Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy [9780063373433]

Overview

The former MI6 intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the national security threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time

“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, I am convinced that the global political order will be utterly changed. We shall have entered a new historical era of strategic chaos, a ‘new world disorder.’ The consequences of Trump winning the 2024 election are catastrophic.” –from Unredacted

To a unique degree, Christopher Steele has been an eyewitness observer of modern Russian history. He was a British diplomat and intelligence professional in Moscow when the Soviet Union was collapsing. Steele was there when the putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev took place and when Boris Yeltsin took over the newly independent Russia. After Vladimir Putin came to power, Steele rose to become one of British government’s leading Russia experts and played a central role in the investigation into the Kremlin-ordered murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Then, in 2016, he wrote a series of explosive reports about the then presidential candidate Donald Trump and his links to Russia. Now known to the world as the “Steele Dossier,” these intelligence documents—a pivotal moment in modern espionage—drew the world’s attention to Russia’s relationship with Trump—and reluctantly thrust Steele into the center of a global maelstrom.

Since Trump’s election, he has quietly continued his work. Indeed, Steele has had even better access to sources of information and intelligence on Russia—ones that have given him a privileged view of the Kremlin’s use of kompromat, its inner workings, and how much we in the West should worry about it.

In Unredacted, Steele shares for the first time what that inside view of Russian geopolitics looks like, how he came to the point of gaining such a level of insight, and what Western governments—and all of us—can and should do to counter this generational threat.

This gripping true-life political thriller reveals:

• The Steele Dossier Uncovered: Go behind the headlines for the first time with the former MI6 officer who wrote the explosive intelligence reports on Donald Trump’s links to Russia.
• Russian Interference Explained: Leveraging decades of experience, Steele exposes the Kremlin’s playbook for disrupting Western elections and the specific tactics used in 2016.
• A Dire Warning on 2024: Understand the catastrophic consequences if Putin succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, ushering in a new era of strategic chaos.
• From the Cold War to Kompromat: An eyewitness account of the fall of the Soviet Union, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, and the rise of a ruthless KGB officer named Vladimir Putin.