by Craig Unger
16. Jay Solomon, “Donald Trump Jr. Held Talks on Syria with Russia Supporters,” Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2016.
17. Julian Borger and Raya Jalabi, “US Syria Policy: Signs of Shift as Trump Son Meets Pro-Damascus Figure,” The Guardian, November 23, 2016.
18. Michael S. Schmidt, “Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation,” New York Times, May 16, 2017.
19. Julie Vitkovskaya and Amanda Erickson, “The Strange Oval Office Meeting Between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak,” Washington Post, May 10, 2017.
20. Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman, and Matthew Rosenberg, “Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure from Investigation,” New York Times, May 19, 2017.
21. Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, “Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador,” Washington Post, May 15, 2017.
22. Michael S. Schmidt, “Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump’s Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say,” New York Times, August 30, 2020.
23. Rebecca Jennings, “The Mueller Report Renders Thousands of T-Shirts Irrelevant,” Vox, March 25, 2019.
24. Philip Bump, “What Happened to the Trump Counterintelligence Investigation? House Investigators Don’t Know,” Washington Post, May 15, 2019.
CHAPTER TWO: THE SPOTTER
1. Charles V. Bagli, “Trump Sells Hyatt Share to Pritzkers,” New York Times, October 8, 1996.
2. Celestine Bohlen, “From Russia, with Love for U.S. Goods,” New York Times, January 10, 1989.
3. Stuart W. Elliott, “A Cabbie’s Climb to Buy 11 Madison,” Real Deal, March 1, 2004.
4. Shtemler Ilya Petrovich, “Breakfast in Winter at Five in the Morning,” WikiReading.
5. Caleb Melby and Keri Geiger, “Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 20, 2017.
6. Georgy Luchnikov, “Uncle Sam in Kiev. What Says the SBU’s Enemy of Ex-President Poroshenko and Trump’s Personal Friend,” Ukraine.ru, August 15, 2019.
7. “Semyon Kislin, or Just Sam: What Is Known About the American Citizen of Odessa Who Accused Poroshenko of Large-Scale Corruption—‘Timer,’” Ukraine.ru, March 29, 2019.
8. Russian Money Laundering: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, 106th Cong., first session, September 21–22, 1999.
9. Author’s interview with Yuri Shvets.
10. Interview of Oleg Kalugin by researcher Olga Lautman.
11. Interview of Kalugin by researcher Lautman.
12. Kalitin Andrey, “Shark Capitalism,” WikiReading.
13. Author’s interview with Shvets.
14. “Georgian Businessman’s Hollywood Story—from Taxi Driver to Billionaire,” Georgian Journal, May 13, 2014.
15. Text message to the author from Yuri Shvets.
16. Petrovich, “Breakfast in Winter at Five in the Morning.”
17. Matthew Swibel, “The Boomerang Effect,” Forbes, March 31, 2006.
18. Author’s interview with Kenneth McCallion.
19. Author’s interview with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen.
CHAPTER THREE: THE ASSET
1. Ondrej Kundra and Jaroslav Spurny, “New Respect: Why Trump Found Himself in the STB’s Sights,” Respekt, October 29, 2018.
2. Luke Harding, “‘A Very Different World’—Inside the Czech Spying Operation on Trump,” The Guardian, October 29, 2018.
3. Harding, “‘A Very Different World.’”
4. Natalia Dvaly, “Putin’s Groupmate, a Former KGB Spy: You Seriously Think That Putin, Who Is Making a Facelift, Will Unleash a Nuclear War? His Botox Will Melt from the Fear,” Gordon, May 1, 2015.
5. Tom Topousis, “Rudy Donor Linked to Russian Mob,” New York Post, December 22, 1999.
6. Text message to the author from Yuri Shvets.
CHAPTER FOUR: SPY WARS
1. Text message to the author from Yuri Shvets.
2. Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975–1985 (Stanford University Press, February 1, 1994).
3. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence, 103rd Cong., second session, November 1, 1994.
4. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1999), 220.
5. Christopher Andrews and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Basic Books, 1999), 214.
6. Andrews and Mitrokhin, Sword and the Shield, 243.
7. Yuri Shvets, Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America (Simon & Schuster, 1995), 32.
8. Reuters, “Norway Expels Five Russians,” New York Times, February 2, 1984.
9. “Soviet Defector, on BBC, Says Moscow Agents Have Penetrated the U.N.,” New York Times, September 24, 1979.
10. United Press International, “Around the World; Ethiopia Expels 2 as Spies for Moscow,” New York Times, March 8, 1984.
11. Associated Press, “Around the World; Denmark Expels Two in Soviet Group as Spies,” New York Times, May 25, 1984.
12. UPI, “Soviet Diplomat Named in Spy Case,” New York Times, October 13, 1984.
13. Anne Saker, “1985 a Bumber [sic] Year for U.S. Spy Catchers,” United Press International, December 17, 1985.
14. Shvets, Washington Station, 38.
15. Andrew and Mitrokhin, Mitrokhin Archive, 220.
16. Commission for Review of FBI Security Programs, A Review of FBI Security Programs, US Department of Justice, March 2002.
17. Office of the Inspector General, A Review of the FBI’s Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, August 14, 2003).
18. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
19. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
20. Benjamin Weiser, “A Search for Answers: The New York Years; Spy Chasers Feel Betrayed by One-Time Top Gun,” New York Times, February 22, 2001.
21. Weiser, “Search for Answers.”
22. An American Affair: Donald Trump and the FBI, documentary film, courtesy of David Carr-Brown and Fabrizio Calvi, Pumpernickel Films and Allumage for France Télévisions & SWR, 2020.
23. Garrett M. Graff, “The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit,” New York Times, July 13, 2018.
24. Caleb Melby and Keri Geiger, “Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 16, 2017.
25. Tom Topousis, “Biz Man: Mob Leak Meant to Smear Rudy,” New York Post, December 30, 1999.
26. William A. Orme, Jr. “Intrigue Derails a Public Offering; Israel Halts Sale of Phone Company,” New York Times, April 3, 2001.
27. Topousis, “Biz Man.”
28. Orme, Jr. “Intrigue Derails a Public Offering.”
29. Thomas Frank, “Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos to Unknown Buyers,” BuzzFeed News, January 12, 2018.
30. David Wise, “When the FBI Spent Decades Hunting for a Soviet Spy on Its Staff,” Smithsonian, October 2013.
31. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Soviet Presence in the U.N. Secretariat, United States Senate, May 1985.
32. “United Nations Library: Putting Soviet Disinformation into Circulation,” Heritage Foundation, February 18, 1986.
33. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Soviet Presence in the U.N. Secretariat.
34. “Woman with Character,” AIF Express, April 28, 2003.
35. Natalia Dvaly, “Putin’s Groupmate, a Former KGB Spy: You Seriously Think Tha
t Putin, Who Is Making a Facelift, Will Unleash a Nuclear War? His Botox Will Melt from the Fear,” Gordon, May 1, 2015.
36. Shvets, Washington Station, 22.
37. Shvets, Washington Station, 33.
38. Shvets, Washington Station, 20.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE EXPERT
1. “Scientists Who Have Said No,” Science for the People, January/February 1988.
2. William E. Geist, “The Expanding Empire of Donald Trump,” New York Times, April 8, 1984.
3. Lois Romano, “Donald Trump, Holding All the Cards: The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future!,” Washington Post, November 15, 1984.
4. David Goldenberg, “Trump and the Dove,” Topic (n.d.).
5. Goldenberg, “Trump and the Dove.”
6. Edward Jay Epstein, “The Riddle of Armand Hammer,” New York Times, November 29, 1981.
7. Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Penguin, October 2005).
8. Tatiana Antonva, “‘Trump Immediately Melted’: The Intrigue of the First Visit of the US President to the USSR,” Moskovsky Komsomolets, November 11, 2016 (Google Translate).
9. Lilya Yapparova, “Trump’s Russian Trace: From the Real Estate Market in Moscow to Gaidai’s Films and Ukupnik’s Songs,” The Rain, November 8, 2016 (Google Translate).
10. Antonva, “‘Trump Immediately Melted.’”
11. Luke Harding, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (Vintage, 2017), 221–222.
12. Donald Trump, Art of the Deal (Random House, 2009), 27.
13. Martin Sixsmith, “Different Name, Same Tactics,” The Guardian, November 20, 2006.
14. Text message from Shvets to the author.
15. Gary Lee, “Soviets Name Veteran Diplomat to UN,” Washington Post, March 14, 1986.
16. G. Luther Whitington, “Soviet U.N. Ambassador Named to U.S. Post,” United Press International, May 20, 1986.
17. Thom Shanker, “Soviets’ Man in UN Now Envoy to U.S.,” Chicago Tribune, May 21, 1986.
18. “Moscow’s New Man on the Potomac,” Newsweek, June 2, 1986.
19. “Moscow’s New Man on the Potomac,” Newsweek.
20. Thom Shanker, “New Ambassador,” Washington Post, May 20, 1986.
21. Gary Lee, “Moscow Names U.N. Envoy Ambassador to Washington,” Washington Post, May 21, 1986.
22. Elaine Sciolino, “Man in the News; New Russian in Capital: Yuri Vladimirivich Dubinin,” New York Times, May 21, 1986.
23. Bernard Gwertzman, “Embassy Row; For Dobrynin and Washington, ‘End of an Era,’” New York Times, March 7, 1986.
24. Elaine Sciolino, “Washington at Work; Tale of Two Yuris: For Soviet Ambassador, These Are the Best of Times,” New York Times, November 27, 1989.
25. O. C. Doelling, “U.S. Orders Cuts in Soviet U.N. Missions,” Associated Press, March 8, 1986.
26. Stephen Engelberg, “Aide to U.N. Chief Called Soviet Spy in Senate Report,” New York Times, October 8, 1986.
27. “Moynihan: Soviet Spying Must Be Stopped,” United Press International, January 11, 1986.
28. Memo from Shvets to the author.
CHAPTER SIX: YASENEVO DAYS
1. “The Former Execution Chamber,” Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.
2. Christopher Andrews and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield (Basic Books, 1999), 7, 8.
3. David Wise, “Closing Down the K.G.B.,” New York Times, November 24, 1991.
4. Pete Earley, Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War (Thorndike Press, 2008), 62.
5. Yuri Shvets, Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America (Simon & Schuster, 1995), 173.
6. Author’s interview with Yuri Shvets.
7. Daniel L. Wick, “Another Ex-KGB Spy Spills the Beans: Yuri B. Shvets Claims He Recruited a Former Carter Adviser,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1995.
8. Dave D’Alessandro, “Weekend Reading Assignment: A Russian Tale,” New Jersey Star Ledger, January 10, 2010.
9. Dana Milbank, “Eight Republicans Pick the Worst Possible Place to Celebrate July 4,” Washington Post, July 6, 2018.
10. Harding, Collusion, 223.
11. “Ministry of State Security (Stasi), ‘Note About the Talks of Comrade Minister [Mielke] with the Chairman of the KGB, Comrade Chebrikov, in Moscow,’” Wilson Center Digital Archive, February 9, 1983.
12. Seth Hettena, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History (Melville House, 2018), 14.
13. Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin (Dutton, 2018), 50.
14. Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer (Random House, 1996), 8.
15. Epstein, Dossier, 123.
16. Author’s interview with Shvets.
17. Michael Oreskes, “Trump Gives a Vague Hint of Candidacy,” New York Times, September 2, 1987.
18. Paula Span, “When Trump Hoped to Meet Gorbachev in Manhattan,” Washington Post, December 3, 1988.
19. William C. Trott, “Trump’s Communist,” United Press International, December 2, 1988.
20. Natalie Schreyer, “The Trump Files: When Donald Couldn’t Tell the Difference Between Gorbachev and an Impersonator,” Mother Jones, July 5, 2016.
21. Glenn Plaskin, “The Playboy Interview with Donald Trump,” Playboy, March 1, 1990.
22. “Vladimir Kryuchkov: Plotter Against Gorbachev,” The Independent, November 26, 2007.
23. Kathleen Klenetsky, “Soviets ‘Intensely Interested’ in 1988 U.S. Campaign,” Executive Intelligence Review, June 24, 1987.
24. Christopher Burgess, “Russia: Skilled Political Warfare Adversary,” Security Boulevard, November 7, 2017.
25. Unger, House of Trump, 51.
26. John F. Barton, “Defector Details KGB Activity in Japan,” United Press International, December 11, 1982.
27. Howard Kurtz, “Between the Lines of a Millionaire’s Ad,” Washington Post, September 2, 1987.
28. Michael Oreskes, “Trump Gives Vague Hint of Candidacy,” New York Times, September 2, 1987.
29. Oreskes, “Trump Gives Vague Hint.”
CHAPTER SEVEN: OPUS DEI
1. David A. Vise, “From Russia with Love,” Washington Post, January 6, 2002.
2. James Risen, “Spy’s Wife Speaks, After Taking a Lie Test,” New York Times, May 16, 2002.
3. Office of the Inspector General, A Review of the FBI’s Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, August 14, 2003).
4. Eric Lichtblau, “Spy’s Wife Apologizes, Finds His Life Sentence ‘Appropriate,’” Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2001.
5. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
6. Elaine Shannon, The Spy Next Door (Little, Brown, 2002), 60.
7. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
8. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
9. Vise, “From Russia with Love.”
10. Anthony Zanontian, “Your Complete Guide to the Russian KGB—Key Players,” http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Projects/AnthonyZanontian/azkgb.htm.
11. Elaine Shannon, “Death of the Perfect Spy,” Time, June 24, 2001.
12. Author’s interview with Scott Horton.
13. David A. Vise, The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (Grove Atlantic, 2001), 41–42.
14. Graydon Megan, “Dr. LeRoy Wauck: 1920–2009,” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 2009.
15. Adrian Havill, The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold (St. Martin’s, 2001), 45, 154.
16. Eric O�
�Neill, Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy (Crown/Archetype, 2019), 174.
17. Michael F. Flach, “Opus Dei Members ‘Shocked, Saddened’ by Hanssen’s Arrest,” Arlington Catholic Herald, March 1, 2001.
18. Shannon, Spy Next Door, 38–39.
19. Vise, Bureau and the Mole, 1.
20. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
21. David Wise, Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America (Random House, 2002).
22. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
23. Vise, “From Russia with Love.”
24. Wise, Spy, Kindle location 494.
25. Wise, Spy, 26.
26. Vise, Bureau and the Mole, 48–49.
27. John F. Coverdale, Putting Down Roots: Father Joseph Múzquiz and the Growth of Opus Dei, 1912–1983 (Scepter, 2009), 6.
28. “Who Was Father Joseph Muzquiz?,” Opus Dei, July 13, 2017.
29. Robert Hutchison, Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei (St. Martin’s, 1997), 101.
30. Coverdale, Putting Down Roots, ix.
31. Wolfgang Saxon, “Salvador Ferigle, 73, Priest Who Brought Opus Dei to the U.S.,” New York Times, January 17, 1997.
32. Fr. Roger J. Landry, “The Captivating Sanctity of Fr. Sal,” The Anchor, January 13, 2017.
33. Personal Prelature of Opus Dei.
34. Coverdale, Putting Down Roots, 47.
35. Email from Fr. John Paul Wauck to the author.
36. Wise, Spy, 26.
CHAPTER EIGHT: BETRAYAL
1. Office of the Inspector General, A Review of the FBI’s Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen, US Department of Justice, August 14, 2003.
2. David Wise, “When the FBI Spent Decades Hunting for a Soviet Spy on Its Staff,” Smithsonian, October 2013.
3. Joel Brinkley and Leslie H. Gelb, “U.S. Frustrated in Efforts to Counter Soviet Spying,” New York Times, June 16, 1985.
