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2004. 30 August: The Great Deception: An Interview With Petr Cibulka, Part II of II
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The Great Deception:
An Interview
With Petr Cibulka
Part II of II
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Translation by Jan Malina
Are you saying that in order for the Russian communists to go through with the whole "Perestroika fraud," they had to first infiltrate institutions like Radio Free Europe and Western counterintelligence services, governments and policy think tanks?
The development in the Soviet Bloc, after 1989, shows that practically all Western intelligence and media analysis about the situation inside the Soviet Bloc were wrong. According to my information, the West has never produced a deep analysis of its own mistakes and flawed policies. Only a few analysts, as for example Anatoliy Golitsyn, correctly analyzed developments in the Soviet Bloc. Because the West hasn't realized its past mistakes it is today repeating these mistakes and errors in its dealings with Russia.
Infiltration of the enemy and manipulation of the enemy is the most important strategy of communism. Since the communist powers conducted these anti-communist revolutions using an artificially created opposition, the communists had no other choice but to use for this purpose Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, BBC, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle and others. To achieve this the communists had two methods to use: Either negotiate an agreement with Western governments or, as usual, infiltrate the enemy camp. Let's not forget that, to this day, the transcript of the talks between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, from the second half of the 1980's, hasn't been published.
In my view, the West has been so paralyzed by these agreements and by infiltration that it has not been able to oppose Russian influence operations. For example, Czech Defense Minister Karel Kuhnl, Jr. worked at Radio Free Europe since 1987. Kuhnl, Jr. has his legend and his defense … prepared and rehearsed very well. He merely refuses to answer the following question: If he is such a staunch fighter against communism then why were the crimes of communism never punished? Why were communist and STB informers empowered by fraudulent privatization? Karel Kuhnl, Jr. should also explain some additional facts from his biography:
(1) How is it possible that information about Kuhnl's studies during the communist era, about his political persecution and ejection from college for his "principled political stands" … aren't to be found in Kuhnl's official biography in the 2002 version of the book Who is Who published in the Czech Republic? Was Kuhnl ashamed of his anti-communist stand, or did he take no such stand? How is it that we cannot find even one tidbit about Kuhnl's alleged defection to the West? Why is it that Kuhnl, Jr. omits from his biography the years or months he studied at Vienna University in Austria? And what were his grades? Is he afraid somebody might check up on it? Why is it that Karel Kuhnl, Jr. never publicly listed the newspapers and magazines he wrote for while in Austria? What kind of radical anti-communist articles did he write about the crimes of the communist dictatorship and the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia? As a principled opponent of communism Kuhnl must have published something in Austria, but where did he publish? The same questions might be applied to the Euro-representative for the Socialist Party, Libor Roucek and many other "defectors from communism"!
(2) How is it that Karel Kuhnl, Jr., a dropout in economics without one day of experience in the field, was able get a job as economics editor and analyst at RFE in 1987 and then, between 1991-92, he was able to hold the post of economic advisor to the Czech Republic's Prime Minister and "former" communist Petr Pithart? Does it mean that communist military intelligence wasn't able to get somebody better for Pithart?
(3) How is it possible that Karel Kuhnl, Jr. was able to study at the most prominent communist school – King Charles University of Prague – during the worst years of the communist dictatorship when Kuhnl's father-in-law was playing the role of "political refugee" in the United States and later, more directly, within the high level management of the RFE? Anyone else, in such a case, would have been thrown out of school by the communists and would have been forced to immediately enlist in the military. Karel Kuhnl, Jr. has never officially served in the military.
The level of infiltration of Western structures by communist agents is obvious in this specific case and in many other cases involving important posts within NATO. The case of Karel Kuhnl, Jr., the incoming Czech Defense Minister, is typical.
What are the duties and tasks of communist spies and agents of influence infiltrated into the Western World?
The most important tasks of the communist espionage agent are to win absolute trust inside the enemy camp. (Agents unable to fulfill this task are worthless to headquarters.) Therefore, most of these people were sent out to the West with a cover legend as political refugees from communism, fighters against communism or even political prisoners. To gain the trust of the capitalist enemy these "political prisoners" were often jailed so they would have credibility when operating in the West, relying on testimonies of their fellow prisoners who were real anti-communists. If any one of them had to wash dishes for some weeks in a restaurant after their "defection," that was always part of their cover. The real political immigrants had to work hard for years or even decades to obtain an average Western standard of living.
All we need to do is compare the life stories of these real defectors from communism with those of communist espionage cadres who are still active today on various Western universities, think-thanks and in politics. The less visible communist espionage cadres were, of course, actively analyzing all Western leftists and disappointed people who were open to possible recruitment and use against the West. I am certain that in the leftist environment these communist recruiters experienced unbelievable successes in their recruiting operations. For example, this is discussed in the book about Jan [code name Kato] Kavan, the United Nations General Assembly Chairman who was very successful in this particular task in the United Kingdom. His "friends" are part of Tony Blair's government today, and they make government policy.
I n the case of Condoleezza Rice, she grew up in the racially segregated South, and according to some reports her kindergarten classmate [also black] was killed in a white racist-inspired bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, when Rice was nine years old. Wouldn't a horrible experience like that put Rice in the category of people ripe for recruitment as communist agents of influence?
It is absolutely unimaginable to me that the victims of racism during those times in America, with such life-altering experiences, would not be noticed by the communist secret services. I am certain that only a deep analysis of Condoleezza's Rice activities would demonstrate, one way or the other, whether she belongs to the staunch anti-communist crowd or not.
What role will Muslim immigrants play in the communist strategy to dominate Europe, and is it possible to expect that in case of European resistance Muslim immigrants will be used for terrorist purposes?
Russia and the Islamic World have the same enemy – Western civilization. It is obvious that the anti-Western Islamic population of Europe represents a destabilizing factor with regard to the security of Europe. Militant Islamic groups pose an immediate threat that is useful to the GRU [Russian military intelligence] and the KGB [FSB] in operations against European interests. The more peaceful sections of the Islamic population of Europe will also constitute a danger, not only as a potential base of recruitment for this Islamic militant minority, but in the event of a future [military] confrontation Europe won't be able to rely on these people and depend on them in full. Europe is being manipulated into supporting the opening of immigration from all over the world. This concept will have serious consequences for Europe's identity as a civilized society. Europe faces a deadly danger from two directions:
(1) The problem of global poverty cannot be solved by sending millions of poor people, from the poorest nations, into the wealthiest nations. There is no better formula for destroying the planet's most successful nations.
(2) Every decent human society, worthy of the name, is founded on shared moral values. Such a society attempts to protect these values against anyone that poses a threat to them. Mass immigration from the nationally and culturally most primitive and religiously extreme parts of the world will endanger every society whose high social state stands or falls on the basis of qualitatively superior shared values. How can these values be protected or shared if society's members adhere to incompatible value systems?
During our meeting last year with former Czech Intelligence Service [BIS] Capt. Vladimir Hucin, in response to my question whether it is true that 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta was trained at the Zastavka terrorist training camp in Czechoslovakia in 1988-89, what was Hucin's answer and how do you rate his credibility?
Capt. Vladimir Hucin confirmed that Mohammad Atta was, indeed, trained by the Czech communists in 1988-89. Hucin worked in the counter-terrorism and political extremism section of the counter-espionage department of the Czech intelligence service (BIS).
So Capt. Hucin's expert knowledge in this area must be substantial if he is able to confirm Atta's training by the communists.
Absolutely. If anybody is claiming the opposite, they should first try to force the Czech and other governments of the old Soviet Bloc, who now claim to be U.S. allies, to supply all files on terrorist, espionage, counter-espionage, police and military training courses from the period 1948 through 1989, and the names of all those who were trained in these courses. Of course, these countries haven't done anything of the kind.
Why do you think that none of these files were made public?
It is for the same reason that the deepest secrets of the communist dictatorship remain under lock and key. The secret structures of the old communist bloc are, today, the cornerstones of Europe's emerging political order. The military espionage services at work today use the same communist cadres, and the same secret methods, as if there have been no changes in Eastern Europe since 1989. When the Czech defense minister, two years ago, attempted to terminate roughly 100 discredited officers of the communist espionage apparatus, he was forced to leave his post in a matter of weeks. The "post"-communist world has been reduced to abject silence about the Marxist-Leninist cadres who passed through the terrorist training camps. This silence grips the Czech Republic despite its membership in NATO. What the communist bloc was preparing against the Western democracies is still a carefully guarded secret in all the "former" communist countries. This reveals, in a concrete way, the pro-Moscow orientation of all post-communist countries that have joined NATO. In fact, for the last 15 years no Russian agent or important group of Russian organized criminals have been apprehended by these countries – as if Russian agents or criminals no longer exist in those countries.
In an interview for Front Page Magazine, the former Chief of the Romanian communist Intelligence Service, Ion Mihai Pacepa, said that he was personally told by KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov that the Soviet intelligence services control and direct all friendly Muslim states' intelligence services and, through these, Russian espionage is able to conduct its operations throughout the Arab world in secrecy. How dirty are Moscow's hands with regard to organizing or inciting Islamic terrorism?
Pacepa is right. Communist espionage succeeds by telling its allies what they want to hear. These allies do not know anything about Moscow's final goal. Therefore, Russia's special services benefit from the enthusiasm of American leftist circles, as well as anti-American Islamist circles and anti-capitalist elites in the Third World. Russia's special services are not trying to make Soviet citizens out of these people, but the Russians are offering every possible help to them in their fight. The Russians use these people, under any legend, to undermine America's strength and position. While it is true that these groups sometimes fight each other, the thing that connects them and keeps them aligned with Moscow is anti-Americanism. As post-1989 developments show, Moscow's strategy has been very successful.
According to British terror expert Simon Reeve's book, The New Jackals, al Qaeda is trying to recruit officers of the "former" Soviet military espionage GRU and Spetsnaz [Russian Special Forces commandos] for the purpose of delivering a nuclear attack against America. How do you analyze this important information in light of the fact that communism's collapse was organized by the KGB and GRU?
The only way Russian military officers could be recruited for such terrorist operations is if Moscow approved their recruitment. If al Qaeda is spreading information around that they are trying to recruit nuclear weapons specialists from Russia, this is only a cover operation to hide Moscow's tracks in a future nuclear terror campaign against America. Russia wants to be regarded as a "victim" of Islamic terrorism so that no suspicion of Russian involvement with the terrorists will arise. I can quote from an analysis written by the leading French Sovietologist and professor of history at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Francoise Thomm:
In all cases Russia is trying to conduct herself so that her experienced hand will never be seen in the worldwide anti-American campaign. In the meantime, Moscow is able, as a U.S. partner, to ask for more and more American credits for 'struggling Russia.' In reality these credits are used for a new military buildup and subversion operations against the West.
To be successful in all of this, Moscow must have well-placed cadres in position within the American decision-making centers. I am sure that the cases of treason of Robert Hannsen and Aldrich Ames are only the insignificant tip of the iceberg.
In one of his interviews for Global Viewpoint Magazine, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stated that the security of Russian nuclear weapons is at a high level. He said it is impossible that these weapons would fall into terrorist hands. How do you analyze this statement?
It is a known fact that Soviet officials always say what benefits them most at any given moment. The truth doesn't mean anything to them. Despite this, I am certain that Gorbachev is telling the truth about this. I don't doubt that Moscow, through various terrorist front groups, has moved many nuclear weapons to the West – and most of all to American territory. From Moscow's point of view it is essential to destroy the United States of America, and to do so without being destroyed in turn. To protect Russia and China from nuclear retaliation the war against American capitalism must be waged by forces with no apparent links to Moscow or Beijing. All that was previously known about Russia's anti-American strategy falls into this script perfectly.
Many people in America and the West believe that Russia's military equipment is obsolete and improperly maintained, that the Russian military is in shambles. Do you think this belief is correct?
According to Russian and communist tradition the following rule applies: People may die of hunger, but the army will have everything it needs to win. I was drafted into the communist Czechoslovak Army at a time of serious economic trouble and this rule was strictly followed. The situation is no different today. Immediately after Vladimir Putin became Russian president at the end of 1999, the Russian military budget was doubled. These are the facts. If anybody is claiming otherwise, he is lying.
Why is Russia deceiving the world about its military strength? One might ask, in this regard, why America has lowered its guard? Why is the West unilaterally disarming? The United States needs to warn Russia against attempting a proxy Islamist nuclear attack on American cities. America should make it clear that Russian cities will be hit in return. This is the only step that can prevent a Third World War. If America will not give a clear and unequivocal warning, she will become a victim of Russia's clandestine strategy.
We are told that Russian military officers are underpaid and therefore they are willing to sell nuclear and biological ordinance to terrorists for "hard cash." How is this possible when Russian communists always took care of their military and police officers to protect the communist cause at all costs?
This version is a fairy tail coming from the Russian secret services and the Russian propaganda machine. In case of any suspicion of unreliability every suspect is immediately arrested in Russia, questioned in the most brutal fashion and sometimes executed. In this atmosphere the loss of even one nuclear bomb from the Russian arsenal would result in the execution of the whole guard unit and all directing officers as well. Nothing of the kind has happened in Russia for the last 15 years. Therefore, all Russian nuclear weapons in terrorist hands were intentionally put there by Russian military intelligence. There is no reason to think otherwise.
What is Moscow and Beijing's timetable for destroying the United States?
I am certain that the attack strategy against America was worked out long ago. The only aspects in play at present are variants of this strategy. There are two ideal alternatives for the Kremlin: One is to provoke a civil war in America. This would be the best solution from the communist standpoint. The second alternative is to launch a nuclear strike through an Islamic proxy. In both alternatives the essential objective of Moscow's strategy would be attained. There is also the possibility of a North Korean nuclear attack against the U.S. West Coast. The actual situation [as it evolves] will determine which of these variants will be used. In advance of such a crisis it is only natural that Moscow would seek to establish Europe's neutrality. European military assistance must not reach America. In the event Bush loses the upcoming presidential election to his leftist opponent, America could lose its most important freedoms without a confrontation with Moscow and Beijing. In the event Bush is reelected, the threat of an attack on America increases. The best defense for America would be a renewal of America's spiritual and moral values – especially the values of the Founding Fathers.
What is the definition of communism?
Communism is a system built on the forcible subordination of the human body to a power system. Communists are materialists and don't believe in spiritual or moral values. The communists try to achieve everything through rewards or punishments – through satisfying the body or threatening the body, which is the lowest part of man. When man is reduced only to his body, he is not any different than an animal. Logically, the path to communism constitutes a return of the human being to the animal. The opposite of this is a system that places spiritual values above material values. Communism has to destroy systems based on spiritual values because, in the long run, communism cannot successfully compete with such systems. If America puts its trust in God, in high moral principles, then she will retain her freedom in all spheres. She will withstand the confrontation with communism and she will ultimately win. If, on the other hand, America forgets these higher values she will degenerate into a materialism that is no different than the materialism of the communists.
Petr Cibulka was born in 1950 in the city of Brno, in the province of Moravia. As a five-time political prisoner, Mr. Cibulka did hard time in the toughest communist prison camp in Czechoslovakia. He was repeatedly jailed between 1979 and 1989 and conducted a 31-day hunger strike in 1979.
In 1991 Mr. Cibulka began publishing his paper, "Uncensored News," so he could oppose the "official" informational and ideological blockade organized by the Communists through control of the mass media. In 1992 Mr. Cibulka acquired and published data from secret police files. He published over 200,000 names of communist officers and collaborators. Subsequently he became a target of aggressive attacks from "former" Communist officials.
Mr. Cibulka has had to go through countless police interrogations and home searches. He has suffered numerous court trials because he named names. The most famous trial involved Czech President Vaclav Havel, who publicly denounced Mr. Cibulka as a shameful disgrace and declared Petr's "Uncensored News" to be "garbage."
Mr. Cibulka was elected chairman of the conservative political party Right Bloc in 2000. Right Bloc is trying to implement the principals of American democracy and freedom into the Czech political system.
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What is the European and Czech people's opinion about America in Iraq and the war in general and what is the official press saying about it?
According to the "former" Soviet Bloc official media, America is being presented in flat negative terms – regardless of what America does. Media reports, as a general rule, suggest the notion that we are actually at war with America. I'm afraid that even in the traditionally democratic Western European countries, maybe with the exception of the U.K., the situation is not much better. The most strident anti-American position is usually taken by France. Therefore it is of interest to look at a report that was published in the Czech Republic on 6 June 2004 by Mlada Fronta Newspaper about the arrest of the oldest son of the long-time leader of France, [the late President] Francois Mitterand. Jean-Christophe Mitterand has been under investigation and was arrested for organizing a sale of weapons from the "former" Soviet Union to the communist dictatorship in Angola, Africa. This communist regime, with the help of the "former" Soviet Union and its satellites, is conducting a decades long civil war against its pro-western opposition. There was also a suspicion that this whole weapons sale operation was financed from the illegal funds of a billionaire [named] Pierre Falcon, the main person involved in the sale of Soviet weapons to communists in Angola.
It is interesting that a certain firm Falcon [owned] was commissioned by Prague's post-communist government to settle the Soviet Union's financial debt in the Czech Republic.
This firm was later publicly criticized because, in reality, it didn't protect interests of the Czech Republic but only helped Russia's interests. If the family members of the highest French officials are involved in arming anti-American regimes with Soviet – pardon me – with Russian weapons, this is the best example of the depth of the Soviet and Russian intelligence services GRU infiltration to the highest levels of the Western World. Absolutely the same situation obtains inside the vast leftist government of today's unified Germany.
What do you think is happening in Germany with all the socialists in power ?
These people are, first of all, leading Germany into the state bankruptcy. In tandem with this, we find socialists filling the country's most important government jobs. These are people openly sympathetic to red terror and communism. During the American operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the German Justice Minister publicly attacked George W. Bush. She said that Bush is worse than Hitler. German Foreign Minister Joshka Fisher as a leftist activist who took part in left wing riots and physical violence against the German police. The operation to oust former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and all his people from the leadership of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and their replacement with East-German leftist cadre Angela Merkel and her team falls very precisely into this plan.
In terms of Anti-Americanism, what is the situation regarding the Czech Republic official press and the Czech Government?
There's no difference between the anti-Americanism of all post-communist governments and the anti-Americanism of all Czech official media. What Czech Government officials think their media says openly. The media make a pretense of advertising their "political independence." Authentic pro-American opinions have no chance to be published in the Czech official media. The same thing happens to all pro-American politicians and journalists in this country, of course: they are forced out of the public sphere by anti-American politics. Even official organizations and institutions that are pretending to be pro-American, and are financed from American funds, as for example the Civic Institute in Prague and for example its leading member, Michal Semin, are always, during a moment of crisis, taking an anti-American position. The Czech post-communist official media are give space and attention to all critics of American politics of today, as for example Jeffrey Sachs, Zbigniew Brzezinski and others. The views of U.S. Government officials [i.e., Bush Administrations officials] are not presented in the Czech media. This shows into whose hands the Czech Republic's political process, official press and media have fallen. Here we find factories for the manufacturing of public opinion. For example, former Carter Administration National Security Adviser, a former Polish national named Zbigniew Brzezinski, said in an article published by Lidove Noviny on June 8 2004:
After 9/11, a group of strategic extremists managed to gain control of a president with messianic proclivities and no grasp of the complexity of the global situation. Their cumulative actions have done unprecedented damage to America's long-term interests. That is why there is now the need for a choice: Will America return to the past successes of global leadership or damage itself critically in the extremist pursuit of global domination?
What about Americans with anti-American views, are they influenced by the communist ideology ?
I am convinced that, for example, most of the Americans in Europe have anti-American views. Their opinions are often so anti-American and so pro-communist or leftist that even in anti-American and socialist Europe these people are perceived as extremists. During the American operation to install freedom and democracy in Iraq there were anti-American demonstrations organized in Prague solely by American students and anti-American activists. They held signs: "Hands off Iraq!" These people seem to me not to be the victims of European communist and anti-American propaganda but they are, in fact, its active followers, campaigners and promoters. During the course of the last 15 years I haven't met one American citizen, including American diplomatic officials, who would want to fight for the highest American ideals – ideals of freedom and democracy in Europe. Americans are unaware of the fact that what is common in America is non-existent in Europe, with the exception of perhaps Switzerland.
Will the socialists be able to impose their model on the world without the use of military force?
I am certain that in the aftermath of the systematic collapse of all higher American principles and values, such as trust in God, the dialectical materialist powers have never had a better chance for victory in the United States as they have today. The evolution of mankind from a persuasion of spirit and soul to an obsession with the body and face is a negative development. The system of materialistic values of today's America is more and more converging with the communist and socialist system of values. If the freedom of men will be gradually reduced in this development to a sole freedom of consumption, I don't see a reason why the materialist American elites of today and tomorrow would stand up against the materialist elites of their adversaries.
I would like to ask about Czechoslovak communist Army General and member of the Czechoslovak Defense Council, Jan Sejna, who defected to the United States in 1968. Sejna defected before Brezhnev's minions in Czechoslovakia had chance to arrest him for warning then Secretary General of the CP of Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubcek about a Russian-led invasion. Sejna says in his book We Will Bury You that he had firsthand knowledge of the Soviet long-range plan to stage a false collapse of the communist Warsaw Pact alliance in order to disarm America and NATO. Do you agree that this is what happened in the "former" bloc countries?
I don't know what the collapse of communism looks like from the American point of view, but from the painful experience of the citizens of all the post-communist countries the collapse of communism is a pure fiction. Communists and their communist pyramid of power remain untouched. From the self-invited owners of the state wealth, that is from communists and cadres of the communist Gestapo STB, officers of the communist SS "People's Militia" and other comparable criminals, there turned out to be new lawful owners of everything that was of any value in these "former" communist countries – and it was done through a fraudulent privatization process.
The communists are doing everything possible to disarm the West and at the same time they are making sure that their own power and military strength remain untouched. From this position communists can dictate to the West their evil conception of a world communist order. The West can accept this the easy way or the hard way.
What are America's chances to withstand this and defend herself?
In the short-term only massive arms production and support of the real political and informational plurality everywhere in the world, and most of all inside the so-called post-communist countries, will suffice. If the rulers of these countries don't allow any real political and intellectual competition, they cannot be considered as trustworthy [strategic] partners. In this regard the United States has been seriously mistaken for the past 15 years. From the long-term point of view it is possible to stop the invasion of materialist ideology into society only through a fundamental reevaluation of what our value preferences are today. Without accomplishing this most important task our victory over the forces of evil – the materialistic powers – will prove impossible.
Can we be sure that these are really communists behind the scenes? What does it mean [to America] that these people are communists?
The communists represent the most concentrated formation of evil in human history. We cannot for a moment accept the official communist and post-communist propaganda that this most powerful negative power ceased to exist and disappeared without a trace in 1989. The communist bloc ruled and still rules 1/4 of this Planet and 1/3 of its population.
The Communist International, connected with the KGB, used to operate in all countries of the world. The degree of civilization's moral decline exactly corresponds with a very real achievement of the Communist International. Their communist system is being built, as they always claimed, "forever and never any different." Communist states are criminal enterprises. There is nothing easier than to prove that the same is true of the post-communist states. If communism was really defeated and higher moral values came to power, then we need to explain why the communist murderers (who claimed millions of innocent victims) weren't brought to justice. In reality all these post-communist states, without exception, are covering up colossal crimes. Instead of punishment for the communist criminals, these same criminals remain in their posts. In addition, they privatized everything that belonged to the Communist Party and State for their own benefit. This fraudulent collapse of communism has allowed ongoing communist structures to hoodwink the entire world with images of reputable politicians, businessmen, scientists, artists, students and so on. This is the greatest victory of communism to date.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin and its special services quickly discovered that communist ideology had utterly failed in Russia. It never had a chance to succeed with the masses. What is your opinion regarding the Soviet collapse and the apparent collapse of ideology in the Soviet Union?
Without labeling the lowest negative quality here as "communism," this negative quality yet remains in all positions of power and influence in the "former" Soviet Bloc. Until we replace these evil structures, which represent the greatest evil known to mankind, nothing will change. To achieve real democracy it is first necessary to renew human plurality, and that is the plurality of ideas. So far, the communist and post-communist monolith hasn't been disrupted in the least. Plurality is only a pretense and is therefore a mockery throughout the "former" bloc countries. It is the same with "democracy" and "freedom." All this can be quickly and easily proved. When in 1993 the highest level KGB officers were explaining to American journalists the reason communism was "taken from circulation," these officers were absolutely clear that communism wasn't able to guarantee the superpower status of Russia for the 21st century. So the given reason for the "collapse of communism," as the KGB spokesmen admit today, was not an aversion to the hideous crimes and inhuman methods of communism but the inefficiency of communism as a social system. The worst elements of the communist regime and its proponents remained at their posts throughout the transition, and today they constitute the same threat to the world as they did before. Communism, organized under any possible name and cover, is the most powerful ally of the lowest that is present and active in the United States, Western Europe and elsewhere in the world.
What do the communists intend to do with the Satellite Countries and Western Europe?
In the case of its victory, communism will do the same as it has always done: It will enslave all of us politically, economically, culturally, information-wise, ideologically and morally. Whoever stands in opposition will be liquidated. The communists have four decades of experience at infiltration and provocation, as for example Operation Wedge and the final operation to liquidate the opposition, codenamed Norbert.
What is the object of these operations Wedge and Norbert and how do they work?
For the STB [KGB and other communist secret services] operation Wedge, as its name already suggests, is based on the infiltration of the enemy camp in order to foment disagreements, mistrust, suspicion and conflict. Operation Wedge has, as its goal, the total subversion and paralysis of groups of people who value non-communist ideas. These would include people who believe in God but are not yet politically active. Operation Wedge has been widely applied in all post-communist countries against all real opponents of communism. Also, our party, Right Bloc – a party that advocates direct democracy and a system of recall against politicians – and our Uncensored News editorial office are constant targets of subversive operations. For example, the former vice chairman of the Right Bloc offered $40,000 for ousting me from the party chairmanship. Agents of the special services were infiltrated inside Uncensored News and Right Bloc, where they work to subvert and paralyze our activities. In the case of Uncensored News, these agents were able to successfully liquidate our newspaper in its printed version. Their campaign to take over the Right Bloc party has been unsuccessful so far.
Another goal of Operation Wedge is to make a detailed database of the independent public, including dossiers for later use during the implementation of Operation Norbert. This latter operation offers the final solution to the problem of independent thinking people. It is a system of concentration camps for incarcerating the political opposition. The most dangerous opponents of communism will be physically liquidated in these camps, while the remainder will be isolated until their thinking is reprogrammed to agree with communism. This process has been used in Vietnam since 1975, where officers of the [defeated] Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) are to this day held captive in communist concentration camps.
Documents about Operation Norbert were uncovered in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990's; but since then there has been no discussion about this operation. It is most significant for the post-communist regimes of Eastern Europe that, to this day, the deepest secrets of the communist dictatorship were never made public. The files of those who were selected for liquidation in the concentration camps are also kept secret. This is, again, a kind of proof that the communists intend to claim further victims when the time comes. Regarding foreigners who naively believe in the collapse of communism and work or study in these post-communist countries, they, according to one section of the Operation Norbert documents, are also to be arrested and imprisoned in the camps. Here took the most important ones will be liquidated. This is how they intend to pay back those who naively believed that communism is a thing of the past.
What is the situation in Czech Republic today regarding the strategy of communism?
The Czech post-communist government is not acting like a normal government. Last year the Czech Army was almost totally dissolved and the draft was abolished in full. The official explanation of these actions was that the world situation is stabilizing and the Czech Republic does not foresee any long-term danger. Just recently there was a variant discussed in the official press how to deal with the problem of not enough professional soldiers in the Czech Army. Some maintained that the simplest way to resolve this problem would be the creation of a professional mercenary force that would recruit soldiers from Russia and Ukraine. These soldiers would be awarded Czech citizenship for their service. This plan is to be implemented in a very near future.
Also, just recently, the Czech Government officially stated that in the light of unpredictable international developments it is urgent for the Czech Government and the Parliament to have a well-built and secret military bunker in case of an unforeseen crisis.
The Czech Army, as a military fighting force, is virtually useless. At its present strength, without the Russian mercenaries, the Czech Army can only be used for police purposes. Recently there was an important article in the Mlada Fronta ["former" newspaper of the Czechoslovak Communist Youth SSM] that stated we should be prepared for a war because the longer the peace lasts, the harder the war that inevitably follows.
Why do you think this article was published?
This is possibly a psychological preparation of the citizenry for a war. In light of the fact that Mlada Fronta and other Czech newspapers take an anti-American position, a future war will not be a war against Russia. If Russia starts marching west I'm afraid that Europe will be unable to offer effective resistance. The Czech nation, after 42 years of communism and 15 years of post-communism, is so demoralized and disintegrated that it has already give up on all its normal functions as a nation. The birth rate is the second lowest in Europe. We are a fast-dying nation. Our geopolitical space is being filled up with Russian-speaking people. This highly negative process is fully supported by all post-communist governments. Civic duty in the Czech Republic has fallen to such an extent, for example, that the recent elections to the European Parliament only saw a 25 percent turnout. The war hasn't started, yet we are already a defeated nation. It is a shame that the best people in Czech national life are totally alone and isolated in their fight against communism. The United States, instead of giving a hand to these people, are supporting the communist mafia that has ruled our country for many decades without serious opposition.
There were elections held in the Czech Republic just recently, as the country was admitted to the EU. What were the results and how did they impact the overall situation?
The election results were decided in advance. On one side there were official political parties of the post-communist political regime; on the other side, against them, as the only true alternative, was our pro-American conservative political party, Right Bloc. While the officially recognized parties have, for their activities, many millions of crowns [local currency] paid from the taxpayers' money, and unlimited space in the official media, our financially poor but idea-rich political party had only a token opportunity to organize an election campaign since our budget was only a few thousand crowns. Despite this handicap we received 27,506 votes, which is 1.17 percent of all votes counted. In addition, these election "results" are not to be trusted. The whole political competition, in all its aspects, grossly discriminates against any true opposition; and these elections have not been successfully monitored by a system of control. This was proven by the collective analysis done by 19 non-parliamentary parties and it was published before these recent elections.
Unfortunately there is no power, here or abroad, able to change this situation. Through a selective system only carefully screened communist cadres were admitted into the European Parliament from the Czech Republic. In some cases these cadres are directly connected to the Soviet Union (pardon me, Russia). Moscow was therefore able to gain 24 EU Parliament chairs in the case of the Czech Republic and one chair in the person of Milan Horacek, former Czechoslovak citizen and a candidate for the German Green Party (when this party is in fact Red and not Green). The German Green Party's Chairman is the leftist extremist, Foreign Minister Joshka Fisher. There is reasonable suspicion that Milan Horacek didn't defect to West Germany during the communist era as a political refugee but was dispatched by the communist special services. In the files of communist agents published since the early 1990s we find the name Milan Horacek, recruited by the STB, born 29 October 1948, code name Essex, STB file # 38234. Horacek's life-long, strongly pro-communist political stand and his fierce resistance to a just punishment for all communist criminals would suggest that the files are correct. Another leader of the communists, and till recently the CPCZ Chairman, is Miroslav Ransdorf, former member of the Prognosis Department of the Czechoslovak [communist] Academy of Sciences, that in reality was the STB's scientific espionage directorate charged with the struggle against the West. Ransdorf was also "elected" to the European Parliament. There were also two former citizens of the Soviet Union elected to the European Parliament. One of them is Vladimir "Vovka" Zelezny, today a Chairman of the Senate Club of the Czech Republic Communist Party. The second Russian national is one Jozef Zieleniec, whose parents belonged to the highest of Moscow's cadres within the Communist International. Both Zelezny and Zieleniec were elected from the political party "Rightwing Independent." The brother of Jozef Zieleniec, whose name is Vladimir Zieleniec, was unmasked few years ago as the KGB resident [i.e., chief officer] in Poland.
What impact will this obvious infiltration of Moscow's communist cadres into the European Parliament have for Moscow's strategy in Europe?
We can safely predict that these political representatives of the post-communist states inside the European Parliament reveal a sinister deficiency. Because these are the best cadres of the communist special services, with years and years of experience in deception and manipulation of the West, we have to expect that after their [s]election to the European Parliament, these cadres will be successful in their activities as they always are. In case of growing pressure on Europe from Moscow, these people will be guarantors that Europe will not cause any problems for Moscow but will instead seek an accommodation kind with the Kremlin on Soviet terms. After this fashion Europe can be "Sovietized" without an open military confrontation; that is, it can be done so stealthily that the brainwashed European public will succumb before they realize what has happened. This suggests that the anti-American politics of Europe is going to get sharper and sharper. In the last analysis, there will be no difference between the politics of Brussels and Moscow. In the event of a socialist victory in America, the differences between the political system of Russia and China on the one hand, and the Western countries on the other, will simply disappear. I see in this a long-term danger to the freedom and independence of America. In this way a morally corrupt system may defeat the moral and spiritual values that oppose it.
According to the London Times, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice studied in the Soviet Union in 1978. Can you analyze the fact that an American citizen was allowed to study in the communist-era USSR? How does that work and what possibilities did the KGB and GRU have a in case like this?
I am fully convinced that something like that [American citizens innocently studying in the USSR] was not possible. Even in 1970 I saw a campaign in Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia and her communist colleges to recruit students for study courses in the Soviet Union. Despite the fact that the level of interest was huge, a majority of prospective students were rejected because they were not 100 percent pro-communist and pro-Soviet. I also know very well that the only students admitted to Czechoslovak high schools and colleges at that time were those who presented no apparent danger to the communist dictatorship. Here we find that sons and daughters from families that had problems with the communists, or the Russian occupiers, were not allowed to attend high school or college. So it is therefore impossible that somebody from the main enemy country, the United States of America, would be allowed to study in any Soviet college. If that happened there had to be some kind of official contract between the U.S. and USSR. If not, it would have been part of a KGB or GRU recruitment operation.
But in case of Condoleezza Rice there is no mention in her official biography about her course of study in the USSR during the brutal communist regime era. Her positive stand toward the politics of Russia lead by the KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin is signaling something that she ought to explain. What is your opinion about this?
If Condoleezza Rice is covering up in front of the world that she was studying in the Soviet Union at a Soviet college during the aggressive communist era of the 1970's, then undoubtedly she could belong to the highest KGB or GRU cadres. Only the fact that her mentor, who introduced her to politics, was Josef Korbel, makes this possibility almost certain. Josef Korbel was the architect of the pro-Soviet foreign policies of the World War Two Czechoslovak exiled government of President Edward Benes when he [Korbel], alongside Pavel Kavan, father of the former Czech Republic Foreign Minister and Chairman of the UN General Assembly Jan Kavan [STB communist agent, codenamed KATO], prepared the Czechoslovak-USSR friendship and cooperation agreement of 1943. This agreement … became a fundamental cornerstone of the postwar Sovietization and Bolshevization of Czechoslovakia. I am convinced that Josef Korbel left Europe for America with something of the kind in view, because his anti-Soviet or anti-communist activities were negligible. As for Korbel's pupil Rice, we find a similar situation. The same can also be said of Korbel's daughter, Madeleine Albright, a formulator of America's foreign policies under the controlling eye of Bill Clinton. It is also significant that Jan Kavan is a leading opponent of the America's anti-missile defense base in the Czech Republic. This base would protect Europe and America from Russian ballistic missile attack. Jan Kavan is registered as a communist agent and active collaborator. Another such person is the chairman of the Foreign Council of the Czech Republic Parliament, the Social Democrat Vladimir Lastuvka (codenamed VLADIMIR, STB file #14509), a nuclear physicist registered as an agent of the STB charged with the struggle against the "internal enemy."
So it is that these people, as high level officials of the Czech Republic – a NATO member country and so-called American ally – are today involved with vital nuclear defense issues related to Western Europe and the United States. Clearly, these people are not protecting freedom or the strategic interests of the West. Instead, they are advancing the interests of Moscow and Beijing.
Is the name Jan Masaryk connected with Korbel and perhaps, even today, to Codoleezza Rice?
Jan Masaryk was the last non-communist Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, and during Korbel's flight to America Jan Masaryk was murdered by communists in Prague. His death was, for many years, described as a suicide. Only recently it was acknowledged to be a case of cold-blooded murder. The communists didn't want to risk that Masaryk would escape to England and compromise their long-term operations against the West. Therefore he was forced out of a window. According to the latest report, Masaryk's murder cannot be fully solved because the government of KGB Lt. Col. Vladimir Putin is denying access into the KGB and GRU files from the year 1948. Here is proof of Russia's "peacefulness and love for democracy."
I've read a book about the case of Jan Masaryk, and according to this book and also the testimony of Masaryk's butler in his Prague government apartment, Jan Masaryk was trying to escape to Britain the same night he was murdered. Might we speculate that these operations were conducted directly by Moscow with the help of a personal friend of Stalin, Klement Gottwald?
In my view, Jan Masaryk was the victim of a provocation. After half a century the communist special services have published nothing about Masaryk's preparations to defect. This suggests that the special services may have helped to "organize" Masaryk's escape plan. Therefore, they would have known how to prevent his escape in a timely fashion. This may be part of the reason the Russians have refused to cooperate in the investigation of Jan Masaryk's murder. [The investigation would reveal far too much about Russia's special services and their methods.]
According to the Michael Dobbs 2000 article in the Washington Post, Josef Korbel was a proponent of 'détente' with the Soviet Union. How can this be explained when the USSR invaded Korbel's home country, Czechoslovakia, in 1968 and murdered Korbel's former compatriots? [HM note: I was told by my mother that in city of Prostejov, in Czechoslovakia, in 1968, the town's people removed all street and highway signs to cause problems for the invading Red Army. When the Russians couldn't find their way out of the town and nobody would give them directions they started firing tank mounted machine guns and killed, among others, an entire kindergarten class of about 20 children plus two young female teachers.]
If Josef Korbel were a genuine opponent of communism, his welcoming stand toward this most murderous system in all human history would've been totally incomprehensible. On the other hand, if Korbel were a high-level officer of Russian military intelligence, GRU, as some suspect he was, then Korbel's conduct would be absolutely logical and couldn't have been any different. Those who knew Korbel since 1948 till his death in 1977 in United States should, in light of these facts, analyze for themselves what side of the Cold War he was on. I can say myself, as a five-time political prisoner jailed during the communist era, that Josef Korbel did absolutely nothing to help anti-communists and political prisoners in his native Czechoslovakia.
Stanislav Gross, as the Czech Interior Minister and Chairman of the Czech Social Democrats CSSD, will most likely become the new Czech Prime Minister. According to the latest news Gross has chosen for his replacement as Interior Minister a person that is highly compromised by his participation on the communist era terror. Can you tell us the latest details about this scandal ?
Stanislav Gross belongs to the youngest cadres of the communist dictatorship, as he was only around 20 years old during the 1989 "changes." During that time Mr. Gross held a high level position in the Communist Youth organization SSM, as this organization was preparing its cadres for joining the Communist Party. A highly reliable and successful official, Gross was chosen to participate in the implementation of the post "1989 anti-communist coup" organized by communist structures in Czechoslovakia. He proved himself highly reliable and competent in this task. Gross never fought for a just punishment of the communist criminals and he never worked to prevent these criminals from being part of the privatization process (of the national state wealth). He never advocated the return of property stolen by the communists during and after their takeover in 1948. For his many sins of omission Gross was rewarded. He is the youngest Prime Minister in the post-communist world. Alleged political refugee Milo Marousek was the one who introduced Gross into high-level politics. Milo's brother Jiri Marousek was, after the changes of 1989, able to privatize the biggest machinery corporation in communist Czechoslovakia, CKD Prague. Jiri has received credits from the state communist bank to buy and run this company, but he never paid them back and his firm went bankrupt. The sole purpose of this scam was to force Czech taxpayers to pay Marousek's debt. Only communist cadres and the cadres of the special services were allowed to reap the benefits of privatization and the so-called "anti-communist revolution." Not only did Jiri Marousek benefit, but also his brother, Milo Marousek, often bragged that he came home on the first plane from the United States in November 1989. Milo claimed to belong to the Czechoslovak exile Social Democrat Party's leadership in the United States and that he returned to help build the party – to reclaim its property, previously in communist hands. The communists, however, would never give up or return any property or wealth without a direct order from Moscow. Milo Marousek, as a "political refugee from communism," was making a living in America by selling Soviet diamonds that may have come, directly, from the Koyma Gulag. This was the man to whom the property of the Social Democratic Party was given, without any delay or problems. This multi-billion dollar property includes the Civic House Building in Prague – given to Milo Marousek who later bragged about his successful campaign to make Stanislav Gross and Minister of Education Petra Buzkova [a registered STB informer codenamed PAVLA] into successful politicians.
Marousek used to talk about the two most powerful people in the Czech Republic – Gross and Buzkova – and that they once worked in his office opening mail and faxing documents. It also fits with the above facts that the most important person in the Socialist CSSD government was a former communist prison guard, Petr Ibl, under whose hands most of the Czechoslovak political prisoners suffered during the communist era.
Ibl was also my jailer during my imprisonment in Prague's Ruzyne prison in 1985. And yet, this man was recently nominated by Gross for the post of Czech Interior Minister; but in the end Ibl was replaced by an even more suitable and reliable candidate: then Chief of the Czech Espionage Service, Frantisek Bublan. This fellow has a very effective cover legend. We are supposed to believe that he was a "fighter against communism," a Catholic priest and a Charter 77 signatory. Bublan never acknowledged that while attending the Catholic Seminary, instead of studying Church doctrine, he was interested only in information about the structure of the Catholic Church; and after this he was ordained a priest and left the Church, devoting his time to secular pursuits. As a Charter 77 signatory Bublan was hardly involved in anti-communist activities. On the contrary, there is reason to suspect that he was infiltrated into the Catholic Church and Charter 77 by the special services of the dictatorship. Furthermore, he has been officially connected with the special services of the post-communist governments since 1990. He has been in the highest levels of these services. During the last 15 years, the Czech special services under Bublan's leadership failed to uncover a single KGB or GRU agent in a country that was and is crawling with them. And this was the man nominated to be Interior Minister of the Czech Republic!
The newly nominated Czech Defense Minister is Karel Kuhnl, Jr. His father, Karel Kuhnl, was recruited by the communist STB as agent, codenamed ENCYKLOPED (STB file # 6013). Karel Kuhn, Jr.'s father-in-law is Dr. Vladimir Kusin, who was registered several times as an STB agent (STB file # 1327 and file # 8353) and who was recruited directly by STB headquarters. As such, agents registered with STB headquarters were the best of the best. Dr. Kusin is possibly a Soviet KGB "illegal" because, after World War Two, he registered himself with the [still democratic] Czechoslovak authorities without any proof of identification, claiming that his village was destroyed in the war. There are no documents showing that he is, in fact, Vladimir Kusin. There were hundreds of thousands of cases like his, involving people who merely asserted their identity. Because of this flawed system, the KGB and GRU were able to give false identities to thousands of espionage cadres sent to the West. Dr. Kusin used to work at the College of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, where he used to teach Marxism-Leninism to the highest communist cadres. Later, he was hired by the British Embassy in Prague as a translator, but only after a repeated pressure from the Department of Diplomatic Services [a STB-KGB cover organization]. Kusin defected [was sent out as a "refugee" after the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia"] in 1968 to the United States, but later came back to Europe as a cadre with quick job advancement prospects while working inside Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. Kusin's appointment as vice-president of Radio Free Europe was stopped only when he was unmasked as KGB agent. Of course, he had already successfully infiltrated this U.S.-taxpayer funded service. In any case after a very strong intervention from the CIA, Dr. Kusin was forced out of Radio Free Europe. After his departure, however, it was uncovered that there were several so-called "evaluation cards" missing. These purportedly offered a detailed analysis of press monitoring of the new "anti-communist opposition," revealing the new opposition's communist past…. So it is no accident that Kusin's son-in-law, Karel Kuhnl, Jr., was appointed as the Czech Republic's ambassador to Britain in the 1990's. Karel Kuhnl, Jr. resigned from his Four Coalition leadership position [CZ Parliament political coalition of four parties] in 2001, just before an almost certain election victory, because serious allegations came to light that Kuhnl was a communist espionage officer. This hurt his chances to win the election. And now this man is nominated to become the Defense Minister of the Czech Republic, a NATO member country. Through these examples we see that the communist special services prepare their cadres years and decades ahead of time, installing their people in key positions where they are able to meet their tasks and follow their orders in the future. We can show examples in which Soviet agents of influence have been active in the United States for decades now; that these cadres pass on orders and tasks to their descendants or followers. Unfortunately, the American counterintelligence services are not able to deal with this slow, systematic infiltration that is being conducted with great secrecy.
To be continued next week....
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Idaho murders updates: Police calls surge as Moscow community racked by fear two weeks on from college killings
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Moscow police are battling a surge in calls as the small-town community continues to be wracked with fear that the killer or killers are still on the loose two weeks after the murder of four University of Idaho students in a brutal knife attack.
Since Nov. 13 — the day of the murders — Moscow police have received 78 calls for "unusual circumstances" and 36 requests to check the well-being of loved ones, up from 70 and 18 respectively for all of October, according to a press release shared. on Sunday.
"We understand that there is fear in our community," police said.
The students are expected to return to Moscow on Monday after Thanksgiving break, but it remains to be seen how many will return in person, as – two weeks after the November 13 murders – no arrests have been made and there are no suspects identified.
Investigators continue to believe the stabbings of Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were targeted, but have declined to reveal what evidence led them to this conclusion.
Most important points
No suspects identified, police say
The police only release "vetted" information
Increase in calls for unusual circumstances, police say
One victim was the intended target, says the victim's father
The police cannot rule out whether victim Kaylee Goncalves had a stalker
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The murder mystery that stunned the Idaho Police Department
Nearly everything that last happened after 1:45 a.m. on Nov. 13 at the college home where Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen were murdered still remains a mystery.
The investigation has been compounded by shifting narratives from law enforcement and wild social media speculation that has seeped into the local rumor mill.
The independentSheila Flynn reports from the ground in Idaho.
Rachel SharpNov 28, 2022 11:10 AM
ICYMI: University of Idaho students told they won't have to return to campus until late this year after the killings
The University of Idaho plans to provide shelter for students who left campus after the murder of four students.
University president Scott Greene said the college plans to be "flexible through the end of the semester," and that faculty were asked to prepare in-person and distance learning options for the final two weeks of the semester.
Police intend to keep details "out of sight" to protect the investigation
Days after saying the public should "trust" them with the idea that the murders of Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were targeted, police have revealed why they don't share the rationale behind the assessment.
Aaron Snell of the Idaho State Police told Fox News Digital on Saturday that information about the targeted killings is being treated with caution so as not to jeopardize the investigation, which has entered its second week with no arrests or significant developments.
"So if we're just providing information to the public, I don't think that's going to be a wise choice," he said.
The independent has the story:
Rachel SharpNovember 28, 2022 10:30 am
What happened in the last hours of the murder victims in Idaho
It could have been anyone, in any American college town, on any Saturday night. Such was the behavior of the murdered students in Moscow, Idaho, just hours before they were brutally stabbed to death.
Reporting from Moscow, Sheila Flynn outlines the final hours of the four young students:
The Moscow Police Department has properly secured crime, according to the Idaho State Police
Aaron Snell, of the Idaho State Police, told Fox News Digital on Saturday that Moscow police, which had made their last kill before the November 13 murders in 2015, had followed protocol and properly secured the crime scene.
"I am convinced that there has been no compromise with regard to the integrity of the investigation. We know that Moscow police have arrived at the scene," Mr. Snell told Fox. "They essentially saw what had happened."
"They shut it down and then additional funds came in. We have a lot of the best of the best, the best technology, the latest and greatest in training. So indeed, I believe in the integrity of this research."
(PD Moscow)
Rachel SharpNovember 28, 2022 9:50 AM
The university will hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday
The University of Idaho will hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday for the four students who were murdered in their off-campus home on Nov. 13.
Moscow police said the vigil will be held on Nov. 30 after the brutal murders of 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves and 21-year-old Madison Mogen.
(Zach Wilkinson/Moscow-Pullman Daily News/AP)
Sravasti DasguptaNovember 28, 2022 9:30 AM
The last hours of the four killed students
It could have been anyone, in any American college town, on any Saturday night. Such was the behavior of the murdered students in Moscow, Idaho, just hours before they were brutally stabbed to death. The independent's Sheila Flynn reports.
She writes: "The University of Idaho campus had been busy that day, a sea of gold and silver as the Vandals prepared for a home game against the UC Davis Aggies at the 16,000-seat Kibbie Dome.
"It was 28 degrees at kick-off – the weather was described as a terrifying 'ice fog' – but happy, loyal fans showed up; the Vandals' 44-26 loss was disappointing, but didn't stop the students from preparing to take the city.
"They included five girls who lived in a three-bedroom rental on King Road, just over a mile from the stadium and just two blocks from the edge of campus."
Hours later, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves were murdered.
Read Sheila Flynn's full coverage:
Andrew BlancoNovember 28, 2022 8:40 AM
ICYMI: No Link Between University of Idaho Murders and 2021 Oregon Stabbing
Police investigating the murders of four University of Idaho students ruled out a possible link to a similar stabbing a year earlier.
Parents are making a plea to stop the rampant rumors
The loved ones of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen have been trying to process their grief amid rampant rumors about the circumstances surrounding the murders.
"All the noise out there is really hurting the families," a friend of Kristi and Steve Goncalves, Kaylee's parents, told me. The independent. "And it leads police down paths that aren't real and takes them away from those that are."
Police have made similar requests to repeatedly update their social media posts to address specific inaccuracies.
They shot down reports that the skinning of a dog nearby was connected to the murders; then they said a report of a man waiting in a woman's car was "unfounded".
The independentSheila Flynn has the story:
The Idaho Police Department is keeping details "out of sight" to develop the investigation
Police have said they are not releasing details about why they believe the University of Idaho students were targeted, in order to protect the ongoing investigation.
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DEA agents in Albuquerque focus on a number of different aspects of drug trafficking. Stopping the flow of drugs into and out of Bernadillo County is a high priority, as is targeting the sale of drugs in Albuquerque. One successful strategy that DEA agents have been using to intercept drug shipments is to work with local authorities to monitor trains, buses, and vehicles travelling through the city. Those with careers in the DEA make frequent busts in Albuquerque.
Text messages from drug dealers targeting University of New Mexico students in Albuquerque led to a bust by DEA agents in April 2013. Ketamine, marijuana, and Ecstasy were all for sale.
In February 2013, twenty-one traffickers were charged with using false and fraudulent prescription to obtain oxycodone. The arrests are the result of Operation Paper Trail, initiated by the DEA's Albuquerque Tactical Diversion Squad and the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy.
An investigation by the Albuquerque office of the DEA led to the November 2012 arrest of an Albuquerque trafficker who had 21 pounds of methamphetamine that he intended to sell. This was the biggest methamphetamine bust in Albuquerque in recent years.
Potential DEA agents can pursue a number of career paths to join the agency. One way is to have prior law enforcement experience handling drug investigations. Another way is to pursue a secondary education. A J.D., LL.B., Master's, or a Bachelor's degree with a 2.95 average will qualify graduates to apply to the DEA. The GPA requirement is waived for those with at least three years of experience being a ship or airline pilot, engineer, accountant, information technologist, or those who are fluent in any one of a number of languages.
Residents of Albuquerque who want to learn how to become a DEA agent should contact the El Paso Division to find out if there are jobs available in Albuquerque. Additional requirements include being in excellent mental and physical health, including having good hearing and vision.
Recruits undergo their formal training at the DEA Academy in Quantico, Virginia, where they have their coursework. They train for skills such as shooting firearms, driving in pursuit, and maintaining excellent physical condition at the FBI Academy located on the same grounds.
The types of illicit drug abuse in Albuquerque have fluctuated over the years. Cocaine and meth were the primary problems in earlier years, while the use of heroin and abuse of prescription drugs has greatly increased in recent years. The federal government has long recognized the threat that drug trafficking and consumption pose to Bernadillo County. They assigned this county to the New Mexico HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) in 1990.
Heroin – Black tar heroin is smuggled into the state from Mexico where it finds a ready market. New Mexico has the highest overdose death rate in the county. In 2006-2008, Bernadillo County had a much higher rate of accidental death from heroin than the rest of New Mexico. The situation has only gotten worse since then, and heroin abuse in Albuquerque has become a topic of grave concern. In 2012, heroin in Albuquerque was as cheap as it was in 1977 with the available drugs tending to be highly pure.
While people of all ages, races, and social classes use the drug, increasing use by high school students has been a particular problem in recent years. Mexican drug cartels target these students, and local dealers oblige them. In 2010, authorities busted a ring of dealers targeting a high school in Northeast Heights.
Prescription Drugs – The amount of prescription drug abuse has exploded in New Mexico in recent years. In 2006, three doses of OxyContin were seized in the New Mexico HIDTA region. By 2008, that number had climbed to 5015. The problem is epidemic with older people, who are thought be primarily taking the drugs for health problems, and with young people.
Teenagers most frequently start taking prescription drugs by taking them from their parents' medicine cabinets and from relatives. While OxyContin acts like heroin, its use does not have the same social stigma. The abuse of this drug can be deadly, and the rate of death from prescription drugs in the Albuquerque metropolitan area is twice the national average. In addition, prescription drug abuse can serve as a gateway to heroin addiction, since obtaining heroin in Albuquerque is substantially cheaper than buying prescription drugs from traffickers.
Methamphetamine – While the abuse of meth is not as prevalent in Albuquerque as it was in the 1990s, trafficking and use of the drug is still a problem in the city. It is currently cheaper to import the drug than manufacture it locally, although there has been in an increase in the number of meth labs in the region. The use and abuse of meth is associated with a high rate of violence and child abuse.
Marijuana – Large amounts of pot are shipped through Albuquerque, and it is the most commonly abused drug in New Mexico. The proximity of Albuquerque to the Mexican border makes it relatively straightforward to transport pot north to the city.


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1. "Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips"
2. "HOUSE GREYJOY HOUSE MARTELL THE OLD DYNASTY HOUSE TARGARYEN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"
3. "Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)"
4. "I have a gift for you," the dwarf said to Bran. "Do you like to ride, boy?" Maester Luwin came forward. "My lord, the child has lost the use of his legs. He cannot sit a horse." "Nonsense," said Lannister. "With the right horse and the right saddle, even a cripple can ride." The word was a knife through Bran's heart. He felt tears come unbidden to his eyes. "I'm not a cripple!" "Then I am not a dwarf," the dwarf said with a twist of his mouth. "My father will rejoice to hear it." Greyjoy laughed."
5. "Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy."
6. "Un pescador puede capturar un leviatán gris, pero si no lo suelte, este lo arrastrará hasta las profundidades.Asha Greyjoy"
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."


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'Excellence That We Recognize': What The NEH Funds In Texas
by Jerome Weeks 22 Feb 2019 4:41 PM
The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanties, Jon Parrish Peede, has been touring North Texas this week. For our State of the Arts conversation, KERA's Jerome Weeks asked him how the NEH influences, funds, even inspires university and museum programs in our region.
As a term, "humanities" is both broad and somewhat scholarly-seeming. People know the National Endowment for the Arts, your sister agency, because they have some experience with the arts. But the … 'humanities'? You're undoubtedly asked this all the time, but do you have a quick, nutshell definition of what the National Endowment for the Humanities funds?
JPPOften if I'm in an elevator I'll say Ken Burns – you watch his work, you know his work? The humanities are that: the telling of history. This means literature, philosophy, history, government, political science, and any number of fields. And what we're essentially committed to is human inquiry. So, from Homer to the Civil Rights Movement to what's happening today in the nation.
During your visit here for three days, representatives from our major art museums and university programs have been meeting with you. I realize, hey, you represent grant money. But how much sway or influence does the NEH actually have?
JPPWell, couple of things. So, we give out a significant amount of money, about a $127 million a year. So that's meaningful in and of itself, but certainly it's only catalytic. What that means is we want – when we invest federal dollars – we want the local communities to say, "This is excellence we recognize." Here in Texas over the last decade, we've awarded $35 million in grants. By the way, that's three-hundred-and-something grants. And I'm happy to say about $16 million is to Humanities Texas, and that's our state affiliate. Your legislature here has also agreed to fund them, which I think is quite wonderful. And, really, when you have a strong, robust state humanities organization, what you're saying is, as citizens and community leaders, We value knowing about our own history. That we believe you can't tell the America's story without telling the story of Texas.
Jon Parrish Peede. Photo: NEH
While you've been here, you gave a speech at Texas Christian University, and in that speech you said, 'For those of you in universities, you must make every effort to have an impact beyond the academy and into our larger communities among our fellow Americans." Basically, to get out of the ivory tower. Can you cite instances of NEH funding such efforts?"
JPPSure. So at TCU, for example, the NEH gave $200,000 for a project called "Brown and Black," and it was about the Civil Rights Movement here in Texas. And that consisted of several hundred oral history interviews with people that would be notable in the state, but also a number of people that were not well known. And that's an example of the university going out to the community.
But also, we have a number of organizations that we've funded. For example, the Dallas County Historical Foundation we funded, and again that was for oral history, also digital activities. And the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture had a $10,000 grant from us to have an educational forum. Another example of the way the NEH funds local institutions – again getting us beyond the walls of the university – is the Sixth Floor of Museum.
I think a community that has a versatile economy, by its very definition, has strong historical museums, historical centers, libraries, places where we can meet, can convene, and discuss the humanities and the issues that matter to us.
Speaking of convening together, you also said that "humanities are not a luxury, are not frivolous, are not divisive. Rather, humanities are what bind us together in our common journey." It made me wonder, Hmmm. Has this guy ever been in a departmental meeting arguing the relative merits of Philip Roth versus Zadie Smith?
JPP[Laughing.] I recognize in giving this speech that saying the humanities are what bind us together may seem simplistic. I think what the humanities do is bind us together by saying 'This is what matters." This is who we are, to use Lincoln's terms, when we turn to "the better angels" in us all. And I believe the humanities have a capacity to do that that engineering doesn't have. The life sciences can tell you about how the world operates, and the humanities can you tell about why we live these lives at all.
"I think what the humanities do is bind us together by saying 'This is what matters.'"
You spoke of cultural amnesia. I often think of it as a kind of Alzheimer's. As a person loses his memory, he actually loses his sense of self, of who he was. If he's forgotten that giant trauma, that he fought in a war, he ceases to be the same person. The same thing is true, of nations, of cultures, if they no longer remember that giant, history-defining trauma – the Great Depression, the Holocaust – it changes the nature of who we are.
JPPAbsolutely it does. I think of something Thomas Jefferson said, and he was a very flawed vessel to deliver this point overall, but we're all flawed vessels in different ways. And Jefferson said, "A nation that expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization expects what never was and will never be." It's this idea that you can't say, 'I'm not going to [learn] anything about our governmental system" – and then expect to speak intelligently when it fails.
If we don't understand what this nation is trying to be at its establishment, then we're not going to understand how Frederick Douglas clarified it. We're not going to understand the Nineteenth Amendment, women's right to vote – which the NEH is funding a PBS documentary on. And we're not going to understand how the Nineteenth Amendment matches up with Martin Luther King's movement, and the NEH has also funded for decades the Martin Luther King papers.
So the Humanities Endowment, as an organization, we're trying to make sure we touch on these moments. And I'll say this, as the federal government looks to how we'll recognize – in the year 2026 – the 250th anniversary of the founding of this nation, the endowment is really taking a leading role in saying 'Let's talk about that history.' By the way, let's make sure we include everyone. When I talk about American history, it's a very inclusive idea of what America is.
You've been the head of the NEH for 18 months now. So, I have to ask, what has it been like running the agency under President Trump, who appointed you and who has twice tried to zero out the agency in his budgets.
JPPI was appointed by the Bush Administration in the National Endowment for the Arts. The Obama administration asked me to stay for two years through the transition, and President Trump asked me back to the humanities.
So, yes, the President has made that budget recommendation, and I'm the person who officially submits that to Congress. And then Congress looked at it, and when the House and the Senate were both Republican [majorities], they actually said, "We want to keep the agency." And increase the budget. Now, we have the House under the Democrats and the the Senate under the Republicans, and they actually said "We want to raise the budget.'
So my responsibility is, once the President signs it into law, to make sure I'm being a good steward of those tax dollars. And one thing I can say about my interactions with the White House, which are frequent, is that no one is speaking in a negative way about the arts, about the humanities, about culture. There may be individuals who might not see it as a funding priority, but that's not the same, for example, as the "culture wars" or these kinds of things.
So, I have actually found it quite comfortable to go across the country as I do, and talk about the value of humanities. And I don't, of course, advocate for budget or any piece of legislation, which I'm not allowed to do, by law.
But I am unapologetically excited about the humanities and the arts, and I think the message I would drive home to applicants and everyday citizens, is that this agency is enthusiastic. It's not sitting back, kind of waiting for some kind of final decision. But, rather, we're going across the country, we're investing in communities with great enthusiasm.
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About Jerome Weeks
Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men's Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.
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Video: Hearing-impaired customer denied service at Taco Bell drive-thru window
Updated: 5:35 AM PST Jan 4, 2019
Kate Malongowski
An encounter of a hearing-impaired man being denied service at an Ohio Taco Bell drive-thru window was caught on video and has been widely criticized on social media.The Taco Bell employee told 25-year-old Brandon Washburn that he could not take his written order at the drive-thru window, WHIO-TV reported.The employee also told Washburn he would call authorities if he didn't leave, as shown on the video.That worker no longer works at Taco Bell, company officials said, and others would be trained on how to serve customers with disabilities.Cincinnati.com reported that Taco Bell corporate said the following in a statement: "Taco Bell has a fundamental policy to respect all of our customers and employees, and we are committed to maintaining an environment free of discrimination or harassment," according to the statement.
KETTERING, Ohio —
An encounter of a hearing-impaired man being denied service at an Ohio Taco Bell drive-thru window was caught on video and has been widely criticized on social media.
The Taco Bell employee told 25-year-old Brandon Washburn that he could not take his written order at the drive-thru window, WHIO-TV reported.
The employee also told Washburn he would call authorities if he didn't leave, as shown on the video.
That worker no longer works at Taco Bell, company officials said, and others would be trained on how to serve customers with disabilities.
Cincinnati.com reported that Taco Bell corporate said the following in a statement:
"Taco Bell has a fundamental policy to respect all of our customers and employees, and we are committed to maintaining an environment free of discrimination or harassment," according to the statement.