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<v Speaker 1>Welcome. This is the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich

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<v Speaker 1>here to recommend a book called The Illegals, Russia's Most

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<v Speaker 1>Audacious Spies and Their Century long Mission to Infiltrate the

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<v Speaker 1>West the author Sean Walker. It began one hundred years

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<v Speaker 1>ago when Lennon Stalin and the Bolsheviks began sending Russians

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<v Speaker 1>posing as businessmen and students to infiltrate Western nations, including

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<v Speaker 1>the United States. The spies were known as the Illegals,

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<v Speaker 1>and they weren't just out to steal secrets during the

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<v Speaker 1>Cold War. Some were on a mission to assassinate world leaders.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the story of the KGB's most secretive program. And

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<v Speaker 1>this new book takes us all the way through the

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<v Speaker 1>fall of Communist Russia and the rise of Putin, who,

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<v Speaker 1>when it comes to espionage, will stop at nothing. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a glimpse into history that has a lot of relevance

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<v Speaker 1>to what's going on today. The Illegals, Russia's most Audacious

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<v Speaker 1>Spies and their century long Mission to Infiltrate the West

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<v Speaker 1>by author Sean Walker. And that's the book Club WBZ,

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<v Speaker 1>Boston's news radio