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[#215] CONTRA VIII, Part Four: Dirty Money and Spy Games in the New Russia

Added 2024-10-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

Dimitri and Khalid complete their deep dive into Alan A. Block's "All Is Clouded By Desire". Topics include:

The Riggs Bank-Politico connection, Alton G. Keel Jr’s obscure Iran-Contra involvement, the Schultz v. Casey “battle royale” over weapons sales to Iran, George H.W. Bush’s curiously fraught relationship with Israel…

The sus European Union Bank (“the world’s first internet bank”) and Soviet wunderkind Alexander Konanykhine, recruiting ex-dandy junkie Lord Mancroft, KGB defector Yuri Shvetz (who would later claim Trump was a KGB asset), the mysterious Karen von Gerke Thompson, the CIA “leaving Aldrich Ames in the catbird seat”, Konanykhine’s appearance on Amazon’s “Unicorn Hunters” game show in 2021, the 2009 spy novel “The Hunted” about Konanykhine’s life written by Alexander Haig’s son Brian, Konanykhine’s banned “Wiki Experts” editing service, Roman Abramovich, Runicom and Sibneft, the Serbian firm Genex…

Russian crimelord Semion Mogilevich, YBM Magnex and the Toronto Stock Exchange, blind pools and blank checks, Bank of New York VP Prince Vladimir Galitzine, some background on the elite White Russian House of Golitsyn, Vladimir’s cousin Nicholas and his interesting right-wing Chicago silk topper friends, Rappaport’s philanthropic swan song in Israel, and more…