If you want to find yourself at the center of Donald Trump’s financial empire, you need to go up 56th Street toward Central Park — and at the intersection with Fifth Avenue, a 202-meter, 58-story skyscraper will come into view. It ranks only 64th in New York by height, but it is no less famous than the Empire State Building. Construction of Trump Tower was completed in the fall of 1983, and since then the skyscraper has been a symbol of the success and power of the man whose name it bears. But this success story did not come without the KGB and its influence agents in the so-called «Russian mafia».

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Recruitment of foreign youth has always been part of the KGB’s work abroad. But never before have Soviet special services had such fantastic opportunities as those now available to the Russian ones—when the Russian-speaking diaspora numbers in the tens of millions.

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