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🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague Craig Unger, who has been investigating linkage between KGB, the Russian mob, |
0:08.0 | Fifth Avenue, and money laundering, and the now president of the United States, |
0:14.0 | formerly former president, now president of the United States, through the 1980s. |
0:20.0 | We begin with the spectacular purchase of 200 TV sets from a KGB front, |
0:26.8 | I believe in Brooklyn. Maybe it was Coney Island. And this was actually in Fifth Avenue near the |
0:34.4 | Flatiron building. All right. Yes, it was in Manhattan. Those TV sets went |
0:38.9 | into the Grand Hyatt, refurbished by a young developer named Donald Trump. We've now told the |
0:45.9 | story of how from there we got to David Bogotten of the Russian mob laundering money that was |
0:52.3 | gained illicitly in the red daisy scam. |
0:55.7 | But now we go to Moscow itself. |
0:58.0 | This is Donald Trump's first trip to Moscow. |
1:00.8 | Who's your source on this? |
1:02.0 | And where did he come from? |
1:04.4 | Right. |
1:04.8 | Well, one of my big sources is a former major in the KGB and Mures-Fitz. |
1:10.5 | And he was in the KGB in the 1980s, and he was in Washington Station, where he was recruiting |
1:18.9 | spies to spy for the Soviet Union against the United States. |
1:22.8 | He was recruiting Americans to do that. |
1:25.4 | Meanwhile, he had colleagues in New York station who were doing exactly the |
1:30.3 | same thing, and their target was a man named Donald Trump. |
1:34.3 | And when KGB makes you a target, how do they do it? Because Trump is a developer. He's out in |
1:40.3 | public all the time. How would they design such an approach? |
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