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Inside the FBI's Bid to Flip a Russian Spy

Gennady Vasilenko is a Russian patriot who resisted America's bid to make him a double agent. Philip Shenon talks to a top FBI spyhunter about U.S. efforts to reel him in—and why Moscow expelled him.

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It's a cloak-and-dagger twist that would do John le Carré proud: Is it possible that Moscow mistakenly expelled one of its most loyal and experienced intelligence agents in last week's spy swap?

A former top FBI spyhunter tells The Daily Beast that one of the four Russians traded to Washington last...

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