During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence did not operate only from Moscow. It relied on a decentralized architecture that embedded operatives inside diplomatic missions across the world. Latin America became a particularly important theater for this model. The case of Uruguay offers a revealing example of how Soviet-aligned intelligence services structured their presence inside embassies […]

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