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The KGB Playbook for Infiltrating the Middle East
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In 1988, the Soviet intelligence service, the KGB, looked at its mistakes in the Middle East, where the CIA often had the upper hand. Putin has worked to change that.
Michael Weiss
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Dec. 28 2017
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