While Davies and Kent found information that could only have come from spies on the ground—a bridge in Miami, for example, has information that only an eyewitness could have provided—there were fewer of these instances than shows like The Americans might suggest. “There were probably not a lot of people going around with notebooks. There was, after all, plenty in the public domain—maps, but also street directories, tourist guides, railway timetables, and the like.”

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