Moscow's Strategy

Q: According to reports published in the American press, Russian spetsnaz moved Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to Syria just before the American invasion. What do you make of these reports?

Cibulka: These reports show that Russia cannot be trusted. The number of irrefutable proofs is large and increasing. I would like to know how much longer President Bush's administration is willing to pretend that KGB Lieutenant Colonel Putin is America's friend and that Russia is America's strategic partner.

I'm certain that Russia is using this [false friendship] for strengthening, training and arming surrogate terrorist organizations so they can attack the United States. As I have said before, whoever succeeds in stopping the Russian GRU and KGB will solve the problem of global terrorism.

Q: Has there been anything published about these important developments in the Czech Republic?

Cibulka: We live under an information monopoly in the Czech Republic, and it is very easy to block all information that would endanger the final objectives of the Russian power structures. These objectives include the destabilization and destruction of the United States of America and the renewal of Russia as an imperial superpower with a totalitarian centralized government. Not one word has been published about this in the Czech mainstream press.

Q: When we talk about Russian military strategy, is it possible to speculate that Russian WMDs will be used against America by terrorists or rogue states?

Cibulka: As I have stated before, Russia is determined to fight America through surrogates. On the one hand, Russia is trying to provoke a split between America and Europe. On the other hand, Russia is trying to strengthen the most fanatical anti-American regimes in the world by supplying them with weapons of mass destruction. In the case of Iraq, Russia's moves were unsuccessful; and I'm convinced that the same strategy is being used with regard to Syria, Iran, South Africa, North Korea, Libya and even Cuba. When we look at these states and imagine their armament at the level of North Korea, that is to say with nuclear missiles, we can see that these countries are spread around the globe and cover nearly every corner of our planet. Russia doesn't have to start a nuclear attack from her territory to destroy the Western powers. On the contrary, Russia could claim neutrality during such a conflict. The destruction of the West would be accomplished by Russia's allies. I believe that this is part of the real Russian strategy. The words of Vladimir Putin about Russia's friendship and strategic cooperation don't have any value in the light of Russia's real political objectives.

Q: According to my sources the former Czechoslovak General Jan Sejna, the highest level defector from the communist bloc, testified that the communist espionage services had high level moles inside the FBI during the reign of J. Edgar Hoover. My sources further suggest that these agents had compromising data on Hoover and could destroy him instantly at any time if they chose to do so. Hoover was also the man who accepted the testimony of a defector that ran contrary to a proven and reliable defector from the KGB named Anatoliy Golitsyn. What do you make of this struggle within U.S. intelligence?

Cibulka: I think the communists manipulate what happens inside of these services. Additionally, it seems that the special services are creating another center of power inside certain Western countries. This appears in the fact that it's possible for them to have exclusive information on political representatives. Whoever has the information and the money will have the political power -- directly or indirectly. From my long term observation of the Western services, I've come to the conclusion that officials of these services don't count communist spies among their enemies. Instead, they see them as partners who are suitable for mutually beneficial worldwide cooperation. This trend leads us toward a situation in which we cannot tell where capitalism ends and communism begins.

Q: Are you familiar with the terms "distributionsm" and "communitarianism"? I've heard that these involve a political program of wealth redistribution similar to communism.

Cibulka: Yes, these are communist ideas. Originally, they were used thousands of years ago in India and about 1,500 years ago in the religious centers of Christian Europe. Monks used communism in monasteries in order to satisfy all their material needs with united effort, so they could devote more time to spiritual pursuits.

Given the spiritual decline of recent times, due in part to the overturning of the fundamental values of good and evil, truth and falsehood, many good ideas have fallen into misuse. Today the communist and leftist forces of the world claim a monopoly over collectivist values. They have taken over these values, turned them upside down and emptied them completely.

The ideas of distributionism and communitarianism are not used to satisfy material needs for a spiritual purpose, but exactly the opposite. It is all about the maximal satisfaction of bodily desires under a system directed by a strong hand. Any deviation from the materialist standard is punished severely. This is the tendency of all materialists and collectivists today. They bring about a uniform society that is easy to rule. Every man is directed to be like every other, to have the same values and goals. Under such a system the individual is a blind object of centralized manipulation through information and material stimulus. The opposite of this system would be a direct democracy that does not deny the highest spiritual and moral principles.

Q: On 4/4/97 a Russian merchant marine vessel, Kapitan Man, attacked a Canadian Naval helicopter that was trying to take photographs of the Russian ship as it monitored a U.S. Ohio Class ballistic missile submarine. The Russians used a special laser weapon that permanently damaged both the pilot's and photographer's eyes. The Clinton administration covered up the incident and swept it under the rug. What is your opinion of such incidents?

Cibulka: Such Russian maneuvers have nothing to do with legitimate defense. Rather than having a defensive character, such actions are calculated to negate America's defenses. If we were to acknowledge Russia's right to defend herself without any kind of limitations, then we would have to give Russia the right to install a GRU military intelligence residency inside the White House and the Pentagon. Russian audacity would say that this constitutes "legitimate defense." It is important to keep in mind J.J. Rousseau's rule: "One's freedom ends where another's begins." If America gives up a defensible position under "fair and equal rules," she cannot remain free for long. America must restore the balance of power while maintaining a vigilant attitude.

Q: After the "collapse" of communism Russia let many Jews immigrate to Israel. Has this situation been used to advance Moscow's strategic goals?

Cibulka: First, it must be explained that tens of thousands of Russian Jews, interspersed with pretended Jews, left the USSR for Israel and America during the Brezhnev era. In this way the KGB and GRU not only managed to export thousands of agents of influence but also tens of thousands of criminals whose Jewish ethnicity was often a fabricated. This has been the cornerstone of Soviet state organized crime which has flourished to the present time, increasing its influence since 1990. This situation is best described in Robert Friedman's book, Red Mafia.

Q: It has been reported in the Washington Times that Russian intelligence is aggressively targeting U.S. citizens [military and civilian] for recruitment as spies. Is there anything you can say about this matter?

Cibulka: I know that the Communist International issued an order to its cadres during the 1920s. It was an order of the utmost importance -- to infiltrate the intelligence services, armed forces, police, state administration and key financial sectors of their respective countries. I do not doubt for a moment that this order was fulfilled in all countries. Since the communists began to follow this order in the 1920s, I suspect that they have long since gained access to the highest levels of American society. The Communist International and the countries of the Soviet Bloc never abandoned this infiltration strategy. In fact, this strategy is discernable and documented in the policies of Bill Clinton, Al Gore and all the way back to Jimmy Carter. It is therefore naive to think that Russia and China are just beginning to recruit new agents today. Infiltration and subversion are the most important communist strategies, and they have never stopped.

Because America's counterespionage services refuse to employ proven KGB and GRU methods, America has no chance to counter foreign infiltration. Many agents of influence have been able to work their way up the ladder of American politics so that any effort on the part of U.S. counterintelligence has been paralyzed by these people from the beginning. It is pure nonsense to think that the communists are only interested in American technology. Communism wants to conquer the world.

Q: Can you define the main strategic mission of all communist and post-communist espionage services?

Cibulka: It is the breakdown of Western Civilization by removing its spiritual and moral pillars and replacing them with materialism and socialism.

Cibulka: Since their most important objective is to cause a total breakdown of Western Civilization, its moral and spiritual values and also its economic, political and power structures, it is necessary to fundamentally weaken the middle class and limit the bourgeoisie's political role. This strategy has apparently met with success.

If the West is unable to protect its middle class, it will end up like the old Roman Empire and fall before the attacks of Eastern Barbarians. This fate may yet be avoided if freedom is strengthened in the economic sphere, and also in politics, and by adhering to the highest spiritual and moral principles of Western Civilization. Without this everything will be lost.

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Petr Cibulka was born in 1950 in the city of Brno, in the province of Moravia. As a five-time political prisoner, Mr. Cibulka did hard time in the toughest communist prison camp in Czechoslovakia. He was repeatedly jailed between 1979 and 1989 and conducted a 31-day hunger strike in 1979.

In 1991 Mr. Cibulka began publishing his paper, Uncensored News, opposing the "official" informational blockade organized by the communists through their "soft" control of the mass media. In 1992 Mr. Cibulka acquired and published data from secret police files, including the names of over 200,000 communist spies and collaborators. Subsequently he became a target of aggressive attacks from "former" communist officials

"Look here, F#! face, your disingenuous ad hominem is 100% obvious."

You say one thing, then you say the opposite. Just what is your game, sir?

"I did not claim Russia is an enemy."

Then you didn't write the below item?

"3. The 7/16/2001 treaty with the PRC, now ratified in the Duma. The treaty explicitly states that should the US come into conflict with the PRC over Taiwan, Russian strategic capabilities and Naval forces would be brought to bear against the US.

"Inasmuch as the PRC have overtly aided the Axis of Evil, this, by extension, implies that Russia are aiding the Axis of Evil, and, have now joined an overall axis, defined as early as 1993 by Bodansky, named 'The Trans-Asian Axis'. I am 100% confident that geopolitical events will show me to be correct.

"I will believe that 'Russia is on our side' when I see them make a bold break with their Trans-Asian Axis connections and replace these with connections with the West, and, compliance with arms control agreements."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/653084/posts?page=32#32

If that doesn't mean Russia is our enemy, just what would it take to make them our enemy?

"I am just asking questions."

So am I. And you raised a DOOZY of a question with your comments.

"And in response to my questions, you are trying to dicredit and slime me."

You're the one who came down with a credibility problem because your statements cannot be reconciled with each other.

"Very, very interesting psy ops on your part. Very interesting discrediting op."

Interesting that you are quick to accuse others of launching operations against you. Are you an operator?

"Who the hell are you?"

Just a guy looking for an answer to a pretty basic question.

If Russia is allied with our enemy China, then Russia is a de facto enemy of this country. People who trade with the enemy can expect to get questioned about it.

Interesting that you, as a reputed IT professional, would think that interference in packets destined to or from the West is "tin foil." It's actually fairly straightforward. Of course, in normal countries such as the US, we've never had a government telecom monopoly (and the past private one, Ma Bell, was broken up by the Consent Decree). As a result, there are many, many international connection points between the US and the rest of the world. Physically, these consist of links between ARBOC and other local phone co switches and long distance switches. As there is no government censorship, therefore, there is no capability to do it here in the West.

Whereas, in much of the East, since there was a combination of government monopolies building the telco infrastructure, and, limited infrastructure historically, the number of international connect points is much less and is easier to control. The archetype is China, which the below examples relate to. However, this could equally apply to Tajikstan, Bugaria, the Czech Republic or Russia. The only real difference is that these countries have a more primative version than China,

Of late. Cisco has provided most of the equipment used to do the heaviest lifting. Filtering while maintaining overall throughput is the goal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2234154.stm

* The main contact points connecting China's internet with the worldwide system consist of nine Internet Access Providers that control the physical lines to the outside world.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/

* As a technical matter, anecdotal reports have described a shifting set of barriers to surfing the web from Chinese points of access -- sites that are reported unavailable or domain names that are unknown to the system or that lead to unexpected destinations, individual pages that are blocked, and the use of search keywords that results in temporary limits to further searches.

* Adopting a more conservative standard for determining which inaccessible sites were intentionally blocked and which were unreachable solely due to temporary glitches, we find that 18,931 sites were inaccessible from at least two distinct proxy servers within China on at least two distinct days. We conclude that China does indeed block a range of web content beyond that which is sexually explicit. For example, we found blocking of thousands of sites offering information about news, health, education, and entertainment, as well as some 3,284 sites from Taiwan.

* China's Internet filtering efforts remain opaque, and in the absence of government cooperation or admission of filtering methods, data probing of the sort used in our study remains a useful tool in determining the scope of filtering. The authors have previously studied filtering in Saudi Arabia and in American public libraries; in these locations, blockage of a web page leads to an error message clearly explaining that the requested page is unavailable due to intentional blockage. In contrast, China's systems make it difficult for a user to distinguish between an intentional block and a temporary network or server glitch. This may be intentional or may reflect technical happenstance -- that this implementation was easier or cheaper, given the size and design of China's network infrastructure. But some newer forms of Chinese filtering -- namely, redirection of a request for a sensitive web site to another web site -- can be either more or less obvious to the user than an apparent network glitch, depending on whether the substitution is noticed.

http://www.policy.house.gov/html/news_item.cfm?id=112

* Denying ISP access. Many governments in the Middle East and Asia retain monopoly control of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This occurs most often in nations that maintain state control of telecommunications systems. This monopoly power enables governments to enforce restrictive policies over the people?s access to the Internet.

http://www.tprc.org/abstracts/tan.txt

* Since telephone service prior to 1980 was non-existent or inadequate, China has been able to "leapfrog" generations of intermediate technology. The speed of construction has been attributed to the low cost of labor in China (about 5% of
a telecommunications installation compared to about 50% in the U.S.).[31] As a result of rapid construction of new technology, a high percentage of China's telephone lines that now exist are less than five years old and provide an
excellent channel for modem dial-in Internet access of the kind typically used by individuals in their homes.

* At present it appears that MPT's bottleneck control of international Internet connections gives MPT the edge.

* The China National Public Data Network (CHINAPAC) is an X.25 network started in 1989 and upgraded in 1994. CHINAPAC now has access nodes in all areas covered by the telephone network (700 cities).[5] CHINAPAC can be accessed at leased line speeds up to 64 Kbps as well as through the public telephone network. MPT also operates a nationwide digital data transmission network called the Digital Data Network (DDN). Built in 1994, the DDN provides data services from 30 Mbps to 2 Gbps with more than 3,000 nodes. The DDN is the backbone of China's information highway plans.

* The Chinese Government has concentrated on funding telecommunications projects that lead to more efficient centralized government planning.

* The Chinese government prohibits foreign operation of telecommunications networks.

* The absence of telecommunications law bolsters the influence of the MPT as both the dominant telecommunications
common carrier and the telecommunications regulatory agency.

* CHINANET is China's commercial ISP operated by the government via the MPT.

* Connecting private ISPs to the centrally administered CHINANET enables government authorities to monitor and potentially censor Internet services and content offered by the new private ISPs. Private ISPs not only need CHINANET for their international Internet connectivity but also to coordinate the following technical requirements in order for interoperability to take place: network access point (NAP) / Internet exchange (IX) establishment; network information center (NIC) services; network operation center (NOC) services; and domain naming system (DNS) standardization.

* The best way to control access is by becoming the only access provider. In China, there are already multiple ISPs but private commercial ISPs are mandated to use CHINANET and MPT facilities and all ISPs are regulated by the government.

* New commercial hardware and software tools provide Internet censorship abilities without limiting network access or the prospect of employing masses of censors to monitor all Internet traffic. These tools do not attempt to
censor transmissions within the network but rather attempt to block undesired content at each user's computer. [My note - such malware is, of course, easy to sneak into users' systems]

* If China is attempting to build a national intranet to take advantage of established network connectivity while limiting access to information forbidden by Chinese Internet regulations, it would become the largest intranet in the world if successfully implemented.[14] One private ISP, CIC, is creating an intranet using filtering technology from Sun Microsystems. CIC provides unlimited network access within China but has screened menus to access the Internet. Users will be able to petition to open a channel to any
international ISP subject to review by the MPT and MPS. CIC is being periodically inspected by the MPS.

* During the process of writing this paper, evidence for the existence of just such a national firewall system for China has been independently verified by several sources.

* Rather than attempting to completely block Internet access in an intranet model, Chinese Internet regulations instead appear aimed at steering the flow of traffic through officially controlled firewalls on these international connections.[12] Officially, the MPT says it does not want
to limit points of access into China but make more efficient use of expensive international circuits linking China's networks to the Internet (gaining economies of scale over fewer "fat pipes" versus many smaller pipes).[10]

* A variant of packet filtering and a relatively new technique is called dynamic route filtering. In dynamic route filtering the firewall has the ability to dynamically add or delete entire sets of packet filters when a particular set of circumstances occur. Possibilities of triggering events for dynamic route filtering include day and time restrictions, traffic load shedding (maximum
number of simultaneous connections), and known suspicious events.[1] With this technique, it is possible to have a firewall that detects suspicious activity to automatically deny a computer access for a period of time. In the Chinese
context, this technique can be used to dynamically alter filters in order to track and censor user communications that are likely to migrate to different network connections. [My note - this technique is very difficult to prove. Ironically, equipment providers themselves probably have the most evidence that it is happening]

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