Kirkus Professional Book Reviewers said: "Graham's new book is an intriguing and informative ‘must read’ from a woman who is probably the best-informed American on the terrifying realities concerning Vladimir Putin's motivations and his control over Trump. It is a warning to all Americans."
The bestselling ebook, 'From Democracy to Democrazy', by Elizabeth Graham will be available at no charge on June 3, 2025, at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?.
Elizabeth Graham had a Top-Secret Security Clearance while a senior in high school, and immediately upon graduation began working undercover with the CIA. She later joined the SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center (FSRC) for 12 years. Eight of these years were spent studying Russia and Russian, and she managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence data base/library in the U.S. She began to travel to the Soviet Union and then became one of the very few Americans to move to the USSR. She lived under Communism in the Soviet Union, then Russia, and Central Asia long enough to become bi-cultural - she became Russian. Her first-hand knowledge and understanding of life in a communist or dictatorship country is shared with Americans in her book and in her Substack by the same name (egraham.substack.com).
MSB has reported that Donald Trump is dismantling the FBI. In a recent article, she wrote in part: “MSNBC reported that the FBI has folded the public corruption unit that investigated Donald Trump. This same division worked with Jack Smith on his “Russian interference report.” As a result, Peter Strzok, the former FBI Chief of counterespionage was fired.”
On a Substack message sent by Willy Perez-Feria on 5/16/2025, “Politically motivated, the dismantling of the FBI will undermine the bureau’s integrity and influence. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, who cited a desire to free resources for ‘more pressing priorities’ – a lame excuse – disbanded the FITF (Foreign Influence Task Force) in early 2025.
As a comparison, when Putin took office as the President of Russia in 2000 - among his first tasks was to dismantle their KGB and give a newly formed government branch called the FSB many of the same tasks previously performed by their KGB. Please note, that before Putin became President, he created the FSB (Federal Security Service) and led this organization until his presidency in 2000. It was created in 1994 and is one of the successor agencies of the Soviet-era KGB. Its primary function is internal security and counterintelligence, but it also oversees all Banks.
The FBI is (or was) the lead agency in the U.S. for investigating and exposing intelligence activities, including espionage. They also investigate counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber-attacks, public corruption, civil rights, and transnational organized crime. (www.fbi.gov) LAWFARE, printed an article on January 13, 2019, written by Jack Goldsmith titled: “On What Grounds Can the FBI Investigate the President as a Counterintelligence Threat?” This article begins by saying “The New York Times reported on January 11, 2017, that the FBI ‘began investigating whether President Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests’ soon after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. In other words, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation on the president.” The Times paraphrases former FBI General Counsel James Baker’s testimony as follows: “If the president had fired Mr. Comey to stop the Russia investigation, the action would have been a national security issue because it naturally would have hurt the bureau’s effort to learn how Moscow interfered in the 2016 election and whether any Americans were involved.” (Ibid)
As David Kris noted, (Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security of the United States) “we have long understood that this counterintelligence investigation would sweep up Trump’s relationship with Russia and might include the question whether Trump might be compromised by the Russians. But the Times suggests that the FBI—at least after Comey was fired—took this investigation in a different direction, based on the premise that the president was a threat to the national security interests of the United States.” (Ibid)
This is the same timeframe when Mr. Trump told the American public that “I have nothing to do with Russia. You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house several years ago in Palm Beach, Florida for $40 Million and sold it to a Russian for $100 Million. (USA Today, Jan. 11, 2017, written by Jessica Durando) He also said “Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I have nothing to do with Russia – no deals, no loans, no nothing!” (Ibid) All flat out lies.
Trump’s demeanor in the Oval Office when he welcomed Sergey Lazarov and the Russian Ambassador Kislyak was very different than other dignitaries. He behaved like greeting old chums.
In 2025, we know this (the Trump-Russia association) is not a fabrication or a deliberate lie. In fact, there is proof that Trump has been associated with Russians in the U.S. since the mid to late 1970’s. Craig Unger’s newest Substack opens with, “There are no Trump tariffs’ on Moscow’s biggest export – the mobsters and oligarchs who helped put him in power.”
Unger goes on to say, “On May 5th, Jason Leopold reported that the Trump administration was shutting down the ‘Department of Justice unit that has long been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels, and human trafficking rings. No reason was provided for removing the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. . . but getting rid of it must have delighted President Trump. This eradicated a potential threat to the Russian mafia, money launderers, and international criminal cartels, who supported Trump and have funded Republicans politicians for years.” (Unger Substack, Ibid)
In 1996, Trump attended the grand opening of the Chuck Norris Enterprise operation in Moscow. My daughter was also there. Called the Beverly Hills, this nightclub and casino were known in Russia for its naked girls, under-age prostitution, famous faces, and massive corruption. Trump was also a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxell, both convicted sex offenders and found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offenses. (Wikipedia)
In 2008, “Donald Trump Jr. told investors in Moscow that the Trump Organization had trademarked the Donald Trump name in Russia and planned to build housing and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sochi, and to sell licenses to other developers” according to Russian daily Kommersant (USA Today, 02/15/2017). This is another lie. In both Vanity Fair ((May 8, 2017) and Business Insider (Feb. 21, 2018) magazines, Trump’s elder sons commented that the Trump Organization had received $100 million from Russian banks and that Trump no longer needs to borrow from U.S. banks - they now get their money from Russia. U.S. banks refused to loan money to Trump who had six bankruptcies. Russian banks are managed and controlled by the FSB (since 1994) and Vladimir Putin and money from these banks to foreigners are for espionage purposes, to launder black cash, or for bribery.
The full text of the piece is available at https://substack.com/@elizabethgraham.
All of this information and much more is available in Graham's book, 'From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans', now available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?. The bestselling ebook version will be available at no charge June 3, 2025 at Amazon. More information is available at her website at https://democrazy2020.org/.
About Elizabeth Graham:
Elizabeth Graham lives in a quiet rural city in northern Arizona. She had 4 children and has 3 grandchildren. Her oldest daughter died July 16, 2016 - three months before the U.S. 2016 election and while living/working in Japan. The Tokyo Police ruled her death a homicide by an unknown substance – possibly a poison - which is the signature lethal method used by Russians. There is more about her death in From Democracy to Democrazy.
Elizabeth was indoctrinated at a young age by her father who was a senior manager working undercover with the CIA. Her college days were in Los Angeles with the desire to become a high school teacher. However, she was destined to study Russia, Russian language, and live a life of Top-Secret clearances and undercover work. This led to senior nonprofit management positions and consulting jobs in strategic places like Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, all the former Soviet - Central Asian countries, and Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other locations. In this process of living and working abroad, she became bi-cultural - American to Russian and back – only to find that her birth country was in the process of losing its democracy and becoming a dictatorship.
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