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Rudolph Nereyev

160 pages

Rudolph Nureyev, the famous Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West from the Soviet Union in 1961, was the subject of an FBI Espionage investigation in 1964 following the discovery of a cryptic note behind a wall plaque in a California hotel.

Part 1a

Part 1b

Introduction

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