When Barney (Greg Morris), Rollin (Martin Landau), and Roger (George Takei) get off the elevator to break into the subterranean lab, the hallway's a redressed corridor of the USS Enterprise - one George Takei, as Mr. Sulu, had walked though on many occasions.
One of a very few occasions in which Briggs uses Barney, Cinnamon, and Willie for the mission even though he had not selected their dossiers. This was done because all 3 characters were series regulars, and it was thought they'd 'automatically' be picked as Briggs' 'core-group'.
The book Janos Passik (Arthur Hill) is reading when Cinnamon enters his office is titled "On War" in Russian.
The IMF team uncharacteristically kills two guards in the theater-lab scene. Barney strangles one, and Rollin shoots the other.
The concept of a mock town used to train spies to pass as Westerners was used previously in Colony Three (1964).
Yes, and it is apparently something that the Russians did, and it is featured in several spy novels.
Yes, and it is apparently something that the Russians did, and it is featured in several spy novels.