This is a new kind of warfare.”īut Kompromat is not just a frightening tale of ongoing Russian influence in our elections. “This is really remarkable,” Pegues says. The more he dove into his research, the more it surprised him. On weekends and during vacations, he wrote Kompromat. “I told them this would be a story for the ages,” he says.ĭuring the day, Pegues talked to sources for his “Evening News” or “CBS This Morning” reports. Prometheus - which published Black and Blue - trusted the author’s judgment. Pegues pitched a book idea to publishers. He spent 24 hours traveling with then-CIA director John Brennan, who told the CBS correspondent, “Unusual stuff is happening.” Pegues says, “It felt like we were living in a movie script.” “I was stomping around the newsroom, saying we should be covering the Russian story every night.” His own network was part of that surface coverage, Pegues notes. He watched as American media focused on the presidential campaign - not on “the story behind the campaign, which was Russia’s hacking and influence.” “Intelligence and law enforcement people who do not usually panic were really worried,” Pegues recalls. In his CBS News role, he was one of the first people to hear - from reliable intelligence sources - about Russia’s interference in our election. Pegues’ interest in the subject was piqued during the summer of 2016. Russia’s influence on our elections was a hot topic during the 8 months Pegues researched and wrote it.īut even he had no idea his book would hit the shelves just days before President Trump’s Helsinki Summit moved the title - “kompromat” means “compromising material” - out of obscurity, and into our national dialogue.
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