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Zach Dorfman
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How James Harper Became A One-Man Megasupplier Of Illegal Tech To Moscow

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a parallel, mostly covert battle has been waged in the shadows.

Zach Dorfman
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On Getting To Know An American Spy For Moscow's Proxies

James Harper was perhaps the most perplexing interview subject of my journalistic career.

Zach Dorfman
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The counterintelligence life: a remembrance of FBI agent Bill Kinane

In 1998, amid the chaos and corruption of post-Soviet Russia, Galina Starovoytova, a popular pro-democracy legislator and dissident, was assassinated in her apartment building in St. Petersburg. Many suspected that she had been targeted for her outspoken liberal views. Soon after the killing, Bill Kinane, an FBI legal attaché in