Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
Eamon Javers
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0061697206
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Award-winning reporter Eamon Javers’s Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is a penetrating work of investigative and historical journalism about the evolution of corporate espionage, exploring the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business. From the birth of the Pinkertons to Howard Hughes, from presidents to Cold War spies, Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is, like Legacy of Ashes and Blackwater, a first rate political thriller that also just happens to be true.
is no such thing as a former KGB man.”4 Many of these officers never gave up their dark red KGB identity cards when the Soviet Union collapsed. To this day, Platt says, they can flash the cards to win all sorts of special favors in Russian society—from getting a speeding ticket fixed to being offered career opportunities. The powerful ex-KGB men never quite gave up the idea that Vasilenko had been a secret spy for the Americans. “There were those that never believed that I didn’t recruit him,”
neglect—benign or otherwise. Once again, Gay called Peloquin with an emergency request: get to Mexico and spring the Hughes entourage from prison. Peloquin and a former member of the Arizona border patrol took flights to Mexico. “Bob, have you got any money?” the man from the border patrol asked Peloquin when they arrived. “I’ve got a couple of thousand.” “Give it to me.” Peloquin handed over the cash. (When dealing with Hughes, Peloquin was accustomed to carrying huge amounts of hard
and defense adviser to the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher Ed Mathias, managing director of the enormous American private equity firm Carlyle Group, which specialized in buying and selling defense companies Thomas “Mack” McLarty, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton Ed Rogers, chairman of Barbour Griffith and Rogers, a protégé of Republican political consultant Lee Atwater, and a veteran of the Reagan and the first Bush administrations. The weave of interconnections
National Threat Assessment Center, developing elaborate profiles of potential killers. Today, she heads Threat Assessment Resources International, a firm based in Sparks, Nevada, just outside Reno. It offers a threat assessment training package for companies to help protect themselves from internal threats. The training includes walking executives through case studies of workplace shootings and insider sabotage, showing them the basic principles of threat assessment in the workplace, and
case, the activities of the investigators span continents. And each operation has a “hall of mirrors” quality. Take the Russians, for example: can men who were loyal communists and rose through the ranks of the Soviet establishment truly embrace working for capitalist corporate titans? Or take the former CIA officers: how do patriotic spies who once served their country feel about working for an unelected hereditary billionaire? Such questions do not necessarily involve a conflict of interest,