Posted on 03/04/2008 7:45:08 PM PST by river rat
Snip..... In what could be the biggest State Department scandal since State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss was exposed as a Soviet spy, a top Clinton State Department official and former Time magazine journalist has been identified as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service.
Snip... The sensational charge against Strobe Talbott is made in a new book based on interviews with a Russian defector.
Snip... Talbott has been and continues to be a major foreign policy thinker. Back in 2000, when he 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. Talbott now serves as president of the liberal think tank, the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C., where he gets paid over $400,000 a year, leads a staff of 277 and presides over an endowment of over $200 million.
Snip.. This is not the first time that Talbott has come under scrutiny for his alleged contacts with agents of a foreign intelligence service. In 1994, when he was being considered for his State Department post in the Clinton Administration, he was grilled by Senator Jesse Helms, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about his relationship with Victor Louis, a Soviet "journalist" who was actually a Soviet KGB intelligence agent. Talbott had been a young correspondent for Time magazine in Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Trusted Friend Talbott Out of Loop on Russian Bug - Strobe Talbott - Brief Article
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_16/ai_58617303/print
Jamie Dettmer
U.S. counterintelligence officers secured Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s agreement last August to refrain from briefing her deputy, Strobe Talbott — a onetime Moscow correspondent for Time magazine — about their discovery of a sophisticated Russian eavesdropping device concealed in a seventh-floor State Department conference room.
According to several U.S. intelligence and Justice Department sources, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, Talbot was kept out of the loop of the security probe that led to the arrest outside the State Department on Dec. 8, 1999, of 54-year-old Russian intelligence officer Stanislav Borisovich Gusev. “Talbott didn’t need to know; it is as simple as that,” says a Justice Department source who declined to expound on the reasons why the Clinton administration’s main Russia expert was shut out.
A CIA source tells news alert!: “Talbott has long been widely seen at Langley as being too close to the Russians — a sort of trusted friend, you might say.” According to that source, only Albright herself and Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering were kept fully briefed on the progress of a bug hunt triggered when Gusev, the top technical intelligence officer in the Russian Embassy, was spotted last summer by an FBI surveillance team wearing headphones and loitering in his car and on foot on a weekly basis outside the department. The FBI team suspected immediately that Gusev was receiving transmissions from a bug. Talbot, they were afraid, inadvertently might let slip information about the security probe.
I guess the Co-President wasn’t paying attention to National security.
The article DOES state that Talbott is reported to be a CURRENT adviser to the Clinton campaign...
river rat kindly posted an excerpt on post 14 that makes it seem likely Talbott is indeed advising the beast.
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From the full article:
Pleased With Hillary And Obama
Although Talbott has been identified in press accounts as a current adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, he showed up to hear Senator Barack Obama deliver a foreign policy address in 2005 to the Council on Foreign Relations and declared, “It was very impressive.” A story about the speech carried by MSNBC and published on Obama’s Senate website noted that Lugar was “helping” Obama in the foreign policy field, that Obama and Lugar “have formed a political joint venture and mutual admiration society,” and that they had traveled to Russia together. The trip to Russia was designed to ensure Obama’s support for maintaining and even expanding the foreign aid for Russia through the CTR program.
Let's chase some scientists with Chinese sounding names instead!
If Hillary Clinton becomes the nominee, this could give McCain a big issue. Assuming he’s willing to use it, which is not a given.
This is why crippling the NSA is so important to the left. Yes, we are listening to foreign communication to American citizens -— those who choose to assist our enemies.
Thanks very much for the correction. My apologies. (It’s been a long day today...up at 4:00am flying home from out west...time for bed...heading for nightmares now that Hillary has just won Ohio...OUT!)
Wasn’t he a college roommate or close college friend of someone high in the Dem establishment?
many ‘progressive’ liberal idealists in the u.s. are just such useful idiots - to marxist enterprises of every stripe - as Talbot was and, i suspect, as Talbot remains
Strobe Talbot should be arrested and charged with espionage.
If she was she wouldn’t have pushed for the bombing of Serbia.
Was it Talbot that threatened Kathleen Willey her during a morning jog? As I recall, he mentioned the names of her children & cat in a manner she perceived to be a threat.
I remember the ‘94 accusations. The press didn’t care then and they won’t care now.
How come I’m not surprised!
Strobe met Bubba Clinton while both were Rhodes Scholars.
(Maybe Strobe instigated Bubba’s trip behind the Iron Curtain back then...)
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