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4:29 AM 10/7/2020 - The secrets and lies of Cold War spies - Counterintelligence News Review: They engaged in thrilling adventures in a shadowy world. But who were the spies who operated during the Cold War and what were they up to?

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4:29 AM 10/7/2020 -  The secrets and lies of Cold War spies -  Counterintelligence News Review The Secrets And Lies Of Cold War Spies - HistoryExtra The secrets and lies of Cold War spies They engaged in thrilling adventures in a shadowy world. But who were the spies who operated during the Cold War and what were they up to? Professor Michael Goodman steps into a realm of suspicion...  historyextra.com -  4:13 AM · Oct 7, 2020·Twitter Web App   _______________________________ Cold War Moscow was a place like no other. The eyes and ears of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were everywhere; the only place that was really safe, one political prisoner would later write, was in your dreams. It was a place where life and death existed side by side, as did opportunity and imprisonment. To betray the state was to risk everything, yet on one cold and snowy evening in February 1978 that was precisely the choice one individual made. As Gus Hathaway drove from the US Embassy to his residence he s