This season, ten Russian sleeper agents had been arrested in the usa after a decade-long FBI procedure. In 2013, Joe Weisberg produced television show about them: The Us citizens.
Although the acclaimed spy drama happens during the early 1980s, whenever US-Soviet relations had been for a razor’s advantage, it is abruptly the essential topical show on US tv. Weisberg, A cia that is former operative based their show regarding the 2010 spy band, but chose to set it in past times, because—back in 2013—people no longer considered America’s relations with Russia to be fraught.
“A present day setting didn’t appear to be a beneficial idea, ” he told Time prior to the show’s premiere. Continue reading “The stranger-than-fiction tale of this real Russian spies whom inspired “The Americans””