Brief Note About Russian Active Measure Regarding the 2016 Election

While not referred to as Active Measures, per se, this is what the proper term for it is. Other terms used could be Influence Operations, Covert Influence, even "election meddling." It should come as no surprise that this has been going on if you've read any of my earlier posts from OVER a decade ago. So, YES the Russians, again, are trying to muddy the waters here in the US. I am actually surprised this even came up to such an extent in this day and age. Historically the Democratic party has been the apologists for all things Russian. I don't want to delve into the current political divide too much here, as this blog deals mainly with the Soviet Union. I may write about it in the future. I can say this though with quite a bit of confidence: The Russians were NOT trying to get Trump elected. I believe they honestly thought Hillary Clinton would be elected and they wanted to make it hard for her; to sew discord. They've, unfortunately, done a terrific job of that.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent

Probably for a short while, but not surprising that he had some type of relationship with the KGB.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent in 1983, according to Soviet-era documents examined by Israel’s Channel 1.

The Abbas revelation stems from documents in the archive of Vasili Mitrokhin, Channel 1’s Oren Nahari tweeted. Mitrokhin, a former Soviet intelligence archivist, defected to Britain after the fall of the Soviet Union. He brought with him a treasure trove of valuable info.

Mitrokhin’s edited notes were released in 2014, but the unedited material remains classified by MI5, The Times of Israel, reported. Mitrokhin died in 2004.

The Abbas news comes just a month before the first Palestinian elections in 10 years. Hamas is likely to take some ground in the municipal vote from Abbas’ Fatah party.

Nahari said it was not immediately known if Abbas served as a Soviet agent at any time after 1983.

A Palestinian official denied there was any truth to the Channel 1 report.

"There's a clear trend of attempting to damage [Abbas] by various elements, including Israel," Fatah central committee member Mohammed al-Madani told Haaretz. "This is another attempt to slander him."

The Mitrokhin documents allegedly show that Abbas was codenamed “Krotov,” meaning “mole,” and reported to Mikhail Bodganov, The Times of Israel reported. At the time, Bogdanov was stationed in Damascus. Abbas studied law at the University of Damascus.

Now a Russian diplomat in the Middle East, Bodganov attempted to broker a meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week.

Abbas is known to have studied in Moscow in the early 1980s and visited the Soviet capital in the early 1980s to defend his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported in 2005.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/07/soviet-docs-show-mahmoud-abbas-was-kgb-agent-report-says.html

Big surprise...

FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents

By Bill Gertz

Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week...

read the rest here:

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-cuban-intelligence-aggressively-recruiting-leftist-american-academics-as-spies-influence-agents/

Russian IO against Ukraine

Here is useful timeline dealing with Active Measures put together by yours truly. The timeline speaks for itself.

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/292885/Russian-IO-Against-Ukraine/

Watermelon: Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside

I recently found this. I would definitely like to read more of her work.

The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values."

And who was this person?

Natalie Grant Wraga (who died in 2002 at age 101) was an internationally-recognized expert on the art of disinformation. In her Washington Postobituary, Herbert Romerstein — veteran intelligence expert in the legislative and executive branches of government — described Grant/Wraga as "one of our leading authorities" on Soviet deceit.

In a 1998 article appearing in Investors Business Daily (IBD), reporter John Berlau wrote that some of the most respected scholars on Soviet Intelligence have credited this woman with teaching them how to penetrate desinformatzia, Moscow's term for its ongoing operation to deceive foreign governments.

John Dziak — onetime senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — is quoted by IBD as saying were it not "for someone like Natalie, we would have had more failures, and the Soviets would have had more successes."

Source: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/080616 

The Socialist and anti-Semitic Roots of the Occupy Wall Street Movement

The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its one year anniversary this past September 17 2012. Its influence has waned and has all but vanished from the newspapers. Some characterized it as a grass roots protest against Wall Street bail outs and corporate corruption. Others, to the right of center, depicted it as a bunch of liberal moochers asking for handouts. It gained popularity among some notable celebrities, but that soon dissipated save for the hardest of leftists, once stories of violence and vandalism started hitting local airwaves in the Western and warmer climates. Oakland comes to mind. Allegations of anti-Semitism and Socialist undertones were dampened by most media. To most Americans it was simply brushed off as an out pouring of frustration and its darker elements a concoction of the right-wing as a means to discredit the movement as many had tried, and in many cases succeeded, to paint the Tea Party as an extreme element of the Republican party out of touch with mainstream America. Occupy Wall Street did after all embody the notion of "we are the 99%." Well just who are these 99%? A study by the Baruch College of Public Affairs found that 27.3% identified themselves as Democrats, 2.4% Republicans and a whopping 70% as "independents. Another study by Fordham University found 25% were Democrat, 2% Republican, 11% Socialist, 11% Green, 0% Tea Party, 12% other and 39% not affiliating with any political party These polls were taken earlier on before things really kicked into high gear and the media began to whitewash rampant anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-Capitalism and anti just about everything. Surely, it started out as a grass roots effort and got hijacked by fringe elements, right? Wrong. First let's take a look at who started it all with Ad Busters, a left-wing, Canadian magazine that criticizes all things corporate and has had two major snafus with incidences involving perceived anti-semitism. It began over a steak dinner:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2011/10/19/nytimes-credits-adbusters-mag-launching-ows-ignores-anti-jewish-article

Robert Halper is a retired Wall Street trader and the top single donor to the Canadian “anticorporate” magazine Adbusters, credited with launching the leftist sit-in. But Goodman didn’t mention the magazine’s incendiary anti-Israel past, like the paper’s notorious 2004 attack on neo-conservatives, “Why Won’t Anyone Say They Are Jewish?”
 Mr. Halper said he first heard about the plan for protests in June when he visited Kalle Lasn, the editor in chief of Adbusters, a Canadian anticorporate magazine, in Vancouver. Over a steak dinner, the two longtime friends discussed Mr. Lasn’s project, a plan to fill Wall Street with protesters as a way to galvanize anger on the political left into a revolutionary movement resembling the Arab Spring.

Here's a take by a blogger on how easy it was to find anti-Semites associated with Ad Busters:

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/documenting-anti-semitism-at-adbusters.html

Shoot, finding anti-Semitism at Adbusters is like taking candy from a baby. Checking Moynihan's references gives you an idea, for example, 9/11 truther Kathleen Christison "Elliott Abrams, Dual Loyalist and Neocon Extraordinaire." And she's a fan of rabid anti-Semite Gilad Atzmon. See Kathleen Christison, "Gilad Atzmon on Jewish Identity Politics: Calling Out the Tribalists," at the hardline communist website Counterpunch and cross-posted to Aztmon's blog.
 And again, the fact that Occupy Wall Street gets the epic whitewash from MSM outlets is pretty astonishing. But it's an upside-down world, so you gotta keep fighting these criminal asshats.

And then there's this:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-street-kalle-lasn/

But Lasn also has defenders, including David Duke, who published this sympathetic essay by Jeff Gates on his website:
 Kalle Lasn, founding editor of Adbusters, is a graphic artist who eventually awoke to the harm he was doing as an advertising executive. An Estonian, he saw firsthand how the Soviets exerted virtual control by manipulating the mental environment. In March 2004, Lasn published an article in Adbusters pointing out that, whereas less than two percent of Americans are Jewish, 26 of the top 50 neoconservatives advocating war in Iraq are Jewish (52 percent).

Surely I must be just cherry picking comments here and there and leaping to wild conclusions. If only that were true. The truth is in fact much worse than it sounds. This is where we get to the root of the problem: virulent anti-Americanism mixed with leftist ideologies of neo-antisemitism and anti-Capitalism on US university campuses. The rates of anti-Semitism reports on campuses warranted a lengthy study by the College of William and Mary on this very problem:

http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1152&context=wmborj&sei-redir=1

The recent increase in campus Anti-Semitism has been closely associated with increasing anti-Zionist sentiments and with liberal or left-wing elements at many American universities.

And on page 13...

…many progressives have found common cause with Arab and Muslim anti-Zionists, however “illiberal” those groups may be, based on shared anti-American and anti-capitalist convictions along with the belief that Palestinian Arabs are the underdog in their conflict with Israel.

What this signifies is that anti-Semitism, sometimes masked as anti-Zionism, is likely a byproduct of leftist professors assault on capitalism and neo-conservatives, writ large. Jews are being singled out as the one minority group that is ok to dislike. Drunken comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nBe3bklRpw

Russia Today

Arun Gupta claiming that anti-semitism he has seen is from right wingers and they are just trying to fear monger.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-anti-semites-of-occupy-wall-street/2011/10/24/gIQAP89eDM_allComments.html?ctab=all_&

So Cohen admits that he doesn't know what OWS is about....yet he says it in not anti-Semitic. If he doesn't know what they are about, how can he be so sure?

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=290755

Nearly half of the students interviewed for the study – 43% – reported that anti-Semitism is a problem at their schools. The authors acknowledge this is a “shockingly high” level.

Cynthia McKinney Goes to Iran and Libya... To Bash America

In an interview with Iranian Television, former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney claims that the American authorities killed JFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. She is a classic example of a useful idiot who continues to witting or unwittingly push Cold War era covert influence themes:

Cynthia McKinney: So what I would say since the United States is, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet and sadly suffers with guided missiles and misguided men. I would say that those who have worked very hard for peace, there was a time when we almost won. We almost won in the 1960’s but unfortunately because we were so close to winning the authorities fought back. We were so close to winning, and then they killed John Kennedy our president, they killed Malcolm X, they killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Iranian Host: They were killed by the authorities? 

Cynthia McKinney: Yes 

Iranian Host: Ok 

Cynthia McKinney: Yes, um... this is all documented. Um... The CoIntelPro Papers, the Counterintelligence Program Papers document the history of US Government, uh how can I say, efforts to quash dissent and in the founding document which was written April 4 1967,  the US Government said they wanted to misdirect or otherwise neutralize certain leaders in the Black Community, the Latino Community, the Mexican-American Community the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, the American Indian Movement, all these various organizations, you could say they were liberation organizations, they all came together in the 1960s and 70’s... the people who want to deny human rights, human dignity, the warmongers; their revolution is always financed. So, if we could organize in such a way so that we could bring back the spirit of resistance inside the United States that we once had; organize it, finance it mobilize it, I think we’d go a long way to having peace. 

Iranian Host: Definitely

First of all, the assertion by Ms. McKinney that U.S. Authorities “killed” any of these men is simply ridiculous. Worse yet is that she was spewing this garbage in Iran of all places.  So what exactly are the CoIntelPro Papers? A simple Google search will yield plenty of results. One of which is a book written by none other than Ward Churchill called The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. For those of you who don’t remember, Ward Churchill is the angry, fake Native American who wrote about America’s “chickens coming home to roost” shortly after the tragic events of 9/11. Oh yes almost forgot, Ward was found guilty of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification in various written works concerning Native American history. Documented indeed.