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4. Office of the Inspector General, Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen.
5. Rob Boston, “Of Spies and Saints,” Church and State, May 2006.
6. David Wise, Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America (Random House, 2002), Kindle location 50.
7. Wise, Spy, 50.
8. Elaine Shannon, The Spy Next Door (Little, Brown, 2002), 90.
9. Brooke A. Masters, “Hanssen Admits Spying, Avoids Death Penalty,” Washington Post, July 7, 2001.
10. Author’s interview with Mark Wauck.
11. Author’s interview with Mark Wauck.
12. Wise, Spy, 125.
13. Author’s interview with Mark Wauck.
14. Mark Binelli, “Pope Francis: The Times They Are A-Changin’,” Rolling Stone, January 28, 2014.
15. James Martin, S.J., “Opus Dei in the United States,” America: The National Catholic Weekly, February 25, 1995.
16. Frank L. Cocozzelli, “The Politics of Schism in the Catholic Church,” Political Research Associates, September 6, 2009.
17. Kirsten Biondich, “Operation Lemonade: Opus Dei’s Public Relations Campaign Against the Da Vinci Code” (thesis, University of Florida, 2007).
18. Robert Hutchison, Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei (St. Martin’s, 1997), Kindle location 61.
19. Michael J. Walsh, The Secret World of Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Controversial Sect at the Heart of the Roman Catholic Church (Grafton, 1989).
20. Kenneth Woodward, “A Questionable Saint,” Newsweek, January 12, 1992.
21. Terry Eagleton, “The Fraternal Corrections: Opus Dei and the Catholic Church,” Harper’s, April 1, 2006.
22. Josemaría Escrivá, The Way, number 311.
23. Walsh, Secret World of Opus Dei, 20.
24. Hutchison, Their Kingdom Come, 73.
25. Giles Tremlett, “Sainthood Beckons for Priest Linked to Franco,” The Guardian, October 4, 2002.
26. Hutchinson, Their Kingdom Come, 138.
27. Herbert L. Matthews, “What About After Franco,” Austin American, December 1, 1965.
28. Letter from Escrivá to Franco, May 23, 1958, Opus Dei Awareness Network.
29. Elizabeth W. Green, “Opening the Doors of Opus Dei,” Harvard Crimson, April 10, 2003.
CHAPTER NINE: THE NEW PRAETORIAN GUARD
1. David Montgomery, “Conquerors of the Court,” Washington Post, January 2, 2019.
2. Jay Michaelson, “The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick,” Daily Beast, July 24, 2018.
3. Sue Sturgis, “The Secret Money Behind the Push to Ban Abortion,” Common Dreams, May 26, 2019.
4. Michael Walsh, The Secret World of Opus Dei: An Investigation into the Controversial Sect at the Heart of the Roman Catholic Church (Grafton, 1989), 170.
5. “Questionable Practices,” Opus Dei Awareness Network.
6. Elizabeth W. Green, “Opening the Doors of Opus Dei,” Harvard Crimson, April 10, 2003.
7. “Purpose of Opus Dei,” Real Catholic Online.
8. Escrivá, The Way.
9. John L. Allen, Jr., Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church (Doubleday Religion, 2005), 232.
10. “Index of Forbidden Books,” Opus Dei Awareness Network.
11. Author’s interview with Brian Finnerty.
12. “Secret by Statute: The Opus Dei Codes of Secrecy,” Real Catholic Online.
13. “About CIC DC,” Catholic Information Center.
14. Betty Clemont, “Opus Dei’s Influence Is Felt in All of Washington’s Corridors of Power,” Open Tabernacle, January 22, 2019.
15. Michelle Boorstein, “Opus Dei Paid $977,000 to Settle Sexual Misconduct Claim Against Prominent Catholic Priest,” Washington Post, January 7, 2019.
16. Joe Heim, “‘Quite a Shock’: The Priest Was a D.C. Luminary. Then He Had a Disturbing Fall from Grace,” Washington Post, January 14, 2019.
17. Frederick Clarkson, “God Is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt,” Religion Dispatches, July 26, 2012.
18. Michaelson, “Secrets of Leonard Leo.”
19. Michaelson, “Secrets of Leonard Leo.”
CHAPTER TEN: THE COVER-UP GENERAL
1. David Rhode, “William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield,” New Yorker, January 20, 2020.
2. Marie Brenner, “‘I Had No Problem Being Politically Different’: Young William Barr Among the Manhattan Liberals,” Vanity Fair, October 7, 2019.
3. “George H .W. Bush—the 11th Director of Central Intelligence,” CIA News and Information, December 1, 2018.
4. George Packer, “The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions,” The Atlantic, April 2020.
5. Frank Snepp, “Bill Barr: The ‘Cover-Up General,’” Village Voice, October 27, 1992.
6. Murray S. Waas and Craig Unger, “In the Loop: Bush’s Secret Mission,” New Yorker, October 26, 1992.
7. “William P. Barr Oral History,” University of Virginia Miller Center, April 5, 2001.
8. “William P. Barr Oral History,” University of Virginia Miller Center.
9. Susan Hennessey, “The Disintegration of the American Presidency,” The Atlantic, January 21, 2020.
10. William P. Barr, “Common Legislative Encroachments on Executive Branch Authority,” July 27, 1989.
11. Rhode, “William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield.”
12. Frank Snepp, “Bill Barr: The Cover-Up General,” Village Voice, October 27, 1992.
13. William Safire, “Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor,” New York Times, October 19, 1992.
14. William Safire, “Essay: A Tale of Three Counsels,” New York Times, December 28, 1992.
15. William Safire, “Essay; Justice Corrupts Justice,” New York Times, August 31, 1992.
16. Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc., March 1993; US Department of Justice, 1994 DOJ Report on INSLAW/PROMIS matter, released by the Department of Justice Office of Information Policy, September 30, 2013.
17. Thom Hartmann, “Has ‘Cover-Up General’ William Barr Struck Again?,” Common Dreams, March 26, 2019.
18. David Johnston, “Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails ‘Cover-Up,’” New York Times, December 25, 1992.
19. Mary Papenfuss, “William Barr’s Partisan ‘Authoritarian’ Trump Defense Triggers Calls for His Impeachment,” Huffington Post, November 17, 2019.
20. Author’s interview with Brian Finnerty.
21. “Statement regarding U.S. Attorney General William Barr,” Opus Dei, November 27, 2019.
22. Chris Mathews, “A Day in the Life of a Supernumerary,” NBC News, May 17, 2006.
23. Email from Brian Finnerty to the author, February 28, 2020.
24. Author’s interview with Frederick Clarkson.
25. John Spano, “Catholic Doctrine Is Cited in Priest Sex Abuse Cases; In Questioning Clergy, Some Lawyers Encounter the Principle of ‘Mental Reservation,’ Which Justifies Lying to Protect the Church,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2007.
26. Charlotte Sector, “Ex-Opus Dei Members Decry Blind Obedience,” ABC News, May 17, 2006.
27. Franco Ordoñez, “Trump Impeachment Trial Turns Spotlight on White House Lawyer Cipollone,” All Things Considered, NPR, December 23, 2019.
28. Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump Has Chosen Washington Lawyer Pat Cipollone as Next White House Counsel, People Familiar with Decision Say,” Washington Post, October 13, 2018.
29. “AG Nominee William Barr Must Repudiate Previous Statements Vilifying Secularism
,” Freedom from Religion Foundation news release, December 10, 2018.
30. William P. Barr, “Legal Issues in a New Political Order,” Catholic Lawyer, January 1995.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE BOUNCING CZECH
1. Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (Carroll and Graf, 2002).
2. Ken Gross, “A Tycoon’s Mysterious Death,” People, November 18, 1991.
3. Tom Bower, Maxwell: The Outsider (Viking Penguin, January 1991), 477.
4. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 298.
5. Nick Sommerlad, “Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Ordered Shredding of Crooked Dad’s Paperwork Hours After He Drowned,’” The Mirror, August 2, 2020.
6. “Soundbite,” The Observer, February 23, 1997.
7. Kevin Cahill, “How They Killed Maxwell,” Sunday Age, April 18, 1993.
8. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 8.
9. Allan Sloan and Glenn Kessler, “U.S. Deals Weakened Empire,” Newsday, November 7, 1991.
10. Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, “Robert Maxwell Was a Mossad Spy. He Asked Them for Pounds 400M. They Refused and Feared He Would Now Expose Them. So Three Israeli Agents Killed Him on His Boat; New Claim on Tycoon’s Mystery Death,” Daily Mirror, December 2, 2002.
11. “Maxwell, Colossus Even in Death, Laid to Rest on Mount of Olives,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 11, 1991.
12. Gordon Thomas, Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Pan Books, 2000), 201.
13. Seumas Milne, The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Minder (Verso, 2004), 218.
14. Rob Evans and David Hencke, “Maxwell—the ‘Red’ the Feds Failed to Nail,” The Guardian, October 13, 2000.
15. Maxwell: The Downfall, documentary directed by David Suchet, 2007.
16. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 8.
17. Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (Free Press, June 2000).
18. “Robert Maxwell Files (1923–1991),” FBI: The Vault.
19. “Robert Maxwell Files,” FBI.
20. “Robert Maxwell Files,” FBI.
21. Emily Hourican, “Robert Maxwell: Legacy of ‘the Bouncing Czech,’” The Independent, October 17, 2016.
22. Evans and Hencke, “Maxwell.”
23. Mark Burdman, “KGB Boss Says Robert Maxwell Was the Second Kissinger,” EIR, August 12, 1994.
24. Author’s interview with Yuri Shvets.
25. “On Their Toes,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 17, 1999.
26. Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: The ‘Whoremonger’ Whose Arms Deals Funded a Playboy Life of Decadence and ‘Pleasure Wives,’” The Independent, October 29, 2019.
27. Dylan Howard, with Melissa Cronin and James Robertson, Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Skyhorse, December 2019), Kindle location 365.
28. Dominick Dunne, “Khashoggi’s Fall: A Crash in the Limo Lane,” Vanity Fair, September 1989.
29. “Memorandum in Response to the March 1993 Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Responding to the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc.,” July 29, 1993.
30. “Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., Flight 2311, Uncontrolled Collision with Terrain, an Embraer EMB-120, N270AS, Brunswick, Georgia, April 5, 1991,” National Transportation Safety Board, April 28, 1992.
31. Neil A. Lewis, “Reporter Is Buried Amid Questions over His Pursuit of Conspiracy Idea,” New York Times, August 17, 1991.
32. “Writer’s Death Raises Questions of Political Conspiracy: Casolaro Was Pursuing Alleged Reagan-Bush Scandals When He Died; Police Investigating,” Boston Globe, August 14, 1991.
33. Jeffery A. Frank, “The Inslaw File,” Washington Post, June 14, 1992.
34. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 61.
35. Frank, “Inslaw File.”
36. Anatoly S. Chernyaev, The Diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev, ed. Svetlana Savranskaya and trans. Anna Melyakova, National Security Archive, 1991.
37. Chernyaev, The Diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev.
38. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy, 85.
39. Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin (Dutton, 2018).
40. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy.
41. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 37.
42. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy.
43. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy.
44. “Debt Mountain Overhangs Sprawling Maxwell Empire,” Financial Post, November 6, 1991.
45. Michael Kilian, “The 200-Foot Fetish,” Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1989.
46. Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy.
47. Knut Royce, “FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter,” Center for Public Integrity, December 14, 1999.
48. Author’s interview with Glenn Carle.
49. Author’s interview with Glenn Carle.
50. David Johnston, “New Attorney General Shifts Department’s Focus,” New York Times, March 3, 1993.
51. Author’s interview with Myron Fuller.
CHAPTER TWELVE: GHISLAINE AND JEFFREY
1. Lee A. Daniels, “Chronicle,” New York Times, November 8, 1991.
2. “Inside New York,” Newsday, November 22, 1991.
3. “Inside New York,” Newsday.
4. Paul Farhi, “Maxwell Auditors Trace $1.2 Billion in Missing Money,” Washington Post, December 9, 1991.
5. George Parker-Jervis and Peter Watson, “Banks Close In on Maxwell—Pressure Is Mounting for Kevin and Ian Maxwell, Who Must Satisfy Their Bankers This Week or Face Administration,” The Observer (London), November 24, 1991.
6. David Hellier, “Maxwell’s Time Bomb: A Fraud Investigation into Mysterious Events Surrounding a Loan of Just Pounds 60M Has Sent a Tremor Through the Complex Web of the Late Mogul’s Empire,” The Independent (UK), November 24, 1991.
7. Steven Prokesch, “Swiss Bank Is Demanding Maxwell Loan Repayment,” New York Times, November 21, 1991.
8. “Misery in the Maxwell House,” The Scotsman, November 16, 2001.
9. Associated Press, “Doc Denies Foul Play Call on Maxwell,” Daily News, November 22, 1991.
10. Mick Brown and Harriet Alexander, “The Rise and Fall of Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Best Friend,’” Sydney Morning Herald, January 31, 2020.
11. Michael Robotham, “The Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secret Love,” Mail on Sunday (London), November 15, 1992.
12. Robotham, “Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secret Love.”
13. Author’s interview with Taki Theodoracopulos.
14. Vicky Ward, “Jeffrey and Ghislaine: Notes on New York’s Oddest Alliance,” Vanity Fair, March 8, 2011.
15. Author’s interview with Christopher Mason.
16. Ezekiel Kweku, Matthew Schneier, Amy Larocca, Adam K. Raymond, Matt Stieb, James D. Walsh, Yinka Martins, Charlotte Klein, Kelsey Hurwitz, and Brock Colyar, “Who Was Jeffrey Epstein Calling?,” New York, July 22, 2019.
17. Becky Ferreira, “Epstein Truthers Are Obsessed with a Sci-Fi Book About Child Sex Slavery Written by Bill Barr’s Dad,” Vice, August 16, 2019.
18. Mike Baker and Amy Julia Harris, “Jeffrey Epstein Taught at Dalton. His Behavior Was Noticed,” New York Times, July 12, 2019.
19. Linda Robertson and Aron Brezel, “‘Poor, Smart and Desperate to Be Rich’: How Epstein Went from Teaching to Wall Street,” Miami Herald, July 21, 2019.
20. Marc Fisher and Jonathan O’Connell, “Final Evasion: For 30 Years, Prosecutors and Victims Tried to Hold Jeffrey Epstein to Account. At
Every Turn, He Slipped Away. Epstein’s Apparent Suicide Is the Last in a Number of Escapes That Began with a Massive Fraud in the 1980s,” Washington Post blogs, August 10, 2019.
21. Nelson D. Schwartz, “What ‘the Bear’ Means for the Street,” New York Times, March 30, 2008.
22. Vicky Ward, “The Talented Mr. Epstein,” Vanity Fair, June 27, 2011.
23. Emily Steel, Steve Eder, Sapna Maheshwari, and Matthew Goldstein, “How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women,” New York Times, July 25, 2019.
24. Khadeeja Safdar, Rebecca Davis O’Brien, Gregory Zuckerman, and Jenny Strasburg, “Jeffrey Epstein Burrowed into the Lives of the Rich and Made a Fortune,” Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2019.
25. Caroline Hallemann, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Worth $577 Million When He Died,” Town & Country, May 27, 2020.
26. Philip Weiss, “The Fantasist,” New York, December 17, 2007.
27. Matthew Goldstein, Steve Eder, and David Enrich, “The Billionaire Who Stood by Jeffrey Epstein,” New York Times, October 12, 2020.
28. Goldstein, Eder, and Enrich, “The Billionaire Who Stood by Jeffrey Epstein.”
29. Edward Jay Epstein, “My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein,” Air Mail, September 14, 2019.
30. Jesse Kornbluth, “I Was a Friend of Jeffrey Epstein; Here’s What I Know,” Salon, July 9, 2019.
31. Ben Schreckinger and Daniel Lippman, “Meet the Woman Who Ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons,” Politico, July 21, 2019.
32. Ward, “The Talented Mr. Epstein.”
33. Fisher and O’Connell, “Final Evasion.”
34. Gerber vs. Financial Trust Exhibit F.
35. Heather Timmons, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Fortune Is Built on Fraud, a Former Mentor Says,” Quartz, July 9, 2019.
36. Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury (Henry Holt, 2018).
37. Landon Thomas, Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, October 28, 2002.
38. Seymour M. Hersh, The Samson Option (Random House, 1991).
39. Steven Jude Hoffenberg, individually, and as Index No. constructive trustee of the Noteholders and Bondholders of Towers Financial Corporation, related actions: Case No. 94 CR 213 (RWS) Plaintiff, Case No. 95 CR 213 (RWS) v. Judge Robert W. Sweet; Jeffrey E. Epstein, individually, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Trust Company, the Financial Trust Company, XYZ Corp. and ABC, Inc.