This \u201cmission to Moscow\u201d is not to be confused with the infamous Joseph Davies 1941 book, Mission to Moscow, which Steve calls a \u201cnovel\u201d at the opening of this episode, because its pro-Stalinist viewpoint was fiction indeed. Our use of \u201cmission to Moscow\u201d serves a dual-use purpose today: while it isn\u2019t clear whether there was Russian involvement in the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline... Source