Posted on 08/06/2008 9:16:37 AM PDT by drzz
Karel Kocher fled from Czech Republic to the United States in 1965. His goal was to graduate from Columbia University. He successfully did, and became a close friend of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the futur National Security Adviser of President Carter. Kocher was actually a KGB agent. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia and was recruited by the CIA. During 4 years, Kocher was the CIA station chief in Praha and sent all the informations he gathered to Moscow. Kocher was finally caught and later exchanged for the liberation of the notorious intellectuel Nathan Sharansky. Kocher still lives in Praha. He is thought to be the only foreign Soviet spy to have been able to infiltrate CIA during the Cold War.
WAS??
Gee, he was a double agent. And Zbig apparently didn’t know anything about it.
Or maybe he did.
Double agent : well, he was an employee of CIA but during his stay at Praha as CIA station chief, he sent informations to Moscow about all the CIA covert operation in the Czech Republic.
He never stopped to work for KGB. So he was no real double agent.
Is that surprising to learn a former communist agent was a close friend of one of the most important official of the Democratic Party ?
"Apparently" is not good enough when it comes to our Nation's vital security. When one is investigated for security clearances, "apparently" will get you eliminated from the privledge--through no fault of your own--because SECURITY IS IMPARATIVE!!!
What surprises me is to learn that AFTER the spy was caught Brzezinski was still able to become National Security Adviser at the White House !
Liberals...
Well, if one of your friends is a foreign spy, don’t worry : you can still apply to work at the White House.
Just like Angleton and Philby.
Their not called spies anymore.. they are democrat operatives.. The republican party seems to be penetrated by operatives too.. else what is a BIG government republican.. You know like McLaim and Bush..
Isn’t it amazing that this guy got through all the security clearances including background checks, polygraphs and voice stress analysis to become a CIA station head?
I cannot recall any CIA agent being able to infiltrate KGB.
American intelligence services are not as effective as the legend says. Like a guy wrote in a recent book, CIA has a “legacy of ashes”.
Unlike the old MVD or KGB, the CIA has never been effective with deep cover penetration agents inserted into another country’s spy service. I don’t know of any successful penetrations either. Of course, I wouldn’t want or expect to know of any for that matter.
CIA case officers try to ‘turn’ foreign nationals already in the service of their country. We’ve had some successes there.
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