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Lawfare Archive: John Sipher on Spy Swaps: Past, Present, and Future

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The Importance of Non-Official Cover in the Russian State

The concept of the illegals in the Russian sense is a parallel to the concept of a non-official cover or a knock officer in the Western intelligence service center. It's similar, but it's much more culturally important to the Russians because it's sort of how they started their service. And Mr. Putin spent his career in the KGB and takes great pride in this.

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