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Messenger: The unwanted spy returns home to Missouri and searches for a sense of belonging
By Tony Messenger : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jeffrey Sterling was a man without a country.
It was May 2016 and the former CIA spy was watching television in the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado. He was in the black TV room.
In prison, Sterling says, everything was segregated. There was a black TV room, a white TV room, a Hispanic TV room.