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13 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Kapitonov was part of the crowd known...as the 'Middle Eastern mafia,' a cabal of Arabist or Perisianist KGB officers who ended up in the late 1980s taking over the KGB..."

How a Renegade ‘Middle Eastern Mafia’ Invented Modern Russian Espionage
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"On Sept. 16, 1981, the Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat announced the expulsion of the Soviet ambassador along with 6 members of his staff, and 2 Soviet journalists...believed that the Soviets were plotting against him by promoting a rift between Christians & Muslims in Egypt."
"...in 1977 Moscow Center directed the station in Cairo to start recruiting Soviet Arabists 'to collect political intelligence and conduct active measures'."
"Three weeks later, Sadat was dead, machine-gunned at a parade in Cairo by jihadist assassins armed with AK-47s and port-Said submachine guns..."

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