How The CIA & Pope SMUGGLED Ukrainian Nazis Into America

Watch the full conversation with Lev Golinkin, Yasha Levine and Mark Ames here: Journalist Lev Golinkin joins Katie, along with Yasha Levine and Mark Ames to talk about Canada’s Ukrainian Nazi problem, and how the CIA helped Nazi’s and Nazi collaborators find freedom in North America. Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and , among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He’s the author of “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet,“ “A Journey Through California’s Oligarch Valley,“ “The Koch Brothers: A Short History“ and “The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell.“ He’s the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at Mark Ames is a journalist and writer who lived in Moscow for 13 years. for He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Press and GQ. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps