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The Perfect Defecto - The Soviet Trade Delegation

There was concern about the activities of a soviet trade delegation based in highgate and north london. The russians wanted to recruit agents in the military field, but their organization had outgrown the resources of british intelligence. Aleglalen may have been buying woolend jumpers, but he was an expert trained in a special spying school in russia. His skills included parashooting, martial arts and handling explosives. When confronted with the damaging dosya ami his actions were revealed by defecting agent who agreed to reveal massive network of Russian spies in UK.

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