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Inside the FBI's Bid to Flip a Russian Spy

Gennady Vasilenko is a Russian patriot who resisted America's bid to make him a double agent. Philip Shenon talks to a top FBI spyhunter about U.S. efforts to reel him in—and why Moscow expelled him.

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