Abandon all thought of a neat spy/not-spy binary, as @michaeldweiss discusses – all agencies cultivate ‘sub-spy’ assets, whether on the way to recruitment or to get access or background, but the Soviets and now Russians do it especially well and assiduously twitter.com/michaeldweiss/…
NEW: A classified KGB training manual from 1977 (released and translated into English today by @4freerussia_org) shows how Soviet spies didn’t have to recruit foreigners as agents to get them to work for Moscow. Meet the “confidential contact”: newlinesmag.com/reportage/you-…
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