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I’d heard rumours of this story a while time back: but nothing prepared me for the reality presented in The Guardian correspondent Shaun Walker’s new book, The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West. Drawing on copies of KGB files made by a dissident Soviet archivist who defected to Britain in 1992 that are now open to the public, Walker explains how the KGB used spies from its co-called ‘illegals’ programme – Soviet citizens who had spent years training to pose as genuine Westerners. These spies were initially deployed to inflitrate oppositional movements in Western… More