Home of Russian spies who inspired The Americans set to go up for sale

A New Jersey home that has been vacant since the FBI arrested a family of undercover Russian spies living there – in a case which partially inspired the TV hit The Americans – is heading for sale.
Vladimir and Lydia Guryev lived in the home in Montclair under the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy, before they were arrested in 2010 along with eight other spies accused of leading double lives complete with false passports, secret code words, fake names, invisible ink and encrypted radio.

The Guryevs, who had two young daughters, pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country and were deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four people convicted of betraying Moscow to the west.

Their story partially inspired the FX drama The Americans, about two undercover Russian spies, played by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, who live in the US with two young children.

Lydia Guryev worked as an accountant in New York and was accused of using her financial contacts to pass information to Moscow.

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