Infiltration of the US Government - Part 2

By Cliff Kincaid
May 5, 2014
NewsWithViews.com

Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has apparently surprised a lot of people who thought the Cold War was over, and that Russia had been integrated into the “community of nations.” In 2012, President Obama pushed through Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia, giving Putin access to billions of dollars of Western capital.

But former CIA officer Tennent H. “Pete” Bagley, who died recently, completely understood the view that the “death” of the USSR and the liberalization of Russia was a strategic deception, designed to allow the KGB operatives running Russia to regroup, and solidify and expand their power.

His 2007 book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, angered the CIA because he believed the CIA had itself been deceived by a Soviet defector by the name of Yuri Nosenko. Among Bagley’s claims: Nosenko, who defected in 1963, after the assassination of President Kennedy, insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s assassin, was not a Soviet agent.

In its obituary, the London Telegraph also noted Bagley’s handling of another Soviet KGB defector by the name of Anatoly Golitsyn, who,“in addition to providing valuable leads about Soviet spies in the West, had brought with him a terrifying, overarching theory that Moscow was involved in implementing a vast conspiracy to achieve world dominance.” Golitsyn also charged that the CIA had been infiltrated by the KGB.

Robert Buchar interviewed Bagley, who became CIA chief of counterintelligence, for his documentary “The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story.” Bagley said in the film that “Golitsyn was certainly telling the truth as he knew it. And there comes the other story. Because Golitsyn had a lot of information about penetrations of Western governments, when that information was passed to the Western governments they became outraged and unhappy because no government wants to discover penetrations in its mist. It’s not in the interest of the government, it’s not in the interest of the people in power to find out they had been fooled, they had been manipulated and therefore they will take every piece of information they can to reject this.”

What Bagley is describing applies to the U.S. intelligence community, not only in regard to Putin and the Russians but the Muslim Brotherhood and scandals such as Benghazi, a result of what former CIA officer Clare Lopez and the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi call “switching sides” in the War on Terror.

Buchar, a political refugee from the former nation of Czechoslovakia, says, “The Russians always had—and still have—a long-range strategy looking forward for the next 30-50 years.” By contrast, he says the West was unable to develop any counter-strategy because its leaders and intelligence officials refused to believe Moscow had this long-range strategy.

This amounts to an open invitation to manipulation by agents of influence, which makes complete sense if we examine the pathetic response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The response goes beyond incompetence or weakness—to playing into Putin’s hands.

The first part of solving the problem is to recognize there has been Russian penetration of the West, not just through espionage operations—which continue to be uncovered—but by agents of influence. Perhaps the investigations of the Obama administration, as it relates to Benghazi and the Muslim Brotherhood, will open this door.

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