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The KGB’s secret war on the west

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The KGB and the Courtney Affair

Some Labour MPs were sympathetic to the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War. The KGB cultivated a certain number of labour MPs who helped them with information and introductions. In that sense they were agents of influence way up until the 1980s, says author Ray Curnow.

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