“Arresting this guy given he is a real spy and not framed is an obvious escalation”
Us arresting the spy is an “escalation”? Nope, the escalation was someone sending him.
Russia has run a TV series on guys like that at the time. A documentary. The only regular star was a CIA station chief shooting regular excuses.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZ1uEfjFvM
That involves Timothy Finnegan expelled from Moscow with his Afro-American wife who was also an operator. Also known as ‘black face tim’ for his tricks with his wife he lamely used to dupe the feds in Moscow.
I think Timothy settled on half the pay in Virginia and is active on FR and very angry over all of the above being one of the Russophobic trolls here.