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    "excerpt": "On a hot autumn evening in Tehran in 1981, two spies sat drinking vodka in a small white-tiled bathroom. One, Ian McCredie, was British; the other, Vladimir Kuzichkin, was a KGB major, more than six feet four inches tall and so broad that the wicker laundry basket beneath him creaked. The cold taps ran into the bath and basin, while a radio played to mask their voices from Iranian listening devices. If they were overheard, both men risked arrest, torture and perhaps execution.",
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    "title": "The spy who betrayed his country for \u2018Viagra\u2019"
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