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Gustaf Skördeman's 2020 book Geiger shows a sleeper agent being activated in Sweden during the Cold War. [2] The 2021 film Black Widow involves Russian sleeper cells in the United States during the Cold War, raising and brainwashing adopted girls, eventually bringing them to Russia, where they are trained to be Black Widow operatives.
The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover.An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) culminated in the arrest of ten agents on June 27, 2010, and a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States on July 9, 2010.
Jack Philip Barsky (born Albrecht Dittrich, 18 May 1949) is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War , Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the United States.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were ...
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In June 2010, U.S. officials rounded up 10 Russians alleged to be “sleeper agents ... In probably the most dramatic swap of the Cold War era, Abel and Powers were exchanged on Feb. 10, ...
Following the Moynihan Commission, the declassification of the Venona project in 1995 revealed more information about the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case, and confirmed that a widespread Soviet spy network did exist during the Cold War. However, many agents were never prosecuted or publicly implicated, for instance Theodore Hall, because much ...
More than 20 years pass, and the Cold War gradually gives way to détente. Nikolai Dalchimsky, a rogue KGB headquarters clerk, travels to America and takes with him the Telefon Book, which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the sleeper agents. He starts activating them, one by one.