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THOMAS JUSTICE
Lock Haven
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Russian attempts to influence politics and policy in the United States. KGB and GRU defectors and actual KGB archives led to the publication of many books over the years documenting this fact: The Secret History of American Communism (1995), Through the Eyes of the Enemy (1998), The Sword and the Shield (1999), Comrade J (2007), and Hollywood Traitors (2015) are some. Through their pages we learned of the activities of the KGB (originally the Cheka, then the NKVD, currently the SVR under Putin) and the GRU (military intelligence):
– In 1919 money to fund the American Communist movement was sent by secret courier from Moscow (Secret World, p. 5).
– In 1920 the American journalist John Reed (Ten Days that Shook the World) was given over a million rubles to spread Communism in the USA. He also wrote favorable propaganda (p. 22).
– The American labor movement was thoroughly infiltrated by Moscow-inspired activists, and many labor unions were run by Communists (Secret World).
– The Communist Party raised large sums of money in Hollywood; the Screen Writers' Guild was taken over by Communists; and filmmakers produced pro-Soviet movies, such as "Mission to Moscow", which portrayed Stalin as a wise and benevolent leader (Hollywood Traitors).
– Communists became important actors in the Democratic Party (Secret World).
– During the Second World War Soviet agents penetrated every major branch of the Roosevelt administration" (Sword and Shield, p. 182).
– Document 69 of the NKVD archives stated, "Roosevelt is particularly pleased with the conduct of the New Jersey Communists" (Secret World, p. 250).
– Earl Browder, president of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) and a covert NKVD agent, claimed to be "in frequent and candid political contact with President Roosevelt." Roosevelt had released Browder from prison after he had been convicted of false passport charges (Secret World, p. 254).
– In 1960 Khrushchev sought to "propose diplomatic or propaganda initiatives" which would facilitate Kennedy's election over Richard Nixon (Sword and Shield, p. 180).
– Bobby Kennedy met repeatedly "about all kinds of things" with Georgi Bolshakov, a colonel in the GRU operating under cover (Sword and Shield).
– In 1968 the Kremlin secretly offered to "subsidize" the campaign of Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate opposing Nixon (Sword and Shield, p. 239).
– During the Vietnam War era "The GRU and KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America", spending over a billion dollars on this effort (Eyes of the Enemy, p. 78). American activists were knowingly or unwittingly agents of Soviet policy.
– The Kremlin "influenced" the Clinton administration. One example: "The fact that Talbott (Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State), McCurry (Mike McCurry, State Department spokesman), and Clinton each defended Russia's attacks in Chechnya . . . delighted the propagandists inside the SVR" (Comrade J, p. 169).
– Talbott, in fact was listed as a "special unofficial contact by the SVR", working intimately with Georgi Mamedov, a SVR agent whose cover was deputy minister of foreign affairs (Comrade J).
In today's terms, an awful lot of Americans were "colluding" with the Russians, including presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Clinton. And that gets us to the latest accusation against the current president made by The New York Times, "FBI Opened Inquiry Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia" (Jan. 11, 2019). There is no proof for this claim, which is not admitted until paragraph nine in the story, where the partisan authors admit, "No evidence has emerged." No evidence? Then we are talking about an "inquiry" into something that didn't happen. That is the real story.
What is going on here?
The F.B.I. is supposed to investigate crimes, not people, and it is not supposed to launch inquiries into rumors. When specific people are targeted, as in this case, then the agency is being used as a political tool and is involved in an abuse of power.
The legal term for this is "deprivation of rights under color of law". You're not allowed to use your position as an F.B.I. agent to launch an investigation into someone without a legal basis-whether it is John Q. Public or the President of the United States.
That is what occurred with this "inquiry", which, begun just three days after James Comey's firing, appears to be nothing more than retribution.
The Mueller investigation is winding down, and Robert Mueller is writing his final report. Americans will need to manage expectations. Of the many people charged or convicted by the Mueller team, not a single one has been accused of "colluding with Russia". No one will be. This, despite thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of print, TV, and electronic media stories which have screamed for our attention, trying to tell us otherwise.
It is not the Russians that we need to worry about; we've been dealing with their interference for a hundred years. It's our fellow Americans, and how the F.B.I. has been used by those among us for political purposes.