'The Illegals': Soviet infiltration, observation, and subversion into the West - review
Shortly after the 1917 October Revolution, Meir Abramovich Trilisser, the forerunner of the KGB, introduced the “illegals” as a weapon into an anti-Communist West
ELENA VAVILOVA, photographed in the 1980s, was a colonel in the KGB First Chief Directorate Foreign Intelligence Service until 2010.(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByCOLIN SHINDLER