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The World Beneath

The Enemy Inside with Craig Unger and Yuri Shvets | Sitdown 8

The World Beneath

Imperative Entertainment

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

LB sits down with author and investigative journalist, Craig Unger, and former KGB agent Yuri Shvets - Unger's source for his deep dives on Donald Trump's Kremlin history before the Presidency, and career money-laundering for Putin's mobligarchs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've learned a lot about our gangsters and their work with our own intelligence services

0:16.6

during World War II.

0:19.3

What happened with all that publicly available information and shared intelligence that

0:25.2

are then ally, the Soviet Union, had about our gangsters and how they helped us in the

0:33.9

war effort.

0:35.4

Do you think it all disappeared from the KGB's memory by the time the 70s rolled around

0:42.0

and FC A-Gron, KGB agent, and the Russian mafia's little godfather made his way to our shores?

0:50.4

Was it wiped from the Kremlin's memory when FC and his successors partnered with luckily

0:55.1

Luciano's former crime family to run billion dollar rackets?

0:59.7

Do Americans have any clue what it means that one of the business fronts for Lucky's

1:05.5

crime family, Fred Trump, had a son that sold a bunch of real estate to Russian crime

1:12.6

lords and went on trips to Moscow with KGB agents?

1:17.3

Should we have seen it all coming?

1:19.6

And Fred's kid and Roy Cohn's protégé and career money laundre for the Russian mafia

1:25.9

ran for the presidency and won in 2016?

1:30.4

These are big questions.

1:32.9

Let's ask them of Craig Unger, investigative journalist, former editor of the New York

1:39.2

Observer, former editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine, and best-selling author, including

1:46.7

the recent American Compromot, had the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and one of Craig's

1:53.9

lead sources will join us, Yuri Chavez, private security specialist, U.S. citizen, and former

2:03.2

KGB intelligence chief of the Kremlin's Washington, D.C. bureau.

2:12.8

Let's begin.

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