{"product_id":"books-american-kompromat-by-craig-unger","title":"American Kompromat","description":"\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\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on exclusive interviews with 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\u003eThe 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, supporting that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first spotted Trump as a potential asset, how it cultivated him, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points. \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 - According to \u003cb\u003eformer KGB major \u003c\/b\u003eYuri Shvets, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet  migr , triggering protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, launching a decades-long relationship of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Trump's \u003cb\u003e1987\u003c\/b\u003e invitation to Moscow was billed as a scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for deep development. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Before Trump's first \u003cb\u003eMoscow \u003c\/b\u003etrip, he met with Natalia Dubinin, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In addition to exploring Trump's ties to the KGB, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Kompromat\u003c\/i\u003e also reveals: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years.\u003c\/b\u003e Epstein became a millionaire in part with the help of Ghislaine Maxwell's father--media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly served as a spy and likely gave Epstein a sum between $10 and $20 million before his death in 1991. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHow the Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 - \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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507867934993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593182543.jpg?v=1778136214","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-american-kompromat-by-craig-unger","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}