WMR: Romney's Reagan-era anti-Soviet warriors

Let's start with Richard Williamson -- Council on Foreign Relations member, failed Illinois GOP politician, espouser of neo-conservatism, and "American Century" promoter -- represents the retrograde amnesia thinking of the Republican Party. 


Williamson, criticizing the Obama administration's policy regarding Syria, stated that Syria is "strategically important to the Soviet Union." 


The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. Yet, for the neo-cons and Project for a New American Century (PNAC) crowd -- and it is not coincidental that Romney's jingoistic screed masquerading as a book is titled "An American Century" -- the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc continue to exist.

Romney defense policy adviser and former Navy Secretary John Lehman warned that the Obama administration was not doing enough to stop a "Soviet" push into the Arctic and Romney, himself, referred to the Soviet Union -- before he corrected himself to say Russia -- in criticizing Obama's nuclear weapons reduction agreements with Russia.

The Romney camp consists of a number of neocon foreign policy and national security advisers, including the crazed former (and unconfirmed) U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden, who brought the United States warrantless electronic surveillance and massive domestic spying by the U.S. intelligence agencies, and Eliot Cohen, an original PNAC member.

Team Romney would turn back the clock and re-fight the Cold War, with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua joining a mythical "Soviet bloc" that would justify a massive U.S. military build-up around the world -- even larger than that instituted by the Obama administration.

To provide context to the retrogressive thinking of Romney and the Republicans, a White House memo, uncovered from the CIA archives and dated March 31, 1982, from Ronald Reagan main speech writer Anthony R. Dolan (who supported the neo-con stalwart Newt Gingrich over Romney in the primaries), bemoaned the fact that the U.S. media was not reporting propaganda developed into faux news stories by the hawks inside the Reagan administration.

Dolan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Stamford Advocate in Connecticut, came up with Reagan's "Evil Empire" term to describe the Soviet Union. 


Never mind the fact that the term was lifted from George Lucas's Star Wars, which is just another indication that Pulitzer Prizes, like candy given to crying babies, is merely a way to reward the lickspittles involved in what, unfortunately, passes for journalism today.

Among the stories Dolan complained were not getting traction were:

• Miskito Indians were the subject of a "genocidal atatck by the Marxist regime in Nicaragua." In fact, the Miskitos are now the target of genocide, not in Nicaragua, but by the U.S. and the CIA-installed regime in Honduras.
• Evidence from the German Defense Minister that linked the peace movement in Western Europe to "heavy financing by the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc nations."
• "Laotian tribesmen,  Afghans, and Cambodians" subjected to "chemical warfare by the Soviets."
• "Worker strikes in the Baltic States."
• "A defecting Polish general reports that Soviet troops are wearing Polish uniforms and directly participating in the repression of Polish freedom." (In fact, the Reagan war hawks borrowed a page from the Nazis who, in 1939, dressed German troops in Polish uniforms and alleged they attacked German border posts and a radio station. It was a classic false flag attack, called "Operation Himmler," and used a pretext for the German attack on Poland. The neocons and Zionists would repeat this performance subsequently in the spirit of Operation Himmler).

With the U.S. media failing to report such nonsensical pabulum disguised as news reports, Dolan complained in the White House memo that "there is little understanding by those in the media of Soviet ideology and Russian history -- and the impulses to global domination that arise from those phenomenons." 


Dolan criticized The Washington Post for failing to see the hand of the Soviet union and Cuba in Central America when it ran the headline: "Sandinistas disavow Marxist ties." 


In fact, there were a number of pragmatic Sandinistas who saw no reason to antagonize the right-wing Reaganites with Marxist policies.

In his memo, Dolan attached an article he had written for the right-wing National Review that called for the United States to support the break-up of the Soviet Union by supprting the creation of governments-in-exile for such Sovioet republics as Ukraine. 


In 1982, Dolan called for the United States to support free elections and withdrawal of Soviet troops from "the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania . . . and the inner republics of Ukraine, Georgia, and the Moslem areas." 


In pushing such an aggressive policy, Dolan quoted neo-con godfather Irving Kristol, father of PNAC co-founder William Kristol. Dolan said that open talk about U.S. support for secession of Soviet republics "can do the Soviet Empire more damage than a dozen grain embargoes."

In his memo, Dolan called for US ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick to place the issue of freedom for Eastern European people on the UN agenda; a Polish government-in-exile in the United States, the possibility of governments-in-exile in the United States of Ukraine and "other non-Russian Republics," and Reagan's appointment of a "Special Commission on the Post-Communist World." 


Dolan also rejected all previous U.S. policies of detente with the Soviets, including Dwight Eisenhower's "Spirit of Camp David," John F. Kennedy's "Spirit of Geneva," Lyndon Johnson's "Spirit of Glassboro," Richard Nixon's "detente," and Jimmy Carter's SALT II.

Dolan's aggressive proposals were made during the rule of an ailing Leonid Brezhnev and at a time when the Kremlin, sensing a coming power struggle to replace Brezhnev, was highly suspect of Western intentions. 


Dolan and his embryonic neocon ilk were playing with nuclear fire and they knew it.

There is a reason why Romney and so many of his aides continue to refer to the "Soviet Union." 


They miss the Cold War and the real possibility of nuclear Armageddon. Of course, with Romney, the end of the world in a fireball is the realization of a religious prophecy and very much a welcome event.

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WMR: Background on the Israeli penetration of NSA

In June 2005, WMR's first report at its inception dealt with Israeli intelligence penetration of the National Security Agency. 

Our friend and colleague Jim Bamford has written about further details of this penetration in an April 3 article in Wired titled "Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA."  

The Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center 

In the article, Bamford describes the penetration of NSA's ultra-secret surveillance technology research and development "skunk works," the Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center (SARC), located at NSA's headquarters on the third floor of Operations Building 2B, a few doors down from the center where NSA monitored sensitive government communications in Russia.

The SARC is where companies linked to Israel helped set up NSA's controversial and top secret warrantless eavesdropping program code-named Stellar Wind. 

SARC's chief of staff, J. Kirk Wiebe, and the center's co-founded, Bill Binney, realized that a private company with links to Israel, Technology Development Corporation (TDC). 

This was a two-man operation with an Annapolis Junction post office box run by two brothers, Randall and Paul Jacobson of Clarksville, Maryland.

The man ran the Stellar Wind operation using software and equipment provided by two Israeli firms, Narus, later bought by Boeing, and Verint, owned by Comverse Technology, formerly Comverse Infosys. 

Both companies were formed by ex-Unit 8200 personnel. Unit 8200 is the Israeli counterpart of NSA. 

The NSA program manager for Stellar Wind was Ben Gunn, a U.S. naturalized Scotsman who once worked for Britain's NSA equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, UK.

Rather than investigate the Jacobsons, Gunn and their Israeli interlocutors, FBI agents raided the homes of Wiebe and Binney and confiscated their computer equipment as part of the failed Justice Department investigation of former NSA official Thomas Drake, the whistle blower who exposed massive contract fraud and illegal surveillance by NSA.
Paul Jacobson had his security access pulled by NSA in 1992 and he later changed his name to "Jimmy Carter" and "Alfred Olympus von Ronsdorf." 

Randall Jacobson continued working for NSA and when Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was brought in to run the nascent Stellar Wind program, taking over from TDC.

NSA eavesdropping on US telecommunications

Randall Jacobson tipped Binney off to the illegal nature of the eavesdropping program, which included installing wiretapping rooms in some 20 telecommunications company switches around the United States.

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein outed one that was installed at the AT&T switch in downtown San Francisco.

Binney told Bamford that the NSA's advanced eavesdropping and data mining high-data analytical software may have been originally passed to Israel by a pro-Israeli technical director in NSA's Operations Directorate. 

The original software helped Narus and Comverse/Verint to improve on the work already performed by NSA and more advanced systems were then sold back to the NSA. 

The major compromise of NSA technology to the Israelis should have been made known to Binney, who was then the chairman of the NSA's Technology Advisory Panel, which monitored the signals intelligence capabilities of foreign nations. 

Rather than pass on to NSA the intelligence "take" of Unit 8200 using the NSA technology, Binney told Bamford that he believed that the Israeli government simply passed on the technology to Israeli start-up companies that used the NSA-developed know-how to spy on foreign countries, including the United States, and sell the technology back to countries like the United States. 

Israelis at NSA
The Israeli penetration of NSA was brought to WMR's attention by NSA personnel in June 2005. One of the firms mentioned as being involved in the compromise to Israel was CACI, part of an alliance of NSA contractors called the "Eagle Alliance." 

WMR reported: "CACI, called 'Colonels and Captains, Inc.' by critics who cite the revolving door from the Pentagon to its corporate office suites.  One example is former NSA Deputy Director Barbara McNamara as a member of its board of directors. 

Other CACI alumni include Thomas McDermott, a former NSA Deputy Director for Information Systems Security. Former NSA Director Adm. Mike McConnell is a Senior Vice President of Booz Allen. Former NSA Director General Ken Minihan is President of the Security Affairs Support Association (SASA), an intelligence business development association that includes Boeing, Booz Allen, CACI, CSC, the Eagle Alliance, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SAIC, and Windemere, all GROUNDBREAKER and TRAILBLAZER contractors, among its membership. 

SASA's board of directors (surprise, surprise) includes CACI's Barbara McNamara. One of SASA's distinguished advisers is none other than General Hayden. 

Although contractors are required to have the same high level security clearances as government personnel at NSA, there are close connections between some NSA contractors and countries with hostile intelligence services. 

For example, CACI's president and CEO visited Israel in early 2004 and received the Albert Einstein Technology Award at ceremony in Jerusalem attended by Likud Party Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. 

The special ceremony honoring CACI's president was sponsored by the Aish HaTorah Yeshiva Fund. The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party's Jerusalem Mayor, Uri Lupolianski, was also in attendance. 

According to Lebanon's Daily Star, CACI's president also met with notorious racist Israeli retired General Effie Eitam who advocates expelling Palestinians from their lands. The U.S. delegation also included a number of homeland security officials, politicians, and businessmen. CACI has also received research grants from U.S.-Israeli bi-national foundations."

What has some NSA officials worried is that with pro-Israeli neocons now ingrained within the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), State Department, and National Security Council, NSA is ripe for penetration by Israeli intelligence.