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Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn (b. August 25, 1926 in Piryatin) was a high level KGB spy who defected to the United States via Helsinki in 1961.
Golitsyn was a figure of considerable controversy within the Western intelligence community, with a small faction (most prominently James Jesus Angleton) believing him to be a genuine defector but with others concluding that he was a disinformation agent. A few years after Golitsyn defected, Yuri Nosenko also defected, and the information provided by Nosenko contradicted Golitsyn on many points. Not surprisingly, those who believed Golitsyn to be genuine, believed Nosenko to be the fake; and vice versa.
Among other things, Golitsyn claimed that the USSR had long range plans to take over the USA that included taking down the Berlin Wall, faking the end of communism and lulling the USA into a false sense of security. He wrote his views in his books New Lies For Old and The Perestroika Deception which were published in 1984 and 1995 respectively. Perhaps Golitsyn's most notorious claim was that the Rt Hon. Harold Wilson (then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) was a KGB agent.
As history has now proven, about 94% of his predictions from his 1984 book "New Lies For Old", have happened; putting Golitsyn in a class of his own in this area of the intelligence community.
Originally posted by the_sentinal
The perception of the russian government would indeed be that the U.S. is spreading its democracy strategically
across the middle east. causing a greater willingness on the part of the russian leaders to help defend Iran.
Originally posted by Mr.E
Russia perhaps instigated the fight with Iraq, Im sure bush and co still had it sights on it anyways. Russia probably expected a different outcome in Iraq then what happend (although still not good).
Originally posted by Mr.E
Sounds like this plan has been into effect for the last 60 years since the end of WWII, Russia has been playing this role forever, but that didnt turn out to great?
Originally posted by Mr.E
Capitalism triumphed over the commies.
Originally posted by Mr.E
Russia is doing the samething they have always done, trying to undermine us. Just as we did to them, and maybe to an extent still do today. Im sure every country, within its intelligence agency and military agency have a great master plan to ruin evey other country.
Originally posted by Mr.E
China doesnt exactly have a great history with Russia as well. I doubt there is any sort of great plan between the two without each other doublecrossing the other. Afterall, they all want the same resources.
Originally posted by Mr.E
The only part of this coming to fruition, is if they rigged the elections and got bush into office.
Originally posted by Mdv2
Personally, I think it's a good thing Iran continues its uranium enrichment program as it would definitely make Israel think twice before committing brutal crimes like they do today.
Originally posted by wackedoutgeek
Well the writting is all over the wall on this one. I think they may have been planing this for a very long time, pre USSR collapse. I just read about this guy a couple of days ago, his name is Anatoliy Golitsyn.
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Originally posted by bscale
Originally posted by Nygdan
Russia and Iran are just business partners.
Truly fact..
and imo : Russian ,Syrian and Iranian aren't an evil axis.
Originally posted by the_sentinal
Just found this about Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah being in Syria as I type this, What does this mean?? It could be the begining of the end for Syria. The question is would Israel go after him there???
debka.com...
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 28 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will arrive in Tehran on Saturday for a state visit.
During his three-day trip, Chavez will meet senior Iranian officials including hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Caracas and Tehran, both key members of the oil cartel OPEC, have developed strong strategic ties. Venezuela backs Iran in its nuclear standoff with the West.
Originally posted by Sir Solomon
What does anyone think of the actions of Venezuala and Russia over the last few days? Or Venezuala and Belarus?
Originally posted by Sir Solomon
On the other hand, speaking of Syria, I remembered that that was where Iraq's WMD were supposed to have been moved to in order to embarrass the US when we invaded.
Originally posted by Sir Solomon
The original poster included Syria, but no one that I saw since mentioned what role (other than being a missle base) that they would actually have. I need more proof to believe that Syria has miscontent. Yes they probably have Iraqi-made (Saddam-era) WMD's, but who would they use them on other than Israel, which is constantly threatened by just about everyone in the Middle East it seems.
Please, explain some more on Syria.
Originally posted by doctorwork
During my residency at an east coast medical center in the 1990's, we had an exchange program with Doctors from Russia, mainly Moscow, all of them military.
One of them, who decided to stay (MDs make a little more $$ here than in Russia), would have a few beers and talk about how we, the US, were being fooled. He had been a Colonel equiv in the USSR military prior to Glasnost, and seemed to have a lot of info. I wrote him off at the time, but he talked about the issues that
1) Glasnost was a sham, 2) the Russian Gov was controlled by old style KGB hardliners (e.g. latter epitomized by Putin) who were trying to fool us into disarming, 3) that they would use Iran, Syria and other muslem countries against us in terms of oil issues (at that time oil was not an issue to us), and 4) that Russia would likely attack us within 10-15 years (that was 1995) in order to re-assert their power position in the world at large and once and for all dampen our hegemonic status in Asia and Europe. I thought at the time that this guy was just blowing smoke and dissing his former country having decided to become a US citizen, but the more I read and see and hear, I think he may have been on to something. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Originally posted by doctorwork
The Russian economy is a basket case any way you cut it. Their only asset is their oil reserves, now to be sold at high prices. Basically they have a corrupt oligarchy with essentially no participation by the public in the government sponsored and protected companies, but the Russian people seem to have a history of non democratic desires (i.e. they like authoritarian rule); I don't clearly see their motivation for allying with Iran and Syria, in terms of money issues. Any insights on this out there??