American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery,Craig Unger

-About this book

This is a story of dirty secrets, and the most powerful people in the world.
Craig Unger’s new book, American Kompromat, tells of the spies and salacious events underpinning men’s reputations and riches. It tells how a relatively insignificant targeting operation by the KGB’s New York rezidentura (New York Station) more than forty years ago—an attempt to recruit an influential businessman as a new asset—triggered a sequence of intelligence protocols that morphed into the greatest intelligence bonanza in history. And it tells of a coterie of associates, reaching all the way into the office of the Attorney General, who stood to advance power, and themselves.
Based on extensive, exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—Soviets who resigned from the KGB and moved to the United States, former officers in the CIA, FBI counterintelligence agents, lawyers at white-shoe Washington firms–and analysis of thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian, American Kompromat shows that something much more sinister and important has been taking place than the public could ever imagine: namely, that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat operations documented the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world and transformed them into potent weapons. 
Was Donald Trump a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? American Kompromat is situated in the ongoing context of the Trump-Russia scandal and the new era of hybrid warfare, kleptocrats, and authoritarian right-wing populism it helped accelerate. To answer these questions and more, Craig Unger reports, is to understand kompromat—operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth, and that leveraged power by appealing to what is for some the most prized possession of all: their vanity.

–CONTENTS

PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE: The Monster Plot
CHAPTER TWO: The Spotter
CHAPTER THREE: The Asset
CHAPTER FOUR: Spy Wars
CHAPTER FIVE: The Expert
CHAPTER SIX: Yasenevo Days
PART TWO
CHAPTER SEVEN: Opus Dei
CHAPTER EIGHT: Betrayal
CHAPTER NINE: The New Praetorian Guard
CHAPTER TEN: The Cover-Up General
PART THREE
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Bouncing Czech
CHAPTER TWELVE: Ghislaine and Jeffrey
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Sex, Spies, and Videotape
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Who’s Got the Kompromat?
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Two Needles in a Haystack
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Lawyers
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Barr Justice
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: American Carnage
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

-caractéristiques

Date de parution : 26 janvier 2021

éditeur : Dutton  

ISBN: 9780593182536
ISBN-10: 0593182537

N.de pages : 352 pages

Language : English