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In Deep Cover: How Russian Spies Hijacked Brazilian Identities, investigative author Orestes Tzortzis unravels a chilling real-world operation that shocked global intelligence communities.

Between 2017 and 2025, at least ten Russian operatives assumed the identities of Brazilian nationals, securing passports, jobs, and access to sensitive global networks. Their mission: espionage, sabotage, and silent manipulation across Latin America and beyond.

With forensic detail and documentary-style narrative, this book exposes:

How Russian military intelligence embedded agents in Brazilian society The tools and tradecraft used to forge documents and evade detection Operation East — the covert GRU initiative revealed only after arrests The geopolitical ripple effects felt from Brasília to Brussels

This isn't fiction.

It's the true story of how a nation became a proxy playground for global spies — and how the ghosts were finally caught.