This season, ten Russian sleeper agents had been arrested in the usa after having a decade-long FBI procedure. In 2013, Joe Weisberg made a television show about them: The People in america.
Although the acclaimed spy drama occurs during the early 1980s, whenever US-Soviet relations had been for a razor’s advantage, it’s instantly probably the most topical show on US tv. Weisberg, A cia that is former operative based their show regarding the 2010 spy band, but chose to set it within the past, because—back in 2013—people no longer considered America’s relations with Russia to be fraught. Continue reading “The stranger-than-fiction tale for the real Russian spies whom inspired “The Americans””