The illegals: Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West

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"A century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad as deep-cover spies, training them to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants, and students. Over time, this became the most ambitious espionage program in human history. Many intelligence agencies use undercover operatives, but the KGB was the only one to go to such lengths, spending years training its spies to pass for foreigners, then sending them on missions that could last for decades--[and were rarely successful]. These spies were known as the illegals. ... Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with illegals and their descendants, as well as archival research in more than a dozen countries, Shaun Walker brings the illegals to life in a page-turning tour-de-force that takes us into the heart of the KGB's most secretive program"--
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Espionage, Russian -- History
Espionage, Soviet -- History
Russia (Federation) -- Relations -- Western countries
Sluzhba vneshneĭ razvedki Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii
Soviet Union -- Relations -- Western countries
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
Spies -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Spies -- Soviet Union -- History
Western countries -- Relations -- Russia (Federation)
Western countries -- Relations -- Soviet Union
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The illegals : Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West
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The illegals : Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West / Shaun Walker
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The illegals
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Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West
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Espionage, Russian
Espionage, Soviet
History
Relations
Spies

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