Posted on 04/21/2022 9:45:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former Russian spy and sleeper agent Mikhail Vasenkov has died at the age of 79, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) announced Wednesday.
Vasenkov was one of 10 undercover agents arrested in the United States in 2010, after being accused of working for an underground network of spies dubbed the “illegals” — a story that became the basis for hit U.S. television series “The Americans.”
Vasenkov and his fellow agents posed as ordinary Americans for more than a decade, building contacts with academics, industrialists and policymakers to gain intelligence.
The network, which included self-styled New York socialite Anna Chapman, was eventually broken up by U.S. law enforcement in 2010. All 10 agents were released less than a month later in a high-profile prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow, believed to be the biggest spy swap since the end of the Cold War.
Vasenkov moved to Peru in 2013, where he lived with his wife of 39 years, Peruvian journalist Vicky Peláez.
“When performing tasks for the service, Vasenkov invariably demonstrated his inherent restraint, determination, and courage,” read the SVR’s obituary.
The SVR also praised Vasenkov’s work “creating and heading an illegal residency, which obtained valuable political information, which was highly appreciated.”
Good more dead Russians keepem coming Satan is expanding hell and needs more like minded slave types
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What a truly stupid person you are if you are a person and not some K Street troll.
Is the Russian sleeper agent still dead? And your are still sad because of it? Good. Valdimer putin is going they way of nicky coucescu and mousolli. Personally i hope he gets his like kaddaffi. In a ditch likes the rapid dog he is
You stupid immature jingo. Instead of sitting on your butt calling for death to men you will never know and who could make a meal of you put your money where your big mouth is. Volunteer and go there and and put your life put your life on the line. You are keyboard hero and nothing more. Cheering other men to death from comfort You are human garbage.
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I’m not calling for us engage in a war with them. Why? they are killing themselves. I’m just enjoying the crap shack of a culture being exposed and dying a ignominious and frankly unnecessary death. Russians have never been anything but a pain in the ass While being dangerous loose cannons. Watching you putin/Russian apolgists expose your selves has been educational. But after awhile all the Putin worship and equivacating needs to be call for what is. All you really are is an anti American backstabber. It gives me much joy to know calling Russian the pieces of feces they are pisses off losers. Oh by the way I’m not killing the Russians, that’s be Putins stupid choice. But it does make me happy they are running like little lemmings, as yourself, after him. Laughing at you comrade chumpnugget. Oh there are no men in Russia just servile spineless drunks
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