Books: The Illegals
I recently finished reading The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker.
Walker covers the history — from the Bolshevik revolution into the 21st century — of Russia’s program of training and deploying spies that immigrate to a country under a false identity, often residing there for years or even decades. They may gather intelligence regarding industrial or military capabilities. They might identify individuals that could possibly be persuaded to spy for the Russians…