Kirkus Professional Book Reviewers said: "Graham's new book is an intriguing and informative 'must read' from a woman who is probably the best-informed American on the terrifying realities concerning Vladimir Putin's motivations.
WILMINGTON, NC, April 05, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Elizabeth Graham had Top-Secret Security Clearance while a senior in high school, and immediately upon graduation began working undercover with the CIA. Among her first tasks was coding and decoding highly classified information. She later joined the SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center (FSRC) for 12 years. Eight of these years were spent studying Russia and Russian, and she managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence library in the U.S. She began to travel to the Soviet Union and then became one of the very few Americans to move to the USSR. Over a period of about twenty years, she became bi-cultural - she became Russian. Her first-hand knowledge and understanding of life in a dictatorship country is shared with Americans in her book.
She recently posted an article in which she quoted Craig Unger, a NYT bestselling author of books on Trump, Putin, and Russia. Unger interviewed Oleg Kalugin, a KGB general and formerly the head of the KGB political operations in the United States. In this interview, Kalugin stated, "America was a paradise for Russian spies and during his time they had recruited roughly 300 assets in the United States. Trump was one of them."
In this article she wrote: The Cold War did not end in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Catherine Belton wrote "Putin's People." She said, "The West and especially the United States naively believed that the West had won the Cold War. This was a momentous and critical mistake." She also said, "This book began as an effort to trace the takeover of the Russian economy by Putin's former KGB associates. But it became an investigation into something more pernicious than that.
First research, and then events – showed that the kleptocracy of the Putin era – money from the old USSR and money donated by the West - was aimed at something more than just filling the pockets of the president's friends. What emerged because of the KGB takeover of the economy – and the country's political and legal systems – was a regime in which the billions of dollars at Putin's disposal were to be actively used to undermine and corrupt the institutions and democracies of the West."
Russia was rejuvenated and regenerated starting in 1995 by a little-known KGB devotee named Vladimir Putin. Mr. Putin, and all KGB-employed Russians, blamed the United States for the downfall of the USSR. According to Fareed Zakaria (March 30, 2025) western nations donated roughly 66 billion dollars to Russia in the early 1990's to prevent their return to communism. While these funds were paying western consultants to help Russia restructure a new constitution, Mr. Putin and his brotherhood of KGB colleagues were using this same "pot of gold" behind-the-scenes to create a dictatorship. This deception went unnoticed.
As a consultant to the Leontiff Centre in St. Petersburg, I was selected to work on the World Bank restructuring project. Designed to convert Russian factories and manufacturing plants from a demand economy to a market economy, it was created to play a critical role in the "new Russia." While there, I uncovered what the western world would call "treachery" - millions of dollars were diverted for KGB causes. I reported this to the World Bank and was immediately let go by my Russian employer.
Mr. Putin, a former intelligence officer, was also in St. Petersburg at this time - early to mid-1990s. His political rise to fame suddenly surged due to his Ponzi schemes, his strategic maneuvers, his military aggression, and his KGB dedication and controversial policies.
The entire world, except a small population in the United States, knows that Mr. Trump is a Russian asset who is controlled by Mr. Putin. In Russia, this is common knowledge and old news.
The world's human population, the world's economy, and the world's security are at a dangerous moment in history. Putin wants to expand Russia's borders to include many if not all previous Soviet countries. Trump has this same aspiration, and talks of expansion into Greenland, Panama, Gaza, and Canada. He has said he will use force if necessary. Russia is not only the largest country in the world but has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. The USA is second.
Trump and Musk have closed USAID, which supplied meds to African nations to control disease. It is now estimated that an adult will die in Africa every three minutes, and a child every 31 minutes due to this President's lack of empathy. This is a "crime against humanity." Please write to the International Criminal Court and file a report. The address is: https://egraham.substack.com/p/contact-the-international-criminal. And on April 5th, there will be organized protests against Trump and Musk across the U.S. and around the world.
All of this information and much more is available in Graham's book, 'From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans', now available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?. More information is available at her website at https://democrazy2020.org/ or her Substack at egraham.substack.com.
About Elizabeth Graham:
Elizabeth Graham lives in a quiet rural city in northern Arizona. She had 4 children and has 3 grandchildren. Her oldest daughter died July 16, 2016 - three months before the U.S. 2016 election and while living/working in Japan. The Tokyo Police ruled her death a homicide by an unknown substance – possibly a poison - which is the signature lethal method used by Russians. There is more about her death and Elizabeth's life in "From Democracy to Democrazy."
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