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American Kompromat

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by Craig Unger


  Stone and, 286

  Trump granting additional powers to, 265

  as Trump’s chief enabler, 6

  “unitary executive” doctrine, 24, 253, 257

  Barrack, Tom, 175–176

  Barrett, Amy Coney, 294, 296

  Bartow, Joel, 57–58

  Bash, Jeremy, 265

  Baussart, Fabien, 16

  Bayrock Group, 13, 38, 165, 185

  Bear Sterns, 171–172

  Beck, Garrick, 130–131

  Bedford, Peter, 206n

  Beloussov, Serguei, 217

  Benczkowski, Brian, 245–246

  Ben-Menashe, Ari, 148, 176–178

  Berezovsky, Boris, 204, 207

  Biden, Hunter, 243, 264, 288, 290

  Biden, Joe, 4, 6, 243, 264, 287–289, 291, 295

  Birshtein, Boris, 162, 165

  Bishopsgate Investment Trust, 183

  Black, Leon, 172–173

  Black, Roy, 236

  Black Lives Matter movement, 274, 277, 279, 291

  Blavatnik, Leonard, 13, 165

  Bogatin, David, 50, 57–58, 84–85

  Bolton, John, 245

  Borodin, Pavel, 224–227

  Bower, Tom, 182–183

  Branch, Peter, 171

  Brennan, John, 7

  Brennar, Marie, 130

  Brian, Earl W., 155–156

  Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, 31–32, 37, 49, 58

  British intelligence, 266

  British Printing Corporation, 152

  Brown, Dan, Da Vinci Code, 117–118

  Brown, Julie K., 194, 234, 240

  Brunel, Jean-Luc, 197–200, 203–204, 210

  Bucciarelli, Robert P., 104, 105–107, 108–109, 124

  Buddle, Mariann E., 273

  Bukharin, Nikolai, 81

  The Bureau and the Mole (Vise), 103, 106

  Bush, George H. W., 94, 132, 257

  Butina, Maria, 14

  Butkus, Nancy, 67

  Cacheris, Plato, 109

  Cain, Herman, 292

  Carle, Glenn, 8–10, 15–17, 48, 68–69, 163, 281–282

  Carpenter, Michael, 13–14, 290

  Carter, Tom, 128

  Carter administration, 42–43

  Casablancas, John, 197–198

  Casey, Bill, 111

  Casolaro, Danny, 154–155

  Catholic Information Center, 104, 110, 123–124, 127–128, 139, 141, 247. See also Opus Dei

  Catholic Lawyer, 142

  Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 142, 255

  Catholic Mafia, 141

  Catholic right, 6, 18, 122–123, 144, 253. See also Opus Dei

  Cavanaugh, Thomas Patrick, 53–54

  Center for the National Interest (CNI), 13

  Center of Political and Foreign Affairs (CPFA), 15

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); US intelligence community

  Barr and, 131–133

  Bush, George H. W., 132

  Office of Legislative Counsel, 131–133

  paralysis of, 9–10

  Chazov, Yevgeny, 67

  Chebrikov, Viktor, 85

  Cherkashin, Victor, 51–52, 112

  Chernoy, Lev, 161

  Chernoy, Mikhail, 45, 161

  Christian Coalition, 122–123

  Christie, Chris, 296–297

  Church, George, 214

  Churkin, Vitaly, 73

  Cicogna, Gianfranco, 176

  cilice, 117–118

  Cipollone, Pat, 141, 245, 247

  circular cables, 91–92

  Clapper, James, 7

  Clarkson, Frederick, 140

  Clinton, Bill, 196, 237

  Cocozzelli, Frank L., 118

  Cohen, Michael, 12, 49–50

  Cohn, Roy, 25–26, 66

  Cold War, 162

  Comey, James, 18, 256, 285

  confessional privilege, 105, 106

  Conley, Sean, 296

  contacts, definition of, 36

  contraception, 129

  Conway, Kellyanne, 296–297

  Corkery, Ann, 123

  Corkery, Neil, 123

  coronavirus. See COVID-19 pandemic

  corporal mortification, 117–118

  counterintelligence investigations

  criminal investigations vs, 20

  Mueller Report as, 12, 21–23, 261–262

  Coupon, William, 67

  COVID-19 pandemic

  politicizing, 278

  presidential briefings on, 277

  superspreader events, 296–297

  Trump deliberately fueling, 293

  Trump exempting government response to, 277

  Trump testing positive for, 295–296

  Trump’s approach to, 267–268, 277–279, 292

  criminal investigations, counterintelligence vs, 20

  Crossfire Hurricane, 288

  Čuba, František, 39–40

  Czechoslovakian secret service (StB), 38–39

  Da Vinci Code (Brown), 117–118

  Dalton school, 170–171

  Daněk, Vlastimil, 38

  Dannenberg, Jeffrey, 45n

  Davies, Chauntae, 219–220

  Davies, Nicholas, 167

  Day One Ventures, 217

  De Georgiou, Anouska, 189–190

  deceit, as new norm, 5

  delo operativnoy razrabotky (DOR), 46–47

  demonstrations

  military resource use against, 269

  as peaceful, 268–269

  Dempsey, Martin, 276

  Denmark, 53

  Department of Justice

  embracing unitary-executive doctrine, 243

  invisible firewall between White House and, 242

  politicizing, 242–243

  Dershowitz, Alan

  assembling Epstein’s legal team, 235–236

  background of, 234

  circled in Epstein’s black book, 196

  client list, 234–235

  dazzled by Trump-Maxwell-Epstein axis, 194

  Giuffre encounters with, 210

  nude sunbathing and, 235–236n

  Trump and, 235

  Deutsche Bank, 202, 242, 247, 255, 262, 294–295

  Dickens & Madson, 177

  Dillon, Martin, 179

  Dinh, Viet, 247

  Dobrynin, Anatoly, 52, 77–78

  Dobrynin, Yuri, 71

  Dobrynina, Ekaterina, 71

  DOR files, 46–47

  Dougan, John Mark

  background of, 220–221

  as BadVolf, 222

  Borodin and, 224–227

  Epstein’s blackmail tapes, 229–232

  escalating war with local police, 227–228

  FBI surveillance of, 220, 228–229, 232

  MD International Holdings and, 226

  obtaining Russia political asylum, 229–230

  online relationships, 224

  PBSOtalk.org, 221, 223

  Recarey and, 223–224

  Doyle, Thomas P., 140–141

  Drokova, Masha, 216–217

  Drokova, Victoria, 216

  Dubin, Glenn, 172–173

  Dubinin, Yuri, 71–73, 76–78

  Dubinina, Natalia, 23, 60, 70–74, 79, 84–85

  Dubro, Dennis, 141

  Durham, John, 265, 287–288

  Eagleton, Terry, 119

  Education Advance, 216

  Edwards, Bradley, 240

  Eisenberg, John, 242, 244

  Eitan, Rafi, 155

&n
bsp; El Caribe Country Club, 49–50

  Elite Models, 203

  Ellis, Michael, 244

  Elwes, Damian, 190

  En+ Group, 249

  The End of History (Fukuyama), 162

  Engel, Steven, 247

  Epstein, Edward Jay, 174, 213, 241

  Epstein, Jeffrey. See also Epstein investigation; Maxwell, Ghislaine

  background of, 170

  “belonging to intelligence,” 240–241

  “black book” of contacts, 185–187, 196

  as brilliant bullshit artist, 181

  Brunel and, 198–199, 203–204

  claiming Melania–Trump introductions, 201–202

  clients of, 172–173

  as Cosmopolitan’s Bachelor of the Month, 181

  courting the media, 194

  as Dalton teacher, 170–171

  De Georgiou and, 190

  death as mysterious, 250–251

  documenting guests’ sexual escapades, 209, 219–220

  Drokova and, 216–217

  Education Advance donation, 216

  Elite Models, 203

  emulating Trump Model Management, 200

  esteemed friends collection, 185–187

  Federal Security Service (FSB), 220

  as financial bounty hunter, 174

  Giuffre encounters with, 210

  Greenberg and, 171–172

  hiding money, 174

  Hoffenberg and, 174–175

  image rehabilitation, 211–214

  Intercontinental Assets Group, 172

  Khashoggi as client of, 153

  Listerman and, 204

  Maxwell, Ghislaine and, 169, 182–183

  Maxwell, Robert as money source for, 179–180

  money sources, 179–182

  New York operations, 210

  Ponzi scheme, 175

  “pyramid abuse” scheme, 197

  returning to New York, 249–250

  science and technology philanthropy, 211–214

  sex trafficking charge, 249–250

  sexual appetite, 192

  sexual pyramid scheme, 210

  suffering from satyriasis, 208

  Trump and, 175–176, 187, 201–203, 251–252

  Wexner and, 172

  Epstein investigation

  Acosta as prosecutor, 238–240

  damage control, 233

  Epstein’s legal team, 235–237

  impediments to, 233–234

  non-prosecution agreement, 239–240

  Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, 220–222

  Recarey, Joseph, 222–224

  Reiter brings in the feds, 237

  Epstein–Maxwell ring, 24

  Escrivá, Josemaría, 102, 117–121

  Esper, Mark, 269, 273, 276

  Ethiopia, 53

  Executive Intelligence Review, 90–91

  executive privilege, 134

  Farmer, Maria, 193, 219

  Fauci, Anthony, 297

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). See also Ames, Aldrich; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Hanssen, Robert; US intelligence community

  Dougan surveillance, 228–229

  Joy-Lud surveillance, 35

  manpower shift, 164

  Maxwell surveillance, 151

  promoting Hanssen, 163–164

  Federal Security Service (FSB). See also KGB intelligence

  active measures, 75

  on the ascent, 162

  cover stories while training for, 218

  Dougan and, 220, 227–228, 232

  Epstein’s blackmail tapes, 220

  Listerman and, 204, 207, 210, 220

  Putin as chief of, 226

  as successor to KGB, 13

  use of MK interview on Trump, 75

  Federalist Society

  Barrett, Amy Coney, 294

  controlling US Supreme Court, 100–101, 123–124, 141

  Gray, C. Boyden, 135

  Leo, Leonard, 128

  Opus Dei and, 100, 123

  watching judicial appointments, 135

  fellow travelers, 121

  Felshtinsky, Yuri, 14

  Felzman, Vladimir, 118–119

  Ferigle, Salvador, 108

  file of operational development, 46–47

  Filip, Mark, 241

  The Final Verdict (Bower), 182–183

  Financial Trust Co., 172

  Finnerty, Brian, 126–127

  First Chief Directorate (FCD). See also KGB intelligence; New York rezidentura; Washington, DC, rezidentura

  Fourth Department of, 85

  main charge, 33

  North American Department, 82

  Service A, 23, 91

  as “the Woods,” 82

  Yasenova office, 81–83

  Firtash, Dmitri, 159

  Floyd, George, 4, 266, 267, 270, 279

  Flynn, Michael, 18, 286–287

  Fong, Mei, 45n

  Forbes, Malcolm, 160

  Ford, Eileen, 197

  Foreign Intelligence Service (FCD), 33, 33n, 47, 61

  The Founding Saint of Opus Dei (Ynfante), 120

  Franco, Francisco, 108, 118–121, 124–125, 255

  Freedman, Ellis, 183

  Freeh, Louis, 104

  Fridman, Mikhail, 246

  Fruman, Igor, 288

  Fukuyama, Francis, 162

  Fuller, Myron, 164

  Galloway, George, 175

  Garland, Merrick, 123

  Gates, Bill, 173, 212

  gay marriage, 122, 128, 129, 297

  Geist, William E., 65

  geopolitics compared to chess, 292–293

  Gerbasi, Virginia, 273–274

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 294

  Giuffre, Virginia Roberts, 192–193, 194, 196, 199, 209, 210, 219

  Giuliani, Rudy, 46, 55–56, 287–290

  Goncharova, Kristina, 204

  Gonzales, Alberto, 241

  Goodman, Ryan, 244, 263, 284

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 67–68, 70, 78, 89–90, 149, 162

  Goscomintourist, 85

  Gotti, John, 179

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 213

  Graff, Garrett M., 275

  Grand Hyatt New York, 25–26, 40, 280–281

  Gravano, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull,” 179

  Gray, C. Boyden, 132–134, 135, 257

  Greenberg, Alan “Ace,” 171–172

  Groff, Lesley, 196–197, 210

  Gromakov, Ivan, 85

  Gusenkov, Vitaly, 157n

  Hagerty, Frances, 103

  Hagerty, Robert, 103

  Hammer, Armand, 36, 68, 86–87

  Hanssen, Bonnie Wauck

  claiming ignorance of Robert’s activities, 102

  finding suspicious cash, 97

  as religious education teacher, 104

  on Robert’s espionage, 98–99

  Hanssen, Robert

  arrest of, 109

  Bucciarelli and, 106–107, 108

  characterization of, 54–55

  colleagues of, 112

  confessing espionage, 105

  exploiting FBI’s internal information weaknesses, 101–102

  FBI promotions, 113, 163–164

  at FBI’s New York office, 111

  Kallstrom describing, 55

  motivations for espionage, 47, 101

  Opus Dei counseling, 109

  as Opus Dei member, 54–55, 103

  piety of, 104

  resuming Soviet contact, 112

  spying for the GRU, 98

  on spying hia
tus, 137

  Harding, Luke, 84–85

  Harth, Jill, 187–188

  Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, 212

  Harvard University

  Epstein’s philanthropy for, 212

  Opus Dei targeting, 124

  Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), 211

  Hebroni, Moshe, 178

  Helmer, John, 83–84, 88

  Helsinki summit, 6

  Hersh, Seymour, 148, 177

  Hicks, Hope, 271

  Hill, Fiona, 288

  Hitler, Adolf, 108

  Hoffenberg, Steven, 174–175

  Hoffman, Reid, 213

  Holt, Lester, 18–19

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 151

  Horowitz, Michael, 276

  Horton, Scott, 103

  Houraney, George, 187

  House Intelligence Committee, 242

  HUMINT (Russian human intelligence), 73, 74. See also KGB intelligence

  Ingraham, Laura, 141

  Inslaw scandal, 135–136, 154–155

  inspectors general, 24, 98–99, 285–286

  Insurrection Act of 1807, 270

  Intercontinental Assets Group, 172

  Intourist, 85

  Iran-Contra scandal, 135, 136–137, 177

  Iraqgate scandal, 135–136

  Istok Associates, 221

  Italian Mafia, 31–32

  Ito, Joichi, 214

  Ivankov, Vyacheslav, 45, 57

  J. Epstein & Company, 172

  Jackson, Henry M., 30

  Jackson, John, 146

  Jackson–Vanik Amendment to Trade Act of 1974, 30, 50

  Jansa, Jaroslav, 40

  Japanese–American relations, 93

  Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix documentary), 210, 219–220

  Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, 211–213

  Jenkins, John, 296–297

  Jewish refugees, as KGB agents, 30–32

  Johnson, Elizabeth Ross (Libet), 172–173

  Johnson, Richard, 204

  Jones Day, 242, 244–245

  Joy-Lud Electronics, 26–28, 32–35, 44

  Judicial Crisis Network, 123

  judicial-activist groups, 123–124

  Kaiser, Dan, 193

  Kallstrom, James K., 55–56, 57–58

  Kalugin, Oleg, 14–15, 30–31, 83, 86

  Karin Models, 197

  Kassis, Randa, 16, 280

  Kavanaugh, Brett, 141, 237, 245

  Kellen, Sarah, 196–197, 210, 239

  Kennedy, John F., 190

  KGB assets

  agents vs, 87

  categories of, 87

  deep development recruitment, 85

  development of, 47

  handling of new, 68–69

  personality characteristics for, 86

  recruitment practices, 83–84

  special unofficial contacts, 87

  Trump as, 7–8, 280–281

  trusted contact, 44, 87

  KGB intelligence. See also Federal Security Service (FSB); HUMINT (Russian human intelligence); New York rezidentura; Washington, DC, rezidentura

 

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