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This episode contains explicit sexual references.

This is true spies.

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.

You'll meet the people who live life undercover.

What do they know?

What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

I'm Rihanna Needs, and this is True Spies from Spyscape Studios.

Central Moscow, 1986.

It's September, and Muscovites are enjoying the last glimmer of warmth before the onset of winter. Even so the sun is setting and there's a chill in the air.

A brown limousine comes to stop outside an unassuming apartment building.

A man in his early 80s emerges into the evening. His face is jowly

with age, but the eyes are bright, topped off with two rye commas for eyebrows. They suggest

the intelligence you'd expect from this particular gent, an author, screenwriter and journalist of no small reputation.

But in times long past, he turned his wits to other, less public pursuits.

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