Stalin's Romeo Spy | Historical

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the fall of 1973, journalist Emil Draitser met an ageing Soviet super-spy. His name was Dmitri Brystrolyotov, and for him, sex and secrets went hand-in-hand. At the time, Emil could scarcely believe what he heard - much less publish it. 30 years later, long after the collapse of the USSR, Brystrolyotov's story could finally be told. Vanessa Kirby enters a world of seduction, secrets and lies between the wars. Could YOU mix business and pleasure? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	brought to you by Aspire MungFront on ITVX, a six-part drama of friendship and betrayal,
0:08.6	starring Damien Lewis and Guy Pierce. The coldest war is within. Aspire MungFront.
0:17.0	Stream free on ITVX.
0:24.0	Incoming transmission.
0:26.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:29.0	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:32.0	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:35.0	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:41.0	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:46.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:51.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:55.0	This is True Spies.
0:58.0	In my estimation, this was one of his most astonishing operations.
1:03.0	Because he found a way, gradually, not right away, gradually,
1:07.0	to get the heart of this woman who would not be seducable in the usual matter.
1:13.0	This is True Spies.
1:16.0	Episode 87. Stalin's Romeo Spy.
1:25.0	The first time I met Mr. Lottov, under very unusual circumstances,
1:33.0	I was a freelance journalist and my work was published in leading Soviet time publications like His Vistia,
1:42.0	and the evening Moscow and Labour and Soviet culture and many other.
1:50.0	At home in Moscow, satirical journalist Emil Draetsak says his goodbyes and hangs up the telephone.
1:58.0	His brow is furrowed. He's confused.
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