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Where The Spies Are [Strobe Talbott alleged to be Soviet agent]
Campus Report ^ | February 1, 2008 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 02/01/2008 10:48:20 AM PST by bs9021

Where The Spies Are

by: Cliff Kincaid, February 01, 2008

How should the media handle sensational allegations that one of the most esteemed members of their profession, former Time magazine journalist and top Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, was a dupe of the Russian intelligence service? How should they deal with hard evidence that one of their sacred cows, the United Nations, is penetrated by Russian spies?

The answer is that most of them will ignore it.

This is the fate they’re giving to Comrade J, a blockbuster book about Russian espionage written by former Washington Post reporter and author Pete Earley.

Comrade J is about a Russian master spy, Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States because he was disgusted with the Russian/Soviet system and wanted to start a new and better life with his family in America. He identifies former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a current adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service.

Back in 2000, when Talbott was named head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, he was described as “a key architect of U.S. foreign policy” during the Clinton years. He now heads the Brookings Institution, a liberal Washington, D.C. think tank.

But Tretyakov has some impressive credentials of his own. He wasn’t just a low-level official. He is described as the highest ranking Russian intelligence official ever to defect while stationed in the U.S. and handled all Russian intelligence operations against the U.S. He served under cover from 1995-2000 at Russia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations but was secretly working for the FBI for at least three years...

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: book; sovietunion; spies; spy; spying; talbot; talbott; yale

1 posted on 02/01/2008 10:48:21 AM PST by bs9021
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To: bs9021

bracketed comment added to your headline


2 posted on 02/01/2008 11:07:28 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: bs9021
Talbott denies the charges, calling them “erroneous and/or misleading,” and his denials are featured on page 184 of the book. He says that he always promoted U.S. foreign policy goals and that the close relationship that he had with a top Russian official by the name of Georgi Mamedov did not involve any manipulation or deception.

Not much of a denial. Talbott was always pushing to surrender US sovereignty to world government-type bodies.

3 posted on 02/01/2008 11:09:15 AM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: bs9021

How is it that NO Republican was NOT aware of who Talbot was/is? I remember some benign chatter mostly of which RUSH exposed but NOT one overt action by even a Republican Congress.


4 posted on 02/01/2008 11:12:45 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: bs9021

“He identifies former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a current adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service.”

Why am I not surprised?


5 posted on 02/01/2008 11:30:16 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: bs9021

Talbot is the Alger Hiss of our generation.


6 posted on 02/01/2008 11:32:25 AM PST by what's up
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To: UCANSEE2
Remember how adamantly opposed Talbott was to the SDI?
7 posted on 02/01/2008 11:33:12 AM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: Temple Owl

ping


8 posted on 02/01/2008 11:33:31 AM PST by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
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To: Just mythoughts
that NO Republican was NOT aware

Some are aware. What do you expect them to do? Speak against him publicly so he can get a multi-million dollar book contract and instant heroic fame in the media like Joe Wilson?

9 posted on 02/01/2008 11:36:30 AM PST by what's up
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To: what's up
Some are aware. What do you expect them to do? Speak against him publicly so he can get a multi-million dollar book contract and instant heroic fame in the media like Joe Wilson?

No I see some of them running for president.... while they legislated for this bunch of liberal moooooooolahs.

10 posted on 02/01/2008 11:38:30 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: bs9021

Clinton = Roosevelt. Where’s McCarthy when we need him?


11 posted on 02/01/2008 11:38:41 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: bs9021

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobe_Talbott

And a Fiend of Bill, since their days at Oxford. Isn’t that when Bill was leading anti-America demonstrations in England?


12 posted on 02/01/2008 11:45:36 AM PST by the lone wolf (Good Luck, and watch out for stobor.)
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To: bs9021

Surely our two leading presidential contenders will have some tart words to say about Mrs. Clinton’s ties to Mr. Talbott . . .


13 posted on 02/02/2008 7:56:49 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The Democratic Party is only a front for the political establishment in America - Big Journalism.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Was Hillary Clinton Advisor Strobe Talbott Manipulated By Soviet Intelligence?
PipeLineNews.org LLC | February 1, 2008 | PipeLineNews Staff
Posted on 02/01/2008 6:51:28 PM EST by johnqueuepublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963521/posts


14 posted on 03/05/2008 10:12:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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"When the Soviet Union diasppeared, the spies did not..."

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in the America After the End of the Cold War Comrade J:
The Untold Secrets of
Russia's Master Spy
in America
After the End of the Cold War

by Pete Earley

"comrade j" site:freerepublic.com
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15 posted on 03/05/2008 10:13:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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