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The KGB Playbook for Turning Russians Worldwide Into Agents

MOTHERLAND CALLING

A KGB manual showed how valuable—and how treacherous—Russian émigrés could be. Did KGB veteran Vladimir Putin learn those lessons?

Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss 

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Michael Weiss

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