Culture
Spies among us? Shaun Walker's new book details Russia’s decades-long international espionage program
It could be a scene from a thriller — watching the FBI arrest your own parents for being Russian spies. But for Alexander and Timothy Vavilov, who had known their parents all their lives as Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, it was reality. Andrey Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova, the real names of the boys’ parents, were two of the Russian sleeper agents apprehended in the U.S. in 2010 as part of the Illegals Program. Their arrest caused a media frenzy, sparking a renewed interest in Cold War–era
