American Kompromat
Autor Craig Ungeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2021
Apreciem rigurozitatea cu care Craig Unger abordează conceptul de „kompromat” — informații compromițătoare folosite ca pârghie politică — pentru a explica dinamica puterii la cel mai înalt nivel. Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în demitizarea operațiunilor de influență rusească, oferind o hartă clară a modului în care vulnerabilitățile personale pot fi transformate în active geopolitice. Autorul nu se limitează la speculații, ci construiește o narațiune densă bazată pe interviuri cu ofițeri CIA, FBI și KGB, oferind detalii despre momentul zero al recrutării lui Donald Trump: o vizită la Moscova în 1987, orchestrată sub acoperirea unei prospecțiuni imobiliare.
Descoperim aici o structură de investigație care depășește sfera politicului, intersectându-se cu lumea interlopă a finanțelor și a traficului prin intermediul lui Jeffrey Epstein. Suntem de părere că forța cărții stă în documentarea minuțioasă a modului în care rețelele de influență sovietice, și ulterior rusești, au penetrat elitele americane. American Kompromat acoperă aceeași arie ca The Department of Revenge, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe spionajul extern și pe continuitatea istorică a metodelor KGB, în timp ce lucrarea lui Devlin Barrett se concentrează pe utilizarea instituțiilor interne de justiție. De asemenea, spre deosebire de satira din Kompromat de Stanley Johnson, Unger livrează o analiză factuală, rece, despre realitatea brută a șantajului politic. Ediția de față, publicată de Random House, include un postfață actualizată care aduce noi perspective asupra acestui peisaj tulbure al serviciilor de informații.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1913348946
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 16pp col section
Dimensiuni: 148 x 230 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Scribe Publications
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Despre autor
Craig Unger este un jurnalist de investigație american de renume, fost redactor-șef al revistei Boston Magazine și colaborator constant pentru Vanity Fair și The New Yorker. Este recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a expune conexiunile oculte dintre marile familii politice și interesele financiare sau de spionaj internațional. Experiența sa în analizarea dinastiilor politice și a rețelelor de influență îi conferă autoritatea necesară pentru a naviga prin arhivele FBI și mărturiile foștilor agenți KGB, transformând cercetarea academică într-o narațiune alertă despre securitatea națională.
Descriere
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** *Updated with a new afterword from the author* Kompromat n.—Russian for "compromising information" This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB; thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations; and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine. Among them, the book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, and it supports that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first “spotted” Trump as a potential asset, how they cultivated him as an asset, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points that were published in three of America’s most prestigious newspapers. Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time that: • According to Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet émigré who Shvets believes was working with the KGB. Trump’s decision to do business there triggered protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, thus launching a decades-long “relationship” of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power. • Trump’s invitation to Moscow in 1987 was billed as a preliminary scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official, General Ivan Gromakov. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for "deep development," recruitment, or for a meeting with the KGB handlers, even if the potential asset was unaware of it. • Before Trump’s first trip to Moscow, he met with Natalia Dubinina, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives. • In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a “special unofficial contact” for the KGB, that is, an intelligence asset whose role has been compared to that of the late industrialist, Armand Hammer. A number of America’s highest national security officials have said they believe Trump is a Russian asset, but neither the Mueller Report nor the numerous congressional investigations throughout Trump’s presidency pursued that vital question. American Kompromat does. In addition to exploring Trump’s ties to the KGB, American Kompromat also shows that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian kompromat operations documented the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world and transformed those secrets into potent weapons. It also reveals: • How Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years. A college dropout let go from his prep school teaching job, Epstein became a millionaire in part with the help of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father—media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly served as a Soviet and Israeli spy and likely gave Epstein a sum estimated between $10 and $20 million before his death in 1991. • How the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat--dirty secrets of the richest and most powerful men in the world. While Epstein had a rule when it came to selecting women, namely, “the younger, the better,” he also knew that a multimillionaire--or future leader--caught committing adultery is nothing compared to getting caught on video in the act with a minor. • How the Epstein-Maxwell ring helped enable young women with possible ties to Russian intelligence to gain access to the highest levels of Silicon Valley and the worlds of artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and the internet. This, at a time when Vladimir Putin has asserted, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world.” • How Epstein had ties to Russia through sex-trafficking. Epstein partnered with Jean-Luc Brunel, head of MC2 modeling agency and a major sex trafficker, who, in turn, had worked with Peter Listerman, the celebrated procurer, or “matchmaker” as he prefers, for Russian oligarchs. • How John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago’s Palm Beach County, says he acquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, fled to Moscow, became only the fourth American to win asylum in Russia, and immediately gained access to Putin’s inner circle, showing the ongoing power that comes from kompromat and how its value is highest before it is “used.”