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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
Listen to the episodeJournalist Shaun Walker explores how Russian spy agents were trained to blend into target countries and pose as ordinary citizens, including the story of Andrei Olegovich Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova, a couple embedded in Cambridge, Massachusetts under false identities until a 2010 FBI raid — with even their children unaware of their true identities.
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