US taxpayers subsidized the greatest heist of the Cold War. The Grocery Bill Came Later.
James Hickman
July 23, 2026
In the summer of 1972, a Soviet official named Nikolai Belousov stepped off a plane in New York City with a shopping list. The Soviet Union had just finished its worst harvest in over a decade and was on the verge of starvation… and Belousov was tasked with the nearly impossible mission of
