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The Spy Who

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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With the undercover Russian spies making moves to get closer to Hilary Clinton, Moscow sends a new illegal to America: Anna Chapman. And she’s on a mission to wow Manhattan.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge full seasons of the Spy Who early and add free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
0:15.7	1987, Moscow.
0:18.7	Four years before the fall of the Soviet Union.
0:22.1	Andrei Bezrukov stares down at the documents in front of him,
0:26.8	a Canadian passport, birth certificate and driver's license,
0:31.0	all in the name Donald Heathfield.
0:34.2	He says the name of the man he's about to become out loud for the first time.
0:39.5	Donald Heathfield.
0:43.2	Bezrukov is tall with dark hair and a body made lean from years of KGB training.
0:49.4	He looks over at Yuri Drozdorf, the man who has mentored him throughout that time.
0:55.3	Drozdorf nods.
0:56.5	That is now you.
0:58.5	You will think as Donald Heathfield.
1:00.7	You will speak as Donald Heathfield.
1:02.9	You will make love as Donald Heathfield.
1:05.7	Bezrukov instinctively glances at his wife, Yelena Vavilova.
1:10.3	She's sitting at the plastic table in the kitchen of their sparsely decorated Moscow apartment.
1:15.7	She returns his gaze, her grey-blue eyes steely through her blonde hair.
1:21.6	She looks down at her own set of documents, then smiles at him.
1:26.1	Nice to meet you, Donald Heathfield.
1:28.7	I am Tracy Foley.
1:32.0	Drozdov gives a wry smile, then places an empty metal box on the table.
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