The legendary American spymaster James Jesus Angleton famously described counterintelligence as a “wilderness of mirrors.” In his new book The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West, journalist Shaun Walker charts the fascinating history of a unique group of Russian intelligence operatives who inhabited that wilderness—and, more often than not, were consumed by it.
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