Clinton's Mission To Moscow
(Conspiracy Nation, 11/03/07) -- “At an early age,” wrote Sherman H. Skolnick, “Bill Clinton went to Moscow and somehow grabbed, for CIA, the secret transcript of Kruschev lambasting Stalinists.” (“Whitewater, The Federal Reserve, and The C.I.A.”, http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur54.htm). But what Mr. Skolnick apparently didn't consider is that Bill Clinton was actually a double agent, a Moscow mole within the C.I.A.
Sherman H. Skolnick passed away in May of 2006, so this editor cannot run it by him. It would have been interesting to hear Skolnick's thoughts on this additional angle to his original report.
Bill Clinton's mission to Moscow was also reported by Stew Webb. Clinton and two other Rhodes Scholars “were able to, for research purposes, view Khrushchev's memoirs. They stole them for the CIA. They answered to a guy named Cord Meyer.” (http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=495)
What may have truly happened is that Bill Clinton was allowed by the Soviets to “steal” the transcript so he could dangle it before CIA and ingratiate himself with the inner circle. CIA has been fooled before, for example by Kim Philby, also a deep-cover Communist agent.
It is true that the U.S. government went overboard during the 1950s McCarthy “witch hunt.” On the other hand, documents now emerging into the sunlight increasingly prove it was not just paranoia. There were Communist secret agents operating in the United States. Following the 1991 apparent disintegration of the Soviet Union, some of their secret archives were made available to western scholars. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, circa 1995, reported their findings in “The Secret World of American Communism” (Yale University Press). (“Recent Exposes Of Reds”, http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RedExposes.html)
In “The Sword And The Shield” (Basic Books, 1999), Christopher Andrew also sheds light on hitherto secret Soviet operations in America. Vasili Mitrokhin had worked for years in Russian spy agencies. Beginning in 1972, and continuing for 10 years, Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing tens of thousands of FCD (First Chief Directorate, KGB) files. He patiently took notes on those files, then smuggled those notes out of headquarters. Mitrokhin eventually defected to Britain and a treasure trove of material became available to the U.K.'s SIS (Secret Intelligence Services). Christopher Andrew was allowed access to crates of Mitrokhin's notes, and “The Sword And The Shield” summarizes their startling content.
What is termed “illegal residencies” were established in the United States, beginning in the 1930s. “Legal residencies” would be, for example, Soviet embassy personnel. “Illegal residencies” amount to secret embassies from which spies were run. It is not illegal for someone in the U.S. to openly declare membership in the Communist Party. There begin to be problems, however, when someone having ultimate loyalty to Communism hides that fact. Such persons can pretend to be “conservative Christians,” for example. They can infiltrate high office and not truly serve the interests of the American people.
Chapter 14 (“Political Warfare”) in Andrew's book (op. cit.) is especially relevant to the notion of Bill Clinton as a double agent. The KGB, through its “Service A,” routinely passed forged documents to sympathetic dupes in the West. They hoped to thereby influence the American political process. For example, one of their targets was a liberal Democrat who was nonetheless staunchly anti-communist: Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. Service A fabricated an active measure code-named operation POROK. A forged FBI memorandum, embarrassing to Jackson, was passed to several newspapers. Other bogus documents were handed off to Senator Edward Kennedy, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, and Playboy magazine. The question is, was Bill Clinton, in Moscow during the 1960s, purposefully given either forged documents or documents deemed allowable as good dangle bait?
Other mind-benders from Andrew's book:
Attempts to stir up racial tensions in the United States “remained part of Service A's stock-in-trade for the remainder of the Cold War [i.e., through 1991... and beyond?]” Moscow tried to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When this effort failed, the Communists “aimed instead at replacing [King] with a more radical and malleable leader.”
The KGB established secret arms caches in the United States, available for possible sabotage. These booby-trapped hidden arsenals have likely not all been found.
Soviet agents penetrated the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA. One secret Communist, code-named KOCH, was personal assistant to General “Wild Bill” Donovan.
A major American code-breaking success, called VENONA, confirmed that the OSS “had been heavily penetrated by Soviet agents.”
Kim Philby, trusted British agent yet Communist spy, gained access to VENONA transcripts as liaison to CIA. After Philby was eventually unmasked, “he cleverly presented himself as the innocent victim of a McCarthyite witch-hunt.” Moscow soon grasped “the enormous propaganda advantages of McCarthyism.”
KGB officer Anatoli Mikhailovich Golitsyn, who defected to the West in 1961, convinced James Jesus Angleton, CIA counter-intelligence chief, “that the KGB was engaged in a gigantic global deception, and that even the Sino-Soviet split was a charade to deceive the West.”
The KGB specialized in arranged marriages for its spies.
This last evokes Mr. Skolnick's claim that Bill and Hillary Clinton are “a CIA couple,” in other words, an arranged marriage. Skolnick may have been only half-right: The Clinton marriage arrangement – the co-presidency plot (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/HotDirt.html) – could be a KGB, not CIA, arranged marriage.
In Robert Littell's superb novel, “The Company”, the creation of “legends” and the methods of deep-cover spies are portrayed. One spy, called “Eugene”, liaisons with “Bernice,” who describes herself as a “Marxist feminist.” This subject, “Feminism: Mask For Marxism,” was reported upon by Conspiracy Nation in the 1990s. (The report may still be available on Internet. A good search engine would find it.) Hillary Clinton, notable “feminist,” also for some reason tried to hide from public knowledge her college thesis on Saul Alinsky. There is also the problem, with both of the erstwhile co-presidents, of campaign money funnelled in from Red China.
It was Bush the Elder, father of “Dubya” Bush, who proclaimed a “New World Order” in 1990, in other words, Internationalism. Bill Clinton is connected to Bush the Elder in the best-selling book, “Compromised”, by Terry Reed and John Cummings. (Beware of disinformation about the book. It does not claim Bill Clinton smoked a joint with William Casey. This editor was once caught off-guard by the false claim.) “Dubya” Bush, supposed conservative Christian, mimics the Soviet disaster in Afghanistan, which collapsed that “evil empire.” And Hillary Clinton waits in the wings.
Too paranoid? Perhaps. Sherman Skolnick's insights on the possibility of Bill Clinton being a Soviet and/or Communist double-agent, servant of international communism, are missed. Too paranoid? Some say that about James Jesus Angleton. After being fooled by Kim Philby, “Angleton made a silent vow. He would never trust another mortal the way he had trusted Philby. No one. Not ever. In the end, anyone could be a Soviet mole.” (Littell, op. cit.)
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