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The Spy Who

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Operation Foot is now happening. And British government knows that its attempt to neutralise the KGB in London will be met with hostility from Moscow. But it’s not just the UK that must prepare for the retaliation, for Oleg Lyalin is also about to discover what it will cost to escape the KGB’s wrath.

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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.
0:14.3	September 24th, 1971, the Foreign Office, London.
0:22.1	John Leahy strolls down the corridor towards the press briefing room.
0:26.5	Leahy is the Foreign Office's head of news, and this afternoon, there's a spring in his step.
0:32.3	He greets the civil servant waiting for him outside the briefing room.
0:36.2	How's it looking there?
0:37.3	Full House?
0:37.9	Yes, sir.
0:39.0	Slow news day, apparently.
0:40.8	Well, let's see if we can't help them out with that.
0:47.6	Leahy strides into the briefing room.
0:50.0	The morose bored journalists don't even acknowledge his arrival.
0:54.1	Leahy shrugs it off.
0:56.5	He knows today's briefing will shake them out of their apathy.
1:00.2	He walks to the lectern, opens his folder of notes,
1:04.1	and experiences a surge of adrenaline.
1:07.3	Hello, gentlemen.
1:09.1	My colleague informs me your editors are in search of some headlines.
1:13.1	Permit me to assist. At quarter past three this afternoon, the permanent undersecretary handed a list of names to the Soviet-charged affair in London.
1:22.8	On that list were the names of 90 Soviet officials, who we have good reason to believe work as Russian intelligence officers.
1:31.4	These men and women must leave the country within the next two weeks.
1:35.7	Another 15 Soviet officials who are currently traveling outside the country will be refused re-entry to Britain.
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