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Cold War Spy
"All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information"
"All spies were doing the same thing. Quite often spies gave each other information."
Chingiz Abdullayev says his job during the Cold War was to provide security for spies. He worked for the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union, and as such participated in meetings between Soviet and Western spies.
Picture: American flag and Coat of arms of the state security Committee of the USSR, Credit: Getty Images
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