There’s 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 near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence 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...

В этой книге излагаются истории четырех олигархов: Бориса Березовского, Романа Абрамовича, Михаила Ходорковского и Олега Дерипаски — источником личного благосостояния которых стала Россия, но только Лондон обеспечил им взлет к вершинам мировой финансово-экономической элиты.