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American Kompromat

How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

by Craig Unger
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
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 backs 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.

And many more...

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    January 26, 2021

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  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      September 1, 2020

      Author of the New York Times best sellers House of Trump, House of Putin and House of Bush, House of Saud, Unger shows how the most powerful people in the world use kompromat--Russian for compromising information--to further their political goals. Think Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, Russians and Israelis--and ask how they get this information.

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      Starred review from March 1, 2021
      Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? Yes, according to longtime president-watcher and journalist Unger, who builds on and extends the case he built in House of Trump, House of Putin. It's not news that well before becoming president, Trump revealed himself to be "a tyrant who had mesmerized tens of millions of people, and that it didn't matter to them what he said or did"--or that he has long been suspected of owing a profound debt to Russia and that the place to look for it is in the tax returns he keeps hidden. Unger's book is valuable primarily because he connects any number of loose ends, even if the result may sound like a conspiracy theory. Point 1: Trump owes Russia big, and while in office, he was ever eager to please. Point 2: Russia began to cultivate him long before the Soviet Union collapsed. Point 3: It all comes down to money. Point 4: There are connections among Opus Dei, the Trump administration, and the "world of decadence and depravity tied to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell." Unger links all of this to what CIA sources call the "Monster Plot," which posits that Russia placed an asset or agent "at the very top" of the U.S. government to make it collapse. Trump was ideal. As one Russian handler noted, "in terms of his personality...the guy is not a complicated cookie, his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This combination makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter." The believability of Unger's case lies less in these points laid bare than in the fact that one can see them in abundant evidence in the actions of Trump and his allies, from leaving Syria to Russia to packing the Supreme Court and Justice Department with right-wing Catholics--nefarious work that will take years to undo even as Trump continues to attempt to bring about "the end of democracy." A must-read. The gun's not quite smoking, but the barrel's plenty hot, and there are Russian shell casings all around.

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