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“Why did the KGB stick so doggedly to a system that no longer seemed worth the enormous time and effort it demanded? Partly, the institutional memory of the successes during the early Soviet period and the roots in the Bolshevik underground kept the organization wedded to illegal work as a key part of its internal mythology.”
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
“the West was out to weaken Russia, just as it always had been. The Cold War had little to do with capitalism versus Communism, Putin now claimed. It was just one of the many iterations of the West’s centuries-long quest to destroy Russia, which continued today with NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and hostile rhetoric about democratic backsliding in Russia.”
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
“In fact, far from producing a conveyer belt of perfectly trained faux Westerners, the KGB’s illegals program was in crisis by the early 1960s.”
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
― The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
