Spying runs in the family for Oleh Kolesnikov.
The Ukrainian citizen said his father was a Soviet intelligence agent in Cuba during the Cold War, posing as a translator, and his cousin works with the Russian security service.
That made him a prime candidate for wartime espionage.
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