Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-winning
Wall Street Journal reporter and the author of Wild
Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China. This piece is excerpted from A
Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the
West. Published by Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
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