How Secret Agents Work to Hijack U.S. Foreign Policy

“Devils’ Advocates,” a new book by New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel, reveals how foreign potentates recruit connected Americans to promote their interests

Oct 25, 2025

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Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, convicted on money laundering and tax violation charges in 2018, was at home in the netherworld of spies and covert cash. In Dec. 2020 Trump pardoned him. (TMX)

The Kashmiri American Council was one of those shadowy pressure groups that pop up in the nation’s capital from time to time. Purporting to be a dome…

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