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Nigel West's head-scratching claim that Gennady Vasilenko was a longtime CIA mole inside the KGB

Nigel West, the prolific true-espionage author (over 30 titles on British intel services!) is widely recognized as one of the experts in the genre. However, I fear his latest contribution may regrettably be West’s “jump the shark” moment, as he ventures into the across-the-pond labyrinth of America’s own repository of riddles, the CIA. I say regrettably…