Michael Weiss, Daily Beast: The KGB Playbook for Turning Russians Worldwide Into Agents
A KGB manual showed how valuable—and how treacherous—Russian émigrés could be. Did KGB veteran Vladimir Putin learn those lessons?
IT WAS THE TRANSPOSITION of two letters that furnished the easy excuse for dismissing the entirety of the accusation as “fake news.”
Russian diplomat Mikhail Kulagin, the story went, had been yanked from the Russian Embassy on Wisconsin Avenue owing to fears in Moscow that the American press was onto him as something other than a mere diplomat. Kulagin was about to be unmasked for his “heavy involvement in the U.S. presidential election operation,” according to a secret document about to be made public, to much fanfare and controversy. Namely, he’d been part of a complex scheme funneling cash to Russian émigrés in America as compensation for a “two-way flow of intelligence and information concerning the activities of prominent Russian oligarchs and their families.”
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WNU Editor: If I may quote my father when he immigrated to Canada after living in the Soviet Union for most of his life .... "there are more Communists in Canada than they are in the Soviet Union". I am sure that some Soviet/Russian immigrants may have actively supporting the KGB .... but from my own experience .... I would say that 99%+ would not do it willingly.
