On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled up to the decaying docks of Klaipėda, a Lithuanian port city on the frigid Baltic Sea.
The Cold War had officially ended a year earlier, but old habits died hard. Armed men with bulges beneath their coats watched from the shadows as a peculiar tour group disembarked: two British intelligence officers, an elderly woman with a cane, a younger man in a wheelchair and a quiet, intense figure in his 70s carrying the Soviet Union’s darkest secrets in his head.
Mysterious men in a yellow minibus helped extract Vasili Mitrokhin and family (not pictured).
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