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Comrade J and Russian Espionage in the U.S.

Published: April 1, 2008, 5:01 a.m.

b'Today, Peter interviews espionage writer Pete Earley about one of the most senior Russian intelligence defectors ever, Col. Sergei Tretyakov or \\u201cComrade J.\\u201d Pete reveals some of the secrets Tretyakov covertly betrayed to the FBI/CIA while serving as SVR (Russian foreign intelligence) deputy resident in New York in the late 1990s. He also sheds light on Tretyakov\\u2019s complex motivations for defecting.'