{"id":169658,"date":"2025-08-18T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=169658"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:16:45","slug":"friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-pretended-to-be-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=169658","title":{"rendered":"Friday essay: \u2018nothing quite like it in the history of espionage\u2019 \u2013 the Russian spies who pretended to be American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet \u2018illegals\u2019 program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West \u2013 just like TV\u2019s The Americans. Who were they, and did they really go away&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-pretended-to-be-american-260063\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet \u2018illegals\u2019 program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/169658-friday-essay-nothing-quite-like-it-in-the-history-of-espionage-the-russian-spies-who-prete68a351f280aad-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}