The shadow wars – yes. The most fascinating subject, I think. Great book on the Stalinist effort is Double Lives by Stephen Koch.

Of course only fascist McCarthyist paranoids believe in such things – or believe they have an effect on national policy and public perception.

That is the most interesting response, I think, in light of the tons of information to the contrary: that “oh yes, this happens, but it doesn’t have any *effect* on anything, really.”

Nah. The KGB? What’s that? Means nothing. Move along now.