we were a good team. >> schifrin: their team s part of the c.i.a.'s office of technical service, or o.t.s. they built the tools of espionage: t disguise kit, the cameras that could hide anywhere, the shoes with a secret microphone, the underwear to pretend to be pregnant-- secrets used in soviet moscow, now at the international spy museum in washington. >> we're not trying to say o.t.s. won the cold war. but the tools that we provided to our case officers, that let them get out on the street, that let them in fact meet face to face with some of our russian sources, made an enormous difference. >> schifrin: the first challenge was right outside the embassy's gates, on the streets of moscow. the russians were always tailing them, so they got a lielp from their friend jack. >> jack in the box was every h.o.v. commuters' dream. as a pop-up dummy that would emerge out of various things. >> schifrin: everywhere agents drove, aoviet car would follow. so, the mendezes created a gap. as the americans turned a corner, the soviets were blind just long enough fo

i'm nick schifrin. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: a dire warning from the united nations- - climate change threatens a food and water crisis around the world. then, a massive raid-- immigration and customs enforcement ficers arrest more than 600 undocumented migrants at food processing pnts across mississippi. mius, five years after the police killing oael brown, we examine efforts to reform ferguson, missouri. >> when michael brown jr. was killed it changed the lives of so many people, not just here in ferguson, but throhout the entire world. av changed my life. i never ever wouldthought that i would have been a politician, but i found something that i could do that would help my community. >> schifrin: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life. life well-planned. leomn more at raymondjames.c. >> consumer cellular. >> babbel. a language program that teaches real-life conversations in a new language

james bond. >> schifrin: ...and explosions, like bourne... ( explosion ) >> schifrin: ...but mendez says there's only one spy who gets it right. >> the male star in "the americans" had this wonderl ability to put on these nothing disguises and then he became thing. >> how have you been, martha? >> he became almost invisible. he was perfect. ( elevator dings ) but if he got on the elevator with you and got off two floors later, you wouer remember that he'd even been on the elevator. he just could disappear into his disguise >> schifrin: that disappearing act is what she peted at the height of the co war, for american agents and their russian assets. moscow became so dangerous, it was a "denied area," meaning c.i.a. officers couldn't meet russian informants face to face. in cold war moscow, every face was watched. so jonna and tony gave their colleagues more than one. >> we didn't need to use masks in any other place. but we needed them in moscow, because it was a solution that was almost forced upon us. without disguise, our ca officers would have been totally stymied. that was the intent

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> schifrin: good evening.m ck schifrin.udy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight: a dire warning from the united nations- - climate change threatens a food and water crisis around the world. then, a massive raid-- immigration and customs enforcement officers arrest more than 600 undocumented migrants at food processing plants across mississippi. plus, five years after the police killing of michael brown, we examine efforts to reformrg on, missouri. >> when michael brown jr. wa killed it changed the lives of so many people, not just here in ferguson, but throughout thene re world. it changed my life. i never ever wou have thought that i would have been a politician, but i found something that i could do that would help my community. >> schifrin: all that and more

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take a listen to what heold my colleague nick schifrin. >> okay.great. >> >> ( translated ): have worked firsthand withicholas maduro, after telling him about all the eruption i saw, i realized there was no will, too much evil, andu to desire for power. >> nawaz: is there any way you think to take away some of that military support toe eventually further weaken maduro? >> that's one example, a clear example, but they have 2 military officers in venezuela. they have been detained andd. tortu we have been having contacts with many middlend lower ranks of the institution. they have venezuelan. nay are suffering the sameop e that all united people are suffering. at the end of the day, they will part the people of venezuela who are looking for a change. it is important to mentionles that we cannot look at this as a single event. we have been climbing a mountain every single day, moving forward. we're very close to the peak. i don't have any dutt that we'll conquer freedom again. >> woodruff: to that point, it's been going og. for so l talks do continue.

and north korea are at a nick schifrin has the latest.e >> schifrin: it's been man a month since president trump red north korean leader kim jong-un agreed tart their dialogue. but there's been no movement yet, and north korea has made very public demonstrations with its military, seemingly in frustration with the u.s. and u.s. ally south korea. what is north korea saying with the tests, and where do the lks go from here? for that, i'm joined by general vincent broo, who retired as the top u.s. general in south korea in january, and is currently a senior fellow at the belfer center at harvard university. vincent brooks, welcome back to the "newshour". >> thanks, good to be with you again. eporter: we saw the two ballistic missile tests yesterday and two more last week and before that kim jong un made a very public visit to a submarine factory outside of pong pong yong. what is north korea trying to rey? >> i suspect therying to send messages and get leverage before the discussions resume, and i think the discussions will resume anlyd rela