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Joseph Weisberg Explains Himself

The celebrated creator of 'The Americans' was slammed for advocating the 'appeasement' of Putin on Ukraine

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Jeff Stein
Jan 07, 2022
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Joseph Weisberg gained some well deserved fame as the creator and principal writer of The Americans, the hit Cold War spy drama about a family of KGB agents living undercover in the Washington suburbs, that ran on the FX network from 2013 to 2018. He knew something about that, having worked for the CIA for three-plus years in the 1980s. But lately he’s …

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