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Was Michael Foot a national treasure or the KGB’s useful idiot?

8 March 2010

Daily Telegraph, 5 March 2010: . . . . The obituaries mentioned that, in 1995, Michael Foot won libel damages against The Sunday Times, for saying he had been an agent of the KGB during the Cold War. These accusations came from Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB officer who defected from the Soviet Union to Britain [...]

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed grants $145,000 to Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC

3 March 2010

Arab News, 2 March 2010: Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, which is chaired by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has donated $145,000 to the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C. The chair, which is under the university’s School of International Service, seeks to enhance the understanding of Islam among ordinary [...]

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Britain Is New Hamas Hub

24 February 2010

Arutz Sheva, 23 Feb 10: In the last 10 years, London has become the primary worldwide bastion of Hamas, according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the memory of fallen Israeli Intelligence Community agents. . . . The findings say London has become the epicenter of Hamas’ political, legal, [...]

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The KGB on how to destablize and destroy a country

8 February 2010

Big Journalism, 6 Feb 10: A blast from the past, and a warning for the future. There’s some typical KGB boasting here — and remember that, in the end, they lost — but it’s worth watching and paying heed to:
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Maybe it’s also time we brought ourselves up to speed on the Soviet illegals program, the [...]

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Fox’s Fairly Imbalanced Pro-Muslim Influence

5 February 2010

TownHall/Diana West, 4 Feb 10: Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent — an agent of Saudi Arabia?
First off, is that a farfetched question? Not when a leading member of the ruling family of the Sharia-totalitarian “kingdom” of Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has made himself the second-largest shareholder [...]

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Liberation Theology and the KGB

2 February 2010

AEI/American, 2 Feb 10: The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize [...]

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Operation INFEKTION: Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign

27 January 2010

CIA, 27 Jan 10: New “Studies in Intelligence” posted. Includes:
Operation INFEKTION: Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign
The practice of intelligence differed considerably between East and West during the Cold War. Western intelligence services were most commonly tasked with gathering information, but their Soviet bloc counterparts placed much greater emphasis on deception operations [...]

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Al Qaeda’s Trojan Horse

5 January 2010

Weekly Standard, 4 Jan 10: An intriguing name has surfaced in the worldwide investigation into Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s life. That name is Moazzam Begg, and it is a name that is well known to those left-wing journalists and human rights lawyers who take everything former Gitmo detainees say at face value.
Abdulmutallab [...]

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The Saudis Take a Stroll on J Street

23 December 2009

PJM, 23 Dec 09: Talk about a tough sale. Imagine being Saudi Arabia’s public relations firm in the United States in the months after the 9/11 attacks, which were perpetrated by 19 terrorists, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals. Shilling for a tarnished Saudi Arabia was the daunting task that faced Qorvis, a Washington-based PR [...]

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Muslim Brotherhood in North America

15 December 2009

Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan): “Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our aspiration.” . . . . “The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying [...]

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Oleg Kalugin: How We Invaded Afghanistan

14 December 2009

Foreign Policy/Oleg Kalugin, 11 Dec 09:
Gen. Kalugin is an instructor at the CI Centre.
I was the head of the KGB’s foreign counterintelligence branch when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Dec. 24, 1979. The fateful order to send our military into such difficult terrain was by no means a foregone conclusion. Before Soviet leaders made [...]

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Baroness Ashton’s husband Peter Kellner wooed by KGB

7 December 2009

Times of London, 6 Dec 09: THE husband of Europe’s new foreign minister has disclosed that he was targeted by the KGB as a source in the 1980s.
Peter Kellner, the pollster and political commentator who is married to Baroness Ashton, spoke about the encounter as his wife faces scrutiny over her previous role at the [...]

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Iran Allocates $20M on Active Measures Against US, UK

1 December 2009

Majlis allocates $20 million to reveal rights violations by U.S., UK
Tehran Times, 30 Nov 09: Iranian MPs voted on Sunday to allocate $20 million from the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund to inform the world about the human rights violations committed by the United States and Britain across the globe.
……A working group comprised of officials [...]

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Columbia, Rutgers on Iran spy group gift list

1 December 2009

New York Post, 22 Nov 09: Anti-Israel, pro-Iran university professors are being funded by a shadowy multimillion-dollar Islamic charity based in Manhattan that the feds charge is an illegal front for the repressive Iranian regime.
The deep-pocketed Alavi Foundation has aggressively given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to Columbia University and Rutgers University for [...]

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