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In the first hour, investigative reporter Peter Lance will talk about the attempts by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to kill his book, Triple Cross http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060886889/ctoc . Then, former KGB agent and intelligence expert Oleg Kalugin ( http://www.amazon.com/Spymaster-Thirty-two-Intelligence-Espionage-Against/dp/0465014453/ctoc ) will discuss Soviet propaganda, including mysterious disappearances and cover-ups, and give us an insider account of what it was like to be a spy working behind the Iron Curtain.

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

The amount of Russian espionage in the United States dipped after the Soviet collapse in 1991, officials and experts say, but rebounded by 1994 under then-foreign intelligence chief and later Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a "massive" expansion of intelligence-gathering in Western Europe and North America, Jane's Intelligence Digest reported. Officials and experts say Russian spying has increased significantly under Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel. "In 1989 and 1990, after the Berlin Wall fell, we all wanted to light candles and sing 'Kumbaya' and wait for the peace dividends to...