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Of Russian Spies and Dirty Wars

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Jeff Stein
Jun 23, 2022
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Former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin and Jeanne Meserve discuss the case of a deep cover Russian spy rolled up in Holland. The accused agent, Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, had posed as a Brazilian student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, or SAIS, where McLaughlin has been teaching for about 15 years as a …

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