The Illegals, by Shaun Walker

Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome. This is the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich
here to recommend a book called The Illegals, Russia's Most
Audacious Spies and Their Century long Mission to Infiltrate the
West the author Sean Walker. It began one hundred years
ago when Lennon Stalin and the Bolsheviks began sending Russians
posing as businessmen and students to infiltrate Western nations, including

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the United States. The spies were known as the Illegals,
and they weren't just out to steal secrets during the
Cold War. Some were on a mission to assassinate world leaders.
It's the story of the KGB's most secretive program. And
this new book takes us all the way through the
fall of Communist Russia and the rise of Putin, who,
when it comes to espionage, will stop at nothing. It's

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a glimpse into history that has a lot of relevance
to what's going on today. The Illegals, Russia's most Audacious
Spies and their century long Mission to Infiltrate the West
by author Sean Walker. And that's the book Club WBZ,
Boston's news radio