![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The meeting, which was held in Trump Tower, last June, was arranged by a pop star (whose billionaire father, a Russian real-estate mogul, had financed his career) and his British public-relations man, who, apparently, was happy to add international intrigue to his list of services. I thought of Joe recently when I heard about the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and a group of Russian, British, and Georgian businesspeople, some of whom have connections to Russian intelligence. He had a front company that manufactured gloves, another that owned parking lots, and a third that did importing and exporting. His cover was running businesses that his Soviet bosses had created for him. Much later, not long before his death, in 2004, I learned the truth, revealed by documents unearthed after the fall of the Soviet Union: Joseph Katz was an important Soviet agent in New York and Europe in the nineteen-thirties and forties. ![]() There was talk of “interests” in various firms, of lucky real-estate investments, of his time running the production company that made the James Bond films. He told me sometimes about his impoverished childhood, in Lithuania and in New Jersey it was never clear exactly how he had become wealthy. He had a lavish apartment in Manhattan, across from Lincoln Center, and another in London, as well as homes in Israel and France, and he travelled from one to another, showing up suddenly and disappearing just as quickly. My grandmother’s close friend and, I later learned, occasional lover was, in the fullest sense of the phrase, an international man of mystery. ![]()
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