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Poisoner, Hacker, Meddler, Spy: How Russian Agents Ran Wild in 2020

Some wins, some loses, but overall a record to be proud of—if you’re Vladimir Putin

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Jeff Stein and Patricia Ravalgi
Dec 31, 2020
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If Russian intelligence were a baseball team, they’d be the Houston Astros—good, powerful, even lethal, but cheaters who broke the rules in a game already known for bending them. And they pretty much got away with it.

“I like that analogy,” says retired top former CIA clandestine operations official Marc Polymeropoulos. “I would add that the Houston play…

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