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Ablyazov, Mukhtar, 157–58
Abramoff, Jack, 118–19
Abramovich, Roman, 115–16, 117, 159, 160, 265
Acosta, Jim, 249
advertisements touting Trump’s foreign policy expertise, 51
Agalarov, Aras, 199–201, 204–06, 209–10, 211–12, 229, 235–36, 242–43, 265
Agalarov, Emin, 199–201, 204–05, 211–12, 224, 229, 235–37, 242–43, 265–66
Agalarova, Sheila, 201
Agron, Evsei, 32–34, 162, 266
Akhmetov, Rinat, 185–86
Akhmetshin, Rinat, 241–43, 266
al-Assad, Bashar, 220
The Alfa Group, 119, 215–16
Aliyev, Ilham, 200
Aliyeva, Leyla, 200
Allen, John, 37
All Is Clouded by Desire (Block and Weaver), 171
al-Qaeda
9/11 terrorist attacks, 136–37
1998 retaliatory bombing strike against, 135
money laundering, 135
and Russian FSB, 175–76
“America First” policies
1980s ads as a precursor to, 51
Andropov, Yuri, 13, 60n
anti-Magnitsky law (Dima Yakovlev Bill), 238
anti-Semitism
legislation to reduce, 27
Macierewicz’s statements, 221
in the Soviet Union, 27, 115
The Apprentice (TV show), 129–30
Arbat International, 57–58, 59, 63, 86–87
Arif, Tevfik, 138–41, 142–44, 158, 160, 167, 266
Åslund, Anders, 124
Assange, Julian, 17, 223, 251, 255
assassinations and mysterious deaths
Berezovsky, Boris, 174
Gongadze, Georgy, 171–72
Klebnikov, Paul, 18, 172–73, 177
Litvinenko, Alexander, 18, 178–79, 213
Magnitsky, Sergei, 18
Politkovskaya, Anna, 18, 173–74, 177
Project Klebnikov, 173, 177
statistics, 18n, 172
assets (agents of influence)
categories of, 16
testing to see if Trump was a potential Soviet asset, 15–16, 46–47
Trump as an asset of Putin, 4, 166–68, 223–25
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 48–49, 91–92, 121–22
Averin, Alexandr, 58
Averin, Viktor, 58–59, 88–89, 197
Bagli, Charles, 155
Baier, Bret, 261
Baker, James, 182
Balagula, Marat, 34–35, 82, 266
Balber, Scott, 237
Bank of New York (BONY), 87
bankruptcy of Trump casino properties, 66, 91–92, 122n
Bank Secrecy Act, 122
Bannon, Stephen, 234, 254
ban on American adoption of Russian children, 238
Barbour, Haley, 119
Barbour Griffith & Rogers, 119, 215–16
Barnum, P.T., 228–29
Barrack, Tom, 232–33
Barrett, Wayne, 12, 24, 25, 52
Barry, David S., 133
Barsukov, Vladimir, 75, 77–79, 175
bartering trade, 109–10, 113–14
Basic Element, 216
Baturina, Yelena, 94
Bayrock Group LLC, 128, 130–31, 138–44, 149–51, 155–58, 167, 224, 229, 243
beauty pageants, 92–93, 146, 204–06, 208–09, 211–12
Begemot Ventures International (BVI), 233
Behar, Richard, 173, 177
Behrends, Paul, 242
Benghazi investigation, 246
Bennett, Barry, 235
Berezovsky, Boris, 76, 99–100, 173, 174, 223
Berger, Samuel, 106
Beria, Lavrentiy, 97
Berkovich, Vladimir, 85
Berliner, Mina Yuditskaya, 115n
Berlin Wall, fall of the, 60, 61, 70
Beyrle, John, 94
Bharara, Preet, 204, 237
“The Billion Dollar Don” episode of Panorama (TV show), 56
Birshtein, Boris, 70–71, 89, 145, 171, 266–67
Black, Charlie, 249
Black, Manafort, Stone, & Kelly lobbying firm, 181–83
Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm, 45, 51
Blair, Gwenda, 20
Blane, Milton, 134
Blavatnik, Leonard, 216–17
Blazek, Petr, 43
Block, Alan A., 171
Blood Covenant (Franzese), 6
Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror (Felshtinsky and Litvinenko), 103, 175
Bogatin, David, 8–10, 12–13, 15–16, 82, 120, 221, 223, 267
Bogatin, Jacob (Yakov), 107, 120, 267
Bollenbach, Stephen, 92, 125
Borovoi, Konstantin, 127
Boyko, Oleg, 203, 267
Bratva. See Solntsevskaya Bratva
Breaux, John, 216
Breedlove, Philip, 220
Breitbart News, 234
Brexit
Russia’s interference with the vote for, 220–21, 247–48
Brezhnev, Leonid, 13, 60n
Brighton Beach, New York
economic decline, 28
Fred Trump’s real estate projects, 20–21
“Little Odessa,” 28, 131
Odessa Restaurant, 34
as a place to recruit more Soviet spies, 28–29
questionable lifestyles of new Russian residents, 30–31
Russian Mafia’s presence, 27–31, 82–83
Brooke Group, 93
Browder, Bill, 18–19, 218, 238, 239, 240
Buchanan, Pat, 105
Buck, Brendan, 247
Bukharin, Nikolai, 97
Bulgarian Cooperative Bank, 62
Bulger, Whitey, 151
Burns, William, 188
Bush, Billy, 256
Bush, George H. W., 52, 53, 60, 235
Bush, George W., 219
Bush, Jeb, 234–35
Buslaev, Vitaly Yuryevich, 165
Butina, Maria, 217, 227
BuzzFeed investigation of real estate sales to shell companies, 14
Cali cartel (Colombia), 85
Calvery, Jennifer Shasky, 122
Cambridge Analytica, 233–34, 251, 256–57
Cambridge Spy Ring, 41
campaign donations, 239
Carle, Glenn, 4
casino businesses, 48–49, 66–67, 91–92, 121–22
Casso, Anthony, 162
Castellano, Paul, 25
censorship
dissidents sent to mental hospitals, 174
media, 173–75
Center for the National Interest policy speech, 250
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
undercover operatives in embassies, 149
Chabad Lubavitch organization, 115–17, 144, 159–61, 167, 243, 260
Chaika, Yuri, 240
Channel One Russia (ORT), 99
character traits sought by the KGB, 47
Chazov, Yevgeny, 44–45
Chernenko, Konstantin, 13, 60n
Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 119
Chernoy, Lev, 114, 144, 158–59
Chernoy, Mikhail, 113–14, 144, 158–59, 202, 267
Chodiev, Patokh, 140
Christie, Chris, 234–35
Chubais, Anatoly, 96
Churkin, Vitaly, 49, 267
Circle of Brothers, 65
Clapper, James, 4
Clinton, Bill
1998 bombing strike against al-Qaeda, 135
photo with Gregori Loutchansky, 231n
Stinger antiaircraft missiles recovery operation, 135
Clinton, Hillary
assumption of a presidential win, 260–62
Benghazi investigation, 246
campaign donations, 239
concession to Donald Trump, 1, 263
debates against Trump, 258–59
DNC’s favoring of, 251–52
email hacking, 222, 231, 252–53, 259
incriminating information on, 236
in Obama’s cabinet, 219
support for Yulia Tymoshenko, 185
use of a private email server, 252, 259
and Vladimir Putin, 219–20
Clinton Foundation, 255
Clinton Global Initiative, 239n
Clodo, Dietmar, 85–86, 196, 198
Cohen, Bryan, 164
Cohen, Michael D., 32, 132, 162–66, 202, 207, 229–30, 243–44, 268
Cohn, Roy, 23–26, 47, 51, 132
Colombo crime family, 5–11
Comey, James
characterization of Trump, 4–5
investigation into the Clinton email hacking, 259
Trump’s account of his 2013 trip to Russia, 212
Commodore Hotel (later Grand Hyatt Hotel), 23, 25–26, 29, 113
Coney Island, New York, 20–21
Constitutional crisis, potential, 98
Conway, George, 123n
Conway, Kellyanne, 48n, 123, 254
corruption
Bank Secrecy Act violations by Trump Taj Mahal, 122
Crocus Group’s award of massive government contracts, 200–01
pay-for-play K Street lobbyists, 118–20, 217
poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, 178–79, 213
and Putin, Vladimir, 67, 77–78, 98–101, 175, 178–79, 185–86, 200
Putin’s political positioning as a fighter of, 96–97
Russian journalists’ attempts to expose, 177–79
wiretapping scandal regarding Polish politicians, 221
in Yeltsin’s administration, 101–02
Cosa Nostra Five Families crime syndicate
collaborations with the Russian Mafia, 7–8, 82–83
Colombo crime family, 5–11
Comey’s comparison of Trump to, 4–5
construction industry influences, 25
Gambino crime family, 21–22, 25, 162
Genovese crime family, 21–22, 25, 134, 162
Lucchese crime family, 15, 26, 162
Crane, Richard, Jr., 121n
Crimea, 5, 17, 69n, 215, 223, 245
Crocus Group, 199–201, 209
Crooks, Rachel, 153
Cruz, Ted, 233–35
Cuomo, Mario, 52
Curtis, Adam, 194
cyber warfare
Brexit tweets, 221, 247–48
Democratic National Committee hacking, 227–28, 246–47, 250–53
email hacking of Hillary Clinton, 222, 231, 252–53, 259
email hacking of John Podesta, 255–56
Facebook profile information, 256–57
“fake news,” 17–18, 193–94, 223, 257
hackers and bots, 255–56, 262–63
media reports about Russian hacking, 253–54, 258–59
Russian influence campaign regarding 2016 US presidential elections, 227–28
Czechoslovakia
information gathering on Donald Trump, 42–43
StB (secret police), 42–43, 53–54
surveillance of Ivana Zelníčková’s father, 38–39, 42–43
data mining, 233
Davis, Rick, 231
Dawisha, Karen, 18–19, 103
DeLay, Tom, 119
Dellums, Ron, 242
Democratic National Committee hacking, 227–28, 246–47, 251–52
Denman, Diana, 248–49
Denson, Charles, 21
Deripaska, Oleg, 120, 185–86, 215, 232–33, 235, 243, 254, 268
Derkach, Leonid, 81, 108–09, 171–72
derzhavnost (Russia’s imperial reach), 106, 170
Desai, Bhairavi, 164
Deutch, John, 80n
Devine, Tad, 231
Dezer, Gil, 125
Dima (Our Kind of Traitor), 55
Dima Yakovlev Bill (anti-Magnitsky law), 238
DiNatale, Jimmy, 48n, 123n
dissolution of the Soviet Union, 60
Dixon, Tasha, 211
Dobrovolsky, Leonid, 73
Dodson, James, 207
Dole, Bob, 52, 120, 215, 235
Dombey, Norman, 178
Dubinin, Yuri, 46–47, 49, 269
Dubinina, Natalia, 46–47, 268
Dubovitsky, Natan. See Surkov, Vladislav
Dunbar, Mike, 52
Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 15
Dzhyha, Mykola, 171
Eastern Bloc countries
abandonment of Russia, 170–71
joining NATO, 16, 106, 170
economic problems of Russia post-Cold War, 61, 73–77
Ehrlich, Gregory, 165
El Caribe Country Club, 32, 34, 162–63
Elson, Monya, 83
Emmerson, Ben, 178n
energy resources trade
“It’s a Gas” investigation of the Turkmen-Ukraine gas trade, 112
Kazakhstan, 140
Russia, 113–14, 188–89
sweetheart deals brokered by Putin’s associates, 188–89
“the Trio” (Maskevich, Chodiev, Ibragimov), 140, 145, 158–59, 167
Ukraine,
90, 107, 112–13, 180, 188–89
Engel, Eliot, 242
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 141
Estrin, Melvyn, 163
Eural Trans Gas (ETG), 112
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, 140, 216
Executive Intelligence Review, 50–51
exit polls, 261–62
Fainberg, Ludwig, 85
“fake news”
Pizzagate, 257
Putin’s “virtual” war using, 17–18, 193–94, 223, 257
Farage, Nigel, 220
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Democratic National Committee hacking investigation, 227–28, 246–47
FBI-Hungarian National Police Organized Crime Task Force, 108, 217
Federal Witness Protection Program, 83
fight against radical Islamist terrorism, 136–37
investigation of Semion Mogilevich, 108, 217
pursuit of Italian Mafia over Russian Mafia, 36
warnings about Russian organized crime, 218
Felshtinsky, Yuri, 101, 103, 164–65, 175
59 Russian connections of Donald Trump, 265–79
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), 122
Financial Times, 14
First Chief Directorate (FCD), 46
Firtash, Dmitry, 109–13, 166, 180, 185, 188–89, 234, 269
Fisher, Marc, 130
Fisher, Ronel, 143
Fisherman, Igor, 107, 111
FL Group, 158, 167
Flynn, Michael, 230, 250, 269
Foer, Franklin, 182, 232
Ford, Gerald, 22, 235
Fortune (magazine), 37–38
Foruper Limited, 119
Frank, Thomas, 14
Franzese, John (Sonny)
ascent into the Five Families crime syndicate, 6
gas-tax-evasion scam, 6–10
professional reputation, 7
release from prison, 5
Franzese, Michael, 6–10
Freeh, Louis, 4, 218, 237
Freidman, Evgeny, 164
Frelick, Bill, 220
Friedman, Alan, 185
Friedman, David, 93n
Friedman, Robert I., 30–31, 83
Fursin, Ivan, 187, 188–89
Fusion GPS, 213
Galeotti, Mark, 195n
Gambino crime family, 21–22, 25, 162
gambling ring arrest in Trump Tower (2013), 201–04
The Gang from Lubyanka (Litvinenko), 78, 175
Garber, Simon, 164
Garten, Alan, 126–27, 142, 147–48, 154
gas-tax-evasion scam of the 1980s, 6–10, 34–35, 82, 132
Gates, Rick, 184, 187, 231, 254, 269
Gazprom energy company, 76, 112, 180, 188–89, 216
Genovese crime family, 21–22, 25, 134, 162
Geovanis, David, 95, 270
Gerasimov, Valery, 195
Gerasimov Doctrine, 195n, 262
Gessen, Masha, 69
Giuliani, Rudy, 159