NEW SERIES: The Redefector

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It was 1985, the so-called “Year of the Spy”. The CIA had been
losing Soviet assets left and right; the first loss seemed like
bad luck, but four in a row? That wasn't a coincidence— it was a
deadly leak. And just as the Agency was scrambling to find
answers, across the world, a KGB colonel named Vitaly Yurchenko
walked into the American embassy in Rome and volunteered his
services in exchange for immediate exfiltration to the United
States.

At the time, Yurchenko was the highest-ranked KGB officer ever to
defect to America, and the Agency felt it had hit the jackpot.
Instead, his defection would go on to become one of the most
dizzying, high-stakes espionage debacles of the last century.
Although many of his bombshell revelations were bonafide, a doubt
soon began haunting the intelligence community: Was Vitaly
Yurchenko telling the whole truth? And if not... What had he been
sent to hide?

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