Return to Winter: Russia, China, and the New Cold War Against America (52 page)

15
. Courtney Subramanian, “Obama Adviser Cool to Snowden Amnesty,”
Swampland
(blog),
Time
, December 23, 2013,
http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/23/obama-adviser-edward-snowden-doesnt-deserve-amnesty/
.

16
. Scott Shane and Charlie Savage, “In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents,”
New York Times
, June 28, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/world/europe/29spy.html
.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. “FBI Releases Russian Spy Ring Papers, Video,” Fox News,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/31/fbi-releases-russian-spy-ring-papers-video/
.

20
. “Spies Like Us,”
The Economist
, July 1, 2010,
http://www.economist.com/node/16486569
.

21
. Shai Oster and Gordon Fairclough, “Beijing Taxis Are Rigged for Eavesdropping,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 6, 2008,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB121795982193713959
.

22
. Scott Shane and David E. Sanger, “Drone Crash in Iran Reveals Secret U.S. Surveillence Effort,”
New York Times
December 7, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/world/middleeast/drone-crash-in-iran-reveals-secret-us-surveillance-bid.html
.

23
. Lee Ferran, “Iran: We Stole All Secrets From US Drone,” ABC News, December 10, 2012,
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-stole-secrets-us-rq-170-drone/story?id=17925395
.

24
. Scott Peterson, “Exclusive: Iran Hijacked U.S. Drone, Says Iranian Engineer,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 15, 2011,
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video
.

25
. Siobhan Gorman and Adam Entous, “U.S. Says Drone Crashed, Refuting Iran’s Claim,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 16, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203733304577102504272876554
.

26
. Mark Clayton, “Did Iran Hijack the ‘Beast’? US Experts Caution About Bold Claims,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 16, 2011,
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/1216/Did-Iran-hijack-the-beast-US-experts-cautious-about-bold-claims.-Video
.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Whitney Eulich, “Did Iran Just Down a U.S. Drone by ‘Spoofing’?”
The Christian Science Monitor
, December 4, 2012,
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2012/1204/Did-Iran-just-down-a-US-drone-by-spoofing-video
.

30
. Thomas Erdbrink, “U.S. Navy Denies Iran’s Claim to Have Captured Drone,”
New York Times
December 4, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/world/middleeast/iran-says-it-seized-another-american-drone.html
.

31
. Adam Goldman and Anne Gearan, “Senate Report: Attacks on U.S. Compounds in Benghazi Could Have Been Prevented,”
Washington Post
, January 15, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-report-attack-on-us-compound-in-benghazi-could-have-been-prevented/2014/01/15/5e197224-7de9-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html
.

32
. Russ Travers, “The Coming Intelligence Failure: A Blueprint for Survival,” Central Intelligence Agency,
Studies in Intelligence
, Semiannual Edition, no. 1, 1997,
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/97unclass/failure.html
.

33
. Uri Friedman, “The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures,”
Foreign Policy
, January 2, 2012,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/1/3/the_ten_biggest_american_intelligence_failures
.

34
. Spencer Ackerman, “The CIA’s Failures,”
The Nation
, July 14, 2008,
http://www.thenation.com/article/cias-failures
.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Mark Mazzetti, “C.I.A. Lays Out Errors It Made Before Sept. 11,”
New York Times
, August 22, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22cia.html
.

37
. Marcu Baram, “CIA’s Mideast Surprise Recalls History of Intelligence Failures,”
Huffington Post
, February 11, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/cias-mideast-surprise-history-of-failures_n_822183.html
.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Mark Landler and Choe Sang-Hun, “In Kim’s Undetected Death, Sign of Nation’s Opacity,”
New York Times
, December 19, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/world/asia/in-detecting-kim-jong-il-death-a-gobal-intelligence-failure.html
.

40
. Mark Steyn, “Failures of Intelligence.”

41
. Tom Murse, “How Much U.S. Debt Does China Really Own?”
About.com
, accessed May 15, 2014,
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/ss/How-Much-US-Debt-Does-China-Own.htm
.

42
. Wayne M. Morrison and Marc Labonte, “China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy” (report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, August, 2013),
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf
.

43
. Ibid.

44
. Ding Gang, “China Must Punish US for Taiwan Arms Sales With ‘Financial Weapon,’”
China Daily
, August 8, 2008,
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-08/08/content_13069554.htm
.

45
. Morrison and Labonte, “China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities.”

46
. Chris Isidore, “U.S. Companies Dump Billions Into China,” CNN Money, January 20, 2011,
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/20/news/international/us_business_chinese_investment_boom/index.htm
.

47
. Gary Epstein and Robyn Meredith, “U.S. Companies That Invest Big in China,”
Forbes
, July 5, 2010,
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/05/us-investments-china-markets-emerging-markets-fdi.html
.

48
. “Minerals Imported by the United States,” Mineral Information Institute, accessed December 21, 2013,
http://www.mii.org/pdfs/imports.pdf
.

49
. “Russian Company Will Supply Components for Boeing 787,”
USA Today
, December 27, 2007,
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2007-12-27-boeing-russian-parts_N.htm
.

50
. Mamta Badkar, “The Strange Story of Neil Heywood, the British Businessman Who May Have Been Killed by the Wife of a Chinese Communist Party Boss,”
Business Insider
, April 10, 2012,
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-who-was-neil-haywood-2012-4

51
. “Times Topics: Bo Xilai,”
New York Times
, accessed July 18, 2014,
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/bo_xilai/index.html
.

52
. Austin Ramzy, “Wang Lijun, Police Boss Who Triggered Bo Xilai Scandal, Sentenced to 15 Years,”
Time
, September 24, 2012,
http://world.time.com/2012/09/24/wang-lijun-police-boss-who-triggered-bo-xilai-scandal-sentenced-to-15-years/
.

53
. “Bo Xilai Scandal: Timeline,” BBC News, November 11, 2013,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17673505
.

54
. Badkar, “The Strange Story.”

55
. Ramzy, “Wang Lijun.”

56
. “Times Topics: Bo Xilai.”

57
. Jason Bush, “Knocking on Russia’s Door,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, March 29, 2006,
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-03-29/knocking-on-russias-door
.

58
. Jason Bush, “Hijacking the Hermitage Fund,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, April 4, 2008,
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-04-04/hijacking-the-hermitage-fundbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
.

59
. Ibid.

60
. Ibid.

61
. Philip Aldrick, “Who Was Sergei Magnitsky?”
The Telegraph
, January 21, 2011,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8272606/Who-was-Sergei-Magnitsky.html
.

62
. Ibid.

63
. Ellen Barry, “Scathing Report Issued on Russian Lawyer’s Death,”
New York Times
, December 28, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/world/europe/29russia.html
.

64
. Philip Aldrick, “Hermitage Capital Calls for Russian Inquiry into $330 Million ‘Tax Frauds’ Discovered by Sergei Magnitsky,”
The Telegraph
, June 20, 2011,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financial-crime/8587718/Hermitage-Capital-calls-for-Russian-inquiry-into-330m-tax-frauds-uncovered-by-Sergei-Magnitsky.html
.

65
. Simon Shuster, “One (Rich) American vs. Moscow: The Quest of William Browder,”
Time
, December 3, 2011,
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2100298-2,00.html
.

66
. Kathy Lally and Will Englund, “Russia Fumes as U.S. Senate Passes Magnitsky Law Aimed at Human Rights,”
Washington Post
, December 6, 2012,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-06/world/35649594_1_magnitsky-law-magnitsky-act-law-accountability-act
.

67
. “Obama’s Magnitsky Walkback,” editorial,
Wall Street Journal
, January 5, 2014,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304591604579290880748745144
.

68
. Ibid.

69
. Kathy Lally, “Magnitsky Law Sets Off Human Rights Fight Between Russia and U.S. Politicians,”
Washington Post
, December 7, 2012,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-07/world/35673849_1_law-accountability-act-sergei-magnitsky-rule-hermitage-capital-management
.

70
. Natalie Huet and Maria Golovnina, “Russian Mafia Whistleblower, 44, Found Dead in UK,” Reuters, November 28, 2012,
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/uk-britain-russia-death-idUKBRE8AR0OM20121128
.

71
. Peter Pomerantsev, “The Ballroom Dancer and the KGB,”
Newsweek
, January 4, 2013,
http://www.newsweek.com/ballroom-dancer-and-kgb-63125
.

72
. Ibid.

73
. Boris Volodarsky, “Alexander Litvinenko: A Very Russian Poisoning,”
The Telegraph
, December 2, 2009,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6615872/Alexander-Litvinenko-A-very-Russian-poisoning.html
.

74
. Ibid.

75
. Pomerantsev, “The Ballroom Dancer.”

76
. Volodarsky, “Alexander Litvinenko.”

77
. Ibid.

78
. Ibid.

79
. Alan Cowell, “Evidence of Russian State Role Seen in Death of Poisoned Spy,”
New York Times
, December 13, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/world/europe/russian-state-role-seen-in-death-of-poisoned-spy.html
.

80
. Pomerantsev, “The Ballroom Dancer.”

81
. Ibid.

82
. Jane Croft and Neal Buckley, “UK Turns Down Request for Litvinenko Public Inquiry,”
Financial Times
, July 12, 2013,
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5cf19446-eadf-11e2-9fcc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Z8rqf3fv
.

83
. Alan Cowell, “Hearing Reveals Details of Spy’s Life, but Motive for Death Is Still a Mystery,”
New York Times
, December 17, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/world/europe/hearing-into-litvinenkos-death-still-leaves-motive-a-mystery.html
.

84
. Will Stewart, Rebecca Chamber, and Damien Gayle, “Exiled Russian Banker Left in Coma by Submachine Gun ‘Assassination Bid’ Put Under Armed Guard in Hospital Over Fears of Further Attempts on His Life,”
Daily Mail
, March 23, 2012,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119384/Canary-Wharf-shooting-Russian-banker-German-Gorbuntsov-gunned-assassination-attempt.html
.

85
. Shaun Walker, “Exclusive Interview: German Gorbuntsov—the Banker Shot Six Times in London,”
The Independent
, June 8, 2012,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/exclusive-interview-german-gorbuntsov--the-banker-shot-six-times-in-london-7827996.html
.

86
. Ibid.

87
. Natalya Krainova, “2 Jailed in Ruslan Yamadayev’s Killing,”
Moscow Times
, October 19, 2010,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/2-jailed-in-ruslan-yamadayevs-killing/420522.html
.

88
. Luke Harding and Miriam Elder, “Attack on Russian Banker Leaves Trail of Clues Back to Moscow,”
The Guardian
, March 30, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/30/russian-banker-london-clues-moscow
.

89
. Ibid.

90
. Walker, “Exclusive Interview: German Gorbuntsov.”

91
. Howard LaFranchi, “Ukraine Standoff: For Some, Russia’s Tactics Hark back to Soviet Practices (+video),”
Christian Science Monitor
, April 23, 2014,
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2014/0423/Ukraine-standoff-For-some-Russia-s-tactics-hark-back-to-Soviet-practices-video
.

CHAPTER 8: PROPAGANDA WARD

1
. Robert Bridge, “Putin Trumpets Russia’s ‘Cultural Dominance,’” RT, January 23, 2012,
http://rt.com/politics/putin-immigration-manifest-article-421/
.

2
. Jeremy Page, “For Xi, a ‘China Dream’ of Military Power,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 13, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578348774040546346.html
.

3
. President Obama, news conference, April 4, 2009, “
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/news-conference-president-obama-4042009
.”

4
. Evgeny Lebedev, “What’s So Good About Democracy Anyway? An Audience With the Last Dictator in Europe,”
The Independent
, October 19, 2012,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whats-so-good-about-democracy-anyway-an-audience-with-the-last-dictator-in-europe-8218912.html
.