Under suspicion that he is not a trustworthy ally , Mitterrand personally hands U.S. President Ronald Reagan a dossier of invaluable Farewell data during the Ottawa G7 summit . The Americans are astounded with it and other information provided by Farewell , culminating in the full " List X " of Soviet spies within the highest echelons of the Western scientific and industrial apparatus . They embark on an ambitious plan to feed the Soviets erroneous or defective data ; shortly afterwards , the network of Soviet technology spies in the West is rolled up , and Reagan announces the " Star Wars " antimissile shield project . Deprived of hi-tech information from the West , and with their own laboratories falling behind , the Soviet leadership panics . Seeing this desperate impasse for what it is , Mikhail Gorbachev , then an upwards-mobile party official , starts preparing the reform policies he is to pursue in the future
Ottawa G7 summit
7th G7 summit
Farewell (2009 film)