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What It Was Really Like To Be A Cold War Spy By Sarah Crocker/Feb. 5, 2021 4:51 pm EDT Saying that the Cold War was a tense period of time is surely understating the matter. From the end of World War II, the allies of the United States and the Soviet Union quickly turned against one another in a battle for worldwide domination. The simmering conflict lasted until 1991, History reports, though the collapse had been preceded by years of de-escalating tensions between the two superpowers. Stakes...

And she would be out of their hands. so the prosecutors say that this 29-year-old allegedly offered to have sex with an unnamed individual in return for a job in the united states and that she gained access to an extensive network of u.s. persons to influence political activities in the united states by living with and at one point, and none of the people in this picture are implicated in this, so lets take them off the camera, theres a suggestion that she had a relationship with an individual a...

Unlawful, unlawful for a foreign national student in the united states to develop a personal, professional or networking relationship with an american." martha, butina is currently being held in jail. she is due back in court for another hearing tomorrow. >> martha: very interesting. jonathan, thank you very much. here now with more, jack barsky. a former kgb spy and author of "deep undercover: my secret life and tangled allegiances as kgb spy in america." welcome back. good to have you back on ...

You just said you think a lot of politicians dont get it when it comes to how this works. would you put the president in that category? >> unfortunately, yes. but its not just the president. its a lot of our lawmakers. it is my observation that a lot of americans are very trusting and very naive. this should not trickle up to the highest levels of government. we got to be a little bit more careful. >> martha: jack barsky, fascinating, thank you so much. good to have you heard tonight, sir. >> yo...

Thats the best way we could address this. >> martha: in terms of vladimir putins offer that he would open up, what, i dont know, but he says come on over here and you can do your investigation of the people you would indicted and we would have the reciprocal ability to do the same. the president seemed to think that was a pretty big development out of their discussion. what did you make of it? >> thats a very naive way to look at it. i dont think any victim of a burglar would invite the burglar ...

Man in the free world? thats just not how it is. and on top of that -- >> let me interrupt for a second. >> martha: go ahead, jack. >> hes got half the nuclear weapons on the planet and thats why we have to be careful dealing with him. >> martha: very good point. >> of course. >> martha: i just want to ask both of you before we run out of time, the comments about how when president trump was in russia as a businessman, he had no idea he was there. he said businessman come and go all the time. he...

Escape the country. so we have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. >> martha: joining me now is bill browder, head of the global justice campaign and jack barsky, former kgb spy and author of "deep undercover: my my life of entangled allegiances as a k beachy agent in america." welcome back to the show. it must have gone right through you when you heard putin call you out by name today. >> i wasnt actually watching the press confer...

Judge some place, in hawaii, can make a ruling that shuts down a presidents -- a presidential order. that doesnt happen to putin. >> so, your prediction for u.s./russia relations in 2018? >> not much of a change. its going to be tight. its going to be -- its going to be very adversarial. lets put it this way. it needs to be tightly managed. the only reason i believe we have to pay a lot of attention to russia is the fact that they have 50% of the nuclear weapons on the planet. that is where the ...

To add is that jack barsky who was on earlier made a really good point which is, you know, dont really look at what the trump campaign was trying to, you know, do in terms of intentional collusion. look at what the russians were doing. these guys have been doing this for decades. theyre really, really good at it, and they have a concept called, you know, you know, useful idiots in which theyre playing these guys, naive people, maybe well-meaning or whatever, but, you know, they, you know, system...