Umbelina November 7, 2017 Share November 7, 2017 7 minutes ago, sistermagpie said: Yeah, really Paige and Henry (and whatever other kids are out there) are basically just Americans that the KGB sees as having an obvious point for recruitment--their parents are Russian spies. The ideal situation would be, for instance, Henry growing up to be an American Kim Philby, presumably. But there's a lot of steps between Henry having parents he doesn't even know are Russian to Henry becoming a spy as loyal as Gregory and also getting some great job. From Moscow the whole thing probably looks a lot easier--they have the parents, the parents have kids...why wouldn't the kids be on board too? Maybe the kids would even consider themselves Russians because they in some ways are! But of course, it's not necessarily that easy. But not all spy operations are honey traps that rely on hot young and sexy. I agree, but an awful lot of their recruitment and spying goes that way. Russia could also hold the well being of their parents over their heads, common for them, if not as effective. Link to comment
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