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This is John Batchel, a conversation with the author, Svetlana Lakova. The book is The Spy Who Changed History. This is the story of the Soviet in espionage ring in the United States assigned by Stalin from 1930s onward to gather up intellectual property, otherwise steal secrets, especially about aeronautics, but really about everything.

Russia felt, Stalin felt, Lenin felt. They were well behind and had to steal, similar to how

the Chinese approach their job catching up after the revolution in 1940s. However,

there are romantic characters in all directions, and here's Svetlai introduces us to a young

woman graduate of Hunter College, who becomes the trainer for the Soviet espionage ring in America

in the 1930s and 40s and 50s. They go very far. They meet everybody. They're very good, especially the hero.

The spy who changed history. And here's his trainer, the woman who trained him.

Svetlana Lakova, much more of this tonight and tomorrow night.

Raeisa Bennett, who later becomes known as Ray in America, was born in Tsarist Russia, and age seven or eight,

her father takes, so her mother dies, unfortunately, a young age, and her father takes her to America

together with other children and the family. And they settle in the United States

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