James Turk has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. In 1980 Turk joined the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader. According to Turk, the world is troubled because of the misplaced reliance people have placed on government.  

The KGB was the premier policing agency in the former Soviet Union. The agency, formally know as the Committee for State Security, was largely known as a USSR espionage agency during the period of the Cold War. Dissolution of the KGB may have been a perceptive measure. It was replaced in 1991 with the FSK, or Federal Counterintelligence Service. The KGB still maintains an operational directory of active reserves that are in positions of power in the FSB.