The guest of the program “The Talk” - illegal intelligence officer, retired colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service Elena Vavilova. Together with her husband Andrei Bezrukov, she spent more than 20 years undercover in the United States, until in 2010 they were arrested by US intelligence agencies. After a while, the spouses and eight other members of the secret group were exchanged for convicted in Russia under various articles of the retired colonel Sergei Skripal, scientist Igor Sutyagin, as well as Gennady Vasilenko and Alexander Zaporizhsky. After returning to her homeland, Vavilova shared her memories in the book “A Woman Who Can Keep Secrets,” and the story of the couple formed the basis of the series “Americans”.
In an interview with Nikita Rudakova, she said:
📌How he and her husband got into intelligence
📌How are agents trained
ТоWho comes up with a spy legend
📌What are scouts' life like (or not) like spy movie plots
📌How truthful was the series "Americans", which was shot based on their story
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