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Operation Sumbeam anyone?

Russia Darkening Into A Tragic Phase?

by J.R. Nyquist, Worldnet Daily, May 8, 2000

Yesterday Vladimir Putin officially began his term as Russia's second elected president. Officially Putin is not a Communist, but unofficially he admires Lenin and has a good opinion of the KGB. What have we learned about Putin since Boris Yeltsin appointed him as acting Russian president?

According to Putin's inauguration speech, Russian history has light phases and tragic phases. The heavy-drinking Yeltsin provided Russia with a light phase after the long and humorless Soviet era. Yeltsin was a man who wrote in his memoirs of breast-feeding his own daughter while riding on a train. There was no milk in Yeltsin's breast, but the baby girl felt comforted anyway -- and it kept her quiet.

Now things in Russia are different. The empty comfort of a liberalism without milk, without substance, is no longer offered. The new Russian president wants to strengthen the security services and the Army. He is tough and serious. The facade of phony liberalism has been torn away. A stiff and humorless little man from the bowels of the KGB now takes power. There is nothing funny about Mr. Putin. In fact, he was once nicknamed the "little Andropov" (after the late KGB chief and one-time Soviet dictator).

Putin came from Leningrad, which is now called St. Petersburg. After graduating college Putin joined the KGB. Then he was sent as a spy to West Germany in 1975. Before the 1970s ended, Putin fell under suspicion of espionage and was booted from West Germany. A few years later, in 1984, Putin was sent to East Germany. For several years prior to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Putin worked on a secret project called Operation Sunbeam.

According to Horst Jemlich, a thirty year veteran of the East German secret police, Operation Sunbeam anticipated the collapse of the Warsaw Pact -- Russia's East European military alliance. Last January Jemlich told the London Sunday Times (Jan. 16) that the plan was "to prepare one day to let us fall and have new guys supply them [the KGB] with information."

According to Jemlich, the Russian Communists planned to abandon their German comrades. The overt Communist structures in East Germany would be replaced with covert KGB structures. Once the secret structures were in place, the Kremlin's German pawn would be offered to the West.

It was not a happy fate for the pawn. Coincidentally, in the same year that Vladimir Putin joined Operation Sunbeam, KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the future liberalization of the Soviet bloc. Golitsyn said that the liberalization "would be spectacular and impressive." But, he warned, it "would be calculated and deceptive in that it would be introduced from above." Jemlich's testimony indirectly supports Golitsyn's testimony. The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe was conceived beforehand by planners in Moscow. It was part of a grand strategy. And Putin had a leading role in preparing that strategy.

In 1982 another defector, named Jan Sejna, wrote about a long range Russian strategy that involved the fake collapse of the Warsaw Pact alliance. He wrote of Russia's plan to erode NATO. He wrote of "progressive" or left wing governments coming to power in Europe. "To this end," wrote Sejna, "we envisaged that it might be necessary to dissolve the Warsaw Pact, in which event we had already prepared a web of bilateral defense arrangements, to be supervised by secret committees of Comecon."

The leaders of the West have yet to understand the significance of Sejna's statement about the fake dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Americans and West Europeans are far from grasping the truth in Golitsyn's 1984 statement that the Kremlin was contemplating the demolition of the Berlin Wall. As Horst Jemlich suggested in his statement to the Times, Operation Sunbeam was initiated with the collapse of East Germany in mind. The KGB, however, was not giving up. It was creating an alternate channel to continue operations against the West under cover of a supposed Cold War defeat.

In all probability Vladimir Putin is still an agent of the KGB -- and still following a secret plan that will culminate in the defeat of the United States.

Putin's rise to power is no accident. His elevation to Russia's presidency was accomplished by intrigue. His popularity was created through a war crisis called into existence by Moscow's double agents in Chechnya and Dagestan. Yeltsin's sudden resignation at the end of last year meant that an early presidential election would be held, before the Russian people could catch their breath. Opposing candidates were not given time to prepare their campaigns. The votes were not counted properly. The entire process was fraudulent, but the West never protested. Putin's legitimacy has been accepted in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin.

Putin was chosen by somebody, and elevated by somebody -- for a reason. And it is significant that he comes from Leningrad, which is known as Russia's most "reactionary city." According to Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova, writing in their biography of Yuri Andropov, Leningrad was "the proving ground of the KGB, where all its undertakings and experiments are pioneered -- under the complete control of the Soviet police."

It is also significant that Putin has been called the "little Andropov." It is noteworthy that Andropov's publicized traits coincided with Lenin's canonical traits: efficiency, personal modesty, simplicity, seriousness and a knowledge of foreign languages. These are traits that have been assigned to Putin.

The current grand strategy of Russia now comes into full view. It is a program of sly restoration and re-strengthening. The West has sold Russia the rope, so to speak. And the rope will be used to hang the world's bourgeoisie (i.e., the American middle class). To facilitate this process Putin's first major act as president of Russia was to name Mikhail Kasyanov as prime minister. Kasyanov is the Kremlin's chief economic strategist. He has been responsible for negotiating with Russia's creditors in the West.

Perhaps the best way to understand what is happening, is to realize that there are two primary forces at work in the world. One force is the world's financial and industrial elite, which wants to make money. The other force is revolutionary socialism, which has been playing possum for the last decade.

The Kremlin game, in this respect, has been a very simple one: namely, use the greed of Western business men to destroy the West's defenses. Use this greed to move auto factories from America to Poland -- to move missile and bomber plants to Communist China. As Pat Buchanan said in his recent book, "The Great Betrayal," China treats America "like a colony, a source of raw materials and a dumping ground for manufacturers."

This has all been manipulated for a reason. And Russia's alliance with China, in this respect, is no accident.

The business of America is business. Latter-day trade theory sees the weakening of nationalism and the erasing of borders as a positive development, which accelerates economic growth. Business people see "win-win" equations everywhere. They often see themselves as eradicating poverty, disease, backwardness and war. But they are mainly eradicating America's heavy industry. Soon we will not be able to build the tanks and ships and aircraft we need to wage war. Soon we will be totally dependent on foreign suppliers -- perhaps on Communist suppliers.

President Putin smiles at the prospects. His war machine is building its strength. His heavy industry is involved in a rapid modernization and expansion. Last Dec. 7 Putin spoke of bringing the former Soviet states together. But he was careful in his statement. He would not alarm the West with the overt return of the Soviet Union. That would be counterproductive.

The Soviet Union will be put back together only after a crisis, when America has offended Russia's honor. As Vladimir Putin said during a Feb. 7 interview on Russian television: "Whoever offends us will last not longer than three days."

After this fashion, a light phase of Russian history darkens into a tragic phase.

Oddly, nearly all on the Western Left and many who claim to be on the Western Right discount the perspective given in this Nyquist article. To me, not only does such a reaction itself serve to confirm the efficacy of the Perestroika Deception, but it also confirms that most of my Western brethren have yet to read and comprehend Sun Tzu's "Art of War." The Perestroika Deception encompasses a number of Sun Tzu's principles including, but not limited to, "Know your enemy," "Sow confusion," and naturally "Feign weakness."

And I read a 2002 PRAVDA commentary , that contained one very interesting comment, ie "....At their meeting, Pres PUTIN was amazed to learn from Pres BUSH that Pres BUSH could not understand that one of the most fundamental principles of a TRIANGULAR Big-Power Relationship, is that the two weaker powers (in this case, Russia and China) will inevitably gang up against the strongest (the US)...."