Spies stole Khrushchev's stool

Nikita Khrushchev in Denmark flanked by Denmark's then First Lady Helle Virkner. Little did he know what the intelligence service was picking up.
Nikita Khrushchev in Denmark flanked by Denmark's then First Lady Helle Virkner. Little did he know what the intelligence service was picking up.
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The ends justified the means. At least that was the case at the height of the Cold War, when East and West went to extraordinary lengths to get information on each other's leaders.

Such was also the case when the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev visited Copenhagen in June 1964 amid extensive rumours that the cantankerous, shoe slamming Soviet leader was seriously ill.

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