Once upon a time, in October of 1952, a cold fall brought a newborn son, Vlad the Lad, to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Vlad the Impaler was Romanian, and that story is for another day.
This young Vlad, schooled at Leningrad State University, would soon after become a foreign intelligence officer for the KGB, which in Russian translates as the Committee for State Security. V...