“It may not be a crime for a candidate fir president to seek to make money from a hostile foreign power during an election and mislead the country about it.” “ But the counterintelligence concerns go beyond mere violation of criminal law. There at one time not necessarily a criminal activity and at the same time potentially far more serious than criminal activity because you have the capacity to warp U.S. policy owing to the same form of compromise.”
as soon as I heard about this book, it was simply inescapable. Interestingly, & I am not suggesting it transcends coincidence, after seeing plenty of availability & stock listings, it became unavailable the next day when I returned to make the purchase. I eventually managed to find one source & made the payment, acquiring a brand new hardback edition.
“It [American Kompromat] will examine how the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and market place for the dirtiest little secrets of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and how Russian intelligence may have penetrated the Epstein-Maxwell ring and used it to infiltrate the highest levels of Silicon Valley and the world’s artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and the internet.”
And it’s absolutely everything you could want from such a title. In fact, it’s one of the best, & most excruciatingly salient & illuminating scribes on “the crisis” of kompromat & the critical “political blackmail” that fuels & shapes much of our current hell-scape & death-spiral.
like money, or indeed, “dark money” in politics, & capital “D” disinformation, blackmail, or “kompromat” as the Russians call it, chiefly of the sexual variety, is the third head of the demonic hydra that is ravaging our world & civilization (we should probably add a fourth head to the beast – “organised religion”).
It is the undeclared sub-system & shadow currency of “subject to exception”, immunity, impunity, exemption, anomaly & selective “special treatment” that maintain “the fool of law”.
Whenever it suits certain interests or individuals, the “laws of gravity” will buckle, bend & bow due to some strange, insidious & unexplained parallel or pull.
“kompromat” plays a massive, massive part in delivering & marshalling this critically corrupt & secretive mechanism & “hidden hand”.
I wasn’t aware that I already knew the author, Craig Unger, as I already owned his highly acclaimed House of Bush House of Saud – The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties published way back in 2004.
Craig Unger does not fuck around.
American Kompromat goes deep, deep, deep into the abyss, making it an indispensable companion for anyone taking this acute crisis seriously.
I would add that I think it is probably one of the last books the $ump Administration & the Faecal Führer himself would least want anybody to read.
“That’s because, as the KGB and its successor agencies know all too well, intelligence operations are designed to operate within the law, which, thanks to lax regulations, lax enforcement, and the very nature of counterintelligence, has given the Russians plenty of latitude. After all, this is a country in which laundering massive amounts of money through anonymously purchased real estate can be done with virtually no risk.”
“Indeed, less than a month after Trump became president, on February 13th, 2017, he got rid of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for lying about his ties to the Russians. The very next day, Trump urged his FBI director James Comey not to investigate Flynn. “I hope you can see your way clear letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this thing go,” said Trump.”
“‘Active measures’ is a term used by Soviet and Russian security services for conducting political warfare via disinformation, propaganda, the fabrication of counterfeit official documents, and the establishment of front organizations, assassinations, and political oppression, among other means.”
$ump went on to pardon Flynn for lying to investigators.
The treacherous, recreant & blindingly corrupt & twice disgraced Flynn has been secretly working behind the scenes to orchestrate the Russian & Chinese state building a series of nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia, with some of the nuclear materials coming from America under $ump’s first presidency, completely ignoring the legal restrictions.
Can – you – actually – believe -these -people????????????
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/06/trump-nuclear-arms-race-middle-east-president
the scale & multiplicity of the Russia – USA – Israel-Trump blackmail & compromise fiasco is so vast that Unger has penned another extraordinary book on the subject which I also have read, 2019’s – House of Trump – House of Putin – The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, which is another extraordinary read & trove of blistering intelligence & incite into how this immeasurably consequential operation was successfully completed.
Again, if you want an authoritative & extremely penetrative & no-nonsense deep-delve into this destabilising disaster, this is amongst the finest & concentric work available in print.
Over the years, Donald Trump – his properties & his business dealings – have been absolutely slathered in Russian & Russian mafia money & commingling. Decades & decades of the stuff, stacked & stewed. Some of it is so bad, that it is truly mind-blowing that he was ever, ever allowed to “get away with it” & by some dark magic manage to escape justice, reason & the law.
It is, alas, a total atrocity in itself.
The complex, fascinating & perhaps even “exotic” shadow realm of the Russian mob-state-intelligence agency dimension & it’s successful contamination of the US & beyond is expertly deconstructed here.
What is often forgotten for those that have not studied & familiarized themselves with this field, is that it is an entirely different culture, subculture, language, country & history, & one that is, by-on-large, very sheltered from western knowledge.
It’s like Game of Thrones but with much less visual representation & reinforcement of character specifics & recent events.
This essentially means that “the public” is profoundly ignorant of who, what & how this complicated, cunning as hell & very sophisticated “creature” operates & feeds.
In America, a country that for years has pretty much lead by the application of “the stupid citizen strategy” (deliberately making your populace as dumb as possible), they kind of don’t stand a chance.
“ – the Soviets & Russians were different. They coopted the Russian Mafia. They weaponized organized crime. As Kalugin told me, “The Mafia is one of the branches of the Russian government today.”
there are many, many more intricacies & highly individualised idiosyncrasies here that I am not now prepared to spend hours listing & explaining. American Kompromat itself does an incredible job of detailing them & their histories & origins.
I think even some of $ump’s most implacable supporters & apologists would struggle to not be – at least disturbed – should they make it through this book & absorb even the gist of its information …. there is just no doubt about it, the man is mired & marked, certifiable & blatant, submerged beyond reach or redemption.
“ – according to Shvets, Kislin had spotted Donald Trump, who, under the KGB classification, eventually became a special unofficial contact – a rare variation of a trusted contact that was applied to high-level KGB intelligence assets, like the late industrialist Armand Hammer and the British media mogul Robert Maxwell.”
Krasnov is born.
“At least thirteen people with known or alleged links to the Russian Mafia held the deeds to, lived in, or ran criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties.”
mind melting corruption & compromise ….. I just cannot believe that “the system” stood by & idled as this filth transpired. & now look what you have on your hands? & in a way, they deserve it.
“Later, long after he took up residence in the White House, people asked again and again what the Russians had on Trump. And in a way, its really quite simple: They owned him.”
The truth is, that America has a horrifying history, proclivity & passivity on “high treason”.
Jonathan Pollard, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, & many others.
It is unsurprising really, as such an overly jingoistic & self-masturbating country as the US is, of course compensating & covering for a much less fervent reality …. America just does not take treason & foreign interference very seriously, especially given to how badly they are afflicted by it, by the Russians, the Gulf Cartels, & more than anything – the rogue state of Israel.
But you see, it is precisely those weaknesses that are cultivated, very deliberately. & one of the primary tools for inflicting & preserving those “glaring blind spots” in the defences is sexual compromise operations &/or kompromat.
That’s how the system works, or, indeed, “doesn’t work” whenever the shadow interest wants to skip the rules & make another “extraordinary exception”.
Just look at what $ump is doing with Mad Maxwell in full view of the globe right now ….. aberration & abomination. Maximum corruption.
“The notion that he’d sell out his country as a citizen, as an F.B.I. agent and as a fighter in the Cold War – knowing what he knew, and the circumstances of what he was doing – is unbelievable.” – James K. Kallstrom
the rest of the book is an enormous kaleidoscope & cornucopia of precious & trenchant facts & research on various inter-related topics & history.
It really is off the rails.
Should you be studying kompromat, political/sexual blackmail, corruption, Trump, murky intelligence culture & spy craft, & certainly the Epstein-Trump-Maxwell-Wexner Mossad malignancy, this is a mandatory stop for you. It is bursting with treasure.
Unger also yanks the covering off of the unimaginably secretive, bizarre, corrupt & treacherous Opus Dei “cult” & political daemon. I had been waiting for this, wanting badly to get the low-down on this hyper extremist “religious sect”, whose membership list includes freaks like Leonard Leo, Laura Ingram, William Barr, Erik Prince, Kenneth Roberts (leader of the infernal Heritage Foundation), convicted traitor Robert Hanssen, & reputably, Peter Thiel & JD Vance, among others.
Once again, the brilliant Unger goes into overdrive, this is a remarkable repository on the positively malefic Opus Dei.
Again, how can such an insanely insidious & toxic actor be allowed to exits & operate?
Its got to come down to blackmail & kompromat somewhere, there is simply no other way such a dangerous, treacherous, hazardous cabal-entity would be permitted life within the system otherwise. Its just unconscionable.
“And there was William Barr, one of the youngest Attorney Generals in American History [just like Leon Brittan aye?], overseeing the greatest mole hunt in FBI history, yet presumably unaware that the mastermind spy they were hunting was his own speech writers brother-in-law, and that all three of them were closely tied to Opus Dei.”
Naturally, Unger takes a very adept shot at “triple agent” & “Israeli super spy” Robert Maxwell. He gets an entire chapter, christened after one of his many epithets: “The Bouncing Czech”. It’s some of the best & most astute coverage I have read on “Cap’n Bob” outside of the seminal Robert Maxwell, Israel’s SuperSpy – The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Marton Dillon & Gordon Thomas.
“In Maxwell’s [Robert] case as in Trump’s, money laundering was a major part of the game. Maxwell also made it clear to the Soviets that he would not tolerate any action taken against Israel. In return, he offered his trust and loyalty.”
Craig also confirms Robert Maxwell’s business dealings/criminal conduct with the notorious Russian mega gangster – Semion Mogilevich (“The Brainy Don”) – the “most dangerous mobster in the world” according to the FBI.
“[Robert] Maxwell’s eager embrace of Mogilevich was astonishing even for someone with a reputation as an unscrupulous corporate raider. Warfare in the world of international finance and hostile takeovers was one thing, but Mogilevich’s world was one of prostitution, human trafficking, arms sales, and drugs – and Maxwell plunged right in. Maxwell courted royalty. But this was a world of transnational organized crime, and Maxwell became a bagman of sorts who moved millions of dollars around at the toss of a hat. He became very close with the Politburo. The information he shared was priceless. He began sharing valuable Western technology with Moscow – stealing it, really – and worked every side of the fence, spending one day in the White House with Regan [and Roy], the next in the Kremlin, and then, perhaps, off to Israel.”
inevitably, Craig arrives at Maxwell’s “Benjamin” daughter Ghisliane –
“I think in his home, she never really learned the difference between right and wrong,” – “She was dominated by him, and she learned from him to worship wealth and money and power and influence and really had very little sentiment for what might be called the little people…. By the time he died in 1991, she was a pretty cracked character. She really was flawed by then.”
some of the less explored & scrutinised “operators” & criminal cohorts in Jeffrey Epstein & $ump’s putridity pile get the Unger precision treatment. Roy Cohn & Michael Cohen successor – William Barr – a hardcore swamp-thing-ultra from the most brackish recesses & Trump lard guard, is given the laser surgery.
It is absolutely festering.
Dodgy as hell, exiled to Russia, & former Floridian sheriff – John Mark Dougan – also goes under the lens.
The leprous & emetic Alan Dershowitz also slimes his way into the septic tank.
I still cannot believe that man is tolerated, able, walking around, soiling & corrupting.
Once again, that is the result of pure kompromat/blackmail operations.
The acutely shady Peter Listerman, also known as “the roly-poly pimp” or “Uncle Petya” from Moscow, another Epstein procurer & sex-trafficker who supplied “Eastern European girls” for Little St. Jeff’s own vices & his ongoing blackmail operations. As Miss Teen Ukraine 2010 winner Kristina Goncharova would described Listerman to The Daily Beast in 2019 – “The world’s famous seller of young models to oligarchs”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-listerman-the-sleazeball-peddling-russian-girls-to-billionaires
Yuri Shvets made the following observation on “Uncle Petya” – “It was Listerman. He helped FSB to film videos, sex parties of his clients with hookers, and then this information was used by the FSB to blackmail people.”
& astonishingly, in a motion after my own heart, Craig decides to devote an entire chapter – American Carnage – to the distemper in Portland, Oregon, when the Pricktator sent “unidentifiable” & fully armed federal agents in to “crack skulls” (also the chapter Barr Justice).
That was a massive, massive warning, & not enough coverage & retrospective investigation has been done on this seismic series of events & their implications & consequences.
Protestors being thrown into unmarked cars by indistinguishable “agents” & taken to what & where?
Well, the test run was performed, unimaginably – they got away with it – & now look where you fucking are you stupid, stupid, stupid lemming freaks.
“Increasingly, it was clear that there was no bottom. There was no line that Trump and Barr wouldn’t cross. That they would not hesitate to use militarized forces against American citizens if it helped their cause.”
old Vladmir must be just lovin’ it.
Some of the best journalism around as far as I am concerned.
It’s a shame that more people were not paying attention.
Craig Unger, 2021, Dutton/Penguin, 303 pages