25 John Lloyd, “The Logic of Vladimir Putin,” The New York times Magazine, March 19, 2000, P. 65.
26 Celestine Bohlen, “Putin Tells Why He Became a Spy,” The New York Times, March 11, 2000, internet edition, p. 2.
27 Miriam Elder, “The Only Show in Town,” The New York Times, Book Review, Special Issue, November 30, 2014, p. 14.
28 “PARTIAL JUSTICE: An inquiry into the deaths of journalists in Russia, 1993–2009, IFJ Bruxelles, June 2009.
CHAPTER TEN – THE “DRAGON” OPERATION
1 Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet Kgb, and the Kennedy Assassination, (Chicago: Ivan R Dee, 2007).
2 Exhibits of documents of the Warren Commission investigation, Vol 13, p. 986.
3 Epstein, Legend, p. 25.
4 Epstein, Legend, p. 25.
5 HSCA Report, pp. 100-103.
6 Boris Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, translated from the Russian by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (New York: Times Books, a division of Random House, 1994), 305–309.
7 Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007).
8 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 287–293. This archive contains reproductions of genuine documents found in the archives of the KGB’s foreign intelligence directorate that were copied and then smuggled out to the West in 1993 by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.
9 John Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1996), 104.
10 Max Holland, “How Moscow Undermined the Warren Commission,” The Washington Post, November 22, 2003.
11 Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, 226–227.
12 Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, 228–229.
13 József Cardinal Mindszenty, Memoirs, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Macmillan, 1974), 114–117.
14 Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin, 91.
15 Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, McGraw-Hill, 1978), 235, 324–325.
16 Brian Latell, Castro’s Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, the CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 103, 215–216.
17 Latell, Castro’s Secrets, 204–212, 218, 230.
18 All the information on this incident is taken from Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin, 97–104.
19 Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 324; Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin, 102.
20 John Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1996). Unless stated otherwise, all information about the Childs brothers is taken from this book.
21 Mitrokhin Archive, 287–293 discusses the Childs brothers, but the material must be read carefully, because Mitrokhin’s coauthor Christopher Andrew fills in the story from various other sources, especially Barron’s Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin, that are identified only in the copious endnotes.
22 All the information in this chapter about Jack Childs and his various trips and meetings with Fidel Castro is taken from John Barron’s Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin, 90–117.
CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE DESIGNATED HIT MAN
1 Except where specifically noted otherwise, the information given here on Oswald can be found fully sourced in Pacepa’s Programmed to Kill.
2 “How Powers’s plane was shot down,” http://www.webslivki.com/ull.html (Russian). Morton Kelly, “Gary Powers and the U-2 incident,” About. com.guide, American History, published as http://americanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/a/gary_powers.htm.
3 “Anton’s” case is related by John Barron in KGB: The Secret World of Soviet Secret Agents (New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1974), 321–330. “Anton’s” true name is not given in order to protect him in his new life after his arrest by the Canadians.
4 All the factual material in this chapter can be found fully sourced in Pacepa’s Programmed to Kill.
5 HSCA Vol. 12, p. 204.
6 Glenn Frankel, “Anti-Americanism Moves to West Europe’s Political Mainstream,” The Washington Post, February 10, 2003, as published on the internet by The World Revolution (www.worldrevolution.org/projects/webguide.asp?ID=555).
7 Departamentul de Informatii Externe, Romania’s foreign intelligence service.
8 Herbert Romerstein, Soviet Active Measures and Propaganda, Mackenzie Institute Paper no. 17 (Toronto, 1989), pp. 14–15, 25–26. WPC Peace Courier, 1989, no. 4, as cited in Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 629.
9 Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story (New York: Harper Collins, 1990), pp.432–433.
10 Documents of the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of India, 1971 (New Delhi: Communist Party Publications, 1972), p. 414.
CHAPTER TWELVE – FROM PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATION TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
1 Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story (New York: Harper Collins, 1990), p. 545.
2 Craig R. Whitney, “East’s Archives Reveal Ties to Terrorists,” The New York Times, July 15, 1990, p. 6.
3 Raymond Ibrahim, “The Rape of Christopher Stevens,” September 16, 2012, https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/144305/rape-christopher-stevens-raymond-ibrahim.
4 Stephen Schwartz, “John Christopher Stevens, 1960–2012: A Northern California Hero,” Huffington Post, October 10, 2012.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – THE KING IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE KING!
1 The “convention” mentioned by Voroshilov was the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting bacteriological weapons.
2 Walter Duranty, “Soviet threatens to use gas in was,” The New York Times, February 23, 1938.
3 Geneva Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), updated in December 2017, prohibits the research and production of bacteriological weapons.
4 Vladimir Putin, “Being Strong: National Security Guarantees for Russia,” as posted on February 20, 1992, at http://rt.com/politics/officil-world/strong-putin-military-russia-711.
5 List of Soviet BW institutions, programs and projects, Wikipedia,
6 “Video of the week: We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it,” The Heritage Foundation, March 10, 2010, posted as: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/10/video-of-the-week-we-have-to-pass-the-bill-so-you-can-find-what-is-in-it/
7 Deroy Murdock, “Obama Occupies Wall Street,” National Review Online, December 5, 2011.
8 David Satter, “100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead,” Hudson Institute, November 6, 2017.
EPILOGUE
1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/03/149000-people-have-died-in-war-in-afghanistan-and-pakistan-since-2001-report-says/?utm_term=.5cee7861c1d8
2 Arnold de Borchgrave, “Sea no evil,” The Washington Times, March 15, 2005, Commentary.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1 Cummings, p. 119.
2 Cummings, pp. 104-106.
3 “Plesita, o bruta securista” (Plesita, a Securitate beast), Ziua, Bucharest, February 19, 2000, internet edition.
4 Matei Pavel Haiducu, J’ai refuse de tuer: Un agent secret roumain revele les dessous de l’affaire, (I refused to kill: A Romanian secret agent reveals what was behind “the affair”) (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1984).
5 Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance). On July 1, 2008, it was merged into the current Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur.
INDEX
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bsp; Agayants, Ivan
airplane hijackings
Akhmerov, Iskhak
Aleksandr II
Alekseyevich, Boris
Alexander III
al-Qaeda
American Communist Party (CPUSA). See CPUSA (American Communist Party)
Ames, Aldrich
Andropov, Yuri
Andropov Principle
A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)
anti-Americanism
anticapitalism in the U.S.
anti-KGB counterintelligence
anti-Semitism: disinformation and; extermination of Jews; INO and NKVD and; socialism and; U.S. concerns about
“Anton” as agent
Arafat, Yasser
Aspillaga, Florentino
assassinations: as foreign policy tool; of Putin’s critics; radiation techniques for
Assassinations, Select Committee on
atom bomb, theft of technology for
Attlee, Clement
autocratic feudalism
Avakian, Bob
bacteriological weapons
Bakatin, Vadim
baksheesh
Barsukov, Mikhail
Bay of Pigs
Bedacht, Max
Beijing, KGB and
Beldeanu, Oliviu
Benghazi attacks
Beria, Lavrentiy
Berlin Wall
Best Evidence (Lifton)
Bierut, Boleslaw
biographies, false
biological warfare
Biological Weapons Convention
Biopreparat program
Blake, George
Bolshevik Revolution
Bondarenko, Panteleymon (Pantyusha)
Boston Marathon bombing
Bouhe, George
bourgeoisie, extermination of
Boyarskaya Duma
Bracy, Arnold
Bradshaw, Adrian
Brandt, Willy
Barannikov, Viktor
Brantsen, Louise
Braun, Wernher von
Brezhnev, Leonid
bribery, health care system and
bribery, Yeltsin and
Browder, Earl
Brucan, Silviu
Bush, George W.
Carter, Jimmy
Case Closed (Posner)
Casey, Bill
Castro, Fidel: CIA plans for assassination of; contemporary attitude toward; Jack Childs and; knowledge of Kennedy assassination plans; Morris Childs and
Castro, Teodoro B. (Grigulevich)
Castro’s Secrets (Latell)
Ceausescu, Nicolae; alignment with Red China; American media and; Andropov Principle; on capitalism; execution of; fear of assassination; New Economic Order; overthrow of; visit to U.S., 1978
Central Intelligence Service (TsSR)
Chambers, Whittaker
Chandra, Romesh
Chavez, Hugo
Chechen war
Cheka: establishment of; as GPU (State Political Directorate); Stalin and
Chelyabinsk-
chemical weapons
Chernobyl
Childs, Jack: about; Castro and; ousted by Yeltsin
Childs, Morris: about; disinformation about Kennedy assassination
China, KGB and
Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya
Christianity, Gorbachev on
Churchill, Winston
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency): Beldeanu and; House Commission investigation; Kennedy assassination; Kostikov (Kostin) and; Operation Gold; plans for assassination of Fidel Castro; secret agent defections to U.S.; Yurchenko defection
Clinton, Bill
codes and ciphers
Cold Wars
communism. See also socialism: collapse of; contemporary attitude toward late socialist leaders; deaths due to; Gorbachev on; Nazism and
Communist Manifesto (Marx)
Conspiracy (Summer)
conspiracy theories, Kennedy assassination
conspiracy theories, KGB and
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
Contract on America (Scheim)
convergence (political science theory)
Corbu
coronavirus, novel
corruption, Russia in
counterintelligence, U.M. 0920/A
CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union): Childs brothers and; CPUSA and (See CPUSA (American Communist Party)); disinformation and; funding from; Manhattan Project and; organization of; Yeltsin and
CPUSA (American Communist Party): Jack Childs and; Kennedy assassination; Morris Childs and; Oswald and; recruitment of agents from; secret officers and; technology theft and
Crimea, annexation of
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dawisha, Karen
Death of a President, The (Manchester)
Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The
Dekanozov, Vladimir
democracy
Department for Wet Affairs
Department of State Police, 18611
Department S
Department Thirteen
dezinformatsiya operations
diaries, fabricated. See also biographies, false
DIE (Foreign Intelligence Service, Romania): agent training; agent wives; fabricated diaries; Group Z and; Kennedy and; response to Kennedy assassination; X (Romanian assassination operations)
Dimitroff, Georgi
Directorate of Special Tasks
Directorate S
Directorate V
disinformation: anti-Semitism and; Chernobyl; Childs brothers and; forgeries, fabricated diaries, and false biographies; glasnost and; Kennedy assassination; Kremlin and, 0122; Operation Dragon, about; operations, about; on Oswald; Russian history of; as Soviet strategy; World Peace Council and; Yeltsin and
Disinformation (Pacepa and Rychlak)
Dnestr plan
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak)
dogovorosposoniye (“deal-cutting”)
Doicaru, Nicolae
Dornberger, Walter
doublespeak. See also codes and ciphers
Draghici, Alexandru
Duggan, Lawrence
Dulles, John Foster
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Dzerzhinsky Division
economy, Romania
economy, Soviet Union
Eitingon, Leonid
elections, Soviet Union
electromagnetic pulse (EMP) nuclear bomb
espionage: about; industrial; technology and weapons theft
evidence, operational
Fair Play for Cuba
fake news. See disinformation
false biographies
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation): codes and ciphers; CPUSA, monitoring of; identification of communists; illegal officers and; Jack Childs and; Kennedy assassination, conspiracy theories; Morris Childs and; Oswald and
Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK)
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB)
feudalism, autocratic
First Chief Directorate (PGU)
Fitin, Pavel
flight MH17, Malaysia Airlines
Flynn, Michael
Foreign Affairs (Turner)
forgeries, about
Freedom of Information Act
FSB/KGB. See KGB/FSB
Garrison, Jim
Gates, Robert
Gauck Commission
Gazprom
General Motors
Gerasimov, Vitaly
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe
glasnost
Goldberg, Alfred
Golden Book of the War Against Communism, The (Pacepa)
Golushko, Nikolai
Gorbachev, Mikhail: arrest of; Chernobyl, disinformation about; on Christianity; communism and; democracy and; Iliescu and; local elections; Margaret Thatcher on; recruited by KGB; Saddam Hussein and; visit to U.S., 1987
Gordievsky, Oleg
Gottwald, Klement
Gouzenko, Igor
GPU (State Political Directorate)
Great Purge
Grigulevich, Iosif
Group Z
GRU, atomic intelligence activities
Guillaume, Günter
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn)
Hall, Gus
Hassan, Hani al- (Abu Hasan)
health care (socialist), failures of
Heritage of Stone, A (Garrison)
High Treason (Groden and Livingstone)
hijackings, airplane
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939
Hopkins, Harry
House Commission investigation
House of Friendship
Howard, Edward Lee
Hoxha, Enver
Hunt, E. Howard
Hunt, H. L.
Hunt letter forgery
Hussein, Saddam
I am a Patsy! (de Mohrenschildt)
Ignatyev, Nikolay
Iliescu, Ion Ilich
illegal officers: CIA and; defined; Department S and; FBI and; identified; Stalin and
industrial espionage
Innocence of Muslims
INO (Innostranny Otdel)
intelligence dictatorship
intelligence services, Russian operation of
intelligence stations
International Federation of Democratic Women
International Union of Students
invisible writing. See also codes and ciphers
Iosif-
iron meetings
Iron Shurik
irradiation techniques for assassination
ISIS
Islam: hostility toward U.S.; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Ivanov, Boris
Ivanov, Sergey
Jena optics and glass companies
Jews: framed as Zionist spies; pogroms and
JFK (Stone)
JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (Crenshaw)
Joesten, Joachim
Johnson, Lyndon
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
Kalugin, Oleg
Karbainov, Alexei
Kekkonen, Urho Kaleva
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald: assassination, about; assassination, chronology of; assassination, conspiracy theories; assassination, DIE response to; assassination, disinformation on; assassination, literature on; assassination, witnesses to; Castro’s knowledge of assassination plans; Cuban Missile Crisis; humiliation of Khrushchev; Operation Dragon, about
Kerry, John
KGB/FSB: disinformation, Kennedy assassination; disinformation, Oppenheimer case; funding of pro-Soviet propaganda; infiltration of Beijing; irradiation techniques; nuclear and bacteriological cities; Oswald and Walker shooting; pattern of operations; puppet governments in Greece and Spain; removal of KGB advisors from Romania; role of agents’ wives; secret cities and; Technical Operations Directorate (OTU); terrorist training and; Warren Commission Report
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