Spies deported with amazing haste.
The press had a field day with the Kremlin mole scandal. It's the silly season, so why not make a lark out of the Russian spy ring's exposure?
The White House, of course, had good reason to settle the matter quickly. Obama had pledged to set the reset button in Russian relations. And, anonymous sources say, there was nothing to be gained from holding agents whom the FBI had been watching for years.
Of course, one couldn't help being a bit suspicious of the media decision to make light of the case, with continual emphasis that the spies had evidently stolen no national security secrets. One front page New York Times feature story said that, ho ho, the Russians had only been spying on suburbia.
However, these were longterm moles, whose job it was to worm their ways into positions of inluence -- a task at which several had very obviously succeeded. They were true to Lenin's "boring from within" tactic. And the fact that two in the cell were "nearly visible" Communists accords with the old Cheka tactic of using semivisible comrades as operatives.
And what is the likelihood that this communist-style cell is the only one? The cell is quite likely to be the tip of the iceberg, representing a vast penetration operation because that's how the Kremlin has operated in America since the 1920s.
Alger Hiss was identified as a member of such a Russian ring. Though he was accused of spying, the bigger issue was that he had been in a position to influence policy. But when Hiss first was involved with his Cheka handler, Whittaker Chambers, he was not yet a big shot.
Chambers told of others in his group of moles and also revealed in his book Witness the workings of a vast communist conspiracy run by the Kremlin. Many of the moles, he said, were "sleepers" awaiting activation when needed.
While it is true that the Soviet Union has collapsed, it is also true that Putin and his KGB comrades have instituted many of the methods of the communist power.
So what was the White House thinking with its unseemly haste to get the spies out of the country? We know that the Obama White House is very sensitive politically. (For example, in order to take the focus off a number of anti-democratic decisions of his presidency, the Obama group, trying to keep the liberal base happy, is focusing on opposition to the Arizona immigration law.)
So it is quite surprising that the White House and the Justice Dept. weren't going to let various communist and radical Marxist controversies worry them when they decided to get the Russian moles out pronto.
I agree that the fact that Obama, as a youth, was mentored by a black Communist shouldn't be held against Obama. But it certainly is a political factor, especially in light of Obama's admission that he had attended socialist conferences.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/ap-lies-about-obamas-red-mentor/
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/is-barack-obama-a-marxist-mole/
And the fact that Obama hired a "green" adviser with a Communist past doesn't prove Van Jones was a red at the time of his appointment. (In fact, his advocacy of 9/11 skepticism implies that he was not following the Kremlin line.) However, what kind of vetting process does the White House have? What kind of background did the vetters have that they waved through an ex-communist?
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/damaging-disclosures-in-van-jones-scandal/
When Jones was canned under pressure, I wasn't even aware of the communism issue. The media skirted it, but happily played up the fact that he had signed a 9/11 truth petition.
And then there is the matter of Obama's political ties to Professor William Ayres. In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his current political beliefs and in the 1960s and 1970s thus: "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the Communist party and never Stalinists. The ethics of communism still appeal to me. I don't like Lenin as much as the early Marx."
Before becoming a respected education expert, Ayers had been a fugitive for 10 years, wanted for his role in the violent Weather Underground. He later was freed on a technicality, it has been reported.
Here is some comment on Chambers.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2001/04/Whittaker-Chambers-Man-of-Courage-and-Faith
I point out that every now and then I relate something the Trotskyists have to say. That doesn't make me a Trotskyist.
On the other hand, it remains true that the communistic Kremlin has an interest in maintaining the fictions about 9/11 in order to justify its actions in Chechnya and elsewhere. And Obama's White House and Justice Department are continuing this policy of fraud favored by the Kremlin.
Remember Bill Clinton's youthful trip to the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War? Extremely unusual for an American of that era. Clinton was also an anti-Vietnam war organizer who went on to develop many associations with socialist-minded activists. Now it's true that antiwar activists weren't necessarily Marxists. But, how many of them had made a pilgrimage to the Kremlin?
The point here is that many of Obama's appointees were recruited by ex-Clintonite John Podesta. In fact, Attorney General Eric Holder worked as a political appointee in Clinton's Justice Dept.
Are we seeing evidence of excessive Russian influence in our government? If so, it can only spell trouble for American liberty, with more and more slick Justice Dept. assaults on press freedom likely.
And, as soon as the covert Russia lobby gets strong enough, the Second Amendment will be torn to shreds. The policy of tyranny is always to get control of the press and to disarm the populace.
Despite all this disturbing background, I haven't yet utterly given up on Obama. But, I would be a lot less worried if his Justice Dept. weren't heavily involved in 9/11 coverup and in aggressively maneuvering to keep the public in ignorance, just as one would expect of a pro-Kremlin network of moles in government (and media).
Re. 'What are a few moles among friends?'
ReplyDeleteSince the days of Chambers and Hiss, it should be duly noted that evidence uncovered in the last 40 years indicates that in all probability, Alger Hiss was an innocent man, convicted in a time of national antiCommunist hysteria and refused a legal appeal by a judge who prohibited the best evidence in favor of Alger Hiss' innocence from being presented in a court of law.
The Hiss defense team had in fact gathered forensic documentation that the typewriter presented in court during the Hiss Case was in reality a forgery, that as a matter of fact someone had “remanufactured” it, probably minions of J Edgar Hoover, now known for breaking almost as many laws as he enforced --- burglaries, unauthorized wiretaps, mail “covers,” even the framing of people for crimes they had not committed [see the Joe Salvati case, for example.]
This among the accomplishments of the recently deceased internationally recognized typewriter expert Martin Tytell, although it was outside of the usual parameters of his work, the rebuilding of a Woodstock typewriter, similar to the original typewriter in the case, a typewriter that Tytell remanufactured and retooled so well that it matched exactly the typescript of the machine presented in the original trials. It was the refusal of the appeals judge however, President Harding's appointee, Republican judge Henry W. Goddard, to hear the appeal that kept Hiss from presenting the evidence to a jury, and which ended the last recourse that Hiss had to demonstrate his innocence.
As for Hiss influencing foreign policy toward the USSR, he much more often than not fought against Soviet proposals. At Yalta, for example he argued strenuously for not allowing Poland, Hungary, & other Soviet satellites to have a vote at the UN. Other examples of Hiss's anticommunism abound, but were drowned out by the chorus of McCarthyite hysteria of the 1940s & early 50s.
As we now know also, much of what Chambers asserted was largely the product of his own fantasies, of his severe psychoses, and of the need to keep himself from being prosecuted for both espionage and perjury.
For a fuller account of what is still a blight upon the American historical conscience, see: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/typewr.html
[ Site Map: http://homepages.NYU.edu/~th15/sitemap.html is the best place to start from scratch.]
And: http://DocumentsTalk.com/
jim crawford
Westwood NJ
I agree that it is possible that the government decided to rig the case against Hiss. Certainly Richard Nixon, who first focused on the Hiss affair, was no angel.
ReplyDeleteAnd we know J. Edgar Hoover would use below-the-belt methods whenever he chose.
Chambers, however, carried strong credibility. And, more to the point, his disclosures of a dangerous communist underground were backed up by numerous other witnesses.
It may be that Hiss had no choice, but, it should be noted that he tried to clear his name using a group known for its hard-left basis.
At any rate, even George Kennan, though decrying "McCarthyism" in his autobiography, said that the communist conspiracy was at the time far more dangerous than some liberals thought.
Additionally, the book "What is to be Done?", usually attributed to Lenin, is essentially a manual on how to organize a communist conspiracy to take over a government. The handbook tells of a secret committee of communist bosses who operate a panoply of front groups and what we now call "agents of influence."
What Chambers described matched "What is to be Done?" to a T.