assets Season 1 DVD Boxset

The Assets is an eight-part American drama television miniseries.It is based on the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by retired CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille.In 1985, CIA agent Aldrich Ames hands over top-secret files to the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.. At a counter-intelligence meeting, agent Sandra Grimes discusses a high-ranking KGB officer, who gave the CIA valuable intel in the 1970s. A money drop is scheduled, but the asset and his handler are both captured by the KGB. The handler is released but the asset is shot dead.