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A deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story
Peter didn’t know his father had selected the house with specific criteria in mind: it was surrounded by tall trees on all sides except to the east, from where radio messages would arrive, and was set back from the road up a steep driveway, out of sight of curtain-twitching neighbours. Peter and Viktor first flew south to Volgograd, where they visited The Motherland Calls, a statue of a warrior woman – mouth agape, hair swept back, and brandishing a sword – that towered over the city. On 22 May, join Shaun Walker, Christo Grozev and Daniela Richterova as they discuss how Russia is using deep undercover agents known as “illegals” to infiltrate the west, live in central London and livestreamed globally.
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