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American Kompromat

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by Craig Unger


  active measures, 17, 23, 75, 88, 92

  Active Measures directive, 23, 92

  agents, types of, 36, 44, 87, 218

  American asset recruitment campaign, 51

  asset development (See KGB assets)

  bugging Moscow tourist hotels, 35

  developing Trump as Soviet asset, 17

  exploiting American loopholes, 17

  First Chief Directorate (See First Chief Directorate (FCD))

  ideal recruit, definition of, 44

  infiltrating Western banking system, 158

  initiating Trump surveillance, 38

  Jewish refugees as assets for, 30–32

  Joy-Lud Electronics and, 32–33

  losing aging assets, 86–87

  MK article to conceal ties with Trump, 79

  modus operandi, 73

  operating within the law, 12–13

  penetration agents, 218

  in plain sight, 68–69

  Service A, 23

  spotter agents, 17, 35–36

  spy schools for, 74

  StB reporting to, 39

  Trump personality evaluation by, 85–86

  Khashoggi, Adnan, 153–154

  Khashoggi, Emad, 153

  Khashoggi, Jamal, 186–187

  Khuzami, Robert, 247

  Kilimnik, Kontantin, 13

  Kirkland & Ellis

  attorney earnings, 248

  attorneys joining White House team, 245–247

  Barr joining firm, 238

  conflicts of interest, 248–249

  Trump–Russia relationship and, 245

  working both sides of Epstein deal, 241–242

  Kislin, Semyon. See also Joy-Lud Electronics; Sapir, Tamir

  background of, 28

  Chernoy brothers and, 161

  denying Russian mob ties, 46

  donating to Giuliani’s mayoral campaigns, 46

  as Joy-Lud Electronics owner, 26

  as rags-to-riches immigrant, 45

  Shvets discussing, 29–30

  as Soviet émigré, 34

  as spotter agent, 17, 35–36

  Trans Commodities Inc., 45

  United States arrival, 32

  Kislyak, Sergey, 19

  Kissinger, Henry, 77–78, 215

  Knapp, Ronald, 90

  Knauss, Melania, 201–202

  Koeppel, Lynne, 171

  kompromat

  as asset leverage, 47

  definition of, 5

  Dougan and, 231–232

  Epstein’s tapes, 170, 209, 219–220, 229

  on a grand scale, 209

  Listerman and, 207

  on Putin, 226

  Trump at Mayflower hotel, 15

  Kornbluth, Jesse, 173, 181, 193

  Korzhakov, Alexander, 207

  Krischer, Barry, 236–237

  Kryuchkov, Vladimir

  creating KGB-infiltrated companies, 158

  Gorbachev and, 89, 149

  imprisonment of, 162

  KGB promotion, 90

  Maxwell, Robert and, 152, 157–158

  money laundering, 158

  recruiting American assets, 51–54

  Kudlow, Larry, 127–128

  Kushner, Jared, 244–245

  Lafayette Square, clearing of, 270–273, 275–276, 279

  LaPierre, Wayne, 104

  Lauder, Leonard, 73

  Laurie, Greg, 296–297

  Lavrov, Sergei, 16, 19, 280

  Lechtman, Vladimir, 245

  Lee, Mike, 296–297

  Leese, Douglas, 174–175

  Lefcourt, Gerald, 236

  Lefkowitz, Jay, 236, 238

  Lenin, Vladimir, 7

  Leningrad Trump Towers, 71

  Leo, Leonard, 123, 128–129, 141

  Lerner, Alexander, 31

  Lesiovsky, Viktor M., 53

  Levchenko, Stanislav, 93

  Lewinsky, Monica, 237

  Lewis, Guy, 236

  “the lies of necessity,” 140–141

  Listerman, Peter “Petya,” 204–207, 210, 218, 220

  “Little Odessa.” See Brighton Beach,Brooklyn

  Little Saint James, 170, 189, 195, 203, 210, 212

  Litvinenko, Alexander, 42, 75

  Living Theatre, 130–131

  “Look of the Year” modeling competition, 198

  López de Lamela, Carlos, 167

  Lorber, Howard, 255

  Lown, Bernard, 67–68

  Lubyanka building, 81

  Macron, Emmanuel, 283

  Mafia Commission Trial, 55

  Maison de l’Amitié (House of Friendship), 202–203

  Malova, Anna, 188–189

  Manafort, Paul, 13, 57, 91, 265

  The Manchurian Candidate (film), 8

  Manhattan, Inc. (magazine), 66–67

  Maples, Marla, 188, 189

  Marcinkova, Nadia, 196–197, 210, 239

  Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation, 56

  Martynov, Valery, 112

  Mashkevich, Alexander, 162, 165

  Mason, Christopher, 169, 201

  Matthews, Herbert L., 121

  Mattis, James, 276, 283

  Maxwell, Elisabeth, 166

  Maxwell, Ghislaine. See also Epstein, Jeffrey

  ambitions of, 182

  arrest of, 251

  Cicogna and, 176

  corporate skulduggery, 183

  courting the media, 194

  creating Epstein’s brand, 191–192

  decamped to New York, 168

  documenting guests’ sexual escapades, 209, 219–220

  Epstein relationship, 169, 182–183

  fulfilling Epstein’s sexual appetite, 192, 195–196

  Giuffre and, 193

  human trafficking business, 193–194

  Oxenberg and, 190–191

  putting Trump and Epstein together, 184

  “pyramid abuse” scheme, 197

  saving compromising material, 195–196

  shredding father’s papers, 146

  tending to father’s death, 145–146

  Trump, Donald and, 251

  understanding father’s dark side, 183–184

  Waitt and, 197

  at YIVO annual benefit dinner, 166–167

  Maxwell, Ian, 167

  Maxwell, Kevin, 167

  Maxwell, Robert

  background of, 147

  Ben-Menashe and, 176

  as “the Bouncing Czech,” 147

  British Printing Corporation, 152

  business practices, 149

  cause of death questions, 146, 167

  death of, 145–146

  Epstein and, 179–180

  FBI monitoring, 151

  as Israeli agent, 148

  Kryuchov and, 152, 157–158

  Lady Ghislaine yacht, 153

  Macmillan Publishers purchase, 160

  media holdings, 147

  Mirror Group Newspapers, 152

  Mogilevich and, 158–159

  money laundering, 185

  Mossad and, 149–150, 154

  New York Daily News purchase, 160

  as organized crime and KGB intermediary, 159–160

  Pergamon Press, 150, 152

  sexual appetite, 184–185

  as Soviet asset, 147–148, 151

  Trump and, 153, 160–161

  welcome at Kremlin, 156–157

  MC2 Model Management agency, 179–180, 199–200

  McCabe, Andrew, 20, 21, 285

  McCallion, Kenneth, 44<
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  McCloskey, C. John, 127–128

  McConnell, Mitch, 165, 297

  McEnany, Kayleigh, 269, 272, 296–297

  McGahn, Don, 244, 245

  McNulty, Paul, 100

  MD International Holdings, 226

  Melcher, James, 65

  “Memorandum in Response to the March 1993 Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,” 155–156

  “mental reservation” doctrine, 140–141

  Messner, Tom, 93

  Michot, Emily, 234

  Milley, Mark, 269, 273, 276

  Minksy, Marvin, 212

  Mirror Group Newspapers, 152, 182

  Miss Teen Ukraine pageant, 204

  Miss Universe pageant, 12–13, 188

  model espionage, 206–207

  Mogilevich, Semion, 158–159, 185

  Monster Plot, 9–10

  Montgomery, David, 123

  Morell, Michael, 7

  Moreno, Javier Sainz, 120

  mortification rituals, 117–118

  Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 74, 215

  Moskovsky Kimsomolets (newspaper), 70–73, 74–75, 79

  Mossad, 149–150, 154, 184–185

  Motorin, Sergei, 112

  Mowatt-Larssen, Rolf, 36, 86, 163

  Mueller, Robert

  Alfa Bank investigation, 246

  appointment of, 19–20

  as Democrats’ last best hope, 259

  investigation mandate, 261

  Iraqgate scandal, 136

  as special counsel, 256

  steered toward criminal investigation, 262

  Mueller Report

  Barr’s presentation of, 259, 263

  conspiracy to sway 2016 election finding, 260

  convictions from, 21

  counterintelligence investigation, 12, 21–23, 261–262

  lacking Trump’s relationship with Russian Mafia, 22

  president’s justice obstruction finding, 18, 259–260

  Russian Mafia and, 22

  Simes and, 13–14

  Murdoch, Lachlan, 247

  Musk, Kimbal, 213

  Múzquiz, Joseph, 107–108

  National Security Threat List (NSTL) Unit, 164

  NATO, 281–283, 284–285

  Nemtsov, Boris, 205–206

  NeuroTV, 213

  New York Daily News purchase, 160

  New York rezidentura. See also KGB intelligence; Washington, DC, rezidentura

  amassing reports on Trump, 46

  Czechoslovakian secret service (StB) and, 39

  DOR file on Trump, 46–47

  Joy-Lud Electronics and, 33

  United Nations Soviet spies reporting to, 59

  Washington, DC, as rival, 61

  watching Donald Trump, 29

  Newsham, Peter, 274

  non-prosecution agreement, 239–240

  Nowak, Martin A., 212

  Nunes, Devin, 242

  Obamacare, 297

  “the Octopus” network, 155

  Office of Legislative Counsel, 131–133

  O’Neill, John P., 160

  Opus Dei. See also Catholic Information Center; Catholic right

  background of, 102–104

  Barr’s ties with, 6, 100, 139–141

  board of directors, 104

  book banning, 125–126

  commerce, 120–121

  exotic rituals, 117–118

  Federalist Society and, 100, 123

  fellow travelers, 121

  Franco and, 119–120, 255

  Hanssen, Bonnie and, 109

  Hanssen, Robert, as member of, 54

  intellectual aspirations of, 125

  learning of Hanssen’s espionage, 99

  member categories, 140

  member loyalty, 141

  “mental reservation” doctrine, 140–141

  Múzquiz, Joseph, 107–108

  origins of, 118

  recruiting disciples, 124

  role in Trump administration, 254

  secret membership of, 127

  self-mortification and, 117–118

  sexual harassment claim, 127–128n

  Spain government ministries, 121

  spreading through America, 107–108

  structure of, 253

  supporting Hitler’s policies, 108

  Supreme Court takeover goal, 122

  targeting Harvard, 124–125

  values of, 119

  The Way, 117, 119, 125

  Opus Dei Awareness Network (ODAN), 125

  Orr, Joseph Ben, 155

  O’Toole, Fintan, 5

  Oxenberg, Christina, 190–191, 209

  Page, Lisa, 285

  Painter, Richard, 248

  Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, 220–222

  Parnas, Lev, 288

  PBSOtalk.org, 221, 223

  Pelosi, Nancy, 275

  Pelton, Ronald, 54

  Pence, Mike, 272–273

  penetration agents, 218

  People of Praise, 294

  Pergamon Press, 150, 152

  Petrovich, Shtemler Ilya, 34–35

  Pillersdorf, Stephanie, 174

  Pinker, Steven, 213

  Pivar, Stuart, 208

  Polyakov, Dmitri, 101–102

  Polymeropoulos, Marc, 284

  Poroshenko, Petro, 289–290

  Posse Comitatus Act, 270

  Potanin, Vladimir, 205

  Pozhidaeva, Svetlana, 215, 217–218

  Praetorian Guard, 101, 103, 110, 129

  presidential campaigns, 4, 20, 246

  presidential election of 2020, 297, 298–299, 299–302

  Primakov, Yevgeny, 157n

  Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), 211

  PROMIS (Prosecutors Management Information System) software, 154, 155–156, 176

  Proud Boys, 4, 295

  Putin, Vladimir

  Borodin and, 225–226

  in Courchevel, 205–206

  as Federal Security Service chief, 226

  forging new Mafia state, 159–160

  Listerman and, 205–206

  Trump and, 6, 269

  Putinjugend, 216

  Pyes, Craig, 197

  “pyramid abuse” scheme, 197

  racial justice movement, 274, 277, 279, 291

  racism, systemic, 279–280

  Ratcliffe, John, 285, 286

  Recarey, Joseph, 222–224, 233

  Red Daisy gas tax scam, 50, 161

  Red Terror, 120

  Reiter, Michael, 223, 233, 237, 239

  religious authoritarianism. See theocratic authoritarianism

  Res, Barbara, 40

  Richardson, Elliot, 155, 156, 178–179

  Rodriguez, Alfredo, 186, 196

  Roe v. Wade, 297. See also abortion

  Romano, Lois, 65–66

  Rosen, Jeffrey, 247

  Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 151

  Rosenstein, Rod, 20, 256, 260

  Ross, Adriana, 196–197, 210

  Royal Blue (Oxenberg), 191

  Royce, Knute, 45

  Russian assets. See KGB assets

  Russian Federation. See also KGB intelligence; Russian Mafia; Soviet Union

  Foreign Intelligence Service, 33n

  money laundering in United States, 43, 45

  National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, 214

  offering bounties for American troops, 283–284

  Putin, Vladimir, 6, 159–160, 205–206, 225–226, 269

  ties to Ep
stein, 211

  Yeltsin, Boris, 162

  Russian intelligence community, 75

  Russian Mafia

  Balagula, Marat, 50

  money laundering through Trump’s real estate, 50, 161

  Mueller Report and, 22

  as Russian government branch, 31–32

  Trump’s involvement with, 37–38

  Russia/Trump collusion investigation, 246. See also Mueller Report

  Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 202–203

  Safire, William, 135, 136

  Saguy, Yehoshua, 178

  Saint Catherine of Siena Church, 104

  Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 270–272, 274

  Salman, Mohammed bin, 186–187

  Salygin, Vasily, 57

  The Samson Option (Hersh), 148, 177

  Santorum, Rick, 104

  Sapir, Tamir. See also Joy-Lud Electronics; Kislin, Semyon

  background of, 33–34

  bailing out Trump, 57

  as Joy-Lud Electronics owner, 26

  as oil and gas distributor, 35

  as Soviet émigré, 34

  ties to intelligence services, 34

  winning over Soviet bigwigs, 27–28

  Scalia, Antonin “Nino,” 104

  Schiff, Adam, 22, 261–262

  Schoen, David, 251

  Seabeco commodities firm, 162

  secularism, 124, 142, 253, 254–255

  self-mortification, 117

  Semenovskaia, Kristina, 205

  Senate Intelligence Committee, 15, 85n, 258, 264

  Seroush, Babeck, 45

  Service A, 23, 91. See also active measures

  Sessions, Jeff, 247, 256

  sex trafficking

  Bayrock Group, 185

  Brunel, Jean-Luc, 197–199

  Dershowitz, Alan, 234

  Epstein, Jeffrey, 180, 233–234, 237, 249–250

  Listerman, Peter “Petya,” 204–207

  Maxwell, Ghislaine, 251

  Trump as role model for, 200

  Shamir, Yitzhak, 176

  Shannon, Elaine, 59

  Sherman, Gabriel, 213

  Shevardnadze, Eduard, 28

  Shevchenko, Arkady N., 59

  Shnaider, Alexander, 162, 165

  Shokin, Viktor, 289

  Shugerman, Jed, 256

  Shvets, Yuri

  background, 42–43

  on cultivating Trump as prospective asset, 25

  disillusioned by KGB, 62

  on joining KGB, 61

  KGB assignments, 52–53, 61–62

  KGB tenure, 29–30

  on KGB’s patience, 11

  on Kislin’s recruitment, 29–30

  Litvinenko and, 42

  as major in KGB, 61

  political asylum for, 42

  post-graduate studies, 60

  recruiting American spies, 29

  Simes and, 14

  Socrates and, 84

  on StB report, 39

  at TASS news agency journalist, 51

 

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