I’m about half-way through this book — Malcolm Nance, The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies are Undermining America and Dismantling the West.
I strongly recommend you read it. Buy a copy for your local library.
Nance is a retired intelligence officer with extensive experience in all intell disciplines: SIGINT (signals intelligence); HUMINT (the use of human sources); and IMINT (imagery intelligence). He has extensive training, education and experience with Russia, both as the Soviet Union and now as Russia.
The book starts off as fairly easy reading. It slows down and drags a bit as Nance goes into detail about Putin and the people around him. I’m well into that part of the book, but, have read ahead a few pieces about Trump and Putin.
The entire book should be read and studied. Some of the important points Nance makes are:
- Russia’s history of interfering with European nations, large and small, with varying degrees of success.
- How Russia used its experience in Europe to attack us.
- How intelligence operators identify, assess and recruit unwitting agents. He then clearly shows how Trump is, in fact, an unwitting asset of Russian intelligence (at least, we HOPE he’s unwitting)
- Putin’s goals vis-a-vis Europe, the West, and the US — and how Trump’s every move is advancing Putin’s agenda.
The book is not fake news. It is fully footnoted and cross-referenced.
Read it, tell your friends about it. Lend it to your friends who may be on the fence about Trump.
Finally, if Nance has the information he has published, can you imagine what Mueller has?