The KGB's long war against Rudolf Nureyev  In 1961, Russia's
finest dancer slipped through his keepers' fingers to defect to
the West. But, years later, the Soviet secret police had their
revenge. By John Bridcut  The KGB had seen it coming. When
Rudolf Nureyev, the most promising young talent in Leningrad's
Kirov Ballet, fled the Soviet Union for the West in June 1961,
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