So when Fiorello read the Sunday funnies on the radio, he was actually sending coded messages to the Russians? /s
There was nothing about LaGuardia in the rest of the article!
Posted on 07/11/2010 11:14:48 AM PDT by neverdem
As we drove into Tel Aviv along the Ayalon highway, Mikhail Milstein and I passed the LaGuardia exit. “Fiorello LaGuardia?” he asked. “Why does he have a street named after him in Tel Aviv?”
I wasn’t surprised by the question. Why should a lieutenant general from Moscow know about LaGuardia? “He was mayor of New York back in the 1930s and ’40s,” I replied, “half-Jewish and a Zionist.”
“I knew him,” Milstein said matter-of-factly. “I was in New York in the ’30s, posing as a Latin American student at Columbia University. One of my missions was to get to know him.”
My jaw dropped. Mikhail Milstein, the most senior Jewish general in the Soviet Union, one of the leaders of the Soviet Pugwash movement dedicated to ending the nuclear arms race, had begun his intelligence career as a mole in New York!
Orphaned as a boy in the 1920s, Milstein proceeded to explain, he had been spotted for his quick wit and sent to a special school for indoctrinating and training agents destined to be planted abroad under deep cover. He learned to speak Spanish like a native. He was taught everything he needed in order to pose as a Latin American student in the United States. And of course he learned “tradecraft” — how to arrive for a secret meeting, check whether he was being followed, encode messages.
Though the mass emigration wave from the U.S.S.R. started in 1988, the real thaw in Israel’s relations with the Soviet Union began in 1990. Milstein was a member of the first delegation of...
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“We would have done it very differently,” Milstein objected. “One injection of the right stuff and Vanunu would have become an idiot, never to bother anyone again. No need to kidnap and try him. Much more humane.”...
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What is it about Columbia? Barack Obama was in New York in the '80s, posing as an American student at Columbia University.
So when Fiorello read the Sunday funnies on the radio, he was actually sending coded messages to the Russians? /s
There was nothing about LaGuardia in the rest of the article!
Maybe the CIA used that technique on obama. The old unintended consequences bites again.
It was about the spy who knew him.
The article says that it was the spy’s mission to get to know LaGuardia. Why? What did the Soviets want with LaGuardia? Didn’t the reporter care enough to ask?
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARlaguardia.htm
SNIPPET: “Fiorello LaGuardia was born in New York City on 11th December, 1882. The family moved to Hungary in 1898. La Guardia worked at the American consulates in Budapest, Trieste and Rijeka before returning to the United States in 1906.”
SNIPPET: “In 1924 Vito Marcantonio joined Fiorello La Guardia in supporting Robert La Follette, who was the presidential candidate of the Progressive Party.”
SNIPPET: “In 1932 he co-sponsored with George Norris, the Norris-La Guardia Act, which restricted the courts’ power to ban strikes”
SNIPPET: “A supporter of the New Deal, La Guardia expanded the city’s social-welfare services and began a program of providing low-cost housing.”
SNIPPET: “In 1945 La Guardia decided against seeking re-election in 1945. The following year he became director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.”
"I was in New York in the '30s, posing as a Latin American student at Columbia University. One of my missions was to get to know him."
Easier channels floodgates for spies.
See also Victor Davis Hansen:
"(As a postscript I can also remember calling frantically to an Ivy League chair to explain that our top student that he had accepted had just confessed to me that in fact he was an illegal alien, and remember him "being delighted" at the news, as if it were an added bonus.)"
This is why we should fumigate all Ivy League schools, plus some selected others (e.g. Amherst, U of MN, U of WI - Madison, etc.) to eliminate Marxists.
Cheers!
I think Columbia's been an overseas department of KGB since about the 1920's ..... Louis Budenz and other ex-Communists were complaining about Columbia back in the 1940's. It was big enough to hide in, and enough Jews and other Central Europeans that anyone claiming to be Jewish or Bohemian or Polish would be In Like Flynn, never mind that he was redder than Zinoviev. I think that was the angle the Sovs took -- acculturation, verisimilitude games, mirroring, all the tricks. What, you thought Bernie Madoff invented that stuff?
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