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Theres no such thing as a former KGB man

Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a nearinconceivable scale In 1985 1300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA The FBI only had 350 counterintelligence officers Since the early days of the Cold War the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service and planted fake news in papers across the world

More disturbingly it never stopped Putin is a KGB man through and through Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russias war with Ukraine It seems frighteningly easy to destabilize Western democracy