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- ↑ "A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals". Amazon.com. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- ↑ "A Time for Spies". Vanderbilt University Press. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
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