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Rhetorical question: If Vetrov was truly spying for France and NATO, why did he (and
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This is gonna be an interesting article. Next year is 20 yesrs since
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informed president Ronald Reagan of the existence of this double agent (at the 1981 G7 Ottawa summit). It also says that Reagan said this was "the greatest spy story of the 20th century" (bit of a pity not to include this quote here, isn't it?).
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