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How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

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Maria Mayer and Ludwig Gisch were deep-cover illegals’ from Russia ’s SVR intelligence agency.

They were arrested in December 2022 , when the family home in a quiet Ljubljana suburb was raided by armed police after a tip-off from an allied intelligence service.

After the arrest of their parents, Sofia and Daniel were taken into foster care, and were not reunited with them until Thursday 's exchange.

Many illegals, like the Dultsevs , only revealed their identities to their children once they were already travelling back home at the end of missions.

In a rare candid admission, Vladimir Kryuchkov , who was appointed head of the KGB ’s foreign intelligence directorate in 1974 , conceded that the life of an illegal often led to sad family situations’.

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