Anything Goes : TV Series “The Americans ” & The Real Spying by Hammad Hassan

TV Series “The Americans ” & The Real Spying Weisberg is a thrilling man who has created the TV series “The American” in the wake of Cold War espionage and has actually done a good work. There is much to like about the show, the top-notch performances by the actors, to their reliance on clunky, retro-spy technology. Weisberg was a CIA employee for a brief period in 1990s’, he decided he’d rather write about spies than be one. The real spying is much more boring than depicted in this series. After all that KGB did: ran significant intelligence-gathering operations, carried out dirty tricks like organizing a racist letter-writing campaign, purportedly by American white supremacists against African diplomats at the UN to prove that America was just a lousy place to live, KGB never actually killed anyone in America. Washington was a violent place back in the Reagan years, but not because of Russian spies were murdering people left and right. So when there were no killings by KGB in those years, what the hell these Soviet illegals were doing in the suburbs? Actually there were the least productive of the KGB’s branches working in the US capital. The most recent batch of busted Russian deep-cover agents apparently only managed to collect open-source material during their stay in America, the information that could have been discovered by anyone with internet access and they never actually sent any classified information back to Moscow. Surely, in 1980s, there was plenty of dishonesty and tricks in this game but killing diplomatically protected individuals in America is almost impossible as shown in the series where the American spies tried to kill a top KGB official at the Soviet Embassy.