IMPEACHMENT 2017 :PUTIN AND HIS "HILLARY", "TRUMP" OPERATIONS (+ Kremlin documents)

, By Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, a former KGB and CIA killer "Filament"  

kryzhanovsky7777@gmail. com  

My boys, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and FBI Comey, gonna do whatever I tell them to. If I kill Trump, GOP will cut USA in half. We better eliminate both, GOP and schizophrenic Trump if time comes.  

( Trump's schizophrenia symptoms:  

1. Hostility, suspiciousness, extreme reaction to criticism – Trump's anti-media attitude.  

2. Odd or irrational statements : "We build the anti--Mexican wall and Mexico gonna pay for it".  

3. Delusions of grandeur : Trump believes that he is a unique human being (like Jesus) on a mission to save America. His malignant narcissism is beyond any explanation.  

4. Unpredictable or inappropriate emotional responses – "I can kill anybody in the street! "  

5. Trump's behavior is bizarre – he treats women as sexual slaves.  

6. Trump's thinking and speech are disorganized, speech speech often includes putting together meaningless words that can't be understood – word salad. That means he's usually promising to fix everything (healthcare, immigration, Palestinian problem) but has no idea what to do.  

7. Delusions – Trump has false beliefs that are not based in reality. One of the biggest, with no proof at all, – his false contention that he lost national popular vote because of illegal votes.  

8. Trump's motor behavior in public is disorganized and abnormal motor behavior. His appearances are really scary because they usually end up in unpredictable agitation no matter what the question or problem is under discussion.  

9. Trump is a pathological liar, no matter what facts you have to prove he's wrong. His statement "I never met Putin" is ridiculous after this Savage's 2015 radio show audio was posted on the web: https://clyp. it/ijpsirbw.  

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PART 1. "HILLARY" OPERATION  

PART 2. "TRUMP" OPERATION or MAFIA RISING  

Episode 1. Trump, a murderer  

Episode 2. How, when and why Putin recruited Trump  

Episode 3. Mafia rising  

Episode 4. CNN wants me to kill Trump?  

Episode 5. Trump stole my instructions on how to win 2016 and rule America  

BONUS. How Russians work with Trump  

PART 3. "SNOWDEN" OPERATION  

ATTENTION : OBAMA HAD TO DECLARE THE STATE OF EMERGENCY  

WHY?  

"Most powerful man [Putin] in the world since 2013". Forbes  

"Elections 2017 in France and Germany – the only guaranteed winner, Vladimir Putin". The Times  

Russian President Vladimir Putin deserved to be called the U. S. President. He hacked Hillary Clinton and DNC, and pushed his puppet, Donald Trump, to the top. He said that the Soviet Union collapse in 1991, planned and executed by the USA, was the biggest tragedy of the century. Now it's time for revenge.  

Putin is only two steps from the world power.  

Step 1.  

The United States of America will be completely destroyed by coming revolution followed by a civil war and collapse of the country. Putin ordered Trump to cut Medicaid (70 million people) and Food Stamps (46 million people), and this is a huge army of 110 million hungry men and women with chronic diseases who have nothing to lose. Putin manipulates Trump, Trump manipulates Republican Congress and the Congress is already placing a bomb to explode America.  

Riots, revolution, civil war, independent Democratic American Republic and a total collapse of the United States!  

Step 2.  

Pro-Putin regimes are coming to power in 2017 in France and Germany, and that's the European Union and the NATO collapse.  

THAT'S WHY OBAMA HADTO DECLARE THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, STOP THE POWER TRANSITION PROCESS AND THE CONGRESS ATTEMPT TO KILL AMERICA.  

Because KGB Putin has not finished his "Trump" Operation. I'm a former KGB spy too, I know what I'm talking about – KGB never ever stopped halfway...  

And now – the truth you could never imagine.  

RNC membership for saving Bill Clinton's life.  

I've informed President George Bush on CIA anti-American activity and the plan to kill President Bill Clinton – I had to shoot him. Bush (see the letter) sent my information to Dept of Justice where it was blocked from further investigation.  

Was Trump behind the conspiracy? Was he ready to run for president in 1996? I'm sure, he was.  

"Stechkin", 9 mm, automatic – my best tool  

Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, a former KGB spy, CIA/FBI/SECRET SERVICE killer "Filament", KGB anti-terror "Nabat" group sniper, RNC platinum member (didn't ask for it).  

I need your support to keep fighting for America.  

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PART 1. "HILLARY" OPERATION  

I made the biggest mistake in my life when I've helped Russian President Putin to steal the inevitable victory from people's presidential candidate 2016 – Hillary Clinton.  

I was sure she was going to start World War III with Russia.  

Instead, I brought to power American Hitler, Putin's close friend Donald Trump who's going to terminate the United States.  

I want to bring justice and democracy back. Let's do it.  

Here's the story.  

To: Vladimir Putin  

President of the Russian Federation  

Kremlin, Moscow  

September 4, 2013  

(via special form on Putin's personal site kremlin. ru)  

Dear Mr. President,  

The information I got recently from reliable sources indicates that Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, is preparing for a very aggressive presidential campaign 2016. It's important that she's supported not only by the Rockefellers clan ($3 trln worth) but also by high-ranked neocons, hawks like a former VP Dick Cheney and also the the majority of Joint Chiefs of Staff.  

That means that Hillary Clinton, in case she's elected the U. S. President in 2016, will start the World War III with Russia for Russian resources.  

That's why I advise you, Mr. President to use your propaganda, political and technical possibilities (FSO and its division, FSO Special Communications and Information Service) to compromise Hillary Clinton and remove her from the presidential race 2016.  

Thank you.  

Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, a former KGB intelligence officer, a former CIA "Filament"  

Earlier I've sent the same letter to Sergey Naryshkin, Russian Duma (the parliament) Speaker, KGB spy in 1978-1982, a former Putin's Executive Office Chief in 2008-2011.  

Sergey Naryshkin  

He sent the letter to FSB (Russian Counterespionage Service) Chief Alexander Bortnikov, because I've mentioned a possible threat of Putin's assassination by the Secret Service team.  

Alexander Bortnikov, FSB Director  

Secret Service killers (Klemm, Lieneman, Gurevich – see business cards below) were hunting me in New York in 2012, later Secret Service special agent Jason Pietramica asked me if I want to go to Moscow myself (to kill Putin, of course).  

I can imagine how angry Putin was when Naryshkin showed him my letter – he had no doubt that Hillary Clinton, his personal enemy, was behind the Secret Service planned murder.  

FSB answered me fast:  

October 3, 2013  

Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation  

101100, 2 Lubyanskaya sq, Moscow  

Dear Mikhail Ivanovich,  

We received and looked into your letter to the Duma. We'll use the information you've provided.  

N. N. Zakharov, Chief, Center of Public Relations  

Remember FSB (a former KGB) have very well trained killers – I was a member (a sniper) of KGB "Nabat" anti-terror team and I know very well how they work. If Putin orders to kill Hillary Clinton, they'll do it no matter what.  

Putin got my letter and answered fast, because Hillary Clinton was his personal enemy since 2008 presidential campaign when she said:" He [Putin] was a KGB agent. By definition he doesn’t have a soul, " He got very angry and punched her back saying that at a minimum, she should have a head, "  

Besides, Putin knows me in person as the author of the White House Special Handbook and Espionage Handbook, and that's why took my warning very seriously.  

From: President of The Russian Federation  

Executive Office  

Directorate for Communication  

Ilinka str, 23/16, Moscow  

September 18, 2012  

#A26-16-545097  

To. M. Kryzhanovsky  

We inform you the letter to you've sent via e-form was received by the President.  

The letter has been sent to the Federal Protective Service.  

A. Maksukov  

Adviser, Directorate of Communication  

Attention.  

The Federal Protective Service (FSO) is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of several, mandated by the relevant law, high-ranking state officials, including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties. FSO includes the Russian Presidential Security Service. The FSO has roughly 50, 000 uniformed personnel plus several thousand plainclothed personnel and controls the Cheget that can be used in the event of global nuclear war.  

It also operates a secure communications system for senior government officials. The FSO is a powerful institution with a range of rights and powers, including the right to conduct searches and surveillance without warrants, make arrests, and give orders to other state agencies.  

FSO includes Special Communications and Information Service of Russia (Spetsviaz or SCID).  

It is is a cryptologic intelligence agency of Russia responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting Russian government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography. It is the equivalent to the United States National Security Agency.  

Putin appointed these two chiefs to be in charge of the "Hillary-2016" Project.  

Dmitriy Kochnev, FSO Director  

Alexey Mironov, the Special Communications and Information Director  

Kochnev prepared the "Hillary" Project plan to be signed by Putin and executed by Mironov.  

According to this plan SCID :  

1. Had penetrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in person, whose private emails were published by WikiLeaks in the days leading up to the Democratic convention. Putin called the hacking and release of nearly 20, 000 emails from the DNC "a public service". The e-mails the DNC's favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders published by Wikileaks compromised Dems' leaders and Hillary too.  

2. Hacked Hillary Clinton's personal phone and computer. All information was transferred stright to Trump who got the possibility to correct his strategy.  

3. Hacked the 2016 elections.  

How?  

First, the attackers probed election offices well in advance in order to find ways to break into their computers. Closer to the election, when it was clear from polling data which states would have close electoral margins, the attackers spreaded malware into voting machines in some of the states, rigging the machines to shift a few percent of the vote to favor their desired candidate. This malware would likely be designed to remain inactive during pre-election tests, do the job during the election, then erase itself when the polls close. A skilled attacker’s work might leave no visible signs — though the country might be surprised when results in several close states were off from pre-election polls.  

Then, Putin pumped millions of dollars to Trump's campaign through:  

– Carter Page, senior foreign-policy consultant for Trump, investment banker who became an adviser to the Russian energy giant Gazprom after Putin has reestablished the Russian government’s majority ownership of the private/public conglomerate. His company has also advised investors about purchasing assets in Russia and in other former Soviet republics. He had an audience with several top Kremlin officials, including Igor Sechin, a close friend and confidant of Putin’s and the head of Rosneft, the oil behemoth—the largest oil company in the world— mostly owned by the Russian government.  

– Richard Burt, a member of the senior advisory board of Russia’s Alfa Bank, a major Moscow financial institution, who was recruited by Paul Manafort to help the Trump campaign write a speech that tried to define his foreign-policy vision. On Oct. 31, reporter Franklin Foer broke the story that a group of cybersecurity experts had tracked regular internet communications between Donald Trump’s organization and Alfa Bank.  

– Michael Caputo, recruited by Trump to help run his New York primary. Caputo was under contract for Gazprom Media, a Russian media giant. And one goal of Caputo’s contract with Gazprom Media in 2000 was to improve Vladimir Putin’s image in the United States.  

Putin is planning to terminate America and occupy the global economic market – Trump is the key figure there...  

PART 2. "TRUMP" OPERATION  

Episode 1. TRUMP, A MURDERER  

HOW MUCH TRUMP PAYS PUTIN BACK  

A lot.  

Pick of Exxon CEO for Secretary of State clarifies why Putin wanted Trump elected: a $500 billion oil deal killed by sanctions.  

Rex Tillerson, CEO of oil giant ExxonMobil.  

Rex Tillerson who had made a $500 billion oil deal with Putin. Deal got blocked by sanctions. $500 b-i-l-l-i-o-n. CLEAR?  

This deal explains why Putin interfered in U. S. elections in favor of a Trump victory.  

TRUMP IS A FAKE.  

Putin ordered anti-Hillary WikiLeaks to steal my correspondence with Stratfor and transfer it to Trump. Trump used my KGB instructions to win presidential elections. Trump was following KGB technologies and strategies word by word.  

Follow the link and enjoy the conspiracy:  

https://wikileaks. org/gifiles/docs/51/5127100_-analytical-and-intelligence-comments-the-professional. html  

TRUMP IS A MURDERER – WANTED ME TO KILL OBAMA  

Donald Trump wanted me to kill Obama. What's the story?  

Part 1. Dinner with the President  

March 12, 2010, New York.  

Out of the blue I’ve received an invitation for a dinner with President Obama and Speaker of the House Pelosi from DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) signed by Ian Sugar, Director of Development, Hillary Clinton’s big friend. "Mike, we wanted to make sure you received this invitation for a very special occasion. We would love to have you be a part of this event. DCCC needs your support to fight for the American people. We hope to see you on May 13th in new York City".  

Surprise and a very suspicious one. I had to come to St. Regis Hotel, New York to join President Barack Obama Thursday, May 13, 2010 (St. Regis Hotel Ballroom, Two East 55th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York, New York). 6:00 p. m. – Host Committee VIP Reception 6:30 p. m. – Dinner  

I got St. Regis ballroom plan. Actually, I could eliminate “Obama” but it’s a suicide to work on the roof of the hotel. All I had to do was: buy 9mm Zig Zauer (Secret Service pistol), practice shooting in the forest upstate, come to St. Regis unarmed, disarm any Secret Service fat pig and do the job. But. I'm 40 years in espionage business and I'm always listening to what my intuition says. It was a 100% CIA pre-assassination setup – I come, they kill “Obama”, arrest me and kill me in a jail same day. Same thing they did to Lee Harwey Oswald.  

And who was interested? Who started "Obama is not the U. S. citizen! ", "Show the birth certificate! ", "Impeach Obama! " campaign?  

Trump.  

October 12, 2010  

I’ve got confidential information that two Secret Service teams were hunting me all over New York City: team #1 (two guys) and team #2 ( two guys and a woman). Team #1 asked my friend to give me their phone number, so I could call them, emergency. Team #2, armed with handguns, broke into my wife’s apartment, searched it and interrogated her in a very rude manner, ordered her to keep their visit secret, took her PC and left. Soon after that my wife (we were separated) had a stroke and in 2013 she died.  

I talked to team #1 on the phone and then I met them in a safe place. They said they came from Washington to stop team #2 from killing me. They also asked me to shut up about the dinner with Obama. I said: "If they want to kill me, tell them to put a sniper in a house across the street – I'm not scared". They got very nervous and asked me to slow down and stop talking if I don’t want problems.  

I got team #2 members’ names Here they are, my killers: Chris Lienemann, special agent, tel. 718-840-1263, Susan Klemm, special agent, tel. 718-840-1448, Gene Gurevich, special agent, tel. 718-840-130  

January, 20 2011.  

FBI special agent Eric Perry, (tel. 718) 286-7100), informed me that my actions made "high authorities, people on the very top extremely nervous". He didn't explain if it was a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but we understood each other well. Perry said I better disappear if I don’t want to end up at FBI “special jail”. “Special jail” means a total secrecy and a special attitude, which means tortures and murders of the victims who disappear into nowhere. So, CIA, Secret Service and FBI are terrorist organizations.  

So, Trump has enough money to place Secret Service and FBI in his pocket?  

Sure, he has.  

He wanted to kill Obama, he ordered them to kill me.  

IS PUTIN BEHIND THIS?  

Yes, Putin is behind Trump's plan to kill Obama. Trump was just a puppet (read next episode). This is one more big story for FBI to investigate.  

The story starts with Jerry Corsi, an American author, WorldNetDaily political commentator best known for his New York Times bestselling books The Obama Nation, Unfit for Command and Where's Birth Certificate, personal Obama's enemy. He investigated Obama's life in details and proved that the president wasn't born in USA and his presidency is illegal.  

The WorldNetDaily (WND) is a very popular and influential radical Conservative website which supported Donald Trump's very aggressive anti-Obama campaign to remove him from the office as a fake US citizen.  

April 12, 2012, Queens, S. Richmond Hill, New York  

Jerry Corsi came to see me (he lives in New Jersey) after we communicated for couple of days via e-mail about our anti-Obama investigations. Corsi brought me his book "Where's Birth Certificate" and gave it to me for "my courage". We talked about three hours at the nearest café. He was impressed by my experience as a spy and KGB sniper. We made arrangements for the next meeting and Corsi promised me some big and important job.  

May 20, 2012, same place  

Corsi brought a simple anti-Obama conspiracy plan. A big fake.  

I had to go back to Russia and find 2 former KGB officers who allegedly knew that Obama was working for KGB intelligence. These officers had to write down personal statements and didn't have to sign them with their legal names. I come back with the papers and "anonymous sponsor" pays me through Corsi $50, 000. Sponsor wants to remove Obama from the Oval Office.  

Anonymous rich sponsor paying cash.  

Trump.  

Money was big, but there was a problem. CIA was watching me on the daily basis and I could never leave USA alive for this conspiracy trip.  

Corsi was angry – I understood him. if Trump pays me $50, 000, WND guys and Corsi could get a million.  

I said "No". I can imagine how angry Trump was.  

Now I have a question for president-elect Trump.  

Corsi asked me how good I am as a sniper. Mr. Trump, you still want me to kill Obama?  

If I see $1, 000, 000, I'll think about him.  

And Hillary too, if you want her dead.  

Another $ 1, 000, 000.  

JAMES B. COMEY  

FBI Director  

601 4th Street NW  

Washington, DC 20535  

(202) 278-2000  

November 14, 2016  

Dear Mr. Comey,  

I've been working for CIA and FBI since 1995, and you know me as "Filament".  

I'm ready to cooperate with you on Donald Trump's attempted Barack Obama's murder.  

Mikhail Kryzhanovsky (CIA and FBI "Filament")  

November 14, 2016, WND  

by Jerome Corsi  

WND AUTHOR RECOMMENDED FOR JOB IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION  

Could fill 1 of 2 key positions for president-elect.  

A supporter of Donald Trump from early in his candidacy, WND author and Oxford professor, an American citizen by birth, Theodore Malloch is being referred to the Trump transition team as a candidate for either ambassador to the United Nations or to the United Kingdom.  

TRUMP CAN'T STOP KILLING  

Kim Jong-un, is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea.  

In 2013 he threatened the United States with a "pre-emptive nuclear attack" and has revealed plans for conducting nuclear strikes on U. S. cities, including Los Angeles, and Washington, D. C. In 2015Kim announced that his country had developed a hydrogen bomb.  

January 12, 2017  

U. S. and Korean special forces got the order to kill Kim.  

Murders technologies  

Regular  

Shooting, explosives or poison (cyanides, curare). Use a sniper or a "mouse" car (loaded with explosives and parked on the object’s route) if access to the object is impossible because of high security. Anyway, the murder is obvious and investigation is inevitable.  

General scheme.  

The best thing to do is to recruit or " install" somebody with access to the object’s security system and get information on his schedule (plus health and habits), places where he likes to relax. Try to gain access to his phone.  

Then prepare the plan and train three groups: surveillance (with optics and radios), action (includes snipers, explosives technicians or staged accidents specialists), and security (these people neutralize bodyguards, witnesses and other people who could interrupt the action; they complete the action if the action group fails; and they can neutralize the action group later, if planned so; they "cover" the safe retreat of action group and "cut" the chase).  

For some operations you can modify the ammunition to make it more deadly – hollow cuts in the tip of the bullets will cause the lead to fragment upon impact, making a huge exit hole. You reach same effect using bullets with a drop of mercury in a hollow tip and you can also coat bullets with arsenic or cyanide. Use depleted, non-radioactive uranium bullets (uranium is much heavier than lead – it can be used to make a bullet with a smaller slug and a larger portion of explosive). Teflon bullets are good because with Teflon’s antifriction characteristics they pierce bullet proof vests.  

Complex  

Staged accidents (suicides, catastrophes, drowning or fall, robbery or rape followed by murder, technical accident (fire, electricity, gas), drugs, weapons, poison, explosives misuse. Also, staged natural death (stroke, heart attack, chronic illness as a result of using special technical devices like irradiation).  

Mossad used my idea to kill Arafat.  

November 6, 2013  

Reuters. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's dead body.."We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination, " she told Reuters in Paris.  

MI6, British Secret Service used same technology to kill Litvinenko.  

On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko, a former FSB (Russian counterintelligence) officer was hospitalised in London in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 which resulted in his death on 23 November.  

CIA killed Hugo Chavez ( my method)  

Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, died of cancer on March 5, 2013. Chávez was poisoned ( infected) with a cancer virus.  

Trump wanted me to kill Obama (https://yapishu. net/book/54276), now we have his first official order to kill another leader. I can kill the #1 U. S. enemy as I worked for the 9th KGB Department (the Soviet leaders security). As far as I know Kim's security system is just a copy.  

This instruction was written in 1996 for CIA.  

Attention: TRUIMP ADMITTED HE MET PUTIN (Michael Savage's radio show, 2015)  

Audio: https://clyp. it/ijpsirbw  

Episode 2. HOW PUTIN RECRUITED TRUMP  

HOW AND WHY PUTIN RECRUITED TRUMP AS A SECRET SOURCE (technology)  

WHEN RUSSIAN INTEL. (SVR) PAID ATTENTION TO TRUMP  

September, 2008, New York  

Trump had a presentation of his book"Think Big" at "Barnes & Noble". Thousands of people were present – there was a ten blocks line. Why? First 100 people have been paid $100 cash, the rest – $50! Lot of police. I was there and I got my $50, it was a 1 hour operation. One more thing surprised me – about a 100 people in front of the store were holding "Trump for President! " posters and kept repeating same mantra.  

That was something unique and spies from Russian consulate informed their Moscow Center on the fact. Putin ordered to have a closer look at Trump.  

Before that, in 1987 Trump published a book "The Art of the Deal". Instead of regular promotion via media, he pretended to run for president. Trump went to New Hampshire, gave a couple of speeches, talked about the Reagan administration's failures and got a lot of attention...  

Now, let's look into official story and then I'll explain to you what happened.  

January 10, 2017  

Russian intelligence monitored Donald Trump engaging in "perverted sexual acts" during his stay in a luxury Moscow Ritz Carlton hotel in 2013. Trump made Russian prostitutes defile a bed where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed on a previous occasion. Trump travelled to Russia in 2013 when he hosted the Miss Universe pageant there. The Obamas traveled to Moscow in July 2009.  

The 35-page report, which said that the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in central Moscow was bugged by the FSB intelligence agency, also includes other accusations that Trump was coordinating with Russia. Russian officials, with the approval of President Vladimir Putin, have been "cultivating" Trump for five years, and that he received intelligence information on political opponents from them.  

Trump dismissed Russian hacking proof to maintain 'credibility'.  

Tuesday's allegations include that Page implied that a President Trump would lift sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration as relations weakened during the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea.  

A two-page summary of the allegations were presented to Trump and Obama on January 5, 2017 in meetings with four US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers. On the same day the top four Congressional leaders, and chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees -- the so-called "Gang of Eight" -- were also provided a summary of the memos regarding Mr. Trump, according to law enforcement, intelligence and administration sources. Some of the information stems from opposition research against Trump, and that the memos were compiled by a former British spy Chris Steele trusted by American intelligence.  

The former MI6 agent’s reported info on Trump was paid for by those supporting other Republicans, and then by those supporting Hillary Clinton. He now heads a private company gathering intelligence, but was reportedly stationed in Russia in the 1990s. On January 11, 2017 he disappeared being scared of Putin's revenge.  

There's one interesting thing – Steele was working in Moscow with the above mentioned Litvinenko, killed in accordance with my CIA instructions by MI6 agents in London. Was Steele involved? If he was, that, probably, means he was working for CIA. So, the whole operation to compromise Trump is CIA operation!  

Who ordered CIA to compromise Trump? Do you hear me, Mr Trump?  

FBI Director James Comey said that both Democratic and Republican groups were breached by Russian hackers. A report publicly released last week by the CIA, FBI and NSA said that the goal of leaking information from the Democrats was to influence the election and “undermine public faith in the U. S. democratic process” and to help Trump's chances on Nov. 8.  

One reason chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington.  

These senior intelligence officials also included the synopsis to demonstrate that Russia had compiled information potentially harmful to both political parties, but only released information damaging to Hillary Clinton and Democrats. The synopsis also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government, according to two national security officials.  

Same allegations about communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians, mentioned in classified briefings for congressional leaders last year, prompted then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to send a letter to FBI Director Comey in October, in which he wrote, "It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government -- a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States. "  

The Trump transition team declined repeated requests for comment.  

Some of the memos were circulating as far back as last summer. What has changed since then is that US intelligence agencies have now checked out the former British intelligence operative and his vast network throughout Europe and find him and his sources to be credible enough to include some of the information in the presentations to the President and President-elect a few days ago.  

The two-page summary was written without the detailed specifics and information about sources and methods included in the memos by the former British intelligence official. That said, the synopsis was considered so sensitive it was not included in the classified report about Russian hacking that was more widely distributed, but rather in an annex only shared at the most senior levels of the government: President Obama, the President-elect, and the eight Congressional leaders.  

On December 9, Senator John McCain gave a full copy of the memos -- dated from June through December, 2016 -- to FBI Director James Comey. McCain became aware of the memos from a former British diplomat who had been posted in Moscow. But the FBI had already been given a set of the memos compiled up to August 2016, when the former MI6 agent presented them to an FBI official in Rome, according to national security officials.  

The raw memos on which the synopsis is based were prepared by the former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s. His investigations related to Mr. Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents of Mr. Trump during the GOP primaries. Those sources also said that once Mr. Trump became the nominee, further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.  

The recruitment technology Putin used  

1. Russian SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) starts a file on any American citizen with big money and political connections who talks positive about President Putin.  

2. SVR file on Trump appeared in 2008 with the purpose of his recruitment and receiving political information from his multi[ple sources in the U. S. Congress and the White House.  

3. SVR officers under cover of the Russian Consulate diplomats met Trump in New York City in 2012-2013 and made him a very generous offer – he can get a green light to any projects in Russia in exchange for his spying for the Russian government. Trump refused the offer. that's why Putin ordered SVR Director Mikhail Fradkov to prepare a special operation, place Trump into a compromising sexual situation, blackmail him and recruit as a secret source.  

4. Prostitutes were SVR female officers – Trump was too big a target to trust the street hookers. They were instructed to play most pervert sexual games with Trump including a "golden shower", "brown shower" and "pig slave" – sorry I can't go into details, check porno sites and magazines for that, please.  

5. Miss Universe 2013, the 62nd Miss Universe pageant, was held on November, 9, 2013 at the Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, Russia. Trump came a week before and stayed at the Ritz Carlton. His Russian assistants recommended him the best Russian prostitutes ready to make him happy. Trump agreed and put himself in a trap.  

6. After the pageant was over, SVR officers met Trump at the hotel and left a tape and a phone number. He had no choice. They were back and he signed the regular agreement: "I, Donald Trump, agree to help SVR and improve Russian-American relations. I'll sign my confidential reports with the alias "__________". November 9, 2013".  

I think, his alias is "Tom" – Russians like when the first letter of the last name and the alias is the same.  

Donald Trump was recruit here by Russians.  

7. Trump is the SVR secret source since 2013. Putin met him in person and he understood that this guy might be "promoted" to the U. S. President. Putin ordered fantastic operation and the result was perfect – on November 8, 2016 Trump was elected the U. S. leader.  

8. Putin ordered Trump to do a very important job – to prepare the American-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty which has to exclude the possibility of the world war and keep Russia safe for at least Trump's two presidential terms.  

Putin is actually the U. S. President. Congratulations, Mr. Putin. I'm a former KGB spy too and I'm proud of you.  

Episode 3. TRUMP MAFIA RISING  

As a born killer, Trump is building his own mafia even before taking the Oval Office.  

January 9, 2017  

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump and one of his closest confidants, will join the White House as a senior adviser to the president, Trump announced Monday, while a lawyer assisting the family said that Kushner's wife, Ivanka Trump, will not immediately take on a formal role.  

Three most important positions are already taken:  

Don Trump, the U. S. President – Boss, "Godfather"  

Ivanka Trump, his daughter – Underboss  

Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and the U. S. senior advisor – Consigliere  

Jeff Sessions, the U. S. Attorney General – Capo  

Godfather and his capo Jeff Sessions  

Boss – Don Trump, the U. S. President, the head of the family, a dictator, "Godfather". He receives a cut of every operation taken on by every member of his family and the region's occupying family.  

Underboss – Ivanka Trump, usually appointed by the boss, is the second in command of the family. The underboss runs the day-to-day responsibilities of the family or oversees its most lucrative rackets. He usually gets a percentage of the family's income from the boss's cut. The underboss is first in line to become acting boss if the boss is imprisoned, and is also seen as a logical successor.  

Consigliere – Jared Kushner, Don's son-in-law an advisor to the family, the boss's "right-hand man". Kushner is used as a mediator of disputes and acts as a representative or aide for the family in meetings with other families, rival criminal organizations, and important business associates. Consigliere is the third ranking member of the administration of a family, carries the utmost respect of the family and is deeply familiar with the inner-workings of the organization.  

Caporegime (or capo) – Jeff Sessions, the U. S. Attorney General. A caporegime (also captain or skipper) is in charge of a crew, a group of soldiers who report directly to him. Sessions was appointed by the Don and reports to him or the underboss Ivanka.  

Soldiers – FBI Director and his crew of killers, CIA Director and his crew, the U. S. Secret Service Director and his crew. Soldiers are the main workers of the family, usually committing crimes like assault, murder, extortion, intimidation, etc. In return, they are given profitable rackets to run by their superiors and have full access to their family's connections and power.  

Associate is not a member of the Don's mafia, but works for a crime family nonetheless. Associates can include a wide range of people who work for the family.  

Whom they are going to kill this year?  

Kim Jong-Un (see above), an immediate threat to the U. S. national security  

Xi Jinping, the President of China, an immediate threat to the U. S. corporations  

Maxine Waters, the U. S. Congresswoman, Trump's personal enemy who said MSNBC on December 27, 2016: "I don't trust him, I don't believe him, I have no intentions of sitting down with him; I'm going to fight him every inch of the way".  

What else?  

NO MATTER HOW "OBAMACARE" REPLACED, UNDERBOSS IVANKA, FINANCIAL GENIUS, SENDS MONEY TO THE FAMIGLIA.  

This is huge – around $3 billion estimate. Make no mistake – whatever reform Trump starts, if it's about the federal budget, money flows through other companies straight to Godfather. That's why mafia comes to power. Godfather and his underboss are going to steal billions in 2018 after they figure out the "replacement" scheme ( a so-called"reform") in 2017. Next two years, 2019 and 2020 are already stored for Ivanka presidential campaign. In 2020 she takes the Oval Office and substitute the Godfather as the most powerful Godmother in the modern crime world.  

Clear?  

BONUS  

HOW RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE RECRUIT AND WORK WITH THE SECRET SOURCES, INCLUDING TRUMP  

ESPIONAGE MANAGEMENT  

My instructions used by KGB and CIA, 1996.  

Spy Code  

1. No mercy, no ideology, no emotions.  

2. Intuition is nothing but the ability to watch and analyze.  

3. No evidence is evidence in itself.  

4. Distrust is a mother of security.  

5. Never look as if you are sizing up the person – that’s a sign that gives away cops and spies.  

6. Don’t start first if you don’t know the rules.  

7. The way you act is the way you think – behavior is a system of codes (information) which could be calculated by the enemy. Watch your face – that’s a shop window.  

8. Think fast, talk slow.  

9. Avoid self-programming and never think bad about yourself.  

10. Don’t smoke, drink or take drugs if it’s not necessary; spare your stomach from very hot or cold food or drinks; avoid too much noise and light.  

11. Don’t be shy to lie – the more you lie the more people respect you.  

12. Let people talk out and “empty their brains” – then load your information.  

13. People never change – everybody wants to get pleasure and avoid pain.  

14. “He knew too much” means “He talked too much. ”  

15. Never ask extra questions – wait. Wait and the object will get used to you and open himself – nobody can stay tense for long.  

16. Lonely people live longer in espionage business.  

17. “No exit” situation is the one you don’t like or don’t understand.  

18. Avoid:  

– personal enemies (they fix negative information on you)  

– silent types (they notice and think too much)  

– other professionals (they’ll blow your identity)  

– extra stress (it damages your heart and blood vessels and that kills your brain and your ability to think )  

– talking too much  

19. The best weapon against your enemy is his enemy.  

20. “I want nothing” means “I want everything”.  

21. Small lie gives birth to a big suspicion.  

How to run the assets  

You can get tons of information through technical devices but no device can influence decisions made by leaders of other countries. That’s why for thousands of years to come, a reliable agent will be the top tool of any special service, and their actual names have to be kept secret forever, please. A VIP agent (a top government employee) is a very rare thing and depends hugely on luck, because he can make or influence big political decisions. If he has access to the Oval Office, he can change the President’s plans and strategy, and can sabotage political, economic or military actions. When major presidential initiatives fail, time after time, one might wonder who is sabotaging whom.  

The most important thing a secret source can get is a reliable information on any possible attempt on the US President’s life, or concerning a decision of a foreign government to start a war against the United States. A professional agent is actually is both an instrument (to get information) and a weapon (to influence or neutralize people).  

Categories:  

A. "Garbage" (60%), the "no trust " category.  

Recruitment is #1 priority for the officer and a part of his working plan and very often he has to recruit people who are not born agents. You can work with a nice guy, teach him, pay him, press him — and he still avoids any cooperation (busy, sick, on vacation, etc. ). It’s hard to get rid of him because, first, you have to explain to your superiors why you recruited garbage and second, there’s a rule: if you want to be very smart and innovative, a reformer, who came here to start intelligence revolution and get rid of a passive agent, recruit an active one first. Also, agents who work under pressure (blackmail) sooner or later slide into this category.  

B. Good agents (30%), middle category. They adhere to the rules of discipline and keep the schedule (that’s very important even if there’s no information), deliver a lot of information that you have to verify through other sources, but don’t show much initiative. Used for regular espionage: go and talk to the object, copy documents, make a recording, take pictures, listen, watch. You can trust them and check often, anyway.  

C. Born agents (10%). You are very lucky if you can recruit such people. They betray their country with pleasure and sometimes do not even ask for money because it’s in their character — they are looking for adventure or are not happy with their personal or professional life and seek improvement or revenge. They take risks, have good analytical abilities, good education, make (VIP) connections easily, "crack" any object, play the "good guy" whom you can trust. Sometimes they come to you as volunteers, and if they bring valuable stuff – recruit them  

Special category. Women.  

Women are a special category here, as elsewhere, and the rule is: if you can’t recruit a real agent, you recruit a woman. It’s not professional to recruit a woman for a serious operation, but if you want to get to an important object, a woman can introduce you. OK, you can recruit a US Senator’s secretary or a typist from the Pentagon, but it will be on your conscience if she gets caught. Such cases entail a life sentence, usually — how would you feel? Besides, women often fall in love with their objects and tell them everything. Finally, a married woman is much bigger problem than a married man.  

Recruitment  

Recruit a small number of well-informed people. Do not recruit:  

– psychos  

– volunteers (unless it’s a "mole" or other government employee who brings you top secret information right away. In a counter-intelligence set-up, a "volunteer" will try to get information about you, telling the minimum about himself. )  

– persons with low educational and intellectual level  

– people under 30 or over 70, unless it’s a VIP. (Did someone get Jim Baker? Dick Cheney? )  

– mafia members  

– people who are happy with their lives and careers  

The best formula when you recruit is a mix of money and ideology (brainwashing). It’s not necessary to sign recruitment obligations — people take that as a blackmail tool. It’s enough if the fellow brings a good piece of information and get paid (make a video, anyway).  

I don’t recommend to use blackmail, but sometimes it’s necessary of the object is too stubborn.  

Blackmail methods include:  

1. Leaking "dirt" on the object through media (it’s very good if he’s married and you can get him having dirty sex with prostitutes).  

2. Creating problems in his personal life and career.  

3. Placing weapons, drugs, secret documents in object’s house or office, followed by search and arrest.  

4. Accusations of rape (robbery) – use hookers for that.  

6. Blackmail by pressing family members. Careful, object may commit suicide after intense blackmail, especially if he is an intellectual.  

Recruitment Pyramid  

Priority recruitment candidates in the USA:  

President  

The White House staff  

The Cabinet and federal agencies  

The US Congress  

Big corporations (Trump)  

Big scientific institutions  

Local politicians  

VIP world (celebrities – big media, show biz, big sport)  

Candidates for recruitment  

1. All spies who work in the USA under legal "cover" as diplomats, reporters, scientists, businessmen, actors, artists, musicians, sportsmen have the legal right to make and develop any contacts and invite people to private parties; then they "transfer" these contacts to professional recruiters. Any embassy can invite any politician to official and private parties and "work" with him there. Besides, all those people can invite prospective candidates to their countries or to other country to develop the contact; it’s much easier to recruit abroad. And remember, any contact, any talk, any piece of biography is already information.  

2. You can get information about candidates through other agents and through the media.  

3. It’s useful to install listening devices in the government buildings or listen to the phones, and collect compromising information on politicians. I recommend listening to the phones all over the city, if it’s the capital of the country.  

"Golden" rules.  

1. Do not tell the agent about problems and mistakes of the agency, about your personal problems, about other agents, about his own file and compromising information you have on him.  

2. Don’t show him any classified documents – you might provoke him to sell the information to somebody else.  

3. Don’t trust your agents too much; they can use you to compromise their personal enemies.  

4. Never criticize the source – be an adviser. Don’t talk straight if he avoids cooperation or brings you garbage – just reduce or stop payments, or get rid of him.  

5. You lose the agent if you don’t pay him for a job well done, ask him to "produce" fake information (to show your bosses how much great espionage activity you have going on) or if you don’t care about his personal security and his personal problems (health, career). And — never give poison to your agent for security reasons.  

Questioning the source  

This is of extreme importance – the right question brings you the right answer and top secret info. Give your agent a chance to tell and show you everything he’s brought, no matter how chaotic the story might be or how ordinary the documents look. Don’t make written notices. Don’t bring written questions even if you are talking about some advanced technology — look and be professional. Don’t let the agent analyze the information before he talks to you and don’t let him bring it in a written form – it’s usually not complete; he can lose it; or it may be stolen from him. If there are documents, he has to bring a microfilm. Ask questions — when? where? what happened? why? what’s going to happen next?  

After that you tell the story back to him and he adds details. At the end of the meeting give the agent another task and don’t ask him to bring you "something, " because he’ll bring you just that "something" and nothing else.  

Remember, questioning is not interrogation; do not bring another officer to the meeting because it will look like cross interrogation.  

Teaching the source  

Teach your agent to:  

– follow security rules while talking to people, working with the documents and especially meeting the officer (some foreign agencies practice open contacts with many people, hoping that the meeting with the agent won’t attract much attention — I don’t recommend that)  

– always stay calm in stressful situations  

– always keep discipline and come in time  

– use analytic abilities working with people and documents – ask yourself as many questions as you can  

Checking the source  

You can never be sure you are not working with a "double agent, " even if he brings you top secret stuff. Besides, agents are human beings and they make mistakes — they forget about security, spend too much money, talk too much and ask extra questions; if arrested they may not play the hero but will tell everything. Anyway, you can check your source:  

a. by fake arrest followed by severe interrogation.  

b. through provocation (tell him you know about his "double game" and watch his behavior after the meeting (it’s good to have a listening device or a camera in his house).  

c. by making an analysis of all the information and documents he delivers and comparing it with information from other sources.  

d. through other agents.  

e. through your "mole" in counter-intelligence (if you’re lucky).  

f. through technical devices (reading the mail, listening to the phone, secret searching his house and office, watching him through hidden cameras, trying surveillance in the street).  

Agent termination (one-way ticket)  

It doesn’t happen often but you have to know some special situations when you have to terminate the agent:  

1. He knows too much (talks too much) and is ready to betray you.  

2. VIP agent (politician) is under suspicion and you can’t help him for political reasons (diplomatic, international scandal, etc. ) — in such a case an accident could be staged. It happens that the agent is too close to President.  

3. Agent was involved in special operations (murders) and is dangerous as a witness.  

4. Agent is trying to blackmail you.  

5. You need to press (blackmail) other agents.  

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HILLARY CLINTON HELPED ME A LOT. I'M SORRY FOR WHAT I DID.  

She knows what I''m talking about – I refused to kill Bill Clinton, but that's another story.  

Episode 4. CNN GOT MY STORY – GUYS, YOU WANT ME TO KILL TRUMP?  

How much, CNN? I can call CIA Director Brennan, get the silenced gun and a ticket to the event and... the rest is my business. But it's not less then $ 10 million,  

January 18, 2017  

Broadcast of CNN’s The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer aired a segment with a chyron featuring the headline “Developing Now. ” During that “developing” segment, Blitzer and correspondent Brian Todd discussed what would happen if the unthinkable occurred on January 20.  

Blitzer introduced the segment, saying, “What if an incoming president and his immediate successors were wiped out on day one? ” and from there, CNN contributor Brian Todd took over to outline the line of succession if an attack blew up the inaugural dais, killing both Trump and Pence.  

The upshot was that in the case of both heads of state being killed, the Secretary of State would take over. Currently that man is Secretary of State John Kerry, But in case some objected because his office would also end as of noon on Inauguration Day, then it would be the Speaker of the House — Republican Paul Ryan — or even Obama’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs Tom Shannon.  

The report also noted that the designated survivor appointed by the Obama administration could also become president in the case of a disaster. So, in CNN’s analysis, most of the people who would take over in the worst-case scenario would keep the Obama administration in power, at least indirectly.  

Look, I'm invited to watch and listen to the U. S. Vice President Mike Pence and do to him anything I want.  

January 21, 2017  

Mikhail Kryzhanovsky,  

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On Saturday, March 11th in Washington, DC, we’re gathering together the leading conservative minds in the country to discuss how we can truly free ourselves from ObamaCare. But perhaps even more importantly, we’ll be talking about how we’re taking our country back.  

Invited speakers include Vice President Mike Pence, Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Congressmen Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan!  

Adam Brandon  

President & CEO, FreedomWorks  

Episode 5. Trump stole my instructions on how to win 2016  

Written for President Clinton in 1996 (CIA request).  

For more info ask Brennan, Comey or Trump's CIA chief nominee, as of 01. 22. 2017, Mike Pompeo  

Stolen in 2012 by anti-Hillary Wikileaks’ chief Julian Assange – see https://wikileaks. org/gifiles/docs/51/5127100_-analytical-and-intelligence-comments-the-professional. html  

Used by Trump to win presidential elections 2016 and rule America and the world.  

Contact: kryzhanovsky77@gmail. com, NYC  

CONTENTS  

Chapter 1. How to win presidential elections.  

Chapter 2. The White House management.  

Chapter 3. Congress management.  

Chapter 4. Foreign policy.  

Chapter 5. Espionage management.  

Chapter 6. Counterespionage management.  

Chapter 7. Military management.  

CHAPTER 1. HOW TO WIN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS  

1. 1 Get Ready  

Before you make a decision to run for President, you must determine for yourself if you can handle the Oval Office: Are you willing to accept such a huge responsibility and put the rest of your life on hold? Are you skilled in dealing with big groups of people? Can you motivate the nation to action? And repair about your biography, which is, of course, not perfect.  

Then you must:  

1. Decide how are you going to impress party leaders.  

2. Make intensive preliminary polling to determine your chances.  

3. Poll big demographic groups as well as smaller groups of people from selected demographic groups.  

4. Determine the rationale for your candidacy. What is your political record?  

5. Delay announcing your candidacy until late in the year before the election to minimize expenditures and risk, avoid legal spending limits, avoid voter fatigue, avoid getting ensnarled in unnecessary controversies and contradictions.  

6. Carefully study applicable election laws before you start fundraising and spending.  

7. Write your campaign plan (strategic objective, tactical targets, key message, target audiences, methods of delivery, timing, your progress evaluation — polls).  

8. Learn the political and economic issues and develop your campaign message.  

9. Prepare the “speech” and the “book” (the “speech” is the standard speech that you deliver and it should answer the most important question — why are you running for President; the “book” contains the message and all possible questions on your program.  

10. Take a benchmark poll – it will provide the road map for your campaign.  

11. Establish your strategy and message  

12. Study the results, polls and “successful” areas of previous election.  

13. Establish a perfect graphic look (image).  

14. Develop a fundraising plan, put the fundraising team in place and start asking for money. No money – no campaign.  

15. Create a personal contacts pyramid (priority and general contacts) because personal popularity is your starting point.  

16. Set up offices.  

17. Get professional candidate training.  

18. Determine the focus of your presidential policy (taxes, crime, education, health, social security, national security).  

1. 2 Working with the Staff  

Basic campaign staffers include:  

1) campaign managers — they plan the campaign, organize and recruit the staff, supervise daily campaign operations, make priority contacts with key special groups big business and big media, correct the strategy and make quick decisions. It has to be someone you trust completely.  

2) campaign consultants-specialists in both direct (personal and public meetings) and indirect (media, advertising) campaigning  

3) strategists  

4) analysts  

5) issues researchers  

6) speechwriters  

7) lawyer (interprets election and campaign reporting laws)  

8) personal assistants (work on issues in foreign and domestic policy in cooperation with the whole team).  

9) fundraisers (plan and execute fundraising events — dinners, parties, auctions, direct appeals through telephone and letters, receptions, computerized fundraising). Big business has to be approached by rich fundraiser only.  

10) scheduler (determines events and locations — TV and radio talk shows, news — conferences, meetings with students and professors at college campuses and with professionals at their associations’ annual meetings, special events and fundraisers especially with ethnic leaders in big cities, as well as festivals and big shows where celebrities demonstrate their support, large extravaganzas, meetings at civic clubs, farm warehouse auctions and special auctions, local civic events. Also, scheduler makes arrangements with local media before your visit and sends media the copies of your speech; insures that good crowd will attend the event and takes care of transportation arrangements). The purpose of the campaign planning and strategic scheduling is to draw press attention to the candidate for transmission to the voting public. That’s natural — the candidate who has enough media attention has much better chances of recruiting public acceptance and raising campaign funds.  

11) image makers – political consultants who sell your public image as a clear, simple, portrait-like characterization, acceptable to all groups.  

12) “hit men” – campaign consultants who are experts on negative advertising, designed to “kill” your opponents.  

13) field staff (in target cities mostly). The most important person at any local office is the coordinator — he establishes organization and contacts influential people and political activists. Coordinators must be appointed to each special interests group (women, minorities, unions, college students, public interest activists, the professionals)  

14) local volunteers are needed to work in the offices and the streets. Your family has to take an active part in your campaign, too. Your wife and kids are your visual image makers  

15) running mate  

During the “invisible primary” which is the nomination, campaign you have to make visits to party organizations especially in pivotal states, such as the above mentioned Iowa and New Hampshire where you have to make as many handshaking and personal contacts as possible. Key staffers must travel with you.  

1. 3 Fundraising  

You are the #1 fundraiser yourself. You must have substantial financial support to compete. You must have an overall plan which outlines expenditures month by month. It is imperative to have even more money on hand at the end of the campaign for an advertising blitz when the voters are most attentive and the field of candidates has been winnowed out. Half of a campaign funds go to media.  

Failing to do well in early caucus and primary contests means more than losing delegates — it means that contributions stop.  

Your speeches have to be a fun, and match the meal and drinks — don’t be heavy and too political. Actually, you have to run two campaigns (a political campaign and a fund-raising one) and you must win both; if you raise less money than your opponent, you lose, because you don’t have enough money to inform, influence, and motivate your voters. If you are a Senator or a Congressman, you already have an advantage in money (free postage on mail sent to your constituents, automatic media coverage) and you can use your congressional staff to assist your campaign. Besides, you are interviewed by reporters for free as an elected official. You can also ask your political party for a contribution to your campaign. Party money can be given in two ways – as a “direct” contribution or as a “coordinated” expenditure. Direct contributions are funds given by the party to candidates to do with as they please. Coordinated expenditures are made for such services as polling and TV advertising, but the party has a say how the money is spent.  

Then you have to ask PACs (political action committees) to fund your campaign, too. PACs are special-interest groups which consist of people who pool their money in order to contribute it to candidates or political party committees who share their political, social, religious or economic views. PACs include corporations, trade unions, profe hire.  

To finish well in pre-nomination popularity contests (“straw polls”) you have to appear daily in TV ads, and prime-time news coverage — after the primaries media “label” winners and losers and that affects voters and contributors a lot. Media, especially the most influential “the New York Times” and “Washington Post” (their publications influence decisions on which news stories will be carried on TV channels), have to take you as a very serious contender.  

The key rules in fundraising are:  

– find some “fat cats, ” quick  

– get fundraisers with lots of rich friends  

– get money from those who usually contribute  

– go to new York, Florida, California, Texas  

And the most important strategy is to raise big money for yourself and prevent big money from being spent against you. Early fundraising is crucial to a campaign because of the high costs organization and the need to demonstrate viability. The best states for fundraising are California, New York, Florida, Texas, which supply half of all campaign donations. Go right ahead and raise money in New York and spend in Iowa and New Hampshire.  

1. 4 “Winning” geography  

Due to the winner-take-all electoral college system, in which the leading vote-getter in a state wins all of that state’s electoral votes, you MUST win as many large states as possible rather than build up strength in states where you are weak. You have to win a majority (270 of the 538 electoral votes) and for that, concentrate on visits to the most populous states — California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Georgia 54+33+32+25+23+22+21+18+15+14+13 = 270).  

Work closely with your party activists and supporters among Senators, Representatives, Governors, Mayors, ethnic and religious groups leaders, big business, celebrities, unions leaders. Determine the states in which you are the strongest and then build you campaign on that basis. Republicans have usually done well in recent years in the Midwest, West and South (Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma). Democrats win in the Northeast industrial base, Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Coast. New York City is a very important factor because the most active, influential and rich people live there.  

1. 5 The Press  

The press officer (contacts media, takes care of newspapers, radio and TV ads) — the person who markets you — is the boss of advance team that takes care in each state of a total exclusively positive press coverage. To my mind, the best choice for this position is a former journalist with good wide connections to media. He prepares press releases and press kits and schedules interviews and press conferences with the positive vision and attitude reporters (press or media kits contain your photos, a brief biography, campaign position papers, printed brochures and names of contacts for additional information).  

The technique in good paid advertising is to go with those ideas, arguments, thoughts, themes and believes in which people are already inclined to believe or ready to accept. There’s no difference between commercial and political advertising — you just substitute a car or shampoo for a human being. Modern presidential campaigns center on “media events” — staged public appearances, during which reporters can talk with you and take pictures (if you have too much money, you can organize media wave — a very large amount of political advertising on TV). Then, the “walking tours” must be scheduled when you, followed by reporters, photographers and TV crews visit potential supporters.  

Simultaneously your aide sets up press conferences, selects interviews, and background briefings. You have to talk to press 24/7 and everywhere on the campaign bus, train or plain, hotel, etc. A good thing is — you get free media coverage and people trust it more than paid coverage, like TV and radio commercials.  

You win if you obey these rules:  

– if you can manipulate media – you manipulate the nation (sorry, it’s harder to manipulate free coverage).  

– the media makes the election, not the voters  

– a presidential campaign does not allow for privacy  

– newspapers put emphasis on issues, TV on image, style and ability to communicate.  

– never lie to reporters; they will make sure it backfires on you sooner or later.  

– if an influential newspaper, radio or TV station endorses you, you have their supporters, readers, listeners and viewers.  

– people remember much better what they see, not what they read; if they don’t see you on TV, you don’t exist.  

– TV talks to 98% of Americans and takes your message — and other messages about, or against, you – immediately, straight to the nation.  

– TV, not your political party, is the #1 channel of communication between you and the public  

– your political party is nothing but a service center and a money machine. Parties divide the nation while your message has to be one of unity.  

– take it seriously if The New York Times takes your opponent seriously.  

– it’s important to know what your opponent is saying to reporters privately, “not for attribution. ”  

– if you live in heavily populated state, like New York, California or Texas, you start the presidential election campaign with much better coverage.  

– never fight the media like the Nixon administration did – they kept a list of Nixon’s critics (famous reporters), so they could be targeted for harassment, accused of income tax evasion, etc. What happened then? The reporters felt like heroes, Nobel Prize winners. Better target them for buttering up, and feed them lots of stories with a spin in your favor, instead.  

1. 6 Polls  

Pollsters works through newspapers, Internet, telephone surveys, person-to-person surveys, mailed questionnaire to selected voters. They provide voters' behavior research and analyze past election data. They tell to you how well-known you are, how well you perform, what are the voters’ preferences. You should poll voters in each state in proportion to that state’s share of the national vote. (You must have at least one polling company on payroll. ) Polling is of extreme importance in presidential campaign because it’s the tool to correct your strategy, determine “positive” local areas and supportive voters and work with them, it tests the nation’s attitude to your personality and your issues and that means you can calibrate your message and calculate your success. The most important thing about polls is that they play indicator and identify support or hostility. And the golden rule here is: you have to ask the right question if you want to get a useful answer.  

At the same time polling is one of the most expensive elements of a modern campaign because now you have to receive information on too many groups and issues, including groups with specific economic, ethnic, religious, geographic, educational, occupational and residential characteristics and how those characteristics affect attitudes about a wide range of policy issues.  

Polls also help you:  

– to decide whether to run or not  

– improve your recognition and image  

– target opposition’s weakness  

– formulate media ads  

Your pollster has to pinpoint blocks of voters (swing districts) who are undecided and who might be persuaded to vote for you. Experience shows that 40% of public attention go to social problems, 40% — to economy and 20% — to international matters, but if the United States is at war, the situation is different and national security turns into a top priority for everyone. And watch out for campaign spies — keep polls analysis and media plan secret.  

Practical polls:  

“Benchmark” – surveys of the whole nation which provide basic information about your chances and the nation’s political preferences (it’s your “presidential decision maker”).  

“Follow-up” – surveys are used to gather more data about particular concerns raised in initial benchmark surveys. They are conducted state by state and are used in planning campaign strategy.  

“Panel” – surveys are used to refine strategy further by re-interviewing previous respondents to determine opinion shifts on specific issues within various demographic categories. They are supplemented by continuous “tracking polls” that measure fluctuations in general voter support for the candidate across time.  

“Special group” – used to poll the debate results. Selected groups of voters watch candidate debates and register their “positive “ or “negative” feelings toward the candidate’s specific statements or actions. After that analysts tabulate and analyze the reactions of the whole groups.  

1. 7 Campaign Golden Tips  

Never behave as if you think you are God’s gift to the nation.  

Be presidential – look calm, sincere, knowledgeable and open Mother of the nation.  

Be electable – prove to the nation that you are the best choice.  

No one has ever been elected the US President without winning the New Hampshire primary.  

Primaries direct financial backers to a promising candidate.  

Voters judge you by your friends – appear with popular politicians, big business, labor and interest groups leaders, and show business celebrities. Advertize your meetings with Congress members and world leaders (go abroad if you have a chance to meet a world leader).  

The most important event in the election process is the National Convention, not only because the eventual finalist candidate is actually nominated but because after that the campaign’s audience increases (more than twice as many people vote in general elections as participate in the nomination process). You have to decide how to win the support of these new voters as well as to appeal to people who identify with the other party and partisans who backed losing candidates for the nomination.  

1. 8 Choosing a strategy  

Any strategy is good if it helps you to win support of a majority of people chosen by the state parties to be delegates to the national convention. Your choice of a strategy depends on your current position:  

A. If you are an incumbent, you have to stress that the American people’s life improved a lot during your first term. You can count on successful start because you are guaranteed to be known actually to every American, and the Oval Office lends you credibility and respect. It’s of vital importance to have economic accomplishments — in such a case well-timed announcements of government statistics on the economy or of plans for domestic initiatives can also help you. Listen, I didn’t tell you this, but you have to manipulate (stimulate) the economy during the election year with tax cuts that can help reduce unemployment, and with social programs financing.  

Of course, you’ll have to pay for it, but that will happen after you are re-elected.  

And a good thing is – an improved economy erases voters’ bad memories of past years.  

Try to avoid too aggressive campaigning – it’s a sign of weakness. Make official appearances in carefully controlled settings. Influence media coverage with official presidential actions and use “pork barrel” politics to appeal to specific constituents. You can also benefit from the nation’s reluctance to reject a tested national leader for an unknown newcomer. And if you start important foreign policy initiatives, it will guarantee you continued media coverage.  

If you have poor chances to be re-elected, you can play the “national security” card:  

– find a US “enemy”  

– start a media psychosis (see propaganda tricks and brainwashing )  

– concentrate power (special services) to establish a total legal control on the nation  

– provoke an international conflict, restricted or full-scale war  

– send a message: “If you are against the President, you are against America! ”  

B. If you are a challenger you have to convince the public they don’t live better than they did 4 years ago, or, if the economy is OK, point out mistakes that were made in the foreign policy. Or make up some social issue that will get passions inflamed and hijack the headlines.  

KRYZHANOVSKY ”GOLDEN” STRATEGY  

You should seek to position yourself as close to the opposing candidate as possible in an effort to capture the “median voter” in the center, and then take by default everyone else on their side of the ideological spectrum. You have to embrace this strategy and move as close as you can to the moderate Republican position with the expectation that you can take all of the votes to the left of this position. Clear?  

The job is tough if you challenge a President who is popular — first, you have to break down his positive image; second, you have to portray yourself as a much better replacement. You have no choice but to start with the “outsider” strategy — you present a “fresh face” to voters weary of the current political situation (in such a case you have to attack administration in a very aggressive manner). Plus, you must give quick response to your opponent’s charges (get advance copies of his speeches through friends in the media).  

Then, show yourself as a smart and diplomatic person using a special “triangular” strategy, when you, like majority of the voters, place yourself between liberal and conservative positions. Evaluate situation – you may need “early knockout, ” when front-runners hope to use their early strength in polls, fundraising and endorsements into decisive primary victories at the beginning of the primary season. The hope is that the candidate will build such an impressive early lead that the competition quickly drops out.  

A “shift” is the most popular thing with challengers – if the President is good with national security, they point out to the problems in economy, if he’s good on the economy, they point out to the problems in national security – very simple. (Watch his mistakes anyway – you can benefit from them. Bill Clinton would never have run for President in 1992 if someone from the Bush White House hadn’t called him in 1990 and asked him not to run. That phone call was one of the most stupid political moves of the 20th century, because it convinced Clinton that they thought he had a good chance to win.  

Be simple, identify with “ordinary people” and no matter what tell the voters your parents or your grandparents “were like them – regular people, not millionaires. ”  

1. 9 "Black" PR  

You must know some very popular and efficient dirty tricks, like “negative campaigning” or “black" PR. To make a long story short: no matter what your opponent says or what decent people think about negative campaigning — “black PR” works! Use it to turn a rumor or a fact into a serious political scandal; respond to and neutralize the opponent’s attacks (using “black PR”) fast, before they are broadcasted or published.  

It works best through intermediates (persons and organizations not connected directly to your campaign). You must have a very detailed file on your opponent (negative research) and then start spreading negative and all kinds of compromising data from his personal and political life. If he is or was elected official (Senator, Governor, Mayor), you can point out his mistakes and actions which were not popular. People must know in detail (get your staff to read a few books) the negative sides of his life, program and terrible consequences of his election. Remember also that a rumor repeated twice turns into a fact, especially if you start a “whispering campaign” in Congress.  

A “negative ID” trick is my favorite: you identify your opponent with a totally unacceptable (for the voters) viewpoint, like: “There are those who want to stop the war on international terror and you know who they are! ”  

1. 10 Attention : debates!  

Debates are extremely important because they offer the only all-national event at which candidates can be judged. You and your opponent will be under huge stress as you both must operate simultaneously at the focus of attention of each other and of all elements of electorate. Debates are, actually, head-to-head confrontations with two main aspects: the pre-debate negotiations over whether there will be a debate, and the post-debate analysis of who did how well. The debates offer nothing new for the public and the basic strategy is to hope your opponent will make a mistake (President Ford made one in 1976, saying that: “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. ” People just didn’t want to hear it. Richard Nixon was very wrong in 1960 trying to debate on substance, while his opponent, John F. Kennedy, concentrated on style and on presenting the correct presidential image).  

While preparing for the winning debates you must:  

– have a detailed file on your opponent and study all his speeches and statements; ask yourself: “What does he have that  

that I don’t have? ”  

– train to answer all possible questions  

– be ready to demonstrate deep knowledge of issues and your presidential bearing to a nationwide audience  

– repeat your message but keep in mind that image is more important than ideas while you debate — people want to see your good looks, good clothes and nice smile.  

And here are the debating “Don’ts”:  

Don’t attack first — that’s a sign of weakness.  

Don’t be over-polite — a little showmanship appeals to voters.  

Don’t be too aggressive — it will ruin your image as a future President.  

Don’t answer the questions too fast — that implies you are not thinking.  

Don’t rush, no negative emotions, no sudden gestures (extra gestures mean that you are not sure what you are saying is correct).  

Don’t disappoint people — speak in a clear and simple way.  

And you restrict your influence if you sit.  

Follow the rules :  

No anxiety reactions – speech errors, moistening of lips, perspiring, shifting eye movements, body jerks. Gesturing with fingers apart communicates weakness, while gesturing with fingers tightly together communicates power.  

Look at your opponent with intense concentration – it gives the attitude of command and comfort of the situation.  

Answer a question you want to answer, no matter what question was asked.  

If you give better answers, you are the better candidate.  

Immediately after the debates your press officer has to give the media his biased impression and explain why you won the debates. Your pollster has to watch the polls results.  

Tricks  

1. Intruding into an opponent’s physical space.  

Attempted by: Al Gore, 2000  

Result: Failure  

When Al Gore tried it in a rehearsal debate, his advisors cautioned against it. It looked awkward. It could come off as too aggressive. The risk was simply too great.  

Al Gore decided to do it anyway: The vice president, all stocky 6’3” of him, was going to attempt to physically intimidate George W. Bush.  

It was the last in a series of unforced errors Gore made in the debates of 2000 (the audible sighs, the pronounced eye-rolling while Bush spoke). Roughly ten minutes into the third and final debate, a townhall-style affair, Gore sloughed off his stool, a scornful look on his face as he saddled up to Bush’s side while the Texas governor spoke.  

Bush responded not with surprise or fright, but with a quizzical look and an offhand nod of acknowledgment, turning back to the audience as the crowd laughed and he continued on with his spiel. Gore’s would-be power move had exactly the opposite effect: instead of looking dominant and in-charge, he seemed awkward and inauthentic.  

2: Keeping your opponent in the shot, unaware  

Attempted by: Bill Clinton, 1992  

Result: Success  

We take it for granted now, but the townhall debate is a relatively recent addition to the menu of presidential debate formats. It made its debut in 1992, its structure reflecting the style of the daytime talkshows that dominated the era’s airwaves: Donahue, Sally and Oprah.  

Bill Clinton’s campaign lobbied to get the townhall format included in the 1992 fall debate lineup. Looking back, it’s easy to see why: the format plays well to his strengths, providing an opportunity to underline his natural charisma and easy folksiness.  

It also created an opportunity for a very media-savvy campaign. Ahead of the debate, Clinton and his team carefully choreographed the candidate’s movement around the stage, working with producers to understand the camera placement. Clinton campaign wanted to “keep one or the other of his competitors in the camera shot at all times, a maneuver that circumvented the prohibition on cutaway [shots] of one candidate while another was speaking. ”  

The result was that whenever Clinton was in shot while Bush or Perot spoke, he made sure to look stoic and thoughtful. Perot and Bush, on the other hand, were often caught unawares in the background of Clinton shots, including this oddly checked-out moment from the incumbent—underscoring the difference with the more telegenic Clinton.  

3: Swapping out the debate’s stools.  

Attempted by: Bill Clinton, 1992  

Result: Success  

In that same debate, one reason Clinton looked so at-home on stage is because the candidates were actually using the exact same stools that Clinton had rehearsed on. Reportedly, the Clinton campaign switched them onto the set without the permission of the debate’s hosts—and without anyone noticing. Paul Begala, a senior advisor to the campaign, later explained their rationale: “We wanted Gov. Bill Clinton to be completely at ease in his surroundings, right down to his butt. ”  

It worked. The stools were far too tall for diminutive billionaire Ross Perot, who uncomfortably leaned against his chair for much of the debate. And while the chairs were the right height for Bush, the president often looked unsure of how to perch on a bar chair while looking confident and presidential.  

4. Holding on to a handshake for too long  

Attempted by: George H. W. Bush, 1988  

Result: Success  

In 1988, at his debates with Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, George H. W. Bush shook the governor’s hand for an unusually long time. Ever since, it’s been the source of speculation: was the long handshake an intentional move by Bush, meant to emphasize how taller he was than Dukakis, or was it just a handshake that we’re reading too much into?  

Regardless of whether it was intentional, it certainly showed viewers that there was a substantial height difference between the two men (Dukakis is 5’8” and Bush is 6’2”, a full six inches taller). On “Saturday Night Live, ” Dana Carvey’s Bush was shown shaking the hand of Jon Lovitz’s Dukakis, patting him on the head like a child before Dukakis headed to his lectern, where a mechanical lift hoisted him to a respectable stature. Without the awkwardly long handshake in the real debate, it’s quite possible that their height difference never would have been noticed.  

5. The ambush handshake  

Attempted by: Ronald Reagan, 1980  

Result: Success  

For the first 20 years of televised debates, it was not commonplace for the candidates to shake hands with each other—the debates started after the candidates were already onstage at their lecterns.  

That changed in 1980—unilaterally. In their lone debate that fall, right before the cameras started broadcasting, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan entered the stage from opposite wings and headed straight to their respective microphones, as was tradition. But while Carter stopped at his lectern, Reagan continued to stride across the stage, surprising Jimmy Carter by shaking his hand. Reagan seemed in command from that moment forward.  

“Carter’s look of surprise suggested that he thought he was about to be knifed, ” wrote Kathleen Hall Jamieson. “The handshake was as lethal. How could Carter then cast a smiling hand-shaker as a mad bomber who would destroy Social Security, the environment, and perhaps the world? ”  

Reagan repeated the gesture at the end of the debate, surprising Carter yet again—this time, televised. It made Reagan look amiable and in charge; Carter looked weak by comparison.  

6. The unexpected audience member  

Attempted by: John Edwards, 2004  

Result: Unclear  

In a famous incident on the floor of the U. S. Senate in June 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney told Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, “go f—k yourself, ” after the senator had accused Cheney’s former employer, Halliburton, of war profiteering.  

So when it came time for the vice presidential debates that October, Senator John Edwards (D-NC) had a plan to get inside Cheney’s head during the debate: He reserved a seat for Leahy in the second row of the debate’s audience, where Cheney would almost certainly see him.  

Cheney’s debate performance was characteristically reticent, though it’s unclear what, if any, role Leahy’s seat played in rattling him up. Reportedly, after the debate finished, the Bush-Cheney campaign called the Kerry-Edwards team to complain about the move.  

7. The derisive prop  

Attempted by: Negotiators for both Dan Quayle & Al Gore, 1992  

Result: Détente  

Every presidential debate is the topic of high-stakes negotiations by the campaigns involved, which will push for any number of advantages and concessions—from podium height to a chillier on-stage temperature.  

In the run-up to the 1992 VP debate, though, Dan Quayle’s staff lobbied for the ability to let each candidate take a single prop on stage. Their plan was to have Quayle bring out Gore’s book, Earth in the Balance, and read a passage or two from it during the actual debate to embarrass Gore.  

Gore’s strategists agreed to let each candidate have a prop, telling the Quayle team Gore planned to bring a single item on stage: a potato—an unsubtle reminder of a humiliating June 1992 gaffe where Quayle infamously misspelled the word “potato” while attending an elementary-school spelling bee, instructing a 12-year-old who had spelled the word correctly to add an “e” to the end. Quayle’s campaign speedily dropped their request for props.  

1. 11 Speaking in Public  

"Golden" rules  

1. Your aides have to determine the “theme of the day” and brief you about the day’s events and issues. To get elected you must promise economic growth with low inflation and balanced budget no matter how grave the economic situation is.  

2. Don’t be too specific on issues and tell people they elect their way, not a candidate.  

3. Cite the Bible.  

4. Don’t look too intellectual.  

5. State repeatedly that you’re not going to divide the nation into supporters and enemies, Democrats and Republicans, “my voters and other voters” — be a leader to all. (But first, to win the nomination you must appeal to the more liberal sections of your party if you are Democrat, and to more conservative sections if you belong to Republicans).  

6. Don’t talk much; transform your thoughts into examples and slogans.  

7. Never say you want power, even if you want to save the nation in crisis.  

8. Never talk down on big business. Promise federal financing, especially in economic downturns.  

9. Remember: voters are extremely sensitive to tax-cut proposals and which social segment would benefit from them. The middle class brings you victory, so promise tax cuts for these people, with tax increases for the wealthy and high unemployment rates.  

10. Even if the economy is OK, point out the signs of coming crisis and promise to change the situation fast. Keep talking about problems, though it’s hard to win if the incumbent President runs for re-election with balanced budget and economic growth.  

11. You can be liberal on domestic issues, but you have to be conservative on national security (defense and foreign affairs).  

12. Remember the “women factor”: there are more women than men in our country, women are more likely to be registered to vote, and among registered voters women are more likely to vote.  

What to talk about where:  

Iowa, New Hampshire – farm problems, energy costs, trade issues  

Northern “rustbelt” states – industrial concerns  

Southern states – defense and social issues  

New York State – unemployment  

Use these tactics:  

1. “Join the crowd” — this reinforces people’s natural desire to be on the winning side and it is used to convince the audience that your program is an expression of the nation’s desire for change, and it is in their best interest to join;  

2. “Provoked disapproval” – persuade a target audience to disapprove your opponent’s message by suggesting that the message is popular with groups hated, feared or held in contempt by the target audience;  

3. “Iinevitable victory” – you invite those who did not join majority;  

4. “Neuro-linguistic programming” — you will be elected if you can do this better than your opponent and program the whole nation for a positive reaction. People always try to avoid anything and anybody unpleasant; and people are always looking for pleasant things and other pleasant people, somebody they want to meet again and again or at least see on TV. Everybody wants to be a winner; and to be a winner brings pleasure and self respect. Just convey this sense to the nation: “Vote for me and win! ” or “Vote for me or lose! ”, “The choice is yours! ”  

Chapter 2. THE WHITE HOUSE MANAGEMENT  

Godmother may use my instructions to manage the White House, the Congress, the Government and the nation. I authorize it. At least, she’s not going to make gross mistakes and fatal decisions.  

Bill and “Obama” followed them and got reelected, and that’s what makes my instructions priceless.  

Come in!  

Be strong. Be attractive. Be logical.  

All you have to do during your first term is to take care of the second one.  

The 2nd term’s agenda is to set your place in the world’s history.  

1st year. You have enough public support to start big initiatives.  

2nd year. Develop your initiatives.  

3rd year. Go, go public preparing your re-election. Presidents often lose voters during this period.  

4th year. All-politics year. Try to achieve important international agreement (a treaty) for the historic record. Win re-election.  

Divide your day into hours and minutes : 30% of your weekly hours go to senior White House staff, 10% – to Cabinet, 5% – to Congress members, 5% – to foreign leaders.  

No matter what, even if it’s a war time, sleep one hour during the day to give your brain a break, and finish your day at 6 P. M. After 6 P. M. do not read any documents, do not take any phone calls, do not talk to anybody but family members and close friends.  

Eat whatever you want, but remember, the more calories you have to digest, the slower you think.  

REMEMBER:  

1. You are a national image (a national ideal based on pseudo-facts), a symbol of national unity, national continuity and the symbol of federal government. Leadership is the first quality Americans look for in you – they want a President who is steadfast in his convictions.  

2. The power to control the federal budget is your top prerogative.  

3. Define for yourself whom are you going to be:  

– utopist (ideas manipulator)  

– manager (Government and Congress manipulator)  

– challenger (reformer)  

4. Any problem turns into a political one if it threatens your power.  

5. Use your legal right to press the nation and illegal ones to press the world to eliminate problems.  

4. Once you’re in politics, you are a hostage of your status and you must sacrifice privacy in return for power.  

6. Never play alone.  

7. All your decisions are risk taking ones (any decision brings a problem). You may ask advice before you make a decision, but don’t listen to anybody afterwards. You are not paid for the quantity of your work but for leadership and ultimate decision making.  

8. Correct political mistakes fast, before they become political scandals.  

10. Never blame previous presidents for the problems they left for you – that’s a sign of political weakness.  

11. Get rid of a White House tradition to deal with problems if they “knock at the door” only.  

The White House Staff  

Chief of Staff  

The Chief of Staff reviews most of the documents that go to you, gives his/her advice after intense information processing and consultations with other agencies and then – he’s/she’s telling others what President wants.  

A lot of people, including Congressmen and Senators, will try to reach you through him/her.  

He/she has to give exact instructions to the Press Secretary on the White House message about current headlines and the President’s plans and actions (the Press Secretary works the same way with VP and First Lady/First Gentleman press teams).  

He/she is responsible for your time and has to plan at least two months ahead your effective activity together with Communications, Scheduling and other policy offices’ Directors plus VP and First Lady/First Gentleman Chiefs of Staff. Besides, he/she has to do “dirty jobs” for the President like firing people or act as a “lighting rod” to draw criticism away from the President.  

National Security Adviser  

The National Security Adviser controls all the documents concerning national security coming from Defense, Homeland Security, State Departments, and national security agencies, and coordinates these offices.  

His/her position is not subject to Senate confirmation, which, according to a long-standing Washington tradition, means that he/she can’t be compelled to testify before the Congress. He/she decides what papers the President should see and, what’s more, he gives his comments on any document.  

ATTENTION :National security is 100% the President’s business, so keep this figure at some distance and don’t let him think of himself as your Number Two – foreign leaders will try to work through him to get to you or to influence you.  

He/she has to oversee the functioning of the National Security Council (NSC), which is your foreign policy making tool and a “government inside government. ” This is something very special and convenient about the NSC – it’s responsible only to you and there’s not much Congress control over its budget. Plus, National Security Adviser is involved in every meeting between you and any foreign leader and is responsible for the schedule.  

The most powerful of executive offices after the National Security Council is the Office of Management and Budget (it’s authorized to make cuts in federal agencies’ budgets, to advise you on national fiscal and economic policies, supervise execution of the government budget, evaluate the performance of federal programs).  

Who they really are  

Staffers (and Secretaries) prefer stability and don’t like if you’re “rocking the boat” – that’s why they often play reform-stoppers.  

They don’t like to work hard and prefer to send you on “very important visits” abroad as often as possible.  

They try to load you up with an extremely busy schedule and “feed” you witnh hundreds of useless documents, create artificial problems and conflicts to show off their hyper-activity.  

They try to be your decision makers and they do influence you because, unlike Secretaries, they have daily contact with you; that’s why you don’t see Cabinet members as your principal aides.  

They try to set you up by interpreting your decisions and orders in their own way, as every adviser is the “American President himself. ”  

They know you won’t accept “complicated, ” “expensive, ” “risky” projects and they’ll try to sell you “simple, ” “cheap” and “popular” ones only.  

Watch your senior staff and how they present ideas. If somebody wants to push his idea or a project, he will give you three options, making two of them unattractive. Naturally you pick the one he presented as least harmful.  

Their dirty tricks  

1. Fight for access (influence) to President or to people with direct access (aiming to get a better position if President is re-elected).  

2. Isolate government from the President.  

3. Influence = relationship with the President.  

4. Get a table in the West Wing. You are nobody if you are stuck in the White House basement and see the President by appointment only.  

5. Before you send a document to the President, have to look at it and ask yourself if it’s too immoral or too radical.  

6. Never say “no” aloud to anybody.  

7. Remain anonymous with conflicts.  

8. Never bring bad news to the President – let it be some idiot, not you.  

9. Never say “That’s impossible, ” no matter what the President is asking you to do.  

10. Disappear (and find an excuse later) if the President is in a bad mood.  

11. Never ague with the President if there’s somebody else present.  

12. Learn how the President likes to do business (talking, giving orders, writing the documents and taking notes, managing official and non-official meetings) and his habits (food, drinks, cigarettes, favorite sport, movies, show business stars, writers, politicians; attitude to women) and try to copy him — the President has to feel comfortable with you.  

13. Fight anybody who’s trying to do your job to be closer to the President.  

14. Avoid taking on risky tasks controlled by the President in person (if necessary, try to “delegate” it to somebody else).  

15. Avoid being associated with any failures.  

16. Don’t say anything President doesn’t want to hear.  

17. Use “Smith’s Principle”: if it can be understood by Congress, it’s not finished yet.  

18. Write memorandums not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.  

19. No matter what subject is under discussion, employ the language of sports and war: say “breakthrough” instead of “progress”, never speak of compromise, consider “adopting a fallback position. ”  

20. Every public appearance in with the President is an investment in your career after the White House.  

21. Minimize the number of rivals.  

22. Gain independence according to how much the President needs you.  

23. Before asking the President for some personal favor, make him believe he’s going to get some (political) profit out of it.  

24. Tell the President what he can do and help him try to do it, and never tell him what he shouldn’t do.  

25. Avoid giving any personal gifts to the President if you are not Chief of Staff.  

Every public appearance in with the President is an investment in your career after the White House.  

There is an open power struggle between national security staff members and domestic policy staff and between those who develop new policies and initiatives versus budget staff.  

How to Manage the Staff  

Adopt a dominant management style:  

1. Pyramidal, structured as hierarchy with you at the top, followed by the Chief of Staff and other key assistants. I strongly recommend this one – it insures a clear chain of command and provides precise channels of information going up and directives going down.  

2. Circular, when you are surrounded by advisers, all of whom have equal access to the Oval Office. That means chaos (JFK style).  

All your assistants are political assistants and everyone will try to play a policy-maker. But a good thing is that all of them were not elected and are responsible to you only.  

Thus you can:  

– reform your staff freely as there’s not even a word about it in the US Constitution  

– interchange key figures if domestic crisis is approaching  

– if you don’t agree with the staff on important issues, go to polls for back-up. (The best employee is the one you can blackmail. Besides, a very good “pusher” for your people is their deep understanding that they have to work together to help the President stay in office next term because if the President leaves, everybody leaves)  

– use “the carrot and the stick” tactics  

– use “pulling by pushing” – give an important job without publicity to those who become too popular  

– do as little reading as you can – you have staff for that  

– do as little writing as you can – same reason  

– involve yourself personally in your staff and Cabinet jobs as little as you can – same reason  

– make no minor decisions – same reason  

– send back any intelligence or other report if it’s more than one sheet of paper  

The Pocket Cabinet  

If the bureaucrats are wearing you down, you have the right to fire any Secretary. However, Cabinet members must be approved by Senate, therefore, you have to negotiate with the Senate leaders and party leaders throughout the country. As a result, some positions may go to people you don’t know well and can’t trust. Then if you want to re-organize the Cabinet you have to confront the Congress, because Congress tries to protect the interests of its constituents, who are often the clients of the existing bureaucratic agencies. So, if you plan changes you have to appoint people who share your strategy.  

You may also need to offer a position to a group that you need to support in the coming election, or whose help you need; or to help pass legislation (these people will be more loyal to their political benefactors than to you).  

Secretaries have disadvantages compared to the staffers as they don’t have easy access to the Oval Office (again, that depends on you). Some of them had little or no contact with you before being appointed. Actually, their task is to win the backing of key interest groups and that’s why you, practically speaking, don’t need Cabinet meetings (if there’s no crisis). If a Cabinet member feels independent (usually, that’s the Secretary of State), don’t fire him/her – substitute him/her by the national security adviser or send him abroad on a regular basis.  

The Cabinet members work hard during a crisis only. They prefer to save their plans and suggestions for private conversations with you, because that is what you need them for and they are competing with other Secretaries for your time, support and for funds.  

It’s not easy for the President to make government agencies work effectively : first, you have no time, second – they have no competition. Anyway, you must have insiders in all departments, especially in the Justice Department (FBI), CIA and Secret Service firing anybody who’s trying to dig up dirt on you.  

Secretary of Defense.  

The Secretary of Defense is a very special and unique position for many reasons. This department is regarded a non-political one, defending the United States no matter what (never let him decide, though, what and where US interests are). Military leaders have a lot of friends in Congress who press the administration to accept military demands. Besides, it’s not easy to manage the Pentagon, as you depend on the military for evaluations of the national military capacities; they decide also what kinds of weapons to buy and build. Half of the federal budget goes to Pentagon, making it a major department and that’s the most frustrating aspect of your management.  

You have to find compromise between you, Congress, public opinion, interest groups and defense contractors’ lobbyists.  

The defense budget affects diplomacy and international relations, because governments worldwide scrutinize it for clues about US global intentions. For example, increases in defense spending, particularly for items such as naval vessels and aircraft, may signal your intention to pursue more aggressive foreign policies, and cuts in defense spending may indicate an effort to scale back on defense commitments.  

Hidden Structure  

The Cabinet is divided into the inner circle (State, Defense, Treasury, Justice) and outer, less important one (Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security). While inner Cabinet members are selected more on the basis of personal friendship and loyalty, outer Cabinet members are selected more on the basis of geographical, ethnic or political representation and adopt an advocacy position for their Departments.  

The inner Cabinet is divided into two groups:  

а) national security group (State and Defense Departments).  

b) legal-economic group (Justice and Treasury Departments). The Attorney General usually serves as the president’s attorney and this special responsibility leads to close personal contact with the President. The Secretary of Treasury is very important in domestic monetary and fiscal policies and international trade and currency.  

The outer Cabinet is a “domestic” group. Don’t waste your time meeting them – you have enough staffers for that. Sometimes “outer” Secretaries try to build their political base of support within their own bureaucracies. Don’t hesitate to fire and replace any of them if they start to criticize you and behave politically independent, counting on bureaucratic and interest groups’ support.  

There’s one (negative for you) thing in common between all Secretaries – self-interest pushes them to protect and expand their departments and then they act more like representatives of their departments to the President then the presidential envoys they were appointed to be (“divided loyalty”).  

ATTENTION : Secretaries of State and Defense usually form a coalition against your National Security Adviser. You must be a smart mediator as Commander-in-Chief. These two have weekly meetings, and each of them has a weekly meeting with the DNI (Director of National Intelligence), so you must know from independent sources what they are talking about in case they “forget” to tell you the details. The Defense Secretary meets weekly with the Joint Chiefs, too.  

Mind Control  

Every day in 2004 we watched the Homeland Security Department "terror alert colors" and very often the threat was "high" or "very high. " With all my 30 years espionage experience I couldn’t understand why they were telling the nation about the threat and producing the multicolor picture on TV. Why? What can ordinary Americans do about that? What happened next made the situation absolutely clear for me and posed one more question for the nation: right after President Bush was re-elected the colors disappeared – why? Again, what happened? Is there no more "terror threat" to America? There is. But there’s mind control, too.  

Mind control, which I call mind manipulation or MM, is used to program the "right political behavior" of the nation or "indifferent behavior" (if necessary) without people’s knowing or understanding the procedure.  

We are talking here about total illegal social control.  

Principles of Mind Manipulation  

1) It’s not enough if every single citizen, and the nation as a whole, thinks and behaves your way – it’s much better if they want to behave your way and feel comfortable, and are absolutely sure it’s their own choice and, finally, they become your active supporters.  

2) If you want to control the nation and program peoples’ thoughts, you have to control knowledge (information, culture and communication).  

3) The political imagination (belief) of the nation has to move in the right direction and has to be accepted as the most comfortable and most acceptable way of political activity: nobody is thinking, nobody is criticizing the President, nobody is making comparisons and drawing conclusions. Everybody believes the American President and hates his enemies.  

4) Don’t waste time fighting foreign ideology, take care of ordinary Americans.  

5) There is no difference between commercial and political advertising, and MM.  

American Propaganda Technology  

You need 24/7 effective propaganda to get non-stop public support of your policy — your war for public support does not stop the day you enter the White House — it may stop the day you leave the White House. If your polls go below 40%, the United States effectively has no President.  

Use propaganda tricks:  

– general (abstract) information on big problem  

– information dosage (the less people know — the easier you convince them)  

– misinformation (full or partial) presented as news, sensations, rumors  

– disorientation – one bit of information contradicts another one  

– provocation – information "pushes" people (before you start war)  

– information over-dosage – too much information (and people lose interest)  

– exaggeration of enemy’s negative sides and promotion of scary data  

– distraction of nation’s attention from news that is bad (for you) by publishing sensations and (political) scandals  

– stereotype manipulation ("nuclear threat, " "international terror, " etc.  

– "shuffle" – all news and facts match President’s political course  

– "cocktail" – mix of true and false information  

–"facts transportation" from abroad (you buy a foreign reporter and he’s publishing positive information on your politics; then you spread the information through American media)  

Remember the principles of mass psychology: people don’t believe the government – they believe the market and the stock exchange; people need statements, not analysis.  

MM Technology  

1) Create a steadfast American collective will-power: “We want to live forever in the America we live in now” – through the media.  

2) Don’t ask people to change their views and beliefs – they have only to change the object of their aggression – “Now we understand who are America's enemies! (the previous President, Republicans).  

3) Get people accustomed to accept facts but believe only in the “right” comments – any common sense has to be “switched off. ” This way you create “mass artificial schizophrenia” — people lose the ability to connect statements and facts (notions) and just believe.  

Besides, by extreme exaggeration of the enemy’s negative qualities you can install the national schizophrenic fear (of "international terrorism") and people have to accept you, the US President, as a savior. Plus, no matter what, repeat your major statements until people start accepting them without thinking.  

4) Divide the nation into “good Americans”(patriots) and “bad Americans”(the “minority).  

Make it clear : it’s much better and more comfortable to be “good” than “bad. ” “We aren’t watching good Americans who support the President. The surveillance is for bad Americans and we make their lives and careers uncomfortable. We have to do that because enemies of America may be using them. ” This method is called artificial social selection and its ultimate goal is a total regulation and standardization of the nation.  

5) For successful MM, use the combined efforts of popular Democratic American writers, TV and radio anchors, talented publicists and columnists, business and show business celebrities, politicians. Thus, step by step you create the “industry of correct political behavior and correct American thinking. ”  

6) Use a combination: statement + image. It reduces the effort needed to understand your message and makes people comfortable with you.  

7) Shift all popular TV shows to prime time – Americans don’t have to think about politics after they come home.  

Psycho-epidemic  

During his first presidential campaign Obama used my strategy of psycho-epidemic.  

It's simple – you hypnotize people by permanent repetition of a certain word, like "Change! ", a phrase, a slogan. A crowd, and even a nation,, often behaves like a dog, it's very submissive if there's a strong personality, a strong leader in front of it. Then, the reflex appears – once you see a strong leader, you must listen to him and follow his orders.  

Strategic planning  

That’s the biggest problem for all administrations.  

Strategic planning is the process of making present decisions based on well-calculated future consequences. The basic strategic objective is a decision as to where to concentrate the government efforts this is the essence of strategic planning. The worst example of strategic planning is the war in Iraq.  

It is crucial to choose a professional crew and place people in positions where their brains will work effectively and produce quality.  

Planning formula:  

– design strategy  

– amplify and clarify strategy into policy  

– organize a team  

– guide execution  

– make final strategic decision  

A. Regular Planning Model:  

subject, concept, idea definition of objectives  

design of innovative options and debate  

exploration of concepts, claims and possibilities  

development of program outlines  

establishment of expected performance criteria and indications  

information gathering  

integration of ideological elements  

assignment of executive responsibility  

scheduling  

analysis and experiment  

experiment evaluation, examination of likely consequences  

comparison of expected and actual performance levels  

determination of costs  

prognosis  

strategic decision  

B. Express planning: information interpretation, projects design, choice of a project, decision  

C. Regular (math) model:  

Negotiations planning (example): pressure, compromise, tricks, break.  

Let’s evaluate "pressure": negative international reaction /-1/, breakdown /-1/, positive effect /+1/. Score: -2+1=-1 Conclusion: no pressure should be used.  

D. Expertise model.  

Government crisis (example): poor planning- wrong decisions- wrong actions- wrong execution- opposition activation- mass protests- coup  

E. Scale model.  

Risk factors: Risk levels:  

Intenationalsanctions : medium  

High inflation rise : medium to high  

High unemployment : medium to high  

Low public support level(low polls) : medium  

Presidential decision making  

1. Decision making is a multiple choice process.  

2. Any decision involves political risk.  

3. If you can’t make a decision, you need more information.  

4. Be optimistic, but remain realistic.  

5. Give yourself a deadline.  

6. No brainstorming chaos.  

7. There are two kinds of decisions: irreversible and reversible. Better know which kind you are facing.  

Here’s the process:  

a) Identify the problem  

b) Analyze the problem — what are the facts?  

c) Evaluate options – what are the pros and cons? what can go wrong?  

d) Identify choices – which alternative is the best?  

e) Implement plans – what action needs to be taken?  

As the world #1 leader you have to know that this world is being ruled not by you but by 11 financial corporations : Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Capital Group Companies, FMR Corp, AXA, State Street Corp, JP Morgan Chase, Legal & General Group, Vanguard Group, UBS AG, Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.  

Bonus  

Psychological Modeling of a President (Strategic Intelligence Method)  

Intelligence services worldwide watch political leaders during public appearances, trying to calculate their physical and mental health judging by their look and behavior. In the US they also evaluate the executives and staffers who surround the President at official meetings to calculate what’s going on in the White House.  

They look at:  

– a very detailed biography  

– personal needs, interests, philosophy  

– political views  

– intelligence, will-power, character, abilities  

– behavior in crisis situations  

– compromising facts and possible methods of influence  

– personal, political and big business VIP connections  

– financial situation  

– administration and team  

– political opposition and President  

– Congress  

Domestic headache  

You can’t separate domestic and foreign policies because they are married to the same ugly guy – the budget deficit.  

Domestic policy rests on three legs: education, health and environment. Americans will never support reduced funding for education, Social Security and Medicare (Medicaid) cuts and weakened environmental-protection laws. But I strongly advise you – don’t bother trying to emulate Europe and the British Commonwealth by providing health care for all – the privately insured middle class (your voting majority) won’t stand for it. If you don’t believe me, go to the polls.  

Now, are you a challenger in politics? If "yes, " strengthen your political positions in Washington, DC first, then start some reforms. Before you start a reform you have to win the information war with your opponents and get public support. A reform is always a venture; the process may start taking on momentum and you won’t be able to stop it. You had better continue old reforms using a new tactic because new reforms bring new problems, new enemies and new mistakes, and big economic mistakes bring you an economic crises.  

Dealing with big business  

1. Big organized money moves big political machines, big political machines move big lobbies, big lobbies move the President.  

2. The President is an investment.  

3. A group that rules the economy rules the White House.  

4. A new political course comes not with a new President, but a change of big business’ global financial interests.  

5. Follow 3 "golden rules":  

– protect big investments  

– help to promote  

– don’t interfere  

6. If the government doesn’t meet the needs of big business, it forms a new one of its own (something like a President’s Council). This usually happens when the President can’t provide financial stability and super-profits. Besides, big business has much more important foreign connections than the government.  

7. Big business is:  

a) money  

b) political and economic control  

8. Any political action gets an economic (big business) reaction.  

In terms of partisan politics, Republicans are considered to be more sympathetic to big business interests while traditionally Democrats get electoral and financial support from organized labor. Forget about antitrust policy business has become more global and efforts to enforce antitrust policies have proven deficient and are threats to national security.  

Managing the economy  

1. Regulate spending, taxation, monetary policy and foreign trade whic has to be under strict political control – you have the right to propose legislation and veto any legislation you think incorrect. Keep in mind that Americans always insist on reducing government spending on foreign aid and space exploration, and they naturally hate any rise in taxes.  

2. State and local governments, both through national associations like the US Conference of Mayors and Congress Members, always press the government to get more federal funds even at the expense of inflationary budget deficits.  

3. Keep unemployment low and prices stable – these two factors are politically dangerous and failure here can bring a free-fall in approval ratings.  

4. Take credit for economic growth, price stability and low unemployment even if you have nothing to do with it.  

Still have problems? Try international initiatives.  

There are four inevitable factors that will limit your control over the economy:  

1) You must share power with Congress — you can’t levy taxes or appropriate money all by yourself;  

2) The theoretical nature of the science of economics — no single economic theory has ever explained the behavior of the economy in the future;  

3) The imprecision of economic information. Economic statistics and indicators do not measure the immediate conditions of the economy, but rather the conditions that prevailed between one and three months ago, depending on the particular economic statistics. Consequently, if you take action on the basis of incoming economic information you may be reacting to a problem that no longer exists or that is much worse than believed.  

4) There are forces outside the reach of the federal government, like international factors (oil prices and foreign trade policies), state and local governments economic decisions and mistakes, big business decisions that affect employment, inflation, the trade deficit and public opinion — which is always against cutting social programs.  

Budget deficit  

A large budget deficit is a headache and has extremely negative effects on the economy:  

1. It limits the government’s flexibility to fight a possible recession; that requires tax cuts and deficit spending, which would exacerbate the debt problem. Since tax revenues fall during a recession and unemployment insurance and welfare payments rise, the budget would be under further strain precisely when deficit spending would be needed to pull the economy up.  

2. It reduces the amount of funds available for achieving the nation’s social and defense goals, because interest must be paid on the national debt.  

3. It can threaten the economy by "crowding out" corporate and private borrowers from the credit market. Because the government must borrow heavily to finance its deficit, it competes with business and individuals to borrow funds. The increased competition forces interest rates higher, causing loans (including mortgages) to become more expensive. As a result, business can afford to purchase less plant and equipment to expand and modernize their operations and fewer consumers can afford to finance purchases of expensive items, such as houses and cars. The resulting reduction in demand threatens economic growth.  

4. The US budget deficit has become so large that domestic savings no longer can provide enough capital to service the debt. Consequently, the government must borrow from foreign sources to make up the difference. This makes us dependent on foreign investors and raises the possibility of a "stabilization crisis, " which can occur if foreign investors lose confidence in the dollar and liquidate their US investments. Such a crisis could cause the dollar to plummet and interest and inflation to rapidly accelerate.  

Crisis  

Crisis means that your government as a system is exhausted and it’s unable to rule the nation and resources effectively in an extreme situation, including economic, natural catastrophes and war. A crisis has three stages – before the crisis, when the first signs appear; crisis development until culmination; catastrophe followed by impeachment. A crisis could be "programmed" at the very beginning of your term (mistakes in political and economic courses, inexperienced personnel, faulty planning) or it can appear later (too many mistakes, change of political environment, shifts in the economic or international situation). Crisis management includes pre-crisis management and handling of the situation. You must be ready not only for a government crisis but also for sudden military attack, mass riots and natural disasters.  

International trade is an important component of national security. Our "friends" (NATO members, Saudi Arabia and Japan) favor a dollar (that is neither overvalued nor undervalued) and a healthy US economy with relatively full employment and low inflation rate. If the dollar is weak, the value of much of their international currency reserves declines and their goods are less competitive in the US market. If the dollar is too strong, their investment capital migrates to the US and the high competitiveness of their products in the US market threatens to provoke calls for trade restrictions. If unemployment in the US rises, the major market for their goods declines. If interest rates are higher in the US than in Europe or Japan, investment capital moves to our country. Consequently, foreign governments press the United States to keep the exchange value of the dollar from fluctuating widely and to hold interest rates steady.  

Chapter 3. Congress management  

It’s much more simple that you think.  

1. A Congressional session is a waste of federal time and money – you don’t need debates because Congressional staffers can do all the technical work and they can negotiate between themselves and balance positions. Senators and Congressmen don’t even have to come to Washington – they can vote from their local offices. So these people can spend their time helping thousands of constituents.  

2. The President is dependent on Congressional cooperation to carry out the executive responsibilities of the Office because Congress has to authorize government programs, establish administrative agencies to implement the problems and funds to finance them.  

ATTENTION : Executive Order might lower this dependence a little bit.  

3. It’s important if President belongs to the party with a majority in the House and Senate. But if your party loses the majority in Congress, you have to work out new political strategy yourself.  

4. President’s prestige (popular support or political capital) affects Congressional response to his politics.  

5. Influence in Congress is courted only for long periods of service; a Senator with 30 years in office (like late Edward Kennedy) has considerably more power than a Senator in his first or second term. This causes the electorate to increasingly favor incumbents, as dislodging one’s Congressman or Senator after 30 years, even if the candidate or his party have become unpopular, can be viewed as hurting one’s district financially. It is often thought that a freshman would be less able to bring home federal money for his state or district.  

6. For most Senators, the Senate is a platform for Presidential election campaign. Senators who openly express presidential ambitions are better able to gain media exposure and to establish careers as spokespersons for large national constituencies.  

7. The first act of a newly elected Representative is to maneuver for election to the Senate. Why? First, they enjoy their position, power and money for six years non-stop. Second, there are only a hundred Senators and the publicity is much, much greater. But Representatives have a much better chance to be reelected.  

8. Congress rejects two thirds of President’s proposals.  

9. Senators are always looking for a BBD (bigger, better deal) and often shift from one committee to another (a good choice is those dealing with taxes, budget, energy, commerce).  

10. Bills to benefit big business move smoothly. (Congress doesn’t like the poor — they don’t contribute, sorry). To gain majority support for big business legislation members have a special trick – log rolling, when factions combine efforts.  

11. Senators don’t depend on the people – they depend on the media.  

12. If a Senator is blocking the President’s proposal, he wants to get the President’s attention.  

13. When Senators want to bury issues, they create committees.  

14. The Senate is a small structure and personal relations between Senators are extremely important.  

15. Senators have no incentive to study the details of most pieces of legislation and their decision is simplified by quickly checking how key colleagues have voted or intend to vote.  

16. To have power a Senator has to object: much of the Senate work is done by unanimous consent and if you object you’ll be approached for sure by some influential people including other Senators, Secretaries, President’s aides or the President himself. They’ll try to press, blackmail or buy you – and that means you’ve got a piece of the power pie.  

17. Senators avoid responsibility in economic policy.  

18. Congress loves the military because military contracts are very lucrative for Congressional districts.  

19. Senior Senators teach “newcomers” to vote against any reform which is a threat to their stability.  

20. A Senator has real influence on legislation only if he has professional staff in charge of the projects.  

21. Senators are afraid to vote against a defense budget increase because then they may be accused of a lack of patriotism.  

22. Republicans and Democrats are not really enemies, here, though both sides are always looking for a “traitor” or “insider” in the other camp.  

23. The President must have “insiders” in the Senate, because the other party could prepare secretly and then launch officially some investigation against you or the members of your Administration.  

24. A legislator does exactly what his voters want him to do – stealing federal money from other states and districts, because for him the most important thing is numbers — polls in his state showing how many people approve his activity. His donors watch these numbers too and estimate their investment and the necessity to support re-election.  

25. Every member of Congress has a so-called “split personality” – a “Hill style” while working on Capitol Hill and a “home style” while back in the state or district with the voters.  

26. A Senator makes a decision only after thinking about what it means in terms of the re-election money that will come to him or to his opponents. His voting decisions depend on his party membership, constituency pressures, state and regional loyalty ideology, interest groups’ influence. His stubbornness comes from the fact that he does not want to be seen by his constituents as a “rubber stamp” for President’s decisions, especially when the bill in question benefits a Senator’s state. (And the hidden problem is – you want to move fast, especially during the first year while your personal popularity is high – but for the Congress speed is not important).  

27. Sooner or later every member of Congress starts playing the “pork barrel” game. It’s nothing else but a diversion of federal funds to projects and places not out of national need but to enhance a member’s chances of re-election in his district (military projects, federal buildings, highways construction projects). So be ready for a “Christmas gift” when these fellows add pork barrel amendments to appropriations bills you are about to sign. They often wait until late in each session to pass critical spending bills, which narrows your range of possible responses because a veto may not be feasible if Congress has adjourned and the funds needed to run the federal government are contained in the legislation.  

28. In Congress a small percentage of bills (about 500 out of 10, 000) actually become law because many bills are introduced merely to get favorable press. The strategy is especially effective if the legislation is “tied” to the headlines of the day (mass murders, natural disasters, ethnic riots etc. ).  

29. In the Senate it’s easier for a minority to block the bill than for a majority to pass it: a 60-vote majority is needed to force a final vote on the bill, while only 41 votes are needed to continue debate and delay a vote.  

30. The minority can hold the majority responsible as the party in power for whatever legislation does or does not emerge from the Senate. But both parties prefer to be the party in power in the Senate – all Senate legislation begins in the committees, whose membership and chairmanship are controlled by the party in power. Besides, each chairman has power in terms of controlling the committee budgets and deciding which hearings will be held and which legislation he will allow to be released to the Senate floor for a vote. He can also “lock up the bill” in committee until it dies. Perfect!  

How to Control the Congress  

The President can propose legislation, but Congress is not required to pass any of the administration’s bills. But you know already that Senators and Representatives need re-election more than anything else. So you can go with indirect influence through appeals to the public; this is a confrontation and direct challenge to Congressional authority. You can also enlist the support of interest groups or direct influence through favors and personal involvement in the legislative process. (Get public support for a proposal before it’s discussed with the Congress. )  

And don’t hesitate to start a national debate — you have enough media attention for that.  

You also have an independent tool, presidential power in the form of an executive order. You can give favors directly to members of Congress or to influential people in their constituency, or the favor may be of benefit to the constituency itself:  

– appointments with the President and other high-ranking officials  

– federal grants to recipients in the constituency, government contracts with local companies, the deposit of federal funds in banks, grants to local government and educational institutions  

– support of projects (military installations, research and administrative facilities, public works such as buildings, dams and navigational improvements to rivers and harbors, etc. )  

– recommendations for the US district court judges, attorneys, marshals, etc.  

– campaign assistance (cash contributions from the party’s national committee invitations to bill-signing ceremonies, White House parties or to accompany President on trips  

– bargaining and arm-twisting (pressure and threats to lose the projects).  

Tools  

1. The Congressional Relations Office. Used for:  

– intense lobbying to form Congressional coalitions if the opposition controls one or both houses  

– intelligence gathering (of policy preferences — centralized headcounts reveal the voting intentions on a particular bill and constituency concerns of individual members)  

– representation  

– creating “inner coalitions”  

– coordination of executive branch legislative activity (monitoring and tracking bills, controlling departments’ staff appointments, collaborating with departments’ liaison offices)  

Attention! Senators and Congressmen have to trust your people, who must keep their mouths shut, otherwise there will be no business. Anyway, watch these people — a Senator can call one of your assistants and if they hear “no, ” he will try to reach somebody else until he gets “Yes, the President will see you. ” Don’t let this happen – if it’s “no, ” it has to be everybody’s “no. ” There has to be no difference between personal views of your adviser and your official views.  

2. Congressional Relations personnel of various executive Departments are a conduit. Talk to the Secretaries and explain to them that they have to give the Director of Congressional Relations their best people.  

3. The White House interest groups liaison staff (office of public liaison)  

4. Veto. Threatened with a veto, Senators often seek compromise.  

Congress has its ways to undermine your vetoes or threats of vetoes. Because you can’t veto parts of a bill, they load up major legislation with amendments on a completely different subject (“riders”) that they know the President must accept. (Presidents who vetoed the most bills: Franklin Roosevelt – 635, Harry Truman – 250, Dwight Eisenhower – 181, Ronald Reagan – 78, Gerald Ford – 66).  

5. Executive agreement. It permits the President to enter into open or secret agreements with a foreign government without any advice or consent of the Senate. There are two categories of executive agreements:  

а) presidential agreements made solely on the basis of the constitutional authority of the President and under his sole power to faithfully execute the laws (or under his diplomatic or Commander-in-Chief powers). President needs to report secret agreement to the Foreign Relations Committees of the two houses no later than 60 days after such agreement has entered into force. Congress has no authority to disapprove it.  

b) congressional-executive agreements, which cover all international agreements entered into under the combined authority of the President and Congress.  

Finally, this is what you can do with a bill:  

– sign the bill (the bill becomes a law)  

– do nothing (the bill becomes a law in ten days)  

– veto the bill (the bill does not become a law)  

– pocket veto the bill (hold the bill until Congress is no longer in session, and the bill does not become a law)  

Chapter 4. Foreign policy  

“Golden rules”  

1. International treaties have to be negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by presidents.  

2. The information gathered by spies plays an increasingly role in diplomacy (arms-control treaties would be impossible without the power of reconnaissance satellites and agents to monitor compliance).  

3. If you start war, it does not mean you failed diplomacy, it means military decision is much more profitable.  

4. Make it clear to foreign leaders right away whether you are or you are not going to follow the previous President’s foreign policy (after consultations with big business). If you are not going to follow it, design a doctrine of your own (it’s a strategy that is the recognized approach or policy of the US government.  

5. National security is your top priority and is the “king’s job” because actually you have no domestic political obstacles to your foreign policy (if it’s a question of war), so you are a chief decision maker there. (The CIA Director has to be excluded from from this process — you don’t need him. Besides, the CIA even today, no matter how hard I tried to educate the Agency, remains the worst of the worst and is not to be reformed — it has to be abolished. We have to transfer political intelligence functions to Pentagon. National security is designed to protect the United States and the vital interests (investments) of big business and to promote American values in a world of rivals, and the CIA, through all 60 years of its history, has proved to be absolutely unsuitable for the job).  

6. Any country has to be involved in the sphere of our strategic interests if it has a strategic geographic position, significant sources of raw materials, a well-developed transportation system, or could be used as a military base. The strategic policy of any country rotates around the USA and if not — that means a certain President is waiting for greater incentives to come on board. Against target countries, don’t hesitate to use the strategies of pre-emptive war, post-war (post-crisis) reconstruction, and nation building (which means erasing national identity and supplanting it by liberal values).  

With China’s growth, the Cold War is back with a vengeance, so we are back to secret deals based on spheres of influence — but that’s a temporary strategy.  

7. You can’t always do what you want without help – you are dependent on other world leaders, Congressional positions and international public opinion. Ask the Senate to help you sometimes – believe me, they’ll be happy and proud to do so.  

8. Create super-profitable conditions for big business by political penetration worldwide. Big money men start investing abroad when they find a safe environment — law and order. The more they invest the more political power they get (international corporations is the most important element of international system ; the other two are governments and non-governmental organizations).  

9. Use big investors to ruin other national economies and governments by withdrawing finances when the economic situation is worsening. As soon as the country opens its financial markets, it increases its dependence on global economic processes that it cannot control; and a financial crisis can easily be staged. Conversely, other countries’ access to the US markets is a powerful economic and political tool.  

10. Use my “controlled chaos strategy”. My idea to make the US economic and financial markets the most attractive for investors by provoking unstable situations in other countries and regions.  

11. Send troops or work through military intelligence (not the CIA) to wherever you perceive a threat to the US investments.  

12. Use pressure everywhere – strategic nuclear missiles are still the most powerful blackmail tool. Remember, if you are dealing with Russia or China, they will look not only for agreement, but for advantages.  

13. Use “personal diplomacy” – phone calls to foreign leaders (every planned phone call has to go through the National Security Adviser and be well prepared, like a serious negotiation). Most important are phone calls to our allies — NATO members. Don’t forget to wish happy birthday to the leaders in person!  

14. Use “informal diplomacy” – recruit politicians in other nations who might be able to give informal access to a country’s leadership. In some situations, such as between USA and China diplomacy is done through semi-formal channels using interlocutors such as academic members or think tanks. This occurs in situations when presidents wish to express intentions or to suggest methods of resolving a diplomatic situation, but do not wish to express a formal position.  

15. Don’t hesitate to use summits as a tool, because:  

–if you meet a foreign leader in person, you can reduce tensions and clarify national interests.  

–personal relationship may lead to improved relations between nations.  

–summits allow you to focus national attention on specific issues.  

–presidents engaging in personal diplomacy are much more capable than career diplomatic bureaucrats of understanding the domestic policy consequences of diplomatic actions.  

–summit negotiations can yield quick results, since discussions are between leaders with the power of decision rather than between representatives who must receive instructions, make reports and rely new proposals.  

–diplomatic impasses may be overcome at summits by shifts in policy that only top leaders are empowered to make.  

–if presidents desire an international forum for their diplomatic policies, a summit meeting can provide one.  

–successful summits can enhance the image of the President and the United States  

16. If you’re ready to fight for national interests, forget about human rights — you can always blame infractions on the other side.  

17. Isolation is the greatest enemy to information.  

18. There’s no sense in applying sanctions if big business isn’t interested.  

19. Economic and hence, political progress for any country affects the USA through economic competition that threatens the market and jobs.  

20. Any initiative is risky if it’s about unstable region, but you lose popularity fast if you are perceived as indecisive or weak in foreign policy.  

21. Any trip abroad has to convey a strong message.  

22. Direct military intrusion indicates weakness in your foreign policy. If it’s inescapable, involve as many allies as you can.  

23. Don’t touch our military bases abroad!  

24. Big debts open markets. No matter what, open national markets world-wide for American big business and remember – the markets, not Presidents, rule the world.  

25. Tie your allies to international economic projects and make them pay most of the expenses.  

26. Never talk about money in public — talk about democracy, human rights, liberal values and disarmament – people like it.  

27. Move forward – transform Americans’ national and patriotic feelings into nationalistic ones (follow the French model) to get total support of your policy (see “Mind Control”).  

28. Don’t pay too much attention to the CIA – all they have to do is to support you with appropriate information to justify your strategic political decisions – and nothing else.  

29. Ignore the UN – Secretary General has no real power, but you can take advantage of such a thing as the UN peace-keeping if it corresponds with your interests – the US economic costs could be minimized. Besides, UN peacekeeping can promote a spirit of international accountability in solving a certain regional problem. Don’t forget to explain your strategy to the Congress – they don’t like the UN either. On the other hand, you have to manage an international crisis, if it threatens our national interests (start with strategic planning, check national security system for the adequate response, use propaganda to get domestic and international support, consult with big business and allies, start crisis negotiations if possible, use diplomacy (see below) and force or threat of force).  

30. To reach global leadership you must have enough resources, national support and a well-calculated strategy (see also “Strategic planning”). As you already know, the US budget is financed by foreign lending. When the dollar goes down in foreign exchange markets, it’s supported by foreign central banks and you’re OK as long as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Germany have an interest in propping up the American economy and do not raise the price for financing America’s debt. The worst situation would be to lose support both at home and abroad  

Decision making  

– assessment of the international and domestic political environment  

– goal setting. We have multiple foreign policy goals, and we must determine which goal is effected by the international and domestic political environment  

– determination of policy options  

– decision making action  

– implementation of chosen policy option  

World Domination  

Securing the top position requires :  

– economic domination  

– military power – pre-emptive war or blackmail by war (seeking domination requires an inevitable increase in the military budget)  

– a cultural and media invasion  

– special operations to influence or neutralize leaders with negative attitude  

Modern mechanism of world domination  

1. If the country does not accept American rules of the game, we start a "velvet" or "colored revolution.  

2. We replace the government by pro-American regime.  

3. If the government resists, we start the US and NATO military operation and help the anti-government organizations to overthrow the government.  

Strategies used  

1. Destabilization strategy based on terrorism – you kill political leaders and civil population, blow up government buildings and blame the opposition.  

2. Stabilization strategy – first, "terrorists" destabilize the situation in the country and then the US and NATO troops come to "stabilize' it.  

3. "New order" or a "controlled chaos” strategy – American “new world order” to be established through the international chaos, permanent wars, civil wars and revolutions.  

My definition :  

"Controlled chaos” strategy –  

geopolitical re-division of the world by provoking riots, revolutions, civil wars and overthrowing regimes in independent from USA sovereign states to keep the U. S. world hegemony. Political, national, religious and social conflicts in target countries have to be permanent. The strategy is being covered by a "struggle against international terrorism". The operation is preceded by information war against the target regime and backed by NATO forces if necessary.  

Most important targets of the 21st century – Russia and China. That’s the reason we occupy Afghanistan. We have to circle China with our military bases in Central Asia.  

4. Global energy control strategy – the US control of major oil regions and gas fields.  

To keep America on top, we would have to prevent cooperation and coalitions between: China and Africa; Shi’ia and Sunni Muslims; Germany and France; Venezuela and Cuba. Their trade agreements and alliances will change the geopolitical situation.  

In most important world regions keep the balance by supporting the country which follows the leader:  

In Europe – support Britain to balance Germany. You rule Europe if you rule the Persian Gulf. You rule the world if you rule Europe, and that’s why you have to keep NATO by all means to block the military independence of Europe (Germany).  

In East Asia – support Japan, Russia and Taiwan to balance China.  

In South Asia support Pakistan to balance India.  

In Latin America – support Argentina to balance Brazil.  

Diplomacy secrets  

1. Use secret visits (send the National Security Adviser) if the international problem is complex and important – in this way you don’t depend on media and public opinion. Afterwards you can talk, if it was a success.  

2. If presidents like to drink with each other, they are ready to deal with each other.  

3. Avoid negotiating on major issues at the end of the day, when your energy is low.  

4. Negotiate smart, watch your initiatives. The more you tell about your position, the less your partner will tell you about himself, and the higher price you’ll pay. Diplomacy is all about money and the essence of any negotiations is the price range.  

5. Any information should be exchanged as a part of a compromise and not merely given away.  

6. Always talk less than necessary. Concentrate on facts and never tell other person about feelings (or your family and medical problems). Don’t interrupt others, try to understand what they really want and if they try to manipulate you. Also, resist giving in to interruptions until you have completed your thoughts – “Just a moment, I haven’t finished”. Use Taleyran approximation – if it’s difficult for you to speak up, try to make just one diplomatic statement. If they press you, insist on moving this questions to experts. And use indirect language such as “It looks like” or “You see situation from a very special angle”.  

7. No negative emotions, they indicate weak nerves. Never take things personally.  

8. Stop self-limiting behaviors, such as smiling too much, nodding too much, tilting your head or dropping your eyes in response to other person’s gaze. Speak normal conversational volume, don’t scream and don’t whisper, either, as you won’t be taken seriously.  

9. Take a problem-solving approach to conflict, and try to see the other person as your collaborator rather than your opposition. You’d better postpone negotiations than allow them to break down.  

10. Fix all questions, don’t be in a rush to answer any of them.  

11. The slower you talk, the more confident you are.  

12. Never ask straight questions, it’s a primitive approach.  

13. It’s important to know what questions and when to ask.  

Start with an “invitation” question that does not need a definite answer but opens up the discussion, like: “No matter what reporters say, we’ll start negotiating for arms control. ” Proceed with “intelligence gathering” questions, like: “Are you going to abide by our last agreement on the withdrawal of military forces or do we have other options? ” Go to “expertise” questions, like: “It’s 500 missiles, right? ”  

There’s a difference between expertise and straight questions – straight question are like: “Will you sign the treaty? ” and these have to be avoided because you’ll get no straight answer right away. Finish with a closing question, like: “I think that’s what we intend to sign? Next time we can start from here. ” Or you can press your partner: “Let’s not lose this last opportunity, eh? ”  

14. Explain your negative attitude in a smart way: give half the information and continue, depending on your partner’s reaction. If you can’t accept his proposal, tell him that the experts may look into it again and come to agreement. If your partner is not a complete idiot he’ll understand his proposal is unacceptable (because the experts have already done all they could). But if he is an idiot, he’ll agree to “kill” his proposals by passing them to the experts.  

15. You start to lose momentum if you start to defend yourself. Stop (postpone) negotiations the moment you start to lose or you could end up in a total failure and that could be used by opposition back home.  

16. If you bring ideology – try to win. If you bring national interests, try to find compromise. Be flexible – that’s strength, not weakness.  

17. Don’t make aggressive statements for the media, no matter what.  

18. Respect is half a victory, but you usually win when your partner is scared. Avoid open confrontation and respond to personal attacks with humor.  

19. Watch the military experts – they are always ready to “push” you. No arms agreement can win ratification without backing from Joint Chiefs, because Congress needs and trusts their expertise, and their disapproval is a strong tool against you in case you ignore their advice. So, think three times before you appoint Joint Chiefs.  

20. Take negotiations on the trade deficit very seriously – they often take you nowhere and have zero results as your partner wants you to change your attitude to him completely as well as your international economic policy, while you expect the same favor from him. You can influence one partner but you can’t very easily influence the international system.  

21. After you come back home do some positive advertising through the media – in such a way you influence other presidents and future negotiations. If the negotiations resulted in a treaty, “sell” it to the Senate for approval.  

22. Negotiation no-nos:  

– don’t be confused if your partner threatens you – that means he needs your cooperation. Don’t enter into negotiation right away with high demands.  

– don’t touch the toughest issues first. Don’t assume – that’s a sign of weakness.  

– don’t hesitate to pause or take a break.  

– never say “no” to your partner’s ideas – rather, pack them up in one “package” with your proposals.  

Diplomatic tricks  

Tricks in diplomacy are usually used to distract your hard working team, shift the emphasis of the negotiation in order to shape the deal on terms of your adversary or manipulate your team into closing negotiation and accept terms you don’t really like. And the tricks are:  

“Leap” – your adversary is losing and starts “jumping” from one point to another  

“Pile” – your adversary “piles up” problems, tries to provoke a chaotic discussion or stop negotiations  

“Empty chair” – a day or two before negotiations start your adversary informs you that he’s not ready yet, trying to press you (or he wants to change location)  

“Diplomatic illness” – the practice of feigning illness to avoid participation in negotiations and at the same time to avoid giving formal offense.  

“Deaf” – your adversary keeps asking questions instead of answering yours  

“Provocation” – your adversary doubts your team’s professional level and your ability to negotiate. Don’t go crazy.  

“Busy guy” – your adversary breaks negotiation for an hour or two pretending he has to do some very important business (or that he got a very important call).  

“Mirror” – it’s a “programming” trick. The technology is simple: you try to “mirror” your adversary’s style and behavior, adopt a similar posture, use his gestures, and follow the speed of his speech. First, he will like it subconsciously and will be more open to you. Second, you’ll understand better his way of thinking.  

“Sandwich” – pressure (often – military) – negotiations – pressure  

“Show” – using certain arguments your adversary appeals to your emotions  

“Circle” – a very sophisticated trick: your adversary tries to “push” his proposal in different variants and finally comes back to his initial variant, trying to convince you that’s the best choice  

“Carrot and stick” – threat (blackmail) plus promises (money). The guy could blackmail you also by demanding to set a deadline  

“Student” – your adversary talks too much about the details, asking a lot of minor questions, trying to make you nervous and make mistakes  

“Donkey” – your adversary declines the offer to speak first  

“Ball” – encourage your adversary if he’s looking for “global decisions” and he’ll do a lot of minor favors  

“Rubber” – delay, if you can’t predict the result, and press your adversary by delaying the answer  

“Last train” – you can press your adversary by an ultimatum right before negotiations are over, if he really is interested in some result. “Spice” the ultimatum with some important reasons and give your adversary a choice of variants.  

You can also leak opposing demands to the media (be careful with this one. Do not betray diplomatic trust by talking about secret deals or demands that actually have been mentioned). You may also escalate your demands during negotiation and manipulate public opinion to line up behind your demands.  

Negotiations Procedure  

I. Preparation  

1. Write a plan.  

2. Define your objectives.  

3. Identify issues that are open to compromise and those that are not.  

4. Conduct research for information to support your objectives and have information to undermine your partner’s position; think what information is available to your partner (State and Defense Departments will help you with that; not the CIA).  

5. Find out how your partner negotiates with other leaders (he might have a “rabbit in a hat” for you).  

6. Consult with members of a previous negotiating team about his style, strong and weak points.  

7. Check the current balance of power. Attention: if you start multilateral negotiation you have to know what are the conflicts or allegiances between other partners. If they are divided into groups, identify who has the power to make a decision on behalf of a group.  

8. Use game theory if you are intending to cooperate. Game theory is a theoretical analysis of the decision-making process taken by two or more players who are in conflict. You must actually estimate any possible strategies of the players who have to make decisions without knowledge of what other players are planning. Each player’s strategy, once undertaken, will affect the others. Game theory is often illustrated by the “prisoners dilemma” paradigm. It supposes that two men have been arrested on a suspicion of committing a crime together and are being held in separate cells. There is not enough evidence to prosecute unless one confesses and implicates the other. Both of them know this but cannot talk to each other. The dilemma is that the best outcome, not being convicted, is only available if they each trust the other not to implicate him. If X decides to trust Y, but Y fears X may not be trustworthy, Y may confess to get a lesser sentence; X then gets a worse one. The best solution to this dilemma is for both to cooperate, to minimize the worst that can happen, rather than trying for the outcome that is maximum. This is called the minimax strategy and it’s classified as being the most probable outcome.  

II. Conducting negotiations  

Never conduct negotiations before 10 a. m. or after 4 p. m.  

First of all, you have to decide whether you want to speak first or to respond to your partner’s proposal. There’s an advantage in letting your partner make the opening proposal as it might be much more beneficial for you than you suspect.  

Then:  

a) put forward a proposal (with as little emotion as possible). You have to make your initial offer-demand high and compromise from that point onward. Your partner will understand perfectly well it’s too much, so make your initial demand greater than you expect to receive, and offer less than you are expected to give. (For the same reason feel free to reject the first proposal received. ) While talking further, leave yourself room for maneuvering, presenting your proposals, and don’t try to pin down your partner to a fixed position too soon, because he needs room to maneuver, too. Make a final offer when the atmosphere is most cooperative.  

b) respond to proposals in a smart way (again, no emotions). Never take the first offer – if you take it, your adversary may feel there is something wrong with it or he didn’t get the best deal. Capture any similarities on both sides. Don’t hesitate to make conditional counter-offers: “If you do this, we’ll do that. ” Cut the unexpected introduction of new issues and follow strictly a concise step-by-step agenda. Probe your partner’s attitudes: “What would you say if we both lower our demands? ” but indicate that every concession you make is a major loss to you. Ask as many questions as you want – the more information you have, the more you control negotiation. To think over and re-design your strategy, ask for a break as many times as it’s acceptable. Summarize your partner’s proposals.  

c) move towards a bargain. You must know perfectly well the response to each of your points before you open your mouth. If your aides can’t help you, you have the wrong aides and you even might be a wrong president. Offer the lowest price first, as you may not need to go any further. Negotiate a “package, ” don’t concentrate on one demand and link other, smaller demands to it. While making a final offer look at the other party and check the body language (see below), your team members must confirm by body language that this is your final offer. It’s OK to press the partner by emphasizing the need to reach agreement, like: “We know our nations are waiting to see the treaty signed. ” (If your partner looks at his watch, it means he wants to end the talk. ) If you see you are approaching a dead end, ask your partner to talk off the record, in private, but if you talk in private, you have to keep your word no matter what.  

Sometimes negotiations (as in the Israel-Palestine case) run into serious problems and breakdowns. Strong diplomats never say “never” and never leave forever, and always are ready to come back and agree right away on new dates to continue talks, as though a breakdown is just one more pressure trick. The best thing to do is to re-establish communications as soon as possible and you have to do this through your team member who has good connections and influence with other party. Act fast, especially if the consequences of “no deal” would be worse than the last deal that was on the table. If the situation is not improving, you have nothing else but to use a mediator. I do not recommend you to take responsibility as mediator or to use a mediator for your diplomatic needs. International experience shows that these old and “experienced” people usually make the situation worse, like bringing in a lawyer — even if the situation looks better for the next couple of years. But if you have no choice and your partner, and your aides insist on using a mediator to resolve the situation you have to think it over … and agree.  

Mediation is the process in which deadlocked parties consider the suggestions of a third party, agreed upon in advance, but are not bound to accept the mediator’s recommendations. The mediator works as a referee between the negotiating parties and tries to find common ground among their agendas. Once some common ground is established, the mediator can begin to look for mutually acceptable ways out of the deadlock. A mediator between presidents has to be a president himself, very influential, and well informed on the situation to be able to make effective recommendations.  

He has to:  

a) consider the situation from all angles  

b) help both parties to understand each other better  

c) help the parties to create new approaches  

d) suggest a solution, give alternatives  

But if the two sides’ demands are too far apart, no outside party can bring them together at all. ( Often a mediator has to make multiple trips between two parties, who do not talk directly, and it’s called shuttle diplomacy. Usually, two parties do not formally recognize each other, but still want to negotiate. The term became widespread following Henry Kissinger’s term as National Security Adviser and then, as the United States Secretary of State (in 1973-1977), when he participated in shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and China).  

III. Closing negotiation  

That’s the most important part, a final mutual agreement or disagreement, a test for your foreign policy making strategy and tactics and personally for you, your power and your image. Any treaty you sign with foreign leaders, if it meets American interests, is not your personal success, but that of the nation. There are three options:  

a) the agreement with all conditions is acceptable to both parties  

b) the agreement is acceptable to one party only  

c) the agreement is unacceptable for both parties  

Diplomatic Double Talk  

Statement Meaning  

We are disappointed. We got nothing.  

Situation disturbs us. It’s unacceptable.  

There are still differences between There are huge differences.  

our approaches.  

We can’t accept this deal. This means trouble.  

We reserve the right to use any means  

to prevent further worsening of the situation. This means war.  

Discussion helped us to understand each  

other better. We’ve wasted our time.  

We don’t understand your attitude. Stop it immediately.  

I’m trying to understand your position. Understand me too, idiot!  

If I’ve understood you correctly, you don’t agree. Do you have any other option?  

We’ll pay a very high price if we don’t  

reach agreement. Yes, that’s a threat!  

Chapter 5. Espionage management  

Spy Code  

1. No mercy, no ideology, no emotions.  

2. Intuition is nothing but the ability to watch and analyze.  

3. No evidence is evidence in itself.  

4. Distrust is a mother of security.  

5. Never look as if you are sizing up the person – that’s a sign that gives away cops and spies.  

6. Don’t start first if you don’t know the rules.  

7. The way you act is the way you think – behavior is a system of codes (information) which could be calculated by the enemy. Watch your face – that’s a shop window.  

8. Think fast, talk slow.  

9. Avoid self-programming and never think bad about yourself.  

10. Don’t smoke, drink or take drugs if it’s not necessary; spare your stomach from very hot or cold food or drinks; avoid too much noise and light.  

11. Don’t be shy to lie – the more you lie the more people respect you.  

12. Let people talk out and “empty their brains” – then load your information.  

13. People never change – everybody wants to get pleasure and avoid pain.  

14. “He knew too much” means “He talked too much. ”  

15. Never ask extra questions – wait. Wait and the object will get used to you and open himself – nobody can stay tense for long.  

16. Lonely people live longer in espionage business.  

17. “No exit” situation is the one you don’t like or don’t understand.  

18. Avoid:  

– personal enemies (they fix negative information on you)  

– silent types (they notice and think too much)  

– other professionals (they’ll blow your identity)  

– extra stress (it damages your heart and blood vessels and that kills your brain and your ability to think )  

– talking too much  

19. The best weapon against your enemy is his enemy.  

20. “I want nothing” means “I want everything”.  

21. Small lie gives birth to big distrust.  

How to run assets  

You can get tons of information through technical devices but no device can influence decisions made by leaders of other countries. That’s why for thousands of years to come, a reliable agent will be the top tool of any special service, and their actual names have to be kept secret forever, please. A VIP agent (a top government employee) is a very rare thing and depends hugely on luck, because he can make or influence big political decisions. If he has access to the Oval Office, he can change the President’s plans and strategy, and can sabotage political, economic or military actions. When major presidential initiatives fail, time after time, one might wonder who is sabotaging whom.  

The most important thing a secret source can get is a reliable information on any possible attempt on the US President’s life, or concerning a decision of a foreign government to start a war against the United States. A professional agent is actually is both an instrument (to get information) and a weapon (to influence or neutralize people).  

Categories:  

A. "Garbage" (60%), the "no trust " category.  

Recruitment is #1 priority for the officer and a part of his working plan and very often he has to recruit people who are not born agents. You can work with a nice guy, teach him, pay him, press him — and he still avoids any cooperation (busy, sick, on vacation, etc. ). It’s hard to get rid of him because, first, you have to explain to your superiors why you recruited garbage and second, there’s a rule: if you want to be very smart and innovative, a reformer, who came here to start intelligence revolution and get rid of a passive agent, recruit an active one first. Also, agents who work under pressure (blackmail) sooner or later slide into this category.  

B. Good agents (30%), middle category. They adhere to the rules of discipline and keep the schedule (that’s very important even if there’s no information), deliver a lot of information that you have to verify through other sources, but don’t show much initiative. Used for regular espionage: go and talk to the object, copy documents, make a recording, take pictures, listen, watch. You can trust them and check often, anyway.  

C. Born agents (10%). You are very lucky if you can recruit such people. They betray their country with pleasure and sometimes do not even ask for money because it’s in their character — they are looking for adventure or are not happy with their personal or professional life and seek improvement or revenge. They take risks, have good analytical abilities, good education, make (VIP) connections easily, "crack" any object, play the "good guy" whom you can trust. Sometimes they come to you as volunteers, and if they bring valuable stuff – recruit them  

Special category. Women.  

Women are a special category here, as elsewhere, and the rule is: if you can’t recruit a real agent, you recruit a woman. It’s not professional to recruit a woman for a serious operation, but if you want to get to an important object, a woman can introduce you. OK, you can recruit a US Senator’s secretary or a typist from the Pentagon, but it will be on your conscience if she gets caught. Such cases entail a life sentence, usually — how would you feel? Besides, women often fall in love with their objects and tell them everything. Finally, a married woman is much bigger problem than a married man.  

Recruitment  

Recruit a small number of well-informed people. Do not recruit:  

– psychos  

– volunteers (unless it’s a "mole" or other government employee who brings you top secret information right away. In a counter-intelligence set-up, a "volunteer" will try to get information about you, telling the minimum about himself. )  

– persons with low educational and intellectual level  

– people under 30 or over 70, unless it’s a VIP. (Did someone get Jim Baker? Dick Cheney? )  

– mafia members  

– people who are happy with their lives and careers  

The best formula when you recruit is a mix of money and ideology (brainwashing). It’s not necessary to sign recruitment obligations — people take that as a blackmail tool. It’s enough if the fellow brings a good piece of information and get paid (make a video, anyway).  

Recruitment Pyramid  

Priority recruitment candidates in the USA:  

President  

The White House staff  

The Cabinet and federal agencies  

The US Congress  

Big corporations  

Big scientific institutions  

Local politicians  

VIP world (celebrities – big media, show biz, big sport)  

Candidates for recruitment  

1. All spies who work in the USA under legal "cover" as diplomats, reporters, scientists, businessmen, actors, artists, musicians, sportsmen have the legal right to make and develop any contacts and invite people to private parties; then they "transfer" these contacts to professional recruiters. Any embassy can invite any politician to official and private parties and "work" with him there. Besides, all those people can invite prospective candidates to their countries or to other country to develop the contact; it’s much easier to recruit abroad. And remember, any contact, any talk, any piece of biography is already information.  

2. You can get information about candidates through other agents and through the media.  

3. It’s useful to install listening devices in the government buildings or listen to the phones, and collect compromising information on politicians. I recommend listening to the phones all over the city, if it’s the capital of the country.  

"Golden" rules.  

1. Do not tell the agent about problems and mistakes of the agency, about your personal problems, about other agents, about his own file and compromising information you have on him.  

2. Don’t show him any classified documents – you might provoke him to sell the information to somebody else.  

3. Don’t trust your agents too much; they can use you to compromise their personal enemies.  

4. Never criticize the source – be an adviser. Don’t talk straight if he avoids cooperation or brings you garbage – just reduce or stop payments, or get rid of him.  

5. You lose the agent if you don’t pay him for a job well done, ask him to "produce" fake information (to show your bosses how much great espionage activity you have going on) or if you don’t care about his personal security and his personal problems (health, career). And — never give poison to your agent for security reasons.  

Questioning the source  

This is of extreme importance – the right question brings you the right answer and top secret info. Give your agent a chance to tell and show you everything he’s brought, no matter how chaotic the story might be or how ordinary the documents look. Don’t make written notices. Don’t bring written questions even if you are talking about some advanced technology — look and be professional. Don’t let the agent analyze the information before he talks to you and don’t let him bring it in a written form – it’s usually not complete; he can lose it; or it may be stolen from him. If there are documents, he has to bring a microfilm. Ask questions — when? where? what happened? why? what’s going to happen next?  

After that you tell the story back to him and he adds details. At the end of the meeting give the agent another task and don’t ask him to bring you "something, " because he’ll bring you just that "something" and nothing else.  

Remember, questioning is not interrogation; do not bring another officer to the meeting because it will look like cross interrogation.  

Teaching the source  

Teach your agent to:  

– follow security rules while talking to people, working with the documents and especially meeting the officer (some foreign agencies practice open contacts with many people, hoping that the meeting with the agent won’t attract much attention — I don’t recommend that)  

– always stay calm in stressful situations  

– always keep discipline and come in time  

– use analytic abilities working with people and documents – ask yourself as many questions as you can  

Checking the source  

You can never be sure you are not working with a "double agent, " even if he brings you top secret stuff. Besides, agents are human beings and they make mistakes — they forget about security, spend too much money, talk too much and ask extra questions; if arrested they may not play the hero but will tell everything. Anyway, you can check your source:  

a. by fake arrest followed by severe interrogation.  

b. through provocation (tell him you know about his "double game" and watch his behavior after the meeting (it’s good to have a listening device or a camera in his house).  

c. by making an analysis of all the information and documents he delivers and comparing it with information from other sources.  

d. through other agents.  

e. through your "mole" in counter-intelligence (if you’re lucky).  

f. through technical devices (reading the mail, listening to the phone, secret searching his house and office, watching him through hidden cameras, trying surveillance in the street).  

Agent termination (one-way ticket)  

It doesn’t happen often but you have to know some special situations when you have to terminate the agent:  

1. He knows too much (talks too much) and is ready to betray you.  

2. VIP agent (politician) is under suspicion and you can’t help him for political reasons (diplomatic, international scandal, etc. ) — in such a case an accident could be staged. It happens that the agent is too close to President.  

3. Agent was involved in special operations (murders) and is dangerous as a witness.  

4. Agent is trying to blackmail you.  

5. You need to press (blackmail) other agents.  

Special Influence Methods  

1. Tortures  

Torture is a category of methods of interrogation designed to shock, hurt and humiliate the object and get information or to make him do something (if used for blackmail). Points to remember:  

–ongoing torture decreases pain sensitivity  

–people with strong will power take torture as a test  

–resistance to torture is often a form of hysterics after arrest  

–the object could take himself as a martyr if you torture him too much  

–torture could damage object’s psyche and you won’t be able to work with him (that’s why we keep terrorists in Guantanamo Bay without trial – we turn them into idiots)  

–people usually trust "after torture information" more than v