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The Americans’ Refreshingly Real Take on Russians

“I think the basic premise is that the enemy is someone you should think about and understand,” said Weisberg, who is a former CIA agent. “The KGB was a huge organization and it had some real sons of bitches in it, but it also had plenty of decent people as well. Here in the Rezidentura in D.C. were some perfectly good people who were easy to relate to even if you didn’t believe in the cause they were serving.”