One Nation Under Blackmail: Vol. 1

Following the Blackmail Networks

One Nation Under Blackmail, Volume 1, is Whitney Webb's meticulously sourced investigation into the convergence of intelligence agencies, organized crime, and financial power in the United States. Webb traces the relationships between figures in the CIA, the Mafia, Wall Street, and political power brokers from the post-World War II period through the Iran-Contra affair, documenting how sexual blackmail and financial leverage became instruments of covert political control.

What Volume 1 Covers

The book begins with the OSS and early CIA's alliances with organized crime figures, moves through the establishment of offshore financial networks, and tracks the careers of key fixers and operatives who moved between the underworld and the intelligence community. Webb's research draws on declassified documents, congressional testimony, court records, and investigative journalism from the past fifty years. The Jeffrey Epstein case is the starting point for the investigation, but the book reaches back decades to show that Epstein's operation was not an anomaly. It was the latest iteration of a much older system.

The Method

Webb is a journalist, and she writes like one. The prose is dense with names, dates, and citations. This is not speculative. Every claim is footnoted. Readers looking for a careful, document-driven account of how covert power actually operates in the American system will find this indispensable.

About This Edition

Author: Whitney Webb
Publisher: Trine Day
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781634243018