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UPDATE: Brittney Griner Traded for the Merchant of Death
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UPDATE: Brittney Griner Traded for the Merchant of Death

Russia trades for the man who kept the secrets

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John Berthelsen
Dec 09, 2022
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The United States today traded Viktor Bout, one of the world’s most notorious weapons dealers, to the Russians for the American women’s basketball star Brittney Griner. Asia Sentinel wrote about the possibility of this trade on August 1. 

On March 6, 2008, agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, backed by the Royal Thai pol…

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