{"product_id":"american-kompromat-how-the-kgb-cultivated-donald-trump-and-related-tales-of-sex-greed-power-and-treachery-paperback","title":"American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Unger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e*Updated with a new afterword from the author* \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e n.--Russian for \"compromising information\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world--including Donald Trump. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The answer, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong its many revelations, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e reports for the first time that: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAccording to Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e promoting policies promoted by the KGB. \u003cb\u003eThe ads had been taken out by Donald Trump\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e does. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In addition to exploring Trump's ties to the KGB, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat--\u003c\/b\u003edirty secrets of the richest and most powerful men in the world\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow the Epstein-Maxwell ring helped enable young women with possible ties to Russian intelligence to gain access to the highest levels of Silicon Valle\u003c\/b\u003ey 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow Epstein had ties to Russia through sex-trafficking.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow John Mark Dougan\u003c\/b\u003e, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago's Palm Beach County, says he \u003cb\u003eacquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Unger\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat, House of Trump, House of Putin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Bush, House of Saud\u003c\/i\u003e. For fifteen years he was a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, where he covered national security, the Middle East, and other political issues. A frequent analyst on MSNBC and other broadcast outlets, he was a longtime staffer at\u003ci\u003e New York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, has served as editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eBoston \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and has contributed to \u003ci\u003eEsquire, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. He also appears frequently as an analyst on MSNBC, CNN, and other broadcast outlets. Unger has written about the Trump-Russia scandal for \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756849062221,"sku":"9780593182543","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/WkgvMkowYzhMTzVaeGlLWHFtVTd2Zz09.webp?v=1776754586","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/american-kompromat-how-the-kgb-cultivated-donald-trump-and-related-tales-of-sex-greed-power-and-treachery-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}