the saying, we survived four years of that presidency. we re now watching this ridiculous side show of him running for president again, just grasping at any opportunity to get into the news. here s a real life demonstration of the saying that the first time was tragedy, the second time looks like ugly. 60 years ago this year, the soviet convicted spy, rudolph able was released on that bridge in germany for the u2 american pilot, francis gary powers who has been imprisoned by the russians and i just checked this the other day to make sure i was right. almost unanimously people said, yes, we hated able, but this was a good trade, something for america s benefit. that was the way it was in this country. but to have a president, an ex-president like trump, it s even hard to use the president in the same sentence as someone who made these accusations about this trade for brittney griner.
intelligence strategy. you hope if you let the sleepers sleep long enough one might get close to someone like patrickoff and might earn their confidence to the extent when a crisis looms they can get some intelligence, some over the horizon view useful to a russian strategy response, but my experience, the book i ve written which features rudolph able, who was tried and convicted and given 30 years in 1957 as a soviet master spy, it s not accepted that he achieved precisely nothing in intelligence in nine years in the u.s. you have spent a lot of time on this. is there a sense for how many spies are among us? well, retired kgb personnel who have spoken in the last couple days say there could be