That 'someone' would never have been a pro-Soviet Union communist like Barack Obama.
Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
“He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."
Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”
That is not what Manning claimed. Manning claimed Obama was hired by the Agency to work the threatre in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the time of the Soviet occupation.
At the time Obama was not known as pro-Soviet. He was likely known as someone that could read the Koran from his education in Indonesia and who knew Muslim customs.
So Manning is not a crackpot here. You OTOH have jumped to conclusions and shown yourself to be easy to manipulate, or you want to disrupt the thread.
Manning has a good case against Columbia, that they allowed Obama to be admitted even though he was not qualified. And we will see if Manning has any evidence that Obama was admitted to Columbia because of the Agency opening a door for him there, which is what they do routinely for ‘assets’ under development.
So Manning is expected to link the anomalous admission of Obama by Columbia to his being an ‘asset’ for the Agency; and yes again, such things happen routinely.
If Manning has proof from those that worked at Columbia or attended and knew of Obama, knew of his Agency sponsorship, then it’s not such a big deal. Because hundreds of students are financed by the Agency and associated organizations such as the Rand Corporation.
In fact, Obama has all the makings of an Agency developed asset. Whether the Agency had him on the roster or not, Manning may provide evidence that they did. Whether he continued to be sponsored by the Agency, if he ever was, is also unknown. The recent complaints of the UChicago law professors seem plausible that it could be Agency but could just as well be Chicago machine strongarming.
And BTW, the Agency does hire Pro-Soviet agents to serve as double agents and infiltrators. Sometimes such people are true believers, but the Agency doesn’t care because such people are under watch and they serve a purpose.
Communists, Leftists and even Terrorists can get into the outer layers of the Agency easily because like the saying goes, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”. The Agency has many many rings of security, and they will take anybody who suits their purposes and put them into a compartment where they can be monitored.