As we recall from Soviet era previously classified films, the Politburo itself was in the business of directly funding the Communist party in this country. What we didn't see is that they also funded Commies without a clear and open relationship to that party in this country.
That the relationships existed is beyond all doubt!
You'll notice that a lot of the former USSR resources in this country have ended up gravitating to George Soros ~ but I think that's more a case of "I need a job" than any strong ideological commitment ~ and that opinion is based on my familiarity with the mind-set of folks in the vast non-profit organization community found in the Washington DC area ~ these guys mail a lot of stuff and have every problem imaginable so I had much more than my fair share of dealing with them..
Whatever the case, there's a residual Communist structure in the US and its supporters, if not the structure itself, continues to have access to funding.
Some of these guys continue with their old relationships with YPSL. Their reasons are varied ~ friendship, to keep track of known "troublemakers" in their own past, or maybe even ideological interest.
Think of the Bernadette Dohran gang ~ she continued to have outside contact through all those years. Her closest friends knew where she was and didn't turn her in ~ YPSL members from the 1970s and 1980s maintain similar contacts and closed mouths.
The worst thing YPSL ever got involved in before the Postal strike was sponsoring some of the Weatherman bombings, and I bet every single YPSL member wishes they'd never heard of that group.
Then there was the Postal strike. Although it might seem somewhat strange to have so many of these YPSL guys employed at one spot you have to remember they were getting older, forming families, having babies, needing medical insurance and incomes, and the USSR was already cutting off everybody's money (and by the early 1990s even the funding to the Communist party in the USA itself).
I never did figure out who in management up in the New York Region made it possible for these guys to get jobs at that place. At the same time the Personnel Director (Employee and Labor Relations) at the Detroit Post Office was the brother of the Mayor of Detroit, and he (Young) was an official USSR Communist Party Politburo paid "agent". (NOTE: Detroit was where the USA sent USSR and East Bloc defectors to work after their intelligence value was used up. So one might suppose the Commies in the USSR had an interest in keeping an eye on these people).
The Postal Strike served to bring YPSL into public view again and highlighted the fact that USPS still had a Commie problem.
Having already gone over the repeated attempts they made to kill PMG Bolger, let's leap ahead to the Anthrax Attack.
When the Anthrax Attack happened, some in the residual Communist party apparatus, e.g. most likely Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and her friends, all openly Commies, or so far Left that even the Commies thought them to be Commies, moved out smartly to derail the FBI/Postal investigation of the matter. That's when they started pointing to Dr. Hatfill.
Having seen the look of terror on the face of the former Deputy Director of the USSR Biological Warfare program (who worked in the same building) at the time the Anthrax Attack was announced, I'd say Rosenberg wasn't the only person in the former USSR Commie food chain who feared "one of their own" had done the job!
It's interesting that one of their assets in CIA was "sacrificed" with a transfer to the FBI to assist in the matter.
That's how anxious that whole apparatus was about this event. No doubt they will eventually let us know if it was some of their stuff that was used.
Any good conspiracy theory has to have vague references to Saudi donors, not commies.
Let’s consider the dots here.
Daniel Saleem Seikaly, the head of criminal division at the DC US Attorney’s Office, who leaked the bizarre Hatfill pond and bloodhound stories — and misdirected the investigation — was born in Haifa.
The distinguished attorney has a businessman brother, Richard, and sister-in-law Zeina.
http://www.seikaly.org/family_tree.html
Mrs. Zeina Seikaly has taught a course in statistics at George Mason University.
She was president of the Middle East Outreach Council from 2004 to 2006.
In 1983, she explained to the Washington Post that although the work at a Georgetown Arab outreach center needed to be objective, she was a Palestinian nationalist and attended all the rallies. She came to DC in 1980. Her parents, Arab Christians, settled in Upstate NY in 1966.
She has written articles such as “Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948.”
In October 2001, she published “At risk of prejudice: the Arab American community. (Teaching about Tragedy)(Cover Story). “ in Social Education. 65.6 (Oct 2001): 349(3) which is published by the National Council for the Social Studies. She wrote:
“IF THEY FIND OUT that the attackers were Arab, will they put us in internment camps like the Japanese in World War II?” An Arab American boy posed this question to his parents in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. His fears were not laid to rest in the week after the tragedy, when hundreds of hate crimes were perpetrated against Arab Americans, both Muslim and Christian. These included verbal and physical attacks, shootings, bomb and death threats, and vandalism against homes, businesses, and places of worship. A general mood of hostility toward Arabs and Muslims was evident among the American public. The communities found themselves bearing the blame for the tragedies that had unfolded at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”
In mid-October 2003, Zeina and Richard spoke at the all-day “TESOL Forum on Teachers Building a Culture of Peace: Classroom Responses to War and Terrorism,” hosted by American University, discussing stereotypes and misconceptions.
There is an article about alleging that she briefly worked for a little-known Saudi institute that the authors claim has links to folks who distribute pro-Islamic, anti-American and anti-Israel materials to public schools.
The article says:
“Zeina Azzam Seikaly, outreach coordinator at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center on the Middle East. For several years, she was assistant director of Dar al Islam’s teacher-training institute, according to Dar al Islam’s Declerck.
Seikaly promotes many associates of Dar al Islam, printing their writings and inviting them to lecture. Shabbas has been involved in teacher training at Georgetown. Asked about Dar al Islam, Seikaly at first refused to discuss it, then admitted working there, but only for two weeks.”
“What your kids are learning about Israel, America and Islam”
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14871
But her writing I find, in contrast, all seems balanced.
It thus is ironic that there was nothing balanced at all about the ridiculous stories that her brother-in-law — effectively in charge of the Amerithrax investigation as head of the criminal division at the US Attorney’s office that would have prosecuted — was secretly feeding reporters. The bloodhound and pond stories were really stupid and baseless. Everyone, however well-intentioned, sees things through the lenses of their own life’s experiences. The prosecutor, however, should have shown balance given his formal responsibilities.
It was outrageous and inexplicable conduct to have leaked the highly spun bloodhound story, and only served to divert attention from the obvious solution to the Amerithrax matter. That is, that Bin Laden infiltrated one of our labs using a microbiologist taught by Bin Laden’s sheik al-Hawali. Al-Hawali was expressly the subject of the 1996 Declaration of War.
The top prosecutor certainly has had key positions. He was the go-to in the late 1990s at the Department of Justice in deciding whether to grant a wiretap application if it was suspected a spy had infiltrated one of country’s labs. For example, he rejected the FBI’s request for a wiretap involving Wen Ho Lee.
Okay, he was a law professor for years at Antioch Law School, which no doubt was dominated by communists fighting for the downtrodden. You win.