This is a thriller about the Cold War timed in the late sixties.
Having had to accept defeat over the Cuban affair on account of
President Kennedy, the Soviets are plotting to regain lost glory. To
ensure success they need to have a way of predicting American reaction
to each of the moves they would make. Operation 471 was created for
this: A man with a background similar to the US president’s (Levin) was
picked out to live an American life in a replica of the White House, and
receiving most of the material that went to the US president, with the
main objective of predicting how the president would react to events.
In
the first few months things seem to be moving pretty well as Levin’s
predictions come true, and the Soviets begin feeling overconfident. The
site of the operation is secretly moved to the US itself. Levin had
refused going anywhere without his girl and so he was drugged. At the
new location Levin finds out that his girl had been eliminated as a
security risk, and that the Soviets didn’t just want to reunite Berlin
and send foreign forces packing, but to take over Europe with World War
III if it came to that. Realizing his government didn’t care much for
individual life, he decides to escape from the new site and warn the
Americans about the impending doom. He succeeds and the catastrophe is
averted, but at a cost of his own life.
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