Gaining Further Election Insight on Spycraft Interference: Den of Spies from Past to Present Day with Author Craig Unger

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Influence Continuum, I spoke with Craig Unger, an investigative journalist and the author of Den of Spies, which is described in his biography as “a real-life political thriller about how master spy William Casey put together a treasonous covert operation in 1980 that hijacked American foreign policy and stole the election for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.” Craig is also the author of six books on the Republican party’s assault on democracy, including American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. He has written for New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Independent, and many others. “Initially, I think, it was very covert, as I show in this book. Everything was behind the scenes. With Trump today, it’s almost overt,” Craig said, noting Trump’s direct message in 2016 to Russia to retrieve Clinton’s emails. I noted The Wall Street Journal’s recent article citing Elon Musk’s relationship with Vladimir Putin and secret conversations. We then discussed the volumes of evidence supporting the idea that Trump was recruited as an asset for the KGB in the 1980s. This book is a well researched documented revealing of how American Democracy has been manipulated. Tragic and Americans wil now see what is brought to power. Eyes open and courageous resistance is required! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:10.2	And today I have a very special guest, a repeat guest, because I had him on my podcast previously
0:19.3	in a two-episode interview. It was so in a two episode interview.
0:22.6	It was so in depth and important.
0:25.6	I'll get back to that in a minute.
0:27.6	I have with me Craig Unger,
0:30.6	a New York Times best-selling author of six books
0:34.6	on the Republican Party's assault on democracy, including the House of Bush,
0:40.1	the House of Saude, the House of Trump, the House of Putin, and American Compromot,
0:47.4	which is the red book behind your ear, Craig, that I had you and former KGB official Yuri Schwetz on my podcast.
0:58.6	And we talked a lot about the recruitment of Donald Trump into the spy ring of the Soviet Union.
1:09.0	But I just finished reading your latest book called Den of Spies,
1:15.1	subtitle Reagan, Carter and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the White House.
1:22.9	And we're going to get into it. But man, for me, having been in the Mooneys and learning about how the CIA
1:32.7	set up the Korean CIA and they use the Moonies and the whole Republican, you know, Washington Times
1:41.7	network, for me, the Den of Spies kind of blew my mind, but in a good way,
1:47.0	because it connected a lot of the dots. But before I ask you to start speaking, I just want to
1:53.6	tell my listeners, you went to Harvard, you were an undergraduate editor at the Harvard Crimson, I moved to France. You were co-owner,
2:05.5	editor of the Paris Metro, a celebrated biweekly English language city magazine in the French
2:11.5	capital, served as a staff writer for the New York Magazine for many years, contributing editor for a verony fair. I can go on and on.
2:21.1	Your work has been in the New Republic, Washington Post, Guardian, New Yorker.
2:26.6	I'm honored to get to know you and have you on the influence continuum.
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