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The Rise and Fall of a Legendary Spy
A Hungarian count, Greek merchant, and a British lord -- all cover identities adopted by the dashing Dmitri Bystrolyotov -- one of the Soviet NKVD's greatest spies. Operating throughout Europe and Africa after WWI, he specialized in recruiting agents with access to diplomatic codes, particularly women he could seduce. In 1938 however, he became a victim of Stalin's "Great Terror," and spent 16 years in the Gulag (forced labor camps). He was released in 1954, a broken man. |