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‘A Conspiracy So Immense’ — Was FDR Aide Harry Hopkins a Soviet Agent?

Posted on | June 6, 2013 | 48 Comments

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins

“A confidential message from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, reproduced in [Diana] West’s new book, told [White House aide Harry] Hopkins that a ‘continuing’ investigation had discovered that Russian diplomat (and Comintern agent) Vasily Zarubin had made a payment to U.S. Communist Party official Steve Nelson to help place espionage agents ‘in industries engaged in secret war production … so that information could be obtained for transmittal to the Soviet Union.’ This information had come from a ‘bug’ at Nelson’s home in Oakland, California, through which the FBI first learned of the Soviet effort (code-named ‘Enormous’) to obtain the atomic secrets of the Manhattan Project. Instead of warning President Roosevelt, however, Hopkins ‘privately warned the Soviet embassy in Washington that the FBI had bugged a secret meeting’ between Nelson and Zarubin, according to documents from the KGB archives smuggled out by [former Soviet intelligence officer Vasili] Mitrokhin.”
— ViralRead, “Top FDR Aide Hopkins Was Soviet Agent; Book Examines ‘Betrayal’”

“Robert Stacy McCain has seized on the conclusion . . .”
— Diana West, “American Betrayal: Making News”

Just doing my job, ma’am. “Seizing conclusions” is a fairly apt job description and, as was I reading through the book, my head nearly exploded when I saw the evidence against Harry Hopkins: “Holy freaking crap! Harry Hopkins ratted out the FBI to the Reds?”

The evidence pointing toward Harry Hopkins’s complicity in a plot of subversive Soviet influence within the FDR White House is more extensive than this one incident, but this incident by itself is shocking enough to deserve front-page headlines.

The FBI had gotten clear proof that the Soviet Union was using diplomatic cover to insert Comintern agents into the United States, and that these agents were, in turn, funding and directing espionage aimed at our top-secret Manhattan Project. And when J. Edgar Hoover told the president’s most trusted aide about this investigation, in a letter that emphasized the confidential nature of the information, Harry Hopkins tells the Soviet embassy about it?

HOLY! FREAKING! CRAP!

And perhaps the most startling thing about this is that experts specializing in the history of Communist espionage have known of the suspicions about Hopkins’s subversive pro-Soviet activities since it at least 1990, when made headlines in the New York Times:

Roosevelt Aide Called an Unwitting Spy
A new book by a prominent Soviet K.G.B. defector names Harry L. Hopkins, an architect of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and his closest personal adviser, as an unwitting ”agent of major significance” for the Soviet Union. . . .
The book, co-written by a Cambridge University history professor, Christopher Andrew, says that Mr. Gordievsky concluded that Mr. Hopkins was valuable to the Soviets in the sense that he encouraged Roosevelt to take positions favored by Moscow, and not a knowing spy. It says Mr. Hopkins influenced the United States to accept Soviet control over Poland, the Baltic states and Romania. . . .

“Unwitting”? You could call Harry Hopkins a lot of things, but “unwitting” is the one thing he never was. And without regard for Gordievsky’s belief about the “unwitting” nature of Hopkins’s treachery, it’s important to quote Gordievsky’s original source:

Harry Hopkins, as ”Mr. New Deal” in the 1930’s, was a target of right-wing critics of Roosevelt’s liberal social policies. He later was an adviser to President Truman. The assertion that he unwittingly helped the Soviet Union stems from a lecture that Mr. Gordievsky attended in the K.G.B.’s headquarters in Moscow by Iskhak A. Akhmerov, who the book says was Alger Hiss’s wartime K.G.B. controller.
Mr. Hiss, who served in the State Department, was accused by Whittaker Chambers of having given him confidential documents to transmit to the Soviet Union. Mr. Hiss was convicted of perjury but denied having been a Soviet spy.
”Akhmerov identified the most important of all Soviet wartime agents in the United States,” the book says, ”as Harry Hopkins.”

Iskhak Akhmerov didn’t say “unwitting,” did he? No, and while specialist historians may want to debate the nature and extent of what Hopkins did for the Stalinist regime and why he did it, the very fact that such a dark suspicion could fall on such an important official — no one could dispute that Hopkins was as close to FDR as any presidential adviser could ever be — is headline-worthy news.

And yet I, having spent many years as an amateur student of Communist subversion, had never even heard this before? It immediately struck me that, if I didn’t know about it, the vast majority of Americans certainly don’t know about, and this startling ignorance is itself a mystery that requires an explanation.

Trying to find that explanation is really what Diana West’s book is about. How is that historians and journalists have ignored, or explained away, or deliberately suppressed, the evidence that U.S. policy in the 1930s and ’40s was not actually U.S. policy, but was in fact so influenced by Soviet penetration of our government that, to a great extent, Roosevelt’s policy was actually Josef Stalin’s policy?

Yesterday, I spent some time on the phone with the legendary M. Stanton Evans, who provides a dust-jacket recommendation for Diana West’s book, and Stan invoked Evans’s Law of Inadequate Paranoia: “However bad you think it is, it’s probably much worse.”

Evans last year published his own book, Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, co-authored with the late intelligence expert Herb Romerstein, and anyone who has taken the time to explore the subject can understand the inadequacy of paranoia. Every time you dig a little bit deeper, you find another bizarre layer of treachery, another inexplicable connection between the supposedly random red dots in the pattern:

However, Evans noted Hopkins’s connections to other known or suspected Soviet agents, including his onetime assistant David Niles, who was mentioned in the Venona cables as helping two KGB agents obtain U.S. visas.

David Niles — that name is one worth Googling a bit, trust me.

How was it that Niles, an adviser to FDR, was connected to Soviet spy Michael Burd, who was in turn connected to Robert Menaker, whose niece was married to arch-traitor Victor Perlo, so that when the Reds wanted U.S. visas for two undercover agents, the encrypted secret Soviet cable contained this kind of stuff?

Through CAPITAN’S (Roosevelt’s) advisor David Niles –will take 3-4 days, will cost 500 dollars…. [A]round Niles there is a group of his friends who will arrange anything for a bribe. Through them TENOR (Michael W. Burd) obtains priorities and has already paid them as much as 6000 dollars. Whether NILES takes a bribe himself is not known for certain.

This isn’t guesswork or some paranoid fantasy, these are historical facts obtained directly from Soviet intelligence sources. Such was the atmosphere in FDR’s White House that when the Kremlin wanted to get its agents across the border from the U.S. to Mexico, there was “a group” of “friends” who were only too happy to collect $500 for this service to the Stalinist regime. This is documented history, I  remind you, so why isn’t it more widely known?

“Implications” is a word you will encounter often in the pages of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, and rightly so: What are the implications of this cover-up? What does it mean that, for more than a half-century, Americans have been taught a lie about their own nation’s history? What are the implications of this for the integrity of our education system?

If professors and teachers of history know about this Soviet subversion — and certainly, it is their business to know it — why isn’t it being taught in our colleges and universities and high schools? And why have we forgotten the real heroes of our own history?

There is no statue of Elizabeth Bentley at her alma mater, Vassar College, nor is there any memorial to her at Columbia University, where she received her master’s degree. Bentley’s career as a Communist spy could be the stuff of a Hollywood thriller, complete with a romantic interest in the form of her lover, Soviet intelligence agent Jacob Golos.
Yet Bentley is nearly forgotten today for the very reason that she became famous: She quit the Communist Party in 1945 and went to the FBI with the names of nearly 150 Soviet agents — including such prominent officials as Victor Perlo, chief of the aviation section of the War Production Board — and subsequently testified before Congress about the Communist espionage network she supervised.
Hollywood and academia don’t celebrate anti-Communists, but as Diana West points out, there is a professorship at Bard College named for arch-traitor Alger Hiss. . . .

Read the whole thing. And then read my ViralRead article about Harry Hopkins, and don’t stop there. You need to buy Diana West’s book, and a lot more books you’ve never read, because there is an entire history that hasn’t been taught to the American people, and you’ll never know the truth if you don’t start teaching yourself.

 

Category: Books, History, Russia

#DDayVA Stand Up for Veterans Today!

Posted on | June 6, 2013 | 9 Comments

Category: Military

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.06.13

Posted on | June 6, 2013 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
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Admits guilt in killing 16 Afghan civilians, avoids death penalty

Obama Selects Reliable Liar As National Security Adviser
Ambassador Rice to be replaced at UN by former White House adviser Samantha Power


Pakistani Parliament Formally Elects Nawaz Sharif As PM
Speech focused on economy but also called on US to cease drone strikes



POLITICS
Verizon Customer? The NSA Can Hear You Now

NSA headquarters at Fort Meade

NSA headquarters at Fort Meade

Grauniad claims millions of phone records collected under secret court order

Colorado Governor Signs Bill Increasing Renewable Energy Requirement; Also Signs Executive Order Blocking Bill’s Implementation

SecDef Panetta Revealed Name Of Bin Laden Raid Leader To “Zero Dark Thirty” Filmmakers


TSA Drops Plan To Allow Small Knives On Planes

House Committee Acts To Limit Military Authority In Sexual Assault Cases

EPA Dismantles “Man Caves” Found In Maryland Warehouse



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Spikes On Stockpile Drop, Brent Continues Slide: NYMEX $93.74, Brent $103.04
ADP Reports Only 135K Jobs Added In May
Will The Dollar Drag The Dow Down Further?
YYen Rallies Past 100/Dollar
Stocks Slide After Weak Economic Reports
Treasury, UAW To Sell 50 Million Shares Of GM Stock
Samsung Targets Sony’s Xperia Z With Galaxy S4 Active
Focus, Criticism Shifts To Amazon In Apple E-Book Trial
Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thrives On Facebook
Amazon Resurrects The Kindle DX
“The Last Of Us” Would Have Been Better With No Guns



SPORTS
Is Baseball’s Mess With Biogenesis Just Beginning?

The Prince of Insufficient Light, sometimes called Bud Selig

The Prince of Insufficient Light, sometimes called Bud Selig

Biggest PED scandal for baseball since BALCO?


NHL Suspends Blackhawks’ Keith; Will Miss Game 4

Grand Rapids Griffins, Syracuse Crunch Face Off For The AHL’s Calder Cup


Rutgers AD Herrmann Ready To Deal With “National Embarrassment”

Stephen Strasburg Goes On 15-Day DL With Lat Strain



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
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Derek Hough and Kellie Pickler

Derek Hough and Kellie Pickler

Opens Grand Ole Opry, gets hero’s welcome


Paris Jackson Hospitalized After Suicide Attempt

Pippa Middleton Named Vanity Fair Contributing Editor


Jennifer Love Hewitt Gets Engaged

Lindsey Vonn Forced To Take Olympic Drug Test At Glam Gala

Producer Claims Miley Cyrus NOT Singing About Drugs

We’re Going To Have Keith Olbermann To Kick Around Again



FOREIGNERS
IMF Admits “Notable Failures” In Greek Bailout

Syrian Loyalists, Hezbollah Retake Qusair

US, Venezuela Hope To Restore Ambassadors

Obama, PRC’s Premier Xi To Meet Informally In California

UN Cautious Over French Claims Assad’s Forces Used Sarin

Israeli Judge Resigns After Rape Comment

Femen Activists On Trial In Tunisia For Topless Protest



BLOGS & STUFF
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Michelle Malkin: The Most Transparent Administration Ever, LOL

Vodkapundit: Tell Us What You Really Think

Via Meadia: Obama’s Foreign Policy Picks Rally The Home Team

Legal Insurrection: Woman Who At Best Was Clueless Dupe During Benghazi Scandal Promoted To National Security Adviser

Power Line: Dangle This

Weasel Zippers: House Talks On Immigration Reform On Verge Of Collapse

NRO Corner: Senator Mike Lee Says Marco Rubio’s Approach To Immigration Reform “Nonsensical”

Gateway Pundit: Top IRS Obamacare Official Given Administrative Leave (Paid Vacation) For Taking Bribes

Hit & Run: What Lindsey Graham (Maybe) Meant To Say About Bloggers And Why It’s Still Wrong

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James Pethokoukis: Nine Reasons Why The 4-Year-Old US Economic Recovery Is Closer To Awful Than Awesome


Category: Live at Five

Why Are Lesbians So Racist?

Posted on | June 5, 2013 | 42 Comments

Or maybe the question should be, why does Michelle Obama hate lesbians? A heckler who identified herself as a “lesbian looking for federal equality before I die” interrupted a speech by the First Lady at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Tuesday:

First Lady Michelle Obama threatened to leave a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Tuesday after she was confronted by a heckler demanding equal rights for gay people. Gay rights activist Ellen Sturtz stood up and began shouting that President Obama should sign an executive order to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
After she was contronted directly by the First Lady, the woman — identified as an activist with the group Get Equal — was escorted out of the event by security personnel. Sturtz, 56, reportedly shouted as she was led away that she was a “lesbian looking for federal equality before I die.” . . .

You can read the whole thing at Viral Read and remember: Only racists — RAAAAACISTS! — criticize Michelle Obama or her husband.

UPDATE: Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard has audio of the incident.

 


Category: Gays

‘Low-Information Voter,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Posted on | June 4, 2013 | 107 Comments

The meltdown of the #FreeKate victimhood narrative evidently has shrunk the #FreeKate movement down to a hard core of irrational fanatics, among them Rebekah Becky Majors-Manley. News that a local gay-rights group was not supporting accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt inspired this Facebook rant from Majors-Manley:




You noticed, I’m sure, that at some point Majors-Manley’s argument ceased to be about Kaitlyn Hunt and instead became a story about how much Majors-Manley blames her parents for ruining her life.

Are we surprised that supporters of Kaitlyn Hunt, who consider a sex offender to be a heroic figure, are not mentally stable people?

And are we surprised that Obama got re-elected?

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

Becky Gerritson FTW!

Posted on | June 4, 2013 | 32 Comments

by Smitty

“I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being, and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered.”

Category: Tea Party

Adrian Lamo Is a Hero

Posted on | June 4, 2013 | 53 Comments

Anybody who is hated by Anonymous must be doing something right:

Lamo previously lived in Sacramento but went into hiding for fear of reprisals for turning in the 25-year-old soldier . . .

(It is an insult to honorable soldiers to call a gutless lying cowardly dirtbag like Bradley Manning a “soldier.”)

. . . who if convicted could get life in prison. . . .

(And should have already been shot by a firing squad.)

Not only did Lamo alert authorities, but he also recorded all of his chat logs with Manning and continued to chat with him for several days under the government’s guidance.

By God, they ought to pin a medal on Adrian Lamo. The only people who support Bradley Manning are traitorous scum. America has no worse enemies than these filthy vermin. No terrorist in Afghanistan hates America as much as do Manning’s supporters, who include the reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post who go out of their way to portray him sympathetically.

Have I mentioned that my son is a soldier? I think I have. And I can’t help wondering what the hell is going on at the Pentagon that they would have let a worthless traitor like Bradley Manning into the Army, much less let him anywhere near classified secrets:

Former computer hacker Adrian Lamo testified Tuesday that he reported Bradley Manning to authorities after the Army private admitted leaking thousands of pages of classified U.S. documents. . . .
Manning . . . confided his plans to leak the documents to Lamo in a series of online chats that included this message: “I’m an Army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern Baghdad, pending discharge for ‘adjustment disorder.’ . . . If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?” . . .
Lamo said Manning told him in the May 2010 online chats that he felt suicidal, fearing that he would be exposed as a homosexual, and said he “didn’t believe in good guys or bad guys anymore.”

Not only should they sentence Manning to prison for the rest of his useless life, but they need to court-martial whatever idiot recruiting officer signed off on letting that twerp into the Army.

 

Category: Military

Damn You, Josh Barro!

Posted on | June 4, 2013 | 86 Comments

Do I want to defend Erick Erickson? No, I don’t. I used to be OK with Erick until August 2011 when he got the bright idea to load most of the conservative blogosphere onto the Rick Perry bandwagon — like Noah herding llamas onto the Ark — and sent them plummeting into electoral oblivion, only to subsequently claim that he hadn’t actually endorsed Perry. Along the way, the Perry-supporting blog herd convinced themselves that every other candidate in the GOP primary field was unacceptably flawed, repeatedly making the argument that “A Vote for [insert candidate not named Rick Perry here] Is a Vote for Mitt Romney,” the RINO Establishment choice. The denouement of this was that after Perry flopped, all the not-Romney candidates had been tainted, we got stuck with Romney anyway, and Obama won in November in part because a lot of conservatives were so disgruntled over the way the primary campaign played out.

Dude, I lost friends over that shit. But when I see Josh Barro hitting Erick Erickson from the left, I’m like, “Hey, wait a minute, what’s up here?” And so I’m forced to check out Erickson’s column:

Josh Barro is a late twenty-something gay male who hates conservatives, champions Obamacare, attacks Republicans for wanting to oppose it, supports the tax hikes that come with Obamacare, wants to rid the GOP of social conservatives, and gets fawning pieces of prattle composed by liberals who want everyone to know that their friend Josh Barro is a conservative reformer who wants less conservatism. . . .
He left the conservative Manhattan Institute after it became clear he was not a conservative through his support of Obamacare, but uses that connection and being kin to his famous father to segue into not very interesting, slightly shallow “deep think” pieces on conservative reform about which he knows nothing and advocates no such thing. His liberal friends call him conservative because of his prior employer and father and use him as a useful idiot to claim if only Republicans were like him they’d start winning.

OK, a lot of that is ad hominem and a lot of it is populist rabble-rousing, but it does describe not only Barro, but a certain type of soi-disant “intellectual” from whom we always hear a lot of squawking after Republicans lose an election.

Sic semper hoc. This never changes — the Articulate Elite point the finger of blame at the yammering mob of right-wingers as scapegoats for the defeat, while the yammering mob claim they were betrayed by fainthearts and establishment insiders who rigged the game to nominate a weak-kneed RINO who proves that there’s Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

A lot of this is really just the Dougherty Doctrine:

At the end of the day, the arguments all seem to boil down to something similar: If it were more like me, the Republican Party would be better off. It’s failing because it’s like you.

Not all problems of the Republican Party are a matter of substance — of ideology or policy — and a lot of the problems are about process and personalities, of less-than-ideal candidates and tactical blunders and the ever-present headwinds of media bias. The only way to fix the problem is . . . to stop losing elections.

Kinda simple, really, and Republicans are not going to win elections by being Democrats Lite — the “Me Too” Party. Insofar as the argument between Erickson and Barro is about substance, Erickson is right and Barro is wrong. Republicans can’t defeat Demo0crats by agreeing with Democrats, and why should they agree with Democrats, when Democrats are always 100% wrong about everything?

That’s the attitude necessary to victory, a core belief that whatever Democrats are in favor of is a bad thing for America, because if it was good for America, Democrats would be against it.

Democrats are the Evil Coalition of Liars and Fools, and the job of Republicans is to convince America of this basic truth.

And calling Erick Erickson “derpy” ain’t getting the job done.

Now shut the hell up, kid, before you make me agree with Erick again.

 

Category: Intellectuals
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