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S1E6: Redacted

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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The Queen Mother of All Spittakes, Oleg Gordievsky

Oleg Gordievsky told his MI6 handler, John Scarnit, that the U.S. was preparing for a nuclear attack. The Soviets nearly started a war because of this shit," he says. Thatcher sent her ambassador to Washington to communicate a warning to the US government. "The meeting apparently did not go well"

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