Russia

How Robert De Niro Tried to Rescue a Russian Spy

EXCERPT

In ‘Best of Enemies,’ we meet KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko, who befriended his counterparts in the CIA and FBI and even Robert De Niro. Those friendships proved his undoing.

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