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4 - The Don

Ep. 4

Stefan Halper was a respected Cambridge University academic. But in autumn 2016 he was also something else - an FBI informant. Three Trump campaign figures targeted by Halper agree to talk. A story of subterfuge, secret recordings and the hazy morality of spying. 

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