I Like to Watch

Sputnik reported that Kissinger was advising Trump on how to “to bring the United States and Russia closer together to offset China’s military buildup.”[1] During a series of private meetings during the presidential transition, Kissinger discussed a plan to use closer relations with Russia, along with other countries in the region, to box in China’s growing power and influence.[2] According to Paul Craig Roberts, who was Kissinger’s colleague at the CSIS for many years, this tells us that Kissinger is trying to use better relations with Russia in order to separate Russia from its strategic alliance with China. As Roberts explains: “Kissinger… is aware of the pro-American elites inside Russia, and he is at work creating for them a ‘China threat’ that they can use in their effort to lead Russia into the arms of the West. If this effort is successful, Russia’s sovereignty will be eroded exactly as has the sovereignty of every other country allied with the US.”[3] Kissinger also pitched the idea to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.[4] In July 2016, the New York Times described Kushner as Trump’s “de facto campaign manager.”[5] Kushner has acted as a liaison with dozens of influential figures, including Kissinger.[6]

The true architect behind the Russian collusion with the Trump campaign can be none other than RAND personality and CFR figure, Machiavellian and ultimate insider, Kissinger. Trump can be likened to the Chauncey Gardiner character of the 1979 film Being There. He’s a simple-minded person onto whom a nation, stuff-fed on crass American entertainment, project all their naïve and venal aspirations. Trump is a theatrical diversion, a slight-of-hand to rapidly advance a Zionist agenda, while the rest of world is either distracted by his buffoonery, disgusted by his bigotry and immorality, or duped by his false promises of “draining the swamp,” combatting the “globalists” and marginalizing immigrants.

Like Chauncey, Trump “likes to watch,” having a notorious appetite for television.[7] Nor, like Chauncey, does he read. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Trump’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal told The New Yorker that in the eighteen months he spent with Trump, he “never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment.”[8] Schwartz told the magazine, “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.”[9] Trump explained he does not need to read extensively because he is able to come to correct decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”[10]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “f—king moron.”[11] Further disparagement was reported by in the sensationalistic Fire and Fury by journalist Michael Wolff, who interviewed more than 200 people who surrounded Trump as a candidate and president, including senior White House staff members. According to Wolff, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster called Trump a “dope.” [12] Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both refer to him as an “idiot.” [13] Rupert Murdoch says Trump is a “f—king idiot.” [14] Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn described him as “dumb as sh-t,” explaining that “Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”[15]

Interestingly enough, Being There was based on a political, satirical 1971 novel by Jerzy Kosinski, who was born in Poland and educated in the Soviet Union, before he moved to the United States where he was funded by the Ford Foundation.[16] Eliot Fremont-Smith, a book critic for The New York Times, along with a colleague, Geoffrey Stokes, wrote an article in The Village Voice accusing Kosinski of having editors ghost-write his novels and during the late 1950s, under the pen name of Joseph Novak, he published the first of two anti-Communist tracts in which the CIA apparently played a secret role, under the cover of the USIA’s “book development” program of that era.[17] Kosinski was a friend George Harrison and Roman Polanski, whose film Rosemary’s Baby was produced by Robert Evans, a friend of Henry Kissinger. Kosinski claimed to have narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate’s house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s followers in 1969, due to lost luggage. His novel Blind Date discussed the Manson murders.[18]

Kosinski’s novel is a comedic take of notions of Dasein (“Being There”) and getting back to one’s roots (our forgetfulness of Being), from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.[19] The movie is based on a simpleton named Chauncey Gardner, who has no knowledge of the outside world except the little he learned from television. After his benefactor dies, Chauncey is released to the world, and is subjected to a series of circumstances that result in him becoming selected to be the next President of the United States by a cabal of elite conspirators, headed by an aging tycoon named Ben Rand. The real-life equivalent of Rand the kingmaker in the film can be none other than David Rockefeller, whose family fortune in the oil industry has shaped modern history.

Being There featured one of the most blatant reference to the Illuminati in modern cinema. As the movie Being There ends, pallbearers carry Rand’s casket to a tomb modeled on the pyramid found on the reverse side of the American dollar bill. Clearly indicated beneath the all-seeing eye is the name RAND, in capital letters, without a first name, which must undoubtedly be a reference to the very powerful RAND Corporation.

The Ford Foundation, which like the Rockefeller Foundation, was a primary funding front of the CIA, also funded the creation of the RAND Corporation, whose name is clearly present beneath the eye on the pyramid tomb featured at the end of the film. The pyramid recalls a similarly Masonic-inspired pyramid featured on the roof of the Israeli Supreme Court.[20] Instrumental in its construction was Yad Hanadiv, an Israeli charitable foundation chaired by Lord Jacob Rothschild. David Rockefeller has a longtime personal relationship with the Rothschilds. In a press release, Rockefeller said, “Lord Rothschild and I have known each other for five decades. The connection between our two families remains very strong.”[21]

Kissinger Associates 

According to Nina Burleigh of Newsweek, “what we have really in Washington right now is the attack of the New York billionaires.”[22] Trump’s cabinet of billionaires could be the wealthiest administration ever.[23] “This is not even close to a normal Cabinet,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “I have never seen a Cabinet this full of bankers and billionaires, folks with massive conflicts of interest and such little experience or expertise in the areas they will oversee.”[24] However, explains Burleigh, while Trump’s billionaire cronies represent the richest men in New York City, they “are a tier below the cultural-financial establishment, the aristocracy.”[25] A Manhattan private equity investment banker who knows most of them says, “I think the nature of all these guys is that they are not a part of a power or moneyed establishment.”[26] Burleigh adds:

Most of the billionaires Trump has lured to D.C. are, like him, members of the 1980s generation of leveraged-buyout tacticians, junk bond kings, corporate raiders and vulture capitalists. They got rich off of emerging financial tactics crafted to take advantage of Ronald Reagan’s great gift to Wall Street—ripping up the regulations put in place after the Great Depression.[27]

For the most part, these are pro-Zionist Jewish billionaires. Trump adviser is corporate raider Carl Icahn (net worth $16.6 billion). Icahn’s associate Wilbur Ross ($2.5 billion) is Commerce Secretary, Stephen Schwarzman ($11.8 billion), Skull and Bones member and founder of Blackstone Group, is policy adviser and Stephen Feinberg ($1.2 billion), co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cerberus Capital Management, is unofficial intelligence adviser. However, Forbes later discovered “Ross lied” to the magazine, that the “fibs, exaggerations, omissions, fabrications and whoppers” have been ongoing for over a decade and reassessed him at just under $700 million.[28] The New York real estate developers now advising the president include Steven Roth (net worth $1.1 billion) and Richard LeFrak ($6.5 billion). Roth and Richard LeFrak are co-chairmen of Trump’s infrastructure committee. Robert Woods “Woody” Johnson IV ($6.3 billion) is Ambassador to the UK. Deputy commerce secretary Todd Ricketts’ family is worth an estimated $5.3 billion, and he is co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team.[29]

In 1985, Peter Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc., founded Blackstone Group, the largest alternative investment firm in the world. Blackstone is located in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, in a building also occupied by Kissinger Associates. Blackstone also included Lord Jacob Rothschild as a member of its International Advisory Board.[30] Peterson, who succeeded David Rockefeller as Chairman of the CFR in 1985 and served until his retirement in 2007. Peterson currently serves as Trustee of the Rockefeller family’s Japan Society and of the Museum of Modern Art, and was previously on the board of Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc.

Peterson is also a board member of the pro-Russia think tank, the Center for the National Interest (CFTNI), whose honorary chairman is Henry Kissinger.[31] After leaving office in 1977, Kissinger was appointed to Georgetown University’s CIA-affiliated Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 1982, Kissinger founded Kissinger Associates (KA), after loans had been secured from Goldman Sachs and a consortium of three other banks.[32] KA assists its clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities, advising clients on government relations throughout the world. The firm does not disclose its list of corporate clients, and reportedly bars clients from acknowledging the relationship. In 1999, Kissinger joined Mack McLarty to open Kissinger McLarty Associates. McLarty was a CFR member, Carlyle Group Senior Advisor and White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton. Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965.[33]

In November 2002, Kissinger was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the newly established National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to investigate the September 11, 2011, attacks on the World Trade Center. Kissinger stepped down as chairman on December 13, 2002 rather than reveal his business client list, when questioned about potential conflicts of interest.[34] In 2003, Kissinger was in Moscow where he heard George H.W. Bush deliver the keynote speech at a dinner for Russian business leaders, including Yukos-Sibneft founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on behalf of the Carlyle Group. Bush was there to facilitate an $18 billion deal by American oil giant ChevronTexaco for a blocking stake in the new Yukos-Sibneft.

Bush was also there to help complete a $500 million deal between Alfa and the Carlyle Group. Alfa’s dubious clout in Washington during the 1990s was assisted through the support of senior Democrats like Republicans like Dick Cheney and CFR member Richard Burt, a former Reagan State Department official and US ambassador to Germany, and close ally of Kissinger.[35] The Moscow Times noted that the time, Bush had come to Moscow was in June of 1998, just two months before the Russian economy imploded, for the lavish opening of Goldman Sachs’ office there. Kissinger was on the board of Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia Foundation, a position he said he accepted at the invitation of Lord Jacob Rothschild, another board member.[36] Open Russia Foundation, based in Somerset House in London, owned by the Rothschild’s Family Trust, with Kissinger as its trustee.[37]

Burt is also a Senior Advisor to CSIS. Burt was also a research associate and later Assistant Director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), founded in 1958 by members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). He is also Vice Chairman of the American Council on Germany, and a member of the CFR. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush appointed Burt as chief negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the rank of ambassador. Burt then left government service and has since worked as a partner in consulting firms McKinsey and Company, Diligence, and McLarty Associates. In addition, he has served on boards for Deutsche Bank’s Scudder and Germany mutual fund families, America Abroad Media, International Games Technology, UBS mutual funds, Textron Corporation, and the senior advisory board of Alfa Bank. 

Burt has served as an Advisor of Carlyle Group, and was affiliated with the RAND Corporation and the Aspen Institute. Along with Kissinger, he was associated with Hollinger International, whose parent was Hollinger Inc., a Canadian media company based in Toronto started by Conrad Black. Its flagship paper was the Chicago Sun-Times. Hollinger also owned The Jerusalem Post and interests in Australian and Canadian newspaper chains. Hollinger’s boards of directors and advisory boards included Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dr. Giovanni Agnelli, William F. Buckley, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Paul A. Volcker.

Burt also served as an Executive Chairman of Diligence LLC, a Washington-based, private global intelligence firm with William Webster, former director of the CIA and FBI on its advisory board.[38] Diligence was co-founded by Nicholas Day, a former officer with M15. The chairman of Diligence’s chairman is Michael Howard, the former head of the British Conservative party. In 2007, Diligence LLC was charged over allegations of corporate espionage in a case that involved the Alfa Group.[39] A stake in Diligence is owned by Oleg Deripaska’s business partner, Nathaniel Rothschild, according to The Nation.[40] The firm offered Deripaska corporate intelligence gathering, visa lobbying, and help in obtaining a $150 million World Bank/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan that was useful in providing cover for Western investors concerned about RUSAL.[41]

National Interest 

The CFTNI, which is composed primarily of members of the CFR like Kissinger, was established by former President Nixon in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and was renamed was renamed in 2011. The CFTNI publishes the National Interest, its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol, with funding by Hollinger.[42] Kissinger is the magazine’s honorary chairman, and Dimitri K. Simes, a close friend of Putin, is the publisher. The advisory council was chaired by James Schlesinger until his death in 2014. Schlesinger was a university professor, researcher at RAND, and became Director of the CIA in 1973. He served as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became America’s first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter.

CFTNI’s Chairman Emeritus is Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), which was the largest insurance and financial services corporation in history. He is a past chairman, deputy chairman and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was also vice chairman and director of the CFR and a member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission. He is a former chairman and current trustee of the Asia Society, a trustee emeritus of the Rockefeller University, and is an honorary trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, all three institutions founded by the Rockefeller family.

CFTNI’s chairman is General Charles Boyd, a program director of the CFR s and as president of Business Executives for National Security. Vice Chairman of the CNI is CFR member Drew Guff, who was instrumental in the formation of Russia Partners Company, the first major private equity fund to invest in Russia, and on the Board of Trustees of the Eurasia Foundation. Fellow Vice Chairman is Richard Plepler, the CEO of HBO, a Time Warner company. Another Vice Chairman, Dov Zakheim, held various Department of Defense positions in the Reagan administration, and is also a member of the CFR, IISS and Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation and a Senior Associate at the CSIS.

Other board members include Graham Allison, professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, who was among those mentioned to succeed David Rockefeller as President of the CFR; Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner; Leslie Gelb, a former correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, and currently President Emeritus of the CFR. Governor Jon Huntsman, former Ambassador to China, who was recently selected by Trump to be the next Ambassador to Russia.[43] Huntsman is also chairman of the Atlantic Council.[44] David Keene, opinion Editor of The Washington Times, President of the NRA and chairman of the American Conservative Union; Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad; David McCormick, a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and Carnegie Mellon University, member of the Trilateral Commission, the CFR and the Aspen Strategy Group.

The National Interest also has numerous ties to the New American Foundation. A number of members of the editorial board of The National Interest, led by Francis Fukuyama, who were upset by changes to that journal’s editorial policy implemented by its new publisher, founded The American Interest in 2005. Walter Russell Mead, the Editor-at-Large of The American Interest, is a co-founder of the New America Foundation, and a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a Distinguished Scholar at the Hudson Institute. Mead co-founded New America in 1999 with Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, and Michael Lind, a columnist for Salon and contributing editor of Politico and The National Interest.

Among the members of the National Interest’s advisory council are Morton Abramowitz, John Mearsheimer, and Dov Zakheim. The contributing editors are Ian Bremmer, Bruce Hoffman, Andrew Kohut, Paul R. Pillar, and Kenneth M. Pollack and Anatol Lieven and Nikolas Gvosdev as senior editors. Abramowitz is an American diplomat and former US State Department official. He served as US Ambassador to Thailand and Turkey and as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He then became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and founded the International Crisis Group. Pollack is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military affairs. He has served on the NSC staff and currently is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group. He was a National Fellow of the Hoover and is foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at Time. In March 2007, Eurasia Group acquired the assets of Intellibridge, a Washington, D.C.-based strategic advisory firm founded by former-National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and David Rothkopf. In December 2014, Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia, joined Eurasia Group as a senior advisor. Carter Page worked for the firm in 1998.

Hoffman is the Director of the Center for Security Studies and Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He held various positions at RAND, including Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency. Kohut was president of the Gallup Organization, and the founding director of the Pew Research Center and served as director of its Global Attitudes Project. Pillar is an academic and veteran of the CIA, and now a non-resident senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, as well as a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.

Lieven is a British author and Senior Researcher at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King’s College London. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security Policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has also served as an editor at IISS in London, where he worked for the Eastern Services of the BBC.

Gvosdev is a Russian-American international relations scholar. He received his D.Phil. as a Rhodes Scholar at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and is currently professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College. He is co-author of the book The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam. Gvosdev has appeared as an analyst and a commentator on television and radio likes CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, BBC, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CBC and Voice of America.

As reported by Alana Goodman for The Free Beacon, CFTNI’s ties to Russia extend throughout the organization. The advisory council of the National Interest includes Alexey Pushkov, a Russian Duma official who was targeted for sanctions by the US government in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pushkov has been criticized for claiming that the Bush administration orchestrated the September 11 attacks and for blaming the 2013 Navy Yard shooting on “American exceptionalism.”[45]

In 2005 the Russian-American newspaper Kommersant reported that Kremlin adviser Gleb Pavlovsky, Oleg Deripaska and Paul Manafort met to discuss forming a Russian-funded think tank.[46] A Kremlin-backed think tank, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (IDC), was formed in New York in 2008 under Putin adviser Andranik Migranyan, which often partners with CFTNI. Migranyan was selected to run the IDC by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to a confidential State Department cable released by WikiLeaks.[47]

Vladimir Kozlovsky, a Russian-born journalist who met CFTNI’s president Dimitri Simes in the 1970s, said Simes often tried to play up his relationships inside the Russian government. Simes was born in Moscow, where he graduated from the Moscow State University. He studied and worked at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, an influential foreign policy think tank in the Soviet Union at that time, while also serving as the deputy secretary of the Young Leninist League (VLKSM).[48] Simes emigrated to the US in 1973. Simes was selected to lead CFTNI in 1994 by former Nixon, for whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe. In 2014, along with Dimitri Simes, CFTNI’s President and publisher of The National Interest, Burt served as a foreign policy advisor for Rand Paul’s campaign for president.

Before the CFTNI was established, Simes served as Chairman of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was also a Senior Associate. Earlier, he was the Director of the Soviet and East European Research Program and a Research Professor of Soviet Studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his work at SAIS, Simes was a Senior Research Fellow and subsequently the Director of Soviet Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Simes is the author of After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power (1999), which predicted the rise of Russian authoritarian nationalism.

Simes is a close friend of Putin. “No one directly addresses Putin at Dimitri Simes’ level,” noted a Washington-based Russia policy expert. “It just doesn’t happen.”[49] In 2013, Simes attended Valdai International Discussion Club alongside Putin, where both took part in a two-hour panel discussion. Other participants were Germany’s former defense minister and prime ministers of France and Italy. Putin meets Valdai Club’s participants every year since 2004. Among many other Kremlin officials attending Valdai meetings are Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister; Sergei Ivanov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office; Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sergei Shoigu, Defense Minister and others.[50] On February 27, 2017, CFTNI hosted a talk on “The Future of U.S.—Russia Relations.” The speaker, Dr. Andrey Sushentsov, works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is a managing partner with Moscow’s Foreign Policy Advisory Group, and a program director of the Valdai Foundation.

Simes used the opportunity to introduce Kushner to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.[51] Kushner first met Simes with Kissinger at the CFTNI luncheon in March 2016, at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center.[52] CNN alleged that American intelligence officials have claimed Kislyak is a top Russian spy and spy recruiter, which Russian officials have denied.[53] Kushner had failed to disclose these and dozens of other contacts when sought the top-secret security clearance, which required him to report all encounters with foreign government officials over the last seven years.[54] Kushner also failed to disclose his business ties with George Soros, Peter Thiel, and Goldman Sachs, or that he owes $1 billion in loans.[55] This despite the fact that not only is Soros the brunt of Russian propaganda as a leading “globalist,” and supporter of liberal causes. Soros is also the subject of many discredited right-wing conspiracy theories, in particular, widely blamed on the right for having allegedly paid anti-Trump protesters like town halls and the Women’s march since inauguration.

It has also been reported that Kushner met with the head of Vnesheconombank (VEB), Sergey Gorkov, who is close to Putin, was trained by Russian intelligence, and runs a state-owned bank that has been placed on a US sanctions list.[56] Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, whose recently exposed alleged corruption was the cause for massive protests across Russia in March 2017, sits on the bank’s supervisory board.[57] VEB is regularly used by the Kremlin to finance politically important projects, including some of the infrastructure for the Sochi Olympics in 2014, which cost the Russian government a total of about $50 billion. That ring also attempted in 2013 to recruit Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who has sought to do business with Gazprom. Another Trump campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, did work for Gazprom Media in the early 2000s.[58]

Kissinger Effect

Writing in The National Interest, Simes predicts a revival of a new Cold War, warning that Russia is capable of inflicting more damage than it is on the United States, and that the Americans should be seeking to normalize its relationship with Russia.[59] Washington should do so without illusions, and from a position of strength.”[60] Similarly, during Trump’s “America First” speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, hosted by CFTNI on April 27, 2016—Trump’s first major foreign policy speech—Trump said that, “an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength, is possible.”[61] Simes was the organizer of the event, along with Kushner.[62] Also helping to write the speech was Richard Burt. Burt said the main theme he talked about to Trump was the need for the United States to pursue a “more realist foreign policy,” in which the United States would avoid seeking “regime change” abroad, and instead make protecting the itself and its interests the main policy goal.[63]

“I don’t doubt that the Russians are hacking us,” Henry Kissinger admitted to CBS’ Face the Nation in an interview that aired December 18, 2016. “And I hope we’re doing some hacking there.” “But it’s very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they’re doing.”[64] In the same interview, Kissinger described Putin as a character out of Dostoyevsky, and said, “And he is a man with a great sense of connection, inward connection to Russian history as he sees it.”[65]

Schuyler Schouten, who serves as Trump’s Special Assistant to the President and his Associate Counsel, was a research associate for Kissinger’s bestselling books World Order and On China.[66] Kissinger’s recent recommendations to Trump come from a long history of diplomacy inclined to the interests of the Russians. In his autobiography, Putin recalled that in the 1990s, he first met Kissinger who asked him a series of questions. “I worked in intelligence,” Putin finally told him. To which Kissinger replied: “All decent people got their start in intelligence. I did, too.” As Putin gained power in Russian politics, eventually becoming president, he and Kissinger kept up a warm rapport even as the United States and Russia grew further apart.[67] Kissinger met with Putin on December 8, 2015, a few weeks after he had met Donald Trump on November 17, 2016, and one week before Putin and Trump were to meet at the Group of Twenty summit in Germany. These meetings took place despite the swirl of controversy about Russian interference in the election.

Kissinger, who has known Trump socially for decades and had been advising the president-elect on foreign policy issues, remarked, “I had not thought of President Trump as a presidential candidate until he became a President.” But Kissinger described Trump as “a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen… And I believe he has the possibility of going down in history as a very considerable president.” Kissinger gives Trump credit for “having analyzed an aspect of the American situation, develop a strategy (AUDIO GAP) against his leadership of his own party and prevailing.” “I think he operates by a kind of instinct that is a different form of analysis as my more academic one,” Kissinger said. “But he’s raised a number of issues that I think are important, very important. And if they’re addressed properly, could lead to good—great results.”[68]

Kissinger is one of the few people who can get Trump on the phone whenever he wants, according to one transition adviser.[69] At their meeting of November 17, 2016, Kissinger and Trump discussed “China, Russia, Iran, the EU and other events and issues around the world.”[70] In December 2016, Kissinger advised Trump to accept “Crimea as a part of Russia” in an attempt to encourage a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, as a result of frayed relations due to the Crimean crisis.[71] In a speech in February at the Gorchakov Foundation in Moscow, Kissinger used language familiar to Dugin: “In the emerging multipolar order, Russia should be perceived as an essential element of any new global equilibrium, not primarily as a threat to the United States.”[72]

It was Kissinger who suggested Tillerson for Trump’s for US secretary of state.[73] Along with Tillerson, Kissinger is one of the few Americans to meet frequently with Putin.[74] Tillerson was the Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil Corporation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of CSIS since 2005.[75] The Rockefeller Family Fund are now using their vast wealth to combat climate change, and announced on March 23, 2016, that they would be divesting themselves from ExxonMobil, following claims from the company that the Rockefellers engaged in a “conspiracy” to malign it of undermining efforts to counter the phenomenon.[76] The Wall Street Journal reported: “Friends and associates said few US citizens are closer to Mr. Putin than Mr. Tillerson.”[77] Tillerson has had a close relationship with Russia for years. Tillerson spent much of his career working on Russian deals, including a 2011 agreement giving Exxon Mobil access to the huge resources under the Russian Arctic in return for giving Rosneft the opportunity to invest in Exxon Mobil’s operations overseas. Since then, the companies have formed 10 joint ventures for projects in Russia. In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Tillerson his nation’s Order of Friendship.[78] In 2006, Roman Abramovich purchased a large stake in Rosneft, a company now being investigated for its possible role in alleged collusion between Trump and Russia.[79]

[1] “Kissinger to Advise Trump on Bridging Gaps With Russia.” Sputnik (December 27, 2016).

[2] Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Andrew Desiderio, Sam Stein & Asawin Suebsaeng. “Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China.” The Daily Beast (July 25, 2018).

[3] Paul Craig Roberts. “What is Henry Kissinger Up To?” Institute for Political Economy (December 28, 2016).

[4] Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Andrew Desiderio, Sam Stein, Asawin Suebsaeng. “Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China.” The Daily Beast (July 25, 2018).

[5] Michael Barbaro & Johnathan Mahler. “Quiet Fixer in Donald Trump’s Campaign: His Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner.” New York Times (July 4, 2016).

[6] Lizzie Widdicombe. “Ivanka and Jared’s Power Play.” The New Yorker (August 22, 2016).

[7] Christopher Hooton. “President Trump ‘gets bored and likes to watch TV’.” Independent (February, 2017).

[8] Rachel Desantis. “Trump ‘does not read books’: report.” Entertainment Weekly (January 25, 2017).

[9] Ibid.

[10] Ibid.

[11] Robert Reich. “Seriously, How Dumb Is Trump?” TruthDig (January 7, 2018).

[12] Ibid.

[13] Ibid.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Ibid.

[16] Mervyn Rothstein. “In Novels and Life, a Maverick and an Eccentric.” The New York Times (May 4, 1991).

[17] Eliot Fremont-Smith & Geoffrey Stokes. “Jerzy Kosinski’s Tainted Words.” The Village Voice (June 22, 1982).

[18] Andrea Chambers. “Because He Writes from Life—his—sex and Violence Haunt Jerzy Kosiński’s Fiction.” People Weekly (September 17, 1979).

[19] Martin Heidegger. New World Encyclopedia (February 13, 2014).

[20] Gil Ronen. “Supreme Court Built to Masonic Guidelines?” Israel National News (August 26, 2013).

[21] Laurie Bennett. “The Rockefellers and the Rothschilds Make a Deal.” Forbes (May 30, 2012).

[22] Nina Burleigh. “Meet the Billionaires Who Run Trump’s Government.” Newsweek (April 5, 2017).

[23] Ibid.

[24] John W. Schoen. “No president has ever waited this long to get a Cabinet approved.” CNBC (February 24, 2017).

[25] Nina Burleigh. “Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club Directory.” Newsweek (May 4, 2017).

[26] Ibid.

[27] Ibid.

[28] Fred Imbert. “Forbes says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied about being a billionaire.” CNBC (November 7, 2017).

[29] Nina Burleigh. “Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club Directory.” Newsweek (May 4, 2017).

[30] “International Advisory Board.” New York, NY, USA: Blackstone Group.

[31] Caleb Melby, David Kocieniewski & Gerry Smith. “Kushner’s Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch.” Bloomberg (August 13, 2018). Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/kushner-s-ties-to-russia-linked-group-began-with-kissinger-lunch

[32] Walter Isaacson. Kissinger: A Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, updated 2005), p. 732.

[33] “Council of the Americas Member: Kissinger McLarty Associates.” Council of the Americas.

[34] “Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission.” CNN Inside Politics (December 13, 2002).

[35] Peter Dale Scott. The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) p. xx.

[36] “George Bush Sr In Russia On Carlyle Business.” The Moscow Times (September 15, 2003).

[37] Ibid.

[38] Zarina Zabrisky. “Nixon Center—Kremlin—Trump.” Medium (March 9, 2017).

[39] Stephanie Kirchgaessner & Stephen Fidler. “Agency ‘engaged in corporate espionage’” Financial Times (March 16, 2007); Ben Schreckender & Julia Ioffe. “Lobbyist advised Trump campaign while promoting Russian pipeline.” Politico (July 10, 2016).

[40] Mark Ames & Ari Berman. “He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain’s political advisors have advanced Putin’s imperial ambitions.” The Nation (October 1, 2008).

[41] Ibid.

[42] Paul Waldie. “Black, Radler used Hollinger money for donations in their names: committee.” Globe and Mail (September 1, 2004).

[43] John McCormick. “Trump Chooses Jon Huntsman for Ambassador to Russia, Official Says.” Bloomberg (March 8, 2017).

[44] Tom Howell. “Jon Huntsman tapped as Atlantic Council chairman.” The Washington Times (January 16, 2014).

[45] Alana Goodman. “Rand Paul’s Russian Connection.” Free Beacon (August 20, 2014).

[46] Ibid.

[47] Ibid.

[48] Zarina Zabrisky. “Nixon Center—Kremlin—Trump.” Medium (March 9, 2017).

[49] Goodman. “Rand Paul’s Russian Connection.”

[50] Zabrisky. “Nixon Center—Kremlin—Trump.”

[51] Ryan Lizza. “How Jared Kushner Helped the Russians Get Inside Access to the Trump Campaign.” The New Yorker (July 25, 2017).

[52] Julia Ioffe. “Why Did Jeff Sessions Really Meet With Sergey Kislyak?” The Atlantic (June 13, 2017).

[53] Tom Lister. “Who is Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States?” CNN (March 2, 2017).

[54] Jo Becker & Matthew Rosenberg. “Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms.” New York Times (April 6, 2017).

[55] Jean Eaglesham, Juliet Chung & Lisa Schwartz. “Trump Adviser Kushner’s Undisclosed Partners Include Goldman and Soros.” Wall Street Journal (May 3, 2017).

[56] Max Boot. “The Russia Scandal Has Reached the Trump Family.” Foreign Policy (March 27, 2017).

[57] Emily Tamkin. “Who Is the Russian Banker Who Met With Jared Kushner?” Financial Post (March 27, 2018).

[58] Evelyn N. Farkas. “Jared Kushner’s Not-So-Secret Channel to Putin.” New York Times (June 8, 2017).

[59] Dimitri Simes. “Commentary: Russia and America: Destined for Conflict?” National Interest (September/October 2017).

[60] Ibid.

[61] Manu Raju & Marshall Cohen. “Exclusive: Top Trump aide’s email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry.” CNN (August 24, 2017).

[62] Julia Ioffe. “Why Did Jeff Sessions Really Meet With Sergey Kislyak?” The Atlantic (June 13, 2017).

[63] Mark Hosenball. “Former Reagan aide helped write Trump foreign policy speech.” Reuters (June 8, 2016).

[64] “Face the Nation Transcript December 18, 2016: Conway, Kissinger, Donilon.” CBS News, Face The Nation (December 18, 2016).

[65] Ibid.

[66] “President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to the Office of the White House Counsel.” White House (March 7, 2017).

[67] Nahal Toosi & Isaac Arnsdorf. “Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump.” Politico (December 24, 2016).

[68] “Face the Nation Transcript December 18, 2016: Conway, Kissinger, Donilon.” CBS News, Face The Nation (December 18, 2016).

[69] Eli Lake. “Kissinger’s Washington Is Coming Back Around.” Bloomberg (January 4, 2017)

[70] “Trump Holds Meetings With Haley, Kissinger and Sessions.” ABC News (November 11, 2017).

[71] Andrew Buncombe. “Henry Kissinger has ‘advised Donald Trump to accept’ Crimea as part of Russia.” The Independent (27 December 2016).

[72] Henry Kissinger “Kissinger’s Vision for U.S.-Russia Relations.” The National Interest (February 4, 2016).

[73] Eli Lake. “Kissinger’s Washington Is Coming Back Around.” Bloomberg (January 4, 2017)

[74] Nahal Toosi and Isaac Arnsdorff “Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump.” Politico (December 24, 2016).

[75] “Rex Tillerson Has Strong Ties to CSIS.” Think Tank Watch (December 14, 2016).

[76] John Schwartz. “Exxon Mobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a Climate Conspiracy.” New York Times (November 21, 2016).

[77] Bradley Olson. “Rex Tillerson, a Candidate for Secretary of State, Has Ties to Vladimir Putin.” The Wall Street Journal (December 6, 2016).

[78] Steve Holland. “Donald Trump Favors Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson For Secretary Of State.” The Huffington Post (December 9, 2016).

[79] Ben Schreckinger. “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin.” Politico (April 09, 2017).

Volume Six

1. Culture Wars

2. Red Mafia

3. From Russia With Love

4. #MeToo

5. Conservative Media

6. Atl-Reich

7. Multipolar World Order

8. Katehon

9. Collusion

10. Russia House

11. Techno-Libertarianism

12. Military-Digital Complex

13. Fake News

14. Memetic Warfare

15. Big Data

16. Make America White Again!

17. In Trump We Trust

18. Israel First