William Morgan Sheppard plays Maj. Viktor Luskov. He will go on to play Marcin 'Mr. Pain' Jerek in Broken Bird (2009), which is a spin-off of this series.
The statement about Toshimasa Meguro being a WWII POW is a true statement, except he was not simply forgotten. After serving eight years in labor camps, he was ordered to remain in Siberia and was permitted to visit Japan in 1998.
Both Parlovsky and Sokol are claimed to be FSB and also state it is like the FBI. That is loosely correct- the FSB is a domestic intelligence agency but the duo's activities were foreign.
Episode's title is a play on the title of the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, the plot of which centers around Bond working with a female Soviet Army Corporal (whom he of course falls for) in Russia to stop a plot by the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization to start a war between the Soviet Union and NATO.