Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Russia's Ex-Spy Chief Shares Opinions Of His American Counterparts

NPR.org 10 hours ago 
It's not every day that the man who ran Russia's foreign espionage service offers to buy you a drink. I'd been chasing Vyacheslav Trubnikov for an interview, when a message landed in my inbox: Hotel Metropol, 5 o'clock. The Metropol is one of Moscow's grande dame hotels, just steps from Red Square, with polished dark wood, sparkling crystal decanters, velvet armchairs. Trubnikov settled in and ordered a double espresso. He was born in Siberia and joined the Soviet KGB in 1967. He was immediately sent to Calcutta, India, under cover as a reporter. I asked him, did the other journalists know he was a spy? "To be frank, everyone who was in Calcutta was considered to be a spy. Everyone. Every journalist," ...
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