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The Eye Street Observer Unmasks a Notorious Russian Spy
By Lacey Smithsonian
Just hours before Kinetic Theatre’s opening night of The Turn of the Screw in Northwest D.C., a suspected Russian spy and assassin was apprehended in the theatre’s costume shop by the Metropolitan Police Department, with help from The Eye Street Observer.
Many dignitaries, including the Russian Ambassador, were expected to attend an exclusive donor gala at the Russian émigré-established theatre company later Saturday evening. Russian native Nikolai Sokolov, Kinetic’s resident costume designer, allegedly led a double life as a foreign agent sometimes known as “the Centipede,” working undetected for years in the United States. He is thought to have breached security at the highest levels of the US government and claims credit for an unknown number of assassinations under orders from the Kremlin...
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Lacey focused on her screen.
The alleged spy confessed to Eye Street Observer reporter Lacey Smithsonian to two murders related to the Kinetic Theatre, and to the death of a Russian billionaire found battered to death in a hotel in the District last year. That murder was initially ruled as a death by natural causes from a heart attack.
Sokolov has been working as the master costumer for Kinetic for more than a decade, and he has won two Helen Hayes awards for his costume designs. Some might say the theatre was the perfect cover for a master of disguise...
