Operation Dragon

by R. James Woolsey

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