No Such Thing As Doomsday - The Communist Threat

The mentality of Russian-Soviet leadership is much different than that of their Western counterparts. The Soviets are long range strategists and in spite of any surface changes in leadership, they always maintain continuity in their long-term goal and objective. American politicians, on the other hand, think and operate based on short-term goals. In general, American politicians are so obsessed with personnel career objectives that they don’t focus much of their concern on what might happen in the future after their term of office is over.

In March 1994, just before his death, Richard Nixon said, "Those who suggest that because of its vast problems, Russia should no longer be treated as a world power, ignore an unpleasant but undeniable truth. Russia is the only nation in the world that can destroy the United States."

With the so-called end of the cold war, most Americans have been led by the media to falsely believe that the threat of confrontation with the Soviet Union and the threat of global nuclear war are now over. The suggestion from the media is that the world has entered a new political era in which the U.S. and Russia would establish a global partnership to maintain peace.

What really happened to Soviet Russia? Has the old empire really been dismantled and is communism really dead? Due to the Soviet’s deceptive character and the historically closed nature of Soviet society, it is very difficult to decipher what is really going on in Russia today. The Soviets have spent years developing a very sophisticated propaganda and disinformation apparatus. What makes things worse is that many of the old Communists have changed their uniforms and are now leaders at various levels in the new "democratic" government.

The other complicating factor is that the real power, be it in the East or the West, keeps itself hidden. Discerning the real situation in the Soviet Union is a difficult and complex task.

During the past seventy years, the Soviet leadership has skillfully used the strategy of deception against the West. On January 14, 1960, Nikita Khrushchev made a speech to the Supreme Soviet in which he said, "The Soviets intend to conceal vast reserves of missiles and warheads, hiding them in places throughout the expansive Soviet Union where the Imperialists could not stop them. Later they could be launched in a nuclear war." A more recent 1978 quote from an official in the Soviet Council of Ministers, stated: "Perestroika is expressly designed to enhance Soviet military capability and combat readiness." The highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc intelligence community, Chech General Major Jan Sejna, revealed that the Soviet master plan involved a surprise military attack on the U.S. and the Western allies that would occur after a period of unprecedented Soviet peace concessions to the West.

Mikhail Gorbachev also revealed this deception in a speech he gave to the Politburo in November of 1987: "Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep."

Evidence suggests that the so-called "death of communism" and the collapse of the Soviet Empire are yet another manifestation of this strategy of deception. The Russian strategy of deception originated from the philosophy of Sun Tsu who lived in China some time around 500 BC and wrote the definitive text on warfare entitled, The Art of War. Tsu’s The Art of War has long been the textbook of Soviet strategists. The essence of Sun Tsu’s philosophy is that all effective warfare is based on deception. This deception tactic is clearly reflected in a 1921 quote from Vladimir Lenin.

"Telling the truth is a bourgeois prejudice. Deception, on the other hand, is often justified by the goal."

The Soviet leaders have always believed that war with America is inevitable. In many of their writings, they refer to the "inevitable upcoming war." The following quote comes from the Soviet General Druzhinin: "As long as imperialism exists with its anti-humane, reactionary, and militaristic essence, the danger of military attack on our Motherland remains a fact. In recent years the danger of such aggression has especially grown. We cannot wait for thunder to strike. We must initiate, leaning on youth of all ages. We cannot waste time. Such loss is irreplaceable and during war costs a great amount of blood. Take heed, my friends, and make your own conclusions."

The basis for the media-perpetuated belief that communism was overthrown in the USSR is the supposed coup of August 1991 in which so-called hard-liners were reputed to have attempted to oust the liberal democratic reformer, comrade Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1991, the media definitely portrayed Mikhail Gorbachev as a democratic free-market reformer battling with Communist Party hard-liners. This portrayal contains certain deficiencies. In all likelihood, Gorbachev is only a player in this drama. Granted, he held a big part in the cast, but he didn’t necessarily write nor have power over the script. This coup was most certainly orchestrated by the Russian Soviet controlling elite who operate behind the scenes to accomplish several of their objectives. First of all, the coup attempt gave the majority of the people in the West a false impression that a good guy / bad guy conflict was going on in Russia. Furthermore, an unspoken message was conveyed here that if the U.S. did not provide massive financial aid to the Gorbachev good guys, then the hard-liner Communist bad guys would take over and the dreaded cold war would resume again. The other objective accomplished by this phony coup was the purging of Kremlin bureaucrats who were opposing the entrance of Western oil companies and banking interests into the USSR.

Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov didn’t want the international bankers to get their foot in Russia’s door, so he strongly opposed the Western plan to transform the Russian economy with the help of Western capital. Pavlov also wanted to have the central planners in Moscow maintain control of the key Soviet assets and prevent the Western multinational oil corporations from buying Russian coal, oil and gas reserves. This produced a sharp reaction from the Western elite. Zbigniew Brzezinski, founding director of the Trilateral Commission, wrote an article that appeared in the July 14th, 1991 edition of the New York Times. It said, "The central Soviet bureaucracy has been the major source of Soviet stagnation and it would be absurd for the West to attempt to re-stimulate the Soviet economy by dealing with the Moscow bureaucrats who have so directly contributed to the present Soviet crisis."

This message was echoed at the July 1991 G-7 economic conference held in London that Gorbachev attended. At this economic conference, a little more than a month before the coup, Gorbachev was given his marching orders. He was told no more loans and no more aid until he purged those who obstructed Western economic ventures into Russia. As a result, a phony coup was engineered as a means of killing two birds with one stone.

When you dig deeply, the evidence clearly indicates that the leaders who participated in the coup were dupes in a grander plot. On August 19, 1991, Soviet Prime Minister Valintin Pavlov and other senior officials were summoned to a meeting by Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB. The KGB head informed them that Gorbachev was sick and incoherent and that a group of armed extremists were preparing to overthrow the government. Based on this report, Prime Minister Pavlov and the other officials declared a state of emergency and set up a governing committee to run the country through the duration of the crisis. The so-called plotters thought their actions were patriotically supporting Russia and Gorbachev, but they had unknowingly been tricked into endorsing an emergency regime.

Meanwhile Gorbachev, in good health, was taking a leisurely vacation at Pitsunda in the republic of Georgia where he had a Crimean dacha on the Black Sea. By the way, this luxurious summer home is purported to have a huge swimming pool with a glass wall and roof enclosure that move out of the way at the touch of a button. Three days subsequent to the initial coup, after making a triumphal return to Moscow, Gorbachev announced that during the coup, he had been held incommunicado and the plotters had cut his phone lines. But according to Major Vladimir Degtyaryov, who commanded the regiment which was responsible for protecting Gorbachev, Gorbachev was never placed under house arrest and no KGB troops ever invaded or seized control of his dacha. Also, according to the Moscow News, Valentin Zanin, the head of the manufacturing facility which produced the communication equipment for Gorbachev’s dacha, indicated that the phone lines could not just be cut and that isolating the president of the USSR from communications was impossible. Zanin said that if anyone tampered with the primary communication system, a network of backup systems would automatically kick in.

In August 1991, President Gam sakhurdia of the Soviet Republic of Georgia openly stated that Gorbachev himself had arranged the faked coup as part of a long-range Marxist strategy. Shortly thereafter Gamsakhurdia, who by the way was elected to office by an 80% popular vote, was overthrown by a KGB backed coup and murdered.

The other aspect of this coup that is so puzzling is how a group of conspirators with the backing of the KGB and with one of the world’s largest armies at their disposal could fail so miserably. The KGB has a long record of successful coups, including Budapest, Prague, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Kabul and four internal coups since the death of Stalin, to name a few. The typical ingredients of a real coup include a massive arrest of political opponents, seizing control of all communications, including telephone, radio, television and other media, and seizing control of transportation, especially airports and roads.

This particular coup took the CIA completely by surprise and as a result the agency’s competency was questioned. The reason the CIA analysts were unable to anticipate that a coup was going to happen was that none of the typical indications of a coup, such as large scale troop movements, elaborate preparations or urgent communications, ever occurred. The obvious reason these coup indicators never occurred was that this coup was not a real coup; it was a media event. Consequently, the only real casualties were a few expendable political figures.

One of the most credible evaluations of this landmark "death of communism coup" came from the Russian defector Viktor Sheymov. Before his defection in 1981, Sheymov was a major in charge of communications and security at the KGB headquarters in Moscow. On August 19, 1991 during the coup, he appeared on the MacNeil News Hour and gave the following commentary:

"I’ve seen quite a few KGB orchestrated coups while being in the center and I must say that this is a very unusual coup, in the sense—first of all, the timing. Most coups happen on a Friday or Saturday. This is a coup which happened on a Monday, which is very unfortunate for the participants because everyone is in town. So, it looks like the coup wasn’t really intended to succeed in the first place. Secondly, there are certain signs of how a coup performs. The KGB knows that in order for any coup to succeed, one has to act extremely decisively, and that’s what they do. You can recall a lot of examples like Ethiopia, Afghanistan and so on. In this coup, the head of the government was just isolated and not eliminated. They could have done much better. For instance, they could have arranged, let’s say, a heart attack for Mr. Gorbachev. That would have been much more plausible and at least they would have a chance to succeed. I wouldn’t exclude that Mr. Gorbachev could be behind the coup, because he could benefit more than anybody else from this coup. For instance, he went recently to London [G-7 Conference] where he was literally begging for help. He didn’t get too much for it. His popularity within the country is plummeting and he needs some kind of support from his people. In this case he could force the people to ask themselves fundamental questions: what is the alternative? Mr. Gorbachev until yesterday, for most of the Soviet population, was a bad guy… He is a good guy now that he is under house arrest."

The M.A.D. treaty (mutual assured destruction) specified that neither the U.S. nor the Soviets would develop a national civil defense system. The idealistic logic involved here was that each nation would hold the other nation’s civilian population as a nuclear hostage. Thus, if the Soviets launched a nuclear attack against the United States, the U.S. would retaliate in kind and annihilate the unprotected Soviet civilian population or vice versa. Under such a scenario, the consequences of initiating nuclear war would be too costly for either side. In order for the M.A.D. doctrine to work, both sides need to be trustworthy.

Once the U.S. signed the M.A.D. treaty, the Soviets started building a national civil defense system that now has the capacity to shelter the government leadership, the military and 70 percent of the industrial work force. Russia spends about $6 billion a year on civil defense. Their program involves about 100,000 full-time civil defense personnel and as many as 20 million part-time people. Russian children receive over 100 hours of civil defense instruction during the course of their pre-college schooling. Also, the Soviets have blast-hardened much of their essential industrial base. Thus, in spite of any nuclear attack, their underground sheltered industry will continue to function.

In 1972, the U.S. and Soviets signed the ABM (anti-ballistic missile) treaty, which limited the numbers and effectiveness of anti-ballistic missiles. The treaty allowed each nation to develop 100 anti-ballistic missiles. Immediately upon signing the treaty, the Soviets started building and deploying an ABM system, but the U.S. leadership decided not to. As part of their ABM system, the Soviets built the Krasnoyarsk radar system, which clearly violates the treaty. Also, the Soviets built and deployed far more than 100 ABM missiles. Incidentally, one of the structures involved in this system is reported to be larger than the Great Pyramid.

The reason the Soviets fought so hard to get the Reagan administration to give up the Star Wars Program, a totally defensive system, was that they were in the process of deploying their own spaced-based strategic defense system. If the U.S. developed and deployed a strategic defense system, it would significantly complicate any attempt by the Soviet Union to launch a first strike against the United States. Civil defense and strategic defense are the two greatest deterrents to nuclear war. The Soviets now have both and the United States has neither.

According to reports that appeared in the February 11 and June 30, 1993 issues of the Swiss newspaper, "Neue Zurcher Zeitung," the old Soviet gulag-style concentration camp system is still in operation. The system is comprised of hundreds of camps containing a total of one million to two million prisoners.

George Bush and the world’s financial elite share a vision for a global international economic system. This group of global financial elite control and direct the foreign policies of the U.S. and other nations to protect their own commercial programs and financial gain. Over the years, the global financial elite have effectively used their financial resources to install or purchase government officials in various nations. These officials in turn give them access to the nation’s markets and natural resources. The end result is usually disruption of the nation’s cultural structures, major financial gain for the global elite and very little compensation to the nation’s residents.

One of the necessary ingredients for the fulfillment of this vision of a global order is the integration of former Communist nations into this new system. The brokers of the New World Order thought they could play the same game with Russia. They thought they could gain access and control of Russia through loans and investment into her economy, but they got taken for a ride by a much smarter fox. After the West was conned out of hundreds of billions of dollars, the Communist Party re-emerged as the prominent force in Russian politics.

What will happen if Russia attempts to restore its former position, including the re-establishment of the boundaries of the former Soviet Union? The New World Order assumed that political and military questions had become subordinate to economic issues like IMF bailouts and reforms. The Clinton administration has continued to pursue the Bush New World Order economic fantasy. Consequently, Clinton has radically down- sized U.S. defensive capabilities. The U.S. no longer has the military strength to protect the Baltics, Turkey or Eastern Europe, for that matter. If the Russian bear comes out of hibernation and starts to re-establish regional imperialism, NATO and the U.S. military will be in trouble. They no longer have the military strength to stop such an expansion.

During the 1991 Nobel Prize ceremonies Gorbachev said the following in his speech: "To me it is self-evident that if Soviet perestroika succeeds, there will be a real chance for building a New World Order. If perestroika fails, the prospect of entering a new peaceful period in history will vanish."

Glasnost and perestroika are effective tools that gained the Soviets advantages at the bargaining table which otherwise could hardly be gained on the battlefield. The Russian retreat from Eastern Europe was a deception intended to get the United States to lower its guard, remove its troops from Europe and reduce its global military strength. The bait that the Russians offered to the West was access to an open market in the Soviet Union. It appears that the one world multinational power-elite group jumped at this opportunity. The multinationals used their political control of the U.S. leadership to end the cold war with the Soviet Union and stop the development of a strategic defense system intended to protect the United States against a nuclear attack.

The Russian use of glasnost and perestroika is consistent with the application of the principals of Sun Tsu. Sun Tsu taught that weakening one’s enemy is the purpose of war. This is not the first time the Soviets pulled this glasnost and perestroika game with the West. They did it from 1921-29 under Lenin, 1936-37 under Stalin, 1941-45 again under Stalin, 1956-59 under Khrushchev, and 1970-75 under Brezhnev. Periods of superficial Soviet reformation have always been followed by crackdowns, brutal purges and the resumption of Soviet espionage and military operations against the West. This concept is clearly reflected in Lenin’s statements, "We advance through retreat" and "They disarm, we build." The American public seems to find a false security in the ceremonious signing of treaties. When facing an untrustworthy opponent, only a fool lets down his defense.

The Russian-Soviet default should not come as a surprise. According to a May 16, 1993 article in the New York Times, "Since last December, Russia has failed to meet interest payments on $4.2 billion of U.S. agricultural credit guarantees. It is now $600 million in default. Russia has also failed to pay more than $200 million owed to 57 American companies." The fact of the matter is that the Russians never intended to pay back these western debts. Gorbachev himself eluded to the potential for this Russian-Soviet insolvency in December of 1988 when he made a speech at the United Nations: "Looking at things realistically, one has to admit that the accumulated debt cannot be repaid or recovered on the original terms." Gorbachev went on to suggest, "write off the debt altogether," or allow "a lengthy moratorium of up to 100 years on debt servicing," or possibly "limit their debt servicing payments" and postpone the requirement of paying on the principal for "a long period." Besides postponing Russia’s inevitable day of financial reckoning, Western aid has allowed the Russian elite to significantly bolster their war-making capability.

"Lying to Western lenders was the right thing to do." (information covered in book)

Western aid has propped up the crumbling Russian domestic situation and enabled the Russian-Soviet elite to chrome-plate the barrel of their military machine. There is no way of preventing the Soviets from spending loan money and aid on military equipment and development.

Russia’s high-tech military industry is receiving U.S. financial aid. Russia is receiving hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to help dismantle their old nuclear weapons, subsidize unemployed weapon scientists and convert weapons plants over to production of consumer goods. The only problem is that they are not converting. These subsidized plants are the hubs of Russia’s conventional and nuclear military modernization program.

In May of 1995 Gen. Yevgeny Maslin lobbied with U.S. senators to maintain funding for conversion of Russian military plants. At the same time he defended Russia’s strategic nuclear modernization program. In that same year CIA and DIA reports indicated that Russia was test launching a new generation silo-based ICBM, a mobile ICBM, and SLBM, and developing a new ballistic-missile submarine.

In 1998 the Russian strategic Delta-4 ballistic missile submarine Novomoskovsk launched a German research satellite into orbit, fired with a sub-launched ballistic missile. This is an example of the Russian navy using commercial projects to fund the modernization of its nuclear strike force. The satellite launch was engineered by the Makeyev State Rocket Center. This facility continues to develop new generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The Clinton administration and the Commerce Department have promoted commercial ventures with Makeyev.

Russia is developing and deploying new weapons of mass destruction aimed at the United States. Also, Western technology transfers and investments into the Russian military complex are helping Russia maintain its position as the world leader in the global military hardware market.

The Russian leadership keeps crying economic hardship as they panhandle in the west for more loans and economic aid programs. In fact, economic hardship is Yeltsin’s excuse for Russia’s failure to comply with the SALT II strategic arms reduction treaty. In spite of this hardship, Russia’s research and development on high-tech strategic weapons has increased nearly six-fold over the past four to five years. Russia’s budget for military research and development was $2.1 billion in 1994, $4.2 billion in 1995, $11.7 billion in 1996, and about $12.8 billion in 1997. Russia’s regular defense budget is about $19 billion annually.

In 1999, the Russians produced the world’s most advanced fighter jet, The MFI (Multifunctional Fighter). MAPO-MIG, the company that produces the aircraft, claims it will outperform the U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter plane. Also in 1999, Russia launched a new anti-submarine ship. This new ship, the Admiral Chabanenko, carries Moskit anti-ship missiles, Kinzhal anti-aircraft missiles, and two Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopters. In 1998 the Russians also deployed a new intercontinental ballistic missile the SS-27, a new radar-testing stealth bomber to replace its Tu-95s. The Russians have also developed a new tactical nuclear weapons system with a 400 kilometers range, miniature nuclear warheads weighing under 200 lbs., seven new strategic Boreas-class submarines, and a new D-31 submarine-launched ballistic missile. The Russian military has develped a new satellite system that can locate submarines moving through the depths of the oceans by detecting any subtle disturbances in the plankton.

Defense Secretary Cohen reported that the Russians have a sophisticated nuclear-based missile defense system around Moscow and possibly elsewhere. The Russians have developed a "plasma weapon" for missile defense. The plasma weapon uses nuclear energy to ionize the atmosphere, destroying or rendering inoperable any missiles passing through the plasma field. Russia is also developing directed energy weapons, deep-penetration ammunition, super high-speed data processing and electronic warfare equipment. This was aided by the sale of Silicon Graphics supercomputers to the Chelyabinsk-70 nuclear weapons lab.

An article from the Russian magazine Ogonek reported that in Russia and the other republics there are now 27 cities involved in strategic weapons production and development which have been closed to Westerners. Many of these facilities are purported to be located underground, encased in granite. The Russian government employs 755,000 people in these facilities. Between 1,500 and 2,000 of these people are scientists, the rest are technicians and workers. In a July 1, 1997 Associated Press release titled "Yeltsin closes biological research town to outsiders" it was revealed that President Boris Yeltsin ordered that the town of Shikhany, in the Saratov region of central Russia, be closed to outsiders. Shikhany is the site of a biological weapons research center. According to the Russian newspaper Segodnya "Some 1.5 million to 2 million Russians still live in about 150 closed cities run by the defense and nuclear power ministries."

In the April 16, 1996 edition of the New York Times, an article appeared that revealed the construction of a mysterious underground military base in Russia. This base is inside Yamantau Mountain, near the town of Beloretsk, in the Southern Urals. This is a new strategic command post designed to survive nuclear attack. The Russian base is a huge complex being worked on by thousands of personnel with a rail access that runs inside the mountain. This Yamantau mountain base is reported to be as large as the area inside the Washington, DC beltway. The name Yamantau Mountain in the local Bashkir language means Evil Mountain. Another large command post is being built at Kosvinsky.

According to a 1997 CIA report, the Russians are building four deep underground command and control bunkers within the Moscow area that would be used to house high-level government officials in the event of a nuclear war. The Russians are also building a secret subway system designed to get Russia’s leadership out of Moscow in the event of a nuclear attack. One of the four bunkers is at Voronovo, about 46 miles south of Moscow, and a second one is located at Sharapovo, 34 miles from Moscow. The Sharapovo command post is connected to Moscow by a new subway. It is speculated that the escaping officials would then be airlifted to the Yamantau and Kosvinsky command posts. Another escape subway was built traveling from Victory Park Station in Moscow to Mr. Yeltsin’s residence, 13 miles west of town. This was also built to get Boris Yeltsin safely out of Moscow in the event of nuclear war. These are examples of the Russian leadership spending billions of dollars in scarce rubles on war preparations at a time when Russian’s civilians are starving. And these projects are not leftovers from the Brezhnev era; all this was done under Yeltsin’s oversight and authority.

At this time, the U.S. does not have a nuclear warhead capable of destroying these new underground command and control bases.

Intelligence analysts suggest that these projects are part of a program to maintain a continuity of leadership during nuclear war. This activity clearly indicates that the Russian leadership sees a serious possibility in the near future for a nuclear conflict. Bankrupt nations do not allocate massive resources on unnecessary projects. The only logical conclusion is that they have a sinister strategic agenda that they are quietly pursuing. The long-standing Russian war-fighting attitude is that Russia can survive and prevail in a nuclear conflict.

Not bad for a bankrupt nation. Some one obviously forgot to tell them about glasnost and perestroika, (openness and freedom). We all thought that the cold war was over. It would appear that we are experiencing a one-sided nuclear arms race that is being subsidized with money from American taxpayers.

Former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney refers to this fact as a "basic contradiction." Cheney also said: "When a nation is facing extraordinary economic hardship and bankruptcy, why does it continue to spend so much of its gross national product on the military?" The probable reason Russia continues to place such a high national priority on military weapons development and production is because they are planning on going to war in the near future.

The Russian economy is in shambles. An atmosphere of national frustration is fertile ground for manipulation. Any group or person with prudence and resource could exploit this Russian public sentiment and increase their position of power. History contains a similar example of the exploitation of national frustration in Germany during the 1930s. The social and economic conditions within Russia are ripe for change. History has shown that economically downtrodden nations are easily led to war. Russia today resembles the corrupt Weimar republic in hyperinflationary pre-Hitler Germany.

Recent polls taken in Moscow indicate that two out of three Russians would prefer to live under the old Communist system or under an even stronger version of the present Russian dictatorship. General Alexander Lebed, a famous commander from the 14th Russian Army in Moldavia said, "Democracy in Russia is completely impossible. Most Russians don’t care whether they are ruled by the Fascists or Communists or even Martians as long as they are able to buy six kinds of sausage in the stores and lots of cheap vodka. What’s wrong with a military dictator?"

With the onset of the September 1998 financial crisis, tens of thousands of Moscow’s middle class are out of work and the financial chaos destroyed the value of their savings. This includes bank employees, business people, stock market employees, sales people and those connected with the import business. The rich, on the other hand, moved their assets out of the country long ago. The poor are in a desperate situation, they have no savings and many have not been paid wages for months now.

Thus, the bulk of the Russian people have been led to believe that the Western ways and the free enterprise system do not work. The Communist Party has gained great appeal with the Russian people because it advocates returning Russia to the glory of its past. Once Russia was a superpower, with equal standing to that of the United States. The Communists position is that Russia under Yeltsin is nothing more than a U.S vassal state.

There is tremendous disappointment among the Russian people with the United States due to what they feel are unfulfilled economic promises. They feel that the West misled Russia into changing its economic system and they feel that the U.S. has benefited from the collapse of the Soviet Union. For the first time in Russia there is popular hatred and animosity toward the United States. The Russian people feel that they fulfilled their end of the bargain and their reward was economic disaster. The current Communist propaganda line is that, as bad as the past may have been, the common person was better off then than they are today.

It would appear that the logical outcome of the current economic and political crisis is the re-emergence of Stalinism. Stalinism can be defined as central planning combined with powerful internal controls and national geopolitical integrity.

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." Mikhail Gorbachev in his address at the United Nations, December 7, 1988.

With the end of the cold war and the advent of globalism, we are seeing a convergence of the agendas of the Western and the Soviet elite. The front man is the Soviet leader whose Communist reign of power included the bombing of civilians in Afghanistan. The new, media-reformed Gorbachev now has an office in the Presidio in San Francisco. News reports published in the U.S. regarding Gorba chev’s presence and activities here are notably vague. On Wednesday April 21, 1991, a rare article appeared in the San Jose Mercury News regarding Gorbachev’s activities in the United States, "Friday he [Gorbachev] inaugurated the Gorbachev Foundation USA, which is moving into new headquarters in the Presidio in San Francisco. Gorbachev announced that the foundation is creating a national task force on U.S. base closing. It will be co-chaired by former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery and former Demo cratic Rep. Mel Levine of Southern California." In the same article Gorbachev was asked the question, would he ever return to politics. Gorbachev answered, "I never left politics."

It seems rather peculiar that we have the ex-President of the Soviet Union running around the United States arranging for the closing of our military bases. If this situation had taken place twenty years ago, it would have immediately drawn media attention and a congressional investigation.

Now with the supposed death of communism, we are seeing military cooperation between the U.S. and Russian Federation states in various treaties including Bridge to America and Partnership for Peace. This is being done under the guise of training for peacekeeping missions in third world countries. Unfortunately, it appears that the real intent is for the joint suppression of civilian uprisings. Evidence of this real intent appeared in a Working Paper published by the National Guard Bureau on June 24, 1994. "…for the past year and a half, the National Guard Bureau has worked with the Joint Staff and the U.S. European Command to establish National Guard partnerships linking the National Guards of selected U.S. States with Ministries of Defense throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The Partnerships assist the participating nation’s transition to democratic military institutions with peacetime utility in providing military support of civilian authorities."

One might like to think that this agreement only applies to our troops supporting the civilian authorities of the newly Independent States, but this is a reciprocal agreement. If the U.S. government were to try and disarm the American public they would need the assistance of foreign troops (UN Peacekeeping Troops) because most American soldiers couldn’t be depended on to use force against American citizens.

The Department of Defense allocated $20 million for the construction of a Military Operations Urban Terrain training facility (MOUT) at Fort Polk, Louisiana, to facilitate training for the Partnership for Peace program. U.S. military units are now training at MOUT facilities located at Fort Drum in New York State and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. These facilities are also being used to train law enforcement personnel.

From August 6 to 28, 1994, 4,000 military personnel from the United States, Britain, Canada, and the former Soviet bloc nations, including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrghystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, took part in joint military maneuvers at Fort Polk. Part of their training included disarming civilian "militias." There were two joint Partnership for Peace military operations held in the United States in September of 1995. One at Norfolk, Virginia, and another at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, which included 200 Ukrainian soldiers. In October of 1995, 150 Russian troops from the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of Orenburg, Russia, trained with the U.S. 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. This was part of an exercise called Peacekeeper-95 in which the Russian and American troops operated jointly in a simulated peacekeeping operation.

In 1993, U.S. Special Forces were sent to Tblisi, Georgia, on a covert mission to protect Shevardnadze. This included providing anti-terrorism training to Shevardnadze’s security forces and providing them with weapons and equipment. In May of 1995, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman John Shailikashvili visited the Soviet Republic of Georgia and pledged to upgrade their military’s training, communications, medical services and supplies. This seems rather ironic since Shevardnadze has shown himself to be one of the most ruthless Communist bosses in all of the republics.

On July 4, 1994, FBI Director Louis Freeh signed a cooperation protocol with Russian law enforcement agencies that includes Yeltsin’s reformed KGB. During the Branch Davidian incident, the FBI Counter Terrorism Center consulted with Igor Smirnov, an expert on psychological warfare from the Moscow Institute of Psycho-Correction in regards to using subliminal warfare measures against Koresh and his people.

The most profound and comprehensive perspective on convergence has come from a KGB officer named Anatoliy Golitsyn who defected to the United States in 1961. He has written two books, the first is New Lies for Old and the second is The Perestroika Deception. In New Lies for Old, Golitsyn predicted the creation of the Solidarity movement in Poland and the liberalization of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, including the reunification of Germany.

In The Perestroika Deception, Golitsyn predicted that the Soviets would introduce a false democratization as a means of disarming the West. Golitsyn suggests that at the right moment this false mask will be dropped and the Russians, in cooperation with the Chinese, will force the West into accepting their system as a second October Revolution, a one world government under their terms. He also predicted that the Russians will provoke an incident involving the detonation of a nuclear weapon somewhere in the West, possibly in the U.S., that could not be traced back to them and that would create pressure for a world government. (See chapter on Terrorism).

Golitsyn suggests that the final stages of convergence "will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression."

The ultimate goal of communism has been, and always will be, world domination. If the communist elite can get away with achieving world domination through the path of convergence, they will. But nonetheless, the Soviets are willing and have thoroughly prepared, if necessary, to wage and win a global war against the West.

Stanislav Lunev, Russia’s highest-ranking military defector, wrote a book entitled Through the Eyes of the Enemy. He asserts that the Russian mafia controls Russia and its leaders. The U.S. is still considered the enemy. The GRU and the KGB (now the SVR) are continuing the strategy of supporting any activity that might weaken our country or our allies. The buildup of Russia’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons continues:

"America has already been penetrated by the Russian mafia and Russia’s military intelligence. Arms caches lie in wait here for use by Spetznatz Russian Special Forces. Russian military doctrine advocates using nuclear devices as tactical weapons and the Spetznatz has them available."

Russia maintains a massive stockpile of between 18,000 and 20,000 tactical nuclear weapons. In 1997 Gen. Alexander Lebed, Russia’s former National Security Advisor, claimed that more than 100 suitcase-sized tactical nuclear weapons had disappeared from the military’s inventory. These portable nuclear weapons all had 1 kiloton capability, (1,000 tons of TNT). If these missing nukes end up in the hands of terrorists they would pose an immediate threat to U.S. security. These Russian mini-nukes are the size of a golf club bag. They were designed to destroy vital targets, such as military command and control centers, communications nodes, power stations, bridges, dams, airports, and so on. Stanislav Lunev explained that in the event of war, the Soviet military intended to smuggle mini-nukes into the US by speedboat, light aircraft, or by submarines. Spetznatz units would then place these devices next to their intended targets and detonate them. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets had actually stockpiled suitcase nuclear weapons in Cuba for this purpose.

On April 20–27, Russian bombers flew simulated raids into northern polar regions that are the flight paths for a nuclear attack on the U.S. The aircraft involved in this exercise included Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that test-fired long-range cruise missiles. According to the Pentagon, "the bomber activity demonstrated that the heavy bomber force is still an important factor in Russia’s strategic planning, despite a number of problems." According to a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, "The April exercises indicate that the primary mission of the heavy bomber force remains strikes on North America."

Many Westerners would suggest that the proliferation of independence movements in the eastern bloc nations and old Soviet republics proves that the old Communist Empire has disintegrated. The strategy that the KGB has historically used to destroy opposition and consolidate power in the Soviet Republics and the eastern bloc satellite countries is to establish phony KGB controlled independence movements. Once established, these phony independence movements bring the underground opposition to the surface where it can be identified and eventually liquidated.

The exception is the Caucasus region, including Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbajan. The KGB cannot ignore the existence of a genuine and uncontrolled struggle for freedom. The real thing can be contagious and must be squashed with an iron fist.

Deficiencies exist in the media generated concept that the Soviet-Communist Empire has collapsed, the cold war is over and the old enemy is now benign. In reality, the Russians are engaged in a strategic deception. If you put together the evidence, including the Soviet character flaw, revealing statements by the Soviet leadership and the ongoing military expansion, it seems obvious that world conquest is their agenda. At best, the Soviet elite are not putting all of their cards on the table. Given historical precedents, it is not realistic to expect this elite to willingly surrender long held power and their dream of world supremacy. The circumstances of life and the future may well bring the Russian-Soviet power structure to a position of desperate survival, where their only option would be some form of major military expansion. The Soviets could make their military move against the West either out of national desperation or in a more calculated manner that fulfills their long-term plan for world conquest.

The big question, of course, is if the Soviets intend on going to war with the West, when and how will they strike. If and when the Soviets initiate war against the West, they obviously will want as much of the odds as possible in their favor. Holding the advantage is an important part of the science of winning war. Being able to pick the time and place of the battle is a great advantage. As long as the Western economy has the capacity to extend financial aid to the Soviets, they will probably be content to sit back and wait. Meanwhile, they will continue to refine their war machine for the ultimate day while they proceed to put all their strategic ducks in a row.

This waiting strategy is clearly reflected in this provoking statement by Dimitry Manuilsky in a lecture he delivered in 1931 at the Lenin School on Political Warfare in Moscow: "Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack… To win we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will jump at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist."

The Clinton administration has established a very liberal foreign policy toward the People’s Republic of China. The justification for this liberal policy is that the favorable influence of trade and capitalistic enterprise is causing an evolution in Red China away from communist totalitarianism and toward democracy. But skeptics, Chinese dissidents and human rights advocates maintain that wealth, trade and the transfer of advanced technology to Communist China does not cure social problems or lead to democracy. To the contrary, the most favored nation trading status is helping the Chinese Communists prop up a decaying totalitarian structure that would have collapsed of its own weight long ago were it not for U.S. trade and technology.

China has experienced fifteen years of rapid economic growth that was facilitated by the most favored trading status with the U.S. At their present rate of growth, the Red Chinese economy will be the world’s largest by 2030.

The Clinton administration has engaged in a strategic cooperative partnership with the Chinese Communists. The principal reason for the Clinton administrations inordinate love affair with the Communist Red Chinese is the millions of dollars in campaign donations he received from them during the last Presidential election campaign. The most favored nation trading status in combination with the transfer of sensitive advanced military technology is enabling China to build a colossal war machine.

According to the KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960’s was a strategic deception intended to further Communist objectives. In March of 1989, Golitsyn sent a memo to the CIA saying that China was one of the principal architects of the Communists’ long-range strategy. He also stated that the Sino-Soviet split was a joint Sino-Soviet disinformation operation intended to ensure the success of their "restructuring" strategy. According to Golitsyn, "China is destined to become a primary Soviet partner in the future world government towards which Moscow and Peking are jointly proceeding."

In March of 1966, the Chinese government made the following statement in a communique to Moscow: "The great peoples of China and the Soviet Union will eventually sweep away all obstacles and unite on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism… The Soviet people may rest assured that once the Soviet Union meets with imperialist aggression and puts up resolute resistance, China will definitely stand side by side with the Soviet Union and fight against the common enemy."

The phony Sino-Soviet split has seduced the United States government into giving the Red Chinese a most favored nation trade status along with technical and military assistance. The idea is that supporting your enemy’s enemy helps maintain a balance of power. The other reason behind developing Chinese trade relations is that the global corporate interests think that they can eventually control China through the process of economic development, Westernization and the infiltration of her financial institutions. Does this sound familiar anyone?

With the assistance of American technology and hard currency profits made in sales to U.S. consumers, the Chinese are quietly pursuing their Marxist-Leninist objective of world domination by making high tech improvements to the world’s largest standing army. Based on their human rights violations and their frank admissions toward a goal of world domination, it does not seem in the interest of U.S. security and moral values to vest Red China with a most favored nation trade status and sensitive advanced military technology.

In August of 1998, spy satellite photos revealed a massive North Korean underground complex that is suspected to be a nuclear weapons program. The satellite photos showed thousands of workers burrowing into a mountainside near Yongbyon. Yongbyon is the site of a nuclear weapons plant that was supposedly made inactive under a 1994 agreement. The agreement called for North Korea to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for two $5 billion light-water reactors provided by the United States, South Korea and Japan. U.S. Intelligence experts think that North Korea is also developing nuclear weapons capability in underground caverns at Qum Chang and building two new launch facilities for its Taepo Dong 1 medium-range missile.

North Korea has the most advanced missile program of any third world nation that is hostile to the U.S. North Korea has developed the Rodong-1 missile, with a range of over 1,000 km that can deliver nuclear or chemical warheads. North Korea is also developing mid- to long-range missiles with a range of up to 4,000 km. This missile can reach all the way to Hawaii.

On Aug. 31, 1998, North Korea test fired a new three-stage Taepo Dong 1 missile in a flight path over Japan. The first stage of the missile landed in the Sea of Japan, the second stage crossed over the Japanese island of Honshu landing in the Pacific, and the third stage traveled 3,450 miles downrange landing in the Pacific Ocean. According to Robert D. Walpole, a senior CIA official, North Korea is moving closer to developing a missile capable of hitting the United States.

In a per-capita comparison to its total population, North Korea has the largest standing army in the world. North Korea’s annual defense spending represents 27% of its gross domestic product. This inordinate military spending is happening at a time when two to three million North Koreans have either died of starvation or fled over the border to China and Russia. A South Korean intelligence report indicated that since 1995, North Korea’s population has been declining 500,000 per year. The primary cause are starvation, disease and defection.

An aggressive nation in a desperate situation is more inclined to resort to a desperate solution. At this point in history, North Korea has nothing to lose. War may be North Korea’s only option for survival.

Communism represents history’s greatest exercise in government sponsored mass murder. The Chinese communists murdered 45 to 72 million, the Soviets murdered 20 million, the Cambodian communists murdered 2.3 million and the North Koreans murdered or starved 2 to 3 million. Also, the communists killed 1 million in Eastern Europe, 1 million in Vietnam, 1.7 million in Africa, and probably another 1 million elsewhere on the planet. The total that the communists have killed on the planet totals 85 to 100 million.

They played Strangelove, my favorite movie, here in Grant Park in Chicago the other day. It was great watching it with thousands of other people on a beautiful evening.

I think Russia always has the potential to pose a threat to the United States. Right now the remnants of the Soviet Union are still in place, albeit decaying, all across the Eurasian landmass.

I know a Russian officer still serving for the Russian army in Kazakhstan. They have a co-operative defense pact which means Russian forces won't be leaving Central Asia anytime soon. Plus you have to take in part US presence in Pakistan and the financial aid they're giving to other Central Asian countries to combat terrorism.

As far as I can tell it looks like a new Great Game is heating up. Both the US and Russia are acting their parts. The US wants to overthrow the Iraqi and Iranian regimes so they will have the potential to develop oil pipelines which can avoid the caucases. Russia wants to remain in control in Central Asia and keep Iraq and Iran anti-American.

Russia is also a proud nation, with intelligent people, a history and a long record of strong(extreme at times) rule of law. Economic turmoil can't strip away the greatness from a people or nation.

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