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Title: Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House; Author: Luke Harding; Publisher: Guardian Books/Faber & Faber; Pages: 346; Price: Rs 599 Soon after being made Russian Prime Minister in 1999, Vladimir Putin reportedly told his former secret service colleagues that undercover spies, dispatched to infiltrate the US government, had "fulfilled their first objective". Did he, in November 2016, make a similar quip about a pliable "agent" now heading an (increasingly) adversarial superpower? He could well have, though the impact didn't persist too long, as we learn here. The issue of US President Donald Trump's Russian connections and the…