The Chekist Craft, Part VI: A Service Measures Its Success by the Other Side's Losses
The Security Nexus Deep Dive by The Security Nexus
Episode notes
The SVR's final volume covers détente through the Soviet collapse and its own 1991 rebirth — and reveals its own tell: an institution that judges its Cold War record by counting Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and the Walker family rather than by the state it was actually protecting.
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