Prelude during the Kennedy years 1961-1963 – the Cold War in Berlin.
Russia’s Contradictory Relationship with the West
Prelude: Recalling Operation Long Thrust
On August 20, 1961, an American armored battle group of the 18th Infantry Regiment stationed in West Germany crossed the heavily militarized border at Helmstedt and rolled its way approximately 100 miles along the autobahn across Soviet-controlled East Germany into West Berlin. Too small to be an offensive threat, but formidable enough to be serious, Operation Long Thrust skirted the fine line between resolute deterrence and go-to-war provocation, and allowed the United States to avoid becoming militarily embroiled with strident adversaries in East Germany and the Soviet Union.
That bold demonstration was part of a difficult, and potentially incendiary, period that nearly all experts and observers thought had expired with the end of the Cold War in 1991. As the post-Cold War period unfolded, many thought that a new Russia would, with fits and starts, join the Western community of nations, while the Central and Eastern European lands traditionally caught between Russia and the West would finally find security and maintain peaceful relations with their neighbors.
Academician Lessons been in vain. Residency had to operate the old proven techniques, one of which was a provocation, others – misinformation. The most prominent “anti-Soviet” in the Congress was then Democrat Henry Jackson, co-author of the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, determine the normalization of trade relations with the USSR, freedom of emigration.
In 1976, Jackson was fighting for the nomination of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections, making freedom of exit as one of its primary assets. Resident Boris Solomatin reported to the Center that Jackson high chances to become a candidate, and therefore an urgent need to compromise him. Operation was carried out against Jackson under the code name “Eastern Promises”. Lubyanka craftsmen concocted a memorandum signed by the Director of FBI Edgar Hoover of 20 June 1940 on the name of the then Deputy Minister of Justice of the United States. The “document” Hoover reported that Jackson – hidden homosexual. (Senator Jackson Publicly condemn homosexuality.) Photocopies of fakes were sent to editors of newspapers and magazines, including Playboy and the Penthouse, and Senator Kennedy, whom Moscow considered “personal enemy” Jackson. At the same time dragged and Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative ideologue, too, though composed in a secret gay club. At the bait no one pecked. However, the choice of targets was typical.
Dangerous ties
In 1978 there was the second visit to Ted Kennedy to the Soviet Union. He was invited to speak at the World Health Organization Conference and the UN Children’s Fund in Almaty. From Brezhnev received an invitation to get acquainted with the Soviet health care system. By this time, the document found in the KGB archives and published in May 1992 in “Izvestia” Yevgenia Albats.
The note KGB reads as follows: “In 1978, US Senator Edward Kennedy asked the KGB to assist in establishing cooperation with government organizations by “Agritek” (California), headed by former Senator John Tunney. This firm is associated in turn with the Franco-American company “Finatek SA”, which is headed by a competent source of the KGB, a prominent Western financier J. Karr, through which over the last few years carried out a confidential exchange of views between the Secretary General of the Central Committee Party and Senator Edward Kennedy (D). Karr provided technical information for the KGB about the US position and the other capitalist countries, which regularly report to the Central Committee. ”
“What was behind this request” to assist in the establishment of cooperation “- to this day a mystery – he wrote Yevgenia Albats in a recent article in The New Times. – When this document was published by the author in 1992, American journalists asked for comments in the office of Senator – in comments, they were denied. ”
Mystery was not so impenetrable. I, in any case, it could reveal. David Karr, aka David Katz, born in Brooklyn in 1918 and died in Paris in 1979, even at an early age has been linked to the US Communist Party, published an article in the party organ Daily Worker, and later became an informer of the NKVD. During the war he worked in the Office of the United States military information – government agencies involved in the administration of the promotion policy – but because of suspicions the FBI was forced to leave office.
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Ted Kennedy was a ‘Collaborationist’
Another KGB report to their bosses revealed that on March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy’s opinion that “nonsense about `the Soviet military threat’ and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by (President Jimmy) Carter, (National Security Advisor Zbigniew) Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex.”
Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. This document was found in KGB archives by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a courageous KGB officer, who copied documents from the files and then defected to the West. He wrote about this document in a February 2002 paper on Afghanistan that he released through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Russia’s Contradictory Relationship with the West
Prelude: Recalling Operation Long Thrust
On August 20, 1961, an American armored battle group of the 18th Infantry Regiment stationed in West Germany crossed the heavily militarized border at Helmstedt and rolled its way approximately 100 miles along the autobahn across Soviet-controlled East Germany into West Berlin. Too small to be an offensive threat, but formidable enough to be serious, Operation Long Thrust skirted the fine line between resolute deterrence and go-to-war provocation, and allowed the United States to avoid becoming militarily embroiled with strident adversaries in East Germany and the Soviet Union.
That bold demonstration was part of a difficult, and potentially incendiary, period that nearly all experts and observers thought had expired with the end of the Cold War in 1991. As the post-Cold War period unfolded, many thought that a new Russia would, with fits and starts, join the Western community of nations, while the Central and Eastern European lands traditionally caught between Russia and the West would finally find security and maintain peaceful relations with their neighbors.
- ○ CIA Report: Soviet Strategy To Derail US INF Deployment
○ Vladimir Putin’s Political Meddling Revives Old KGB Tactics
More links about the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) of London …
○ The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster
Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny
○ Neocons on the Thames by Colman @EuroTrib - 2005
○ False Propaganda Says the US Is Out to Destroy Islam by Oui @BooMan - 2014
○ Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media | The Nation – May 2015 |
EU/NATO Propaganda It’s About Daesh and Russia [Update5]
And yet a special report published last fall by the online magazine The Interpreter would have us believe that Russian “disinformation” ranks among the gravest threats to the West. The report, titled “The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money,” is a joint project of the Interpreter and the Institute for Modern Russia (IMR), a Manhattan-based think tank funded by the exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky [2].
Who Are These Guys?
Weiss and Pomerantsev [3] are an unlikely pair. Weiss, youthful yet professorial in manner, has become a nearly constant presence on cable news because of his supposed expertise on, among other things, Russia, Syria, and ISIS. A longtime neoconservative journalist, he began his rise to cable-news ubiquity as a protégé of the late Christopher Hitchens.
After working with Hitchens, he made his way to the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a London-based bastion of neoconservatism that, according to a report in The Guardian, has “attracted controversy in recent years–with key staff criticised in the past for allegedly anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant comments.”
[2] See my finding of the connect between The Interpreter, Henry Jackson Society and Khodorkovsky in 2014 at the height of the Maidan protests and the coup d'état in Kiev: Ukraine Partners Chesno (Honestly) - USAID
[3] From the link, CEPA's Information Warfare Initiative conducted in partnership with the Legatum Institute - which employs Anne Applebaum
