Vladimir Putin, the KGB and the German Nazi Gangster Who Was a Communist Spy
The Underworld Podcast
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Sontag and Putin's Side Projects
Sontag was working out of the KGB's office in Dresden and Putin at the same time had this kind of side project that he was hiring people of which Sontag is one of them. So it's interesting that the whole story came about because my co-writer, he's a British guy, he found an old 2015 article written by a German investigative outlet called Corrective. It mentions Sontag in a single tiny paragraph buried down the bottom of a story about Putin's early years.
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