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I know someone who purchased this from RAND. By page 19 this report goes from discussing the need for a Special Police Force overseas to supplement interventions, to suddenly needing a force that can circumvent Posse Comitatus. Posse Comitatus exists for a reason and any attempt to circumvent it, not matter how nicely packaged, is a step on the way to "Special" police becoming "Secret" police. They call it :A STABILITY POLICE FORCE: This study asks several questions. First, is a Stability Police Force (SPF) necessary? An SPF is a high-end police force that engages in a range of tasks...

CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE FUNDED AS WELL AS THE MILITARY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2PP4pYGno

We know that history holds many surprises. One doesn't expect to learn more about the secret history of of the Gulag than we already know from both Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Acrcipelago" and Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A history." This feat, however, is exactly what author Tim Tzouliadis has accomplished: the previously unknown story of the thousands of Americans who, during the Depression, sought employment and a better future in the "worker's paradise" built by the Bolsheviks. All kinds of Americans joined the exodus. Some of them were Communists or fellow-travelors but the majority were average Americans - skilled workers promised paid passage,...

Wajda's "Katyn" shown in Moscow 28.10.2007 Polish Embassy in Moscow is again the venue of the screening of "Katyn", a movie on the Katyn Forest Massacre by Oscar winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. Katyn was shown there for the first time yesterday. The audience, mostly diplomats, human rights activists and artists were moved. "Poles, forgive us," said Russian human rights activist Siergiej Kovaliov after he saw the film. In 1940, over twenty two thousand Polish POWs - both military and civilian - were executed by the Soviet NKVD. The movie tells a fictional story of the victims and their...

BYKOVNYA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine on Saturday reburied some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police over several years up to the Second World War and left in mass graves at a site near the capital. The 1,998 bodies, 474 of which were Poles, were dug up earlier this year at in Bykovnya, a village and woods in the suburbs were Ukranian officials believe some 30,000 could have been buried during the 1930s and early 1940s. The mass graves were filled with people -- others estimate up to 100,000 -- that were tortured and shot by the dreaded NKVD,...

Poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died on Thursday in an intensive care ward, London's University College Hospital said. Litvinenko, a fierce critic of the Russian government, suffered a rapid deterioration in his health on Thursday, but doctors still were unable to determine the cause of his death, a spokesman said in a statement.

Tribute to Polish officers killed by NKVD in Mednoye 02.09.2006 Ceremonies are being held in Mednoye, Russia, commemorating the memory of Polish police officers murdered there by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. Families of the victims as well as interior minister Ludwik Dorn and police chief Marek Bienkowski are attending the ceremonies at the cemetery in Mednoye. It is one of three cemeteries in Ukraine and Russia where Polish officers murdered at Stalin’s order in 1940 are buried. So far the bodies of 15 thousand Poles killed there have been found, while the total number of the victims is estimated...

Katyn: the post mortem 15.05.2006 Renowned film director, Andrzej Wajda, has begun work on a major film about the 1940 Katyn massacre of over 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces. After the discovery in 1943 of the mass graves Soviet Russia denied any responsibility, attributing the killings three years earlier to Nazi Germany. But the evidence pointing to Soviet guilt is overwhelming, say most independent historians. During communist rule in Poland the Katyn issue was covered by a cloth of silence. With the coming of the end of the regime in 1989 the issue was acknowledged by Russia, with President...

Was General Patton's death the result of a traffic accident or was he the victim of an assassination plot? (By Stalin)

Poles take Russia to court over 1940 Katyn massacre 24 April 2006 Relatives of Polish soldiers executed by Joseph Stalin's secret police in one of the Second World War's most infamous massacres are to take Russia to the European Court of Human Rights to try to make it disclose the full truth about the killings. In the so-called Katyn atrocities, personally ordered by Stalin in 1940, the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB) killed 21,587 Polish Army reservists in cold blood on the grounds that they were "hardened and uncompromising enemies of Soviet authority". Russia has refused to prosecute surviving suspects...

National PR-ity // Moscow drafts a plan to influence the United States The Kremlin has taken up the promotion of Russian interests in the United States head-on. The key role will be given to the Russian-U.S. Council for Business Cooperation (RUCBC) whose supervisory board will include high-ranking officials from the Russian president’s administration, ministers and prominent public figures. The Russian government asked the Finance Ministry to find sources to finance the NGO. However, it has already been suggested that big business contribute for the council’s activities. The first donation is expected to amount to $50 million. Work has in progress...

Fifty Years Later, Russians Regard Stalin Positively March 4, 2006 (Angus Reid Global Scan) – Many adults in Russia think the tenure of one of the most notorious Soviet leaders was beneficial, according to a poll by the Public Opinion Foundation. 47 per cent of respondents believe Josef Stalin played a positive role in the country’s history. Stalin was the second leader of the Soviet Union, taking over after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. Stalin was responsible for a series of repressive campaigns—known as the Great Purge—during the 1930s. During his tenure, Stalin eliminated all possible political opposition...

While in the U.S., people speculated about the outcome of the Rose Bowl and the size of Samsung’s new humongous plasma TV at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show, Europe had a very cold New Year. Flaunting global warming, already freezing temperatures in the Old Continent managed to get colder thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2006 did not kick off promisingly when Gazprom, Russia’s Kremlin-owned energy monopoly, interrupted Ukraine’s natural gas flow through the ironically named “Brotherhood” pipeline. Ever since the downfall of the USSR, former satellite Soviet republics have benefited from heavily subsidized gas prices. Wanting to update Ukraine’s...

The Polish War Cemetery in Miednoje Bishop Ryszard Karpinski The War Cemetery in Miednoje in Russia (about 200 km north of Moscow) is one of three cemeteries, beside Kharkov in Ukraine and Katyn in Russia, which are called 'Katyn cemeteries'. The remains of 15,000 Polish officers, prisoners of 1939, are buried in these three cemeteries. At Stalin's command, in the spring of 1940, over 22,000 Poles were murdered. The graves of 7,000 victims have not been found yet. The cemetery in Miednoje was made from the funds of the Council for Preservation of the Monuments of Struggle and Martyrdom. The...

Moscow Police Retrieves Iron Felix. The Moscow city police has given itself a present for the Police Day and set up the monument of Felix Dzerzhinsky at the square in front of the Interior Ministry’s headquarters in central Moscow where it once stood. The monument of the notorious founder of the Soviet secret police was put down during the 1991 coup. Now the sculpture has been re-installed at the initiative of the Council of Veterans of the Moscow Department for the Interior who laud Dzerzhinsky on “his activities to tackle the issue of homeless children” and “crime fighting”. Social organizations...

Whittaker Chambers: Man of Courage and Faith by Lee Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Memorandum #735 April 2, 2001 The wave of publicity about Robert Hanssen, a veteran FBI agent who became a master spy for the Russians, brings to mind a far different man--Whittaker Chambers, a veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.'s words, "the most important American defector from Communism." This April marks the 100th anniversary of Chambers' birth. In August 1948, Chambers, an editor at Time, identified Alger Hiss, a golden boy of the liberal establishment, as a fellow member of his underground Communist cell in...

Spy Granny By Val MacQueen Published 07/11/2005 An old lady passed away in England in early June. She was 94. Her name was Melita Norwood. Her KGB code name was Hola. She died without having suffered one rogue second of regret for her years as the Soviet Union's most prized British female traitor. Certain she was right and everyone else was wrong, she began selling nuclear secrets to the USSR four years after Stalin assumed power. She avoided detection until 1997, at which time she was 87 years of age and a jam-making grandmother whose outing as an internationally famous...

The hot summer of 1942. Thousands of Soviet troops were retreating in confusion amid huge clouds of dust. Air space was dominated by German “Junkers” dive-bombers and “Messerschmitt” fighters. The impression was that of chaos, total confusion and the worst moments of 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Military archives still have quite a few sternly-worded cabled demands by the then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the army group commanders should check the troop retreat, bring order out of chaos, fight to the last ditch and not to withdraw from the positions held. Stalin is fed up with...

Day of Remembrance of Katyn Victims 2005-04-13, 17:24 April 13th marks the 62nd anniversary of the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest containing the bodies of Polish officers. Some 22 thousand Polish prisoners of war are believed to have been killed there and in a number of nearby locations by the Soviet NKVD police in the spring of 1940.The World Day of Remembrance of Katyn Victims commemorates the date of the discovery of the mass graves by the Nazis in 1943. Masses were said in Warsaw and candles lit on the memorial stones today. The Katyn massacre is...

Russia: Rights Group Urges Moscow To Reopen Polish Massacre Investigation By Claire Bigg, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty A leading Russian human rights group has urged the country's authorities to reopen an investigation into the massacre in 1940 of thousands of Polish citizens by the Soviet secret police. This tragedy has long been a bone of contention between Russia and Poland. Now it threatens to further sour their relations ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Moscow, 7 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- In 1943, German soldiers discovered a mass grave in the Katyn forest near...