I cry at this scene every time.

From 30 May 2018. Selections:

• The Americans Theme (Nathan Barr, composer)
• In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
• Love Will Find a Way (Pablo Cruise)
• Under Pressure (David Bowie & Queen)
• The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
• It Must Be Done (Pete Townshend)
• Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
• With Or Without You (U2)

NOTE: Yuri Nosenko was a false defector. The fact that he didn’t crack under three years of intense US interrogation satisfies me that he was a well-trained plant who was lying when he believed he was telling the truth / telling the truth when he believed his was lying. Thank you, KGB “doctors”. Why important? Philip and Elizabeth Jennings appeared on the scene the exact year he defected to America—1964. The year, too, my high school Russian teacher, Glen Herbertovich Ray (real name?) was debriefed after his own mysterious trip to the USSR.

More ruminating at The Assassinations here.

More notes on The Americans here.

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