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Craig Unger on how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
Episode • Jan 26, 2021 • 54m
(1/26/21) Craig Unger’s new book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery describes how a relatively insignificant targeting operation by the KGB’s New York rezidentura more than 40 years ago—an attempt to recruit an influential businessman as a new asset—triggered a sequence of intelligence protocols that morphed into the greatest intelligence bonanza in history. Based on extensive, exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources, American Kompromat reveals something more sinister than the average citizen could even imagine. Join us for a look at what may be the former president’s darkest secret in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

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