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The Spy Who Saved MI5 | The Spider and the Fly | 1

2024/3/26
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Oleg Lyalin, a KGB operative, is arrested in London under suspicion of being drunk but claims to be KGB, leading to a tense situation as Special Branch is notified.

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MI5 is on its knees at the dawn of the 1970s: Soviet spies are running free around the country and the government won’t boot them out for fear of upsetting Moscow. But the danger from inaction is growing because a spy from the KGB’s most-secret department has just been posted to London. His name is Oleg Lyalin and he’s on a mission to take down Britain’s nuclear defences.

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