"In Red Mafiya... Friedman documented how Ivankov organized... a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise. According to the FBI, he recruited... "combat brigades" of Special Forces veterans from the Soviet war in Afghanistan to run the... and kill... enemies."
— Craig Unger

January 1, 1970

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Ref: , Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob has Invaded America (2002) p. 101.