by Craig Unger
at Washington station, 51
Silberstein, Jacques, 197
Simes, Dimitri, 13–15
Simpson, O. J., 235
Skuratov, Yuri, 226
Smith, William Kennedy, 236
Snepp, Frank, 135
Snyder, Timothy, 90–91
Socrates. See Helmer, John
SoHo development, 57, 165
Sotskov, Lev, 91
Soviet diplomats, 26–27, 34–35, 53, 71–72, 76
Soviet émigrés, 30–32, 34, 37
Soviet intelligence. See First Chief Directorate (FCD); KGB assets; KGB intelligence; New York rezidentura; Washington, DC, rezidentura
Soviet Jews, as KGB assets, 30–32
Soviet Mission to the United Nations, 58–59, 64, 78–79, 111
Soviet Union. See also KGB intelligence; Russian Federation
demise of, 162
emigration policy, 31
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 67–68, 70, 78, 89, 149, 162
Jewish refugees, 30–32
running out of money, 70
spy schools, 74
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 65
spotter agents, 17, 35–36, 262
Sputnitsa. See Wright, Claudia
The Spy Next Door (Shannon), 59
spy schools, 74
Star Wars program, 52
Starr, Kenneth, 236, 237–238
Steele Dossier, 47
Stein, Jeff, 56
Steinfels, Peter, 253
stiftung, definition of, 120n
Stone, Roger, 91, 286, 293–294
Strategic Defense Initiative, 52
Strzok, Peter, 285
Supreme Court. See US Supreme Court
systemic racism, 279–280
Taliban, 283
Tartaglione, Nicholas, 250
Taylor, Breonna, 4
Taylor, William, 159
teases, 88
Telizhenko, Andrii, 289
theocratic authoritarianism, 6, 116–117, 123, 127, 253, 254
theocratic nationalism, 6
Theodoracopulos, Taki, 168
Thomas, Clarence, 135
Toobin, Jeffrey, 260
Top Hat, 101–102
Tower, John, 153, 154
Towers Financial Corporation, 174–175
Trade Act of 1974, Jackson–Vanik Amendment to, 30, 50
Trans Commodities Inc., 45
Trump, Donald. See also Trump, Donald, as president; Trump real estate; Trump Tower
1988 presidential primaries, 91, 94
advertisement disseminating KGB talking points, 23–24, 92–94
as ambitious real estate developer, 37
beauty pageants purchase, 188
Brunel and, 200
calling for dismantling postwar Western alliance, 92–94
Cuba and, 39–40
De Georgiou and, 189–190
Dershowitz and, 235
Dubinin and, 72
Epstein and, 175–176, 187, 201–203, 251–252
finances, 294–295
finding his Roy Cohn, 258
foreign policy objectives, 15
as “friend” of FBI, 56–57
Geist and, 65
Gorbachev and, 89–90
Greenberg and, 172
Harth and, 187–188
Hayden characterizing, 7
hosting parties of older men/young women, 201
Kallstrom and, 55–56, 57–58
at “Look of the Year” modeling competition, 198
loyalty to Gorbachev, 89
Maxwell, Ghislaine and, 251
Maxwell, Robert and, 153, 160–161
meeting KGB’s ideal recruit definition, 43–44, 47–48
MK article as “hello” to, 75
as money launderer, 50, 161
Moscow trip, 84–88
nuclear armaments fixation, 64–68, 88–89
oligarchs, ties to, 12–13
as Russian asset, 7–8, 280–281
sexual assault allegations, 185
skyrocketing brand, 66–67
targeted as new recruit, 43
Trump Princess yacht, 153
wanting place on world stage, 69–70
Trump, Donald, as president
administration loyalty replacing expertise, 286
antipathy toward military, 284
assault on NATO, 284–285
Atkinson firing, 285
blaming Obama for “spying” on, 287
Comey firing, 285
commuting Stone’s sentence, 293–294
COVID-19 pandemic and (See COVID-19 pandemic)
giving Syria to Putin, 280
at Helsinki summit, 6, 282–283
inaugural address, 290–291
inspectors general firings, 285–286
Lavrov and, 19
meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, 19
Mussolini moment, 296
push for counterterrorism cooperation with Moscow, 284
Putin and, 6, 269
on “Russia thing” as made up, 18–19
Saint John’s Episcopal Church photo op, 270–272
2020 presidential campaign, 4, 291
using militarized forces on American citizens, 274–276
as victim, 287
Trump, Donald, Jr., 15–17, 280
Trump, John (uncle), 65
Trump, Melania (Knauss), 201–202, 296–297
Trump Model Management, 200–201
Trump real estate. See also Trump Tower
all-cash transactions, 58
Bogatin and, 57
Grand Hyatt New York, 25–26, 40, 280–281
Kislin-issued mortgages for, 57
Leningrad Trump Towers, 71
massive bankruptcies of, 57–58
money laundering and, 50
Russian money used for, 165
SoHo development, 57, 165
Toronto, 165
Trump Tower Moscow, 12, 69–70
Trump Tower
celebrities owning condos at, 66
Dubinin’s stop at, 71–72
Joy-Lud Electronics and, 40–41
in Leningrad, 71
money laundering operations, 50, 161
in Moscow, 69–70
Russian Mafia and, 38, 161
Sapir and, 57
as the talk of international real estate, 66–67
television sets’ purchase, 40–41
Trump Tower Moscow, 12, 69–70
Trump–Ukraine scandal, 243–244
trusted contact, 44, 87
Tyson, Mike, 235
Ukraine, 281, 288
“unitary executive” doctrine, 24
unitary executive theory, 133–135, 242, 243, 253, 257
United Nations, 58–60, 64, 78–79, 111
United Nations Secretariat, KGB planted officers in, 59
US intelligence community, 94, 98–99, 112–113, 137. See also Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
US Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Soviet Presence in the U.N. Secretariat, 59–60
US Supreme Court
Catholic right and, 122–123
Cavanaugh, Thomas Patrick, 53–54
criminal law ruling, 105
Federalist Society and, 100–101, 123–124, 141
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 294
Kavanaugh, Brett, 141, 237, 245
Leo, Leonard and, 128–129
Opus Dei takeover goal, 122
“vacuum cleaners,” definit
ion of, 27
Van de Graaff, Robert J., 65
Vanik, Charles A., 30
Vasquez, Maritza, 179–180, 199–200, 204
Vector Group, 255
Vindman, Alexander, 244
Vise, David A., 103, 106
Vodianova, Natalia, 205
von Bulow, Claus, 235
Waitt, Ted, 197
Walker, John A. family spy ring, 54
Walsh, Joan, 254
Walsh, Michael, 118
Ward, Vicky, 169, 181, 240
Washington, DC, rezidentura. See also KGB intelligence; New York rezidentura
Ames and, 52
FBI recruiting KGB from, 72
New York as rival, 61
recruiting American spies, 42
Soviet diplomats and, 76
Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” 5, 291
Watergate scandal, 178
Wauck, Frances Hagerty, 103
Wauck, Greg, 113–114
Wauck, John Paul
background of, 116
on Barr’s attack on secularists, 255
as Barr’s speechwriter, 137–138, 255
as Bonnie Hanssen’s brother, 109
on confessional privilege, 106–107
normalizing corporal mortification, 117
on Opus Dei’s practices, 116–117, 138–139
ordination of, 116
unaware of brother-in-law’s espionage, 114
Wauck, LeRoy, 103
Wauck, Mark, 113–115, 138, 164
Wauck, Mary Ellen, 113–114
The Way, 117, 119, 125
WE Talks, 216
Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya (film), 28–29n
Weinstein, Harvey, 235
Wellspring Committee, 123
Wexner, Leslie, 172, 202
white supremacists, 4
Whitehouse, Sheldon, 242, 245–246
Wilkerson, Lawrence, 254
Wolff, Michael, 202
Woodward, Kenneth, 117
Wright, Claudia, 83–84
Wyden, Ron, 286
Yakushkin, Dmitri, 62
Yannucci, Thomas, 247
Year of the Spy, 53
Yelagin, Alexander, 60
Yeltsin, Boris, 162
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research annual benefit dinner, 166–167
Ynfante, Jesús, 120
Yurchenko, Vitaly, 54
Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute, 42, 60, 74
Zelensky, Volodymyr, 243, 288
Zelníčková, Ivana, 38
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* The Soviets had a propensity for scheduling propitious events on memorable holidays. Notably, in 2018, the Russians hosted eight Republican legislators to celebrate the Fourth of July in Moscow. It also happened to be the same day that British officials said two people had been poisoned by a nerve agent that many speculated came from Vladimir Putin, and a day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed that Russia interfered in the election to aid Trump.
* The inspector general also produced a far more complete 674-page report that is classified “Top Secret/Code Word” because it contains highly sensitive classified information about FBI counterintelligence activities, including information regarding sources in the Hanssen case.
* Saint Catherine’s is where Santorum famously criticized John F. Kennedy’s assertion that he believed “in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”
* According to Wise, Hanssen also confessed to another unnamed priest in Indianapolis.
* An anstalt is a type of corporation that is common in Lichtenstein and is a hybrid between a company limited by shares and a foundation. As an entity, it has no members, participants, or shareholders; no duty to return profit; and no obligation to a beneficiary. A stiftung is like an anstalt but operates for purely noncommercial purposes.
* Among the thousands of books that are in the latter two categories are hundreds of the best loved and most hated authors of the last few generations, including Woody Allen, Isabel Allende, Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, W. S. Burroughs, Joseph Campbell, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Allen Ginsberg, Nadine Gordimer, Mary Gordon, Günter Grass, Andrew Greeley, Hermann Hesse, Adolf Hitler, John Irving, James Joyce, Carl Jung, Eugene Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Sinclair Lewis, Mary McCarthy, Karl Marx, Somerset Maugham, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Friedrich Nietzsche, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Marcel Proust, Ayn Rand, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Bertrand Russell, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Voltaire, Alice Walker, Garry Wills, and Tennessee Williams.
* In 2005, Opus Dei was forced to pay $977,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim against Father McCloskey by a woman who said he groped her while she sought counseling. McCloskey was relieved of his post at the Catholic Information Center.
* Vitaly Gusenkov was an assistant to Gorbachev. At the time, Yevgeny Primakov was serving as Gorbachev’s special envoy to Iraq during the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War. He subsequently became foreign minister and then prime minister under Russian president Boris Yeltsin.
* According to an affidavit by Rodriguez, the book was compiled not by Epstein himself but by his employees with the assistance of Ghislaine Maxwell.
* Each of Clinton’s four trips had multiple stops, making a total of twenty-six times that his name appeared as either departing or boarding Epstein’s plane. Conservative media outlets have widely (and falsely) reported that Clinton took twenty-six separate trips on the aircraft.
* In 2013, Berezovsky died by hanging at his home in England under mysterious circumstances, amid much speculation that Russian intelligence may have been involved. After the inquest, coroner Peter Bedford issued an open verdict, saying, “I am not saying Mr. Berezovsky took his own life, I am not saying Mr. Berezovsky was unlawfully killed. What I am saying is that the burden of proof sets such a high standard it is impossible for me to say.”
* In the interests of full disclosure, I’ve had my own run-in with Dershowitz. It took place in the nineties, when I was the editor of Boston magazine and Dershowitz wrote a regular column for us. At the time, the magazine had just published a summer guide to Martha’s Vineyard that mentioned nude beaches on the island that were popular with local celebrities—including Dershowitz.
Just after the issue came out, Dershowitz called me—livid. “What is this crap about me being on a nude beach?” he shouted. It wasn’t true, he said. He demanded an apology and a retraction.
For the moment, I was mortified. To have made a factual error regarding one of the magazine’s contributors would have been especially embarrassing. After hanging up, I immediately went to the author of the piece to get to the bottom of it. But before I could chew her out, she reached into her desk and took out a photo that, more than twenty years later, I have still been unable to erase from my memory bank. It was a full-frontal shot of Alan Dershowitz, accompanied by an unidentified woman, walking nude on a beach. It appeared that some kind of green goop, sunscreen perhaps, had been slathered over his genitals.
I immediately called Dershowitz back and told him about the photo.
“That’s not me!” he yelled. He had not yet seen the photo, so I’m not sure how he came to that conclusion, but he was still livid.
Dershowitz, the distinguished Harvard Law School professor, an author of thirty-five books, and a cable-news media star, was so convincing that I immediately returned to get a second look. Yes, it was still Dershowitz.
Definitely. And as for the unidentified woman accompanying him, her name turned out to be Carolyn Cohen, Dershowitz’s wife. Dershowitz subsequently became a vocal proponent of nude sunbathing.
* In prosecuting Clinton, Starr had argued that even sitting presidents were not immune from civil suits. But he apparently felt that rule was only applicable to Democrats, and when Trump became president and faced impeachment, Starr conveniently changed his position.
* Clapper later clarified his remark on CNN: “I am saying this figuratively. I think you have to remember Putin’s background. He’s a KGB officer. That’s what they do. They recruit assets. And I think some of that experience and instinct of Putin has come into play here, and he’s managing a pretty important ‘account,’ if I could use that term, with our president.”
* Deribasovskaya Street appeared once again in the world of Trump, thanks to Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach, a 1993 Russian screwball comedy about the Russian Mafia in which art prefigures life. The movie is about diplomatic meetings between the president of the United States and the general secretary of the Soviet Union being put at risk, thanks to various crimes by the Russian Mafia. The movie features casino scenes shot at Trump’s Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
* After the demise of the USSR, the Russian Federation’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) became the successor to the FCD.
* Kislin declined to be interviewed by me, but his attorney, Jeffrey Dannenberg, said that there were no such FBI files and that the Center for Public Integrity had disavowed the article long ago. “Not only is the article wrong, but many years ago I spoke with the head of the Center for Public Integrity and told him it was wrong,” Dannenberg told me. “They withdrew the article, which was pretty extraordinary for them. They withdrew it.”
However, Mei Fong, director of communications and strategy at the center, told me, “We haven’t disavowed anything. The article is still on our website.” The article, Knute Royce, “FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter,” Center for Public Integrity, December 14, 1999, can be found at https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/fbi-tracked-alleged-russian-mob-ties-of-giuliani-campaign-supporter/.