Lewis told Deadline that he will exec produce the Gordievsky adaptation with Cary. Lewis previously starred in and produced a documentary series Spy Wars with Damian Lewis with British production company Alaska TV for Smithsonian Channel and History UK, where he told Gordievsky’s story. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. It tells the story of how, on a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag.
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