On the FBI website, the following article was found in their "History" section:
08/26/05 Vasilli Zubilin On August 7, 1943—62 years ago this month—FBI Headquarters received an anonymous typewritten letter in Russian. Our interest was piqued, and we quickly translated the letter. Talk about intrigue: the writer accused more than ten Soviet diplomats in the U.S. of being spies, including the Soviet Vice-Consuls in San Francisco and New York and the Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington—Vasilli Zubilin. The charges were hard to believe. The Russians—our country's allies in World War II—spying on the U.S.? At the time, we'd only just begun investigating the extent of Soviet operations here. Our resources were heavily dedicated to Axis espionage and sabotage cases. Now, this letter. What to make of it? Parts of it were strange and unbelievable, but other parts confirmed things we already knew or suspected. It was clear that its author was well versed in Soviet intelligence in the U.S. and credible. For example, four months earlier, our agents had learned that Zubilin had spoken with—and slipped money to—a Communist Party official named Steve Nelson. Zubilin's aim? To infiltrate a Berkeley, California, lab doing work for the Manhattan Project, America's secret atomic bomb program. We passed what we learned about Zubilin's spying to the War Department, which had primary investigative jurisdiction on the project. After the war ended, we would investigate other, more serious attempts to steal U.S. A-bomb secrets, but that's another story. In the meantime, we had a predicate to take a closer look at Soviet espionage. We launched a major investigation to discover the potential interrelationships of Soviet diplomats, the Communist Party of the United States, and the Communist International party, also called the "Comintern." Through the case—called COMRAP, for "Comintern Appartus"—we learned that the extent of Soviet spying was significant. The upshot? We were more prepared for the Cold War to come. In the next few years and beyond, the FBI and its intelligence partners identified hundreds of Soviet spies and helped protect vital American secrets from coast to coast. |
One of the main reasons today that the French Government isn't doing anything about Corinne's disappearance is because when we arrived here in the United States in 1982, the French Government/DST sent all sorts of false and ridiculous information about us to the United States. It is also why they are keeping French newspapers from publishing anything about us.
The second factor is despite information they received in the letter, they hesitated to investigate the charges. They always need someone to tell them or send them information. I sure would like to hear of cases where the FBI themselves discovered and investigated spies here in the U.S. Today, a quantity of Yugoslav agents navigate and travel with all liberty through the United States under the cover of "cooperation".
On seriously written books in Europe about counter-intelligence, you can find lessons such as:
There are no big or small spy agents, important or non-important countries. Every country and agent is dangerous to the same level because we don't know where collected information goes and who gets a hold of it in the end. Here today in the U.S., we are negligent of every other danger because we are only protecting ourselves against "terrorism".
A last remark, try to call any FBI office in the country. Tell them you have a letter you wish to fax them. They will ask you "Who are you faxing it to?" If you don't know the name of the agent, they will tell you your fax will go straight to the garbage. In East European countries, an anonymous letter received by authorities is automatically placed in a file and set aside. They read the letter, analyze it, and even when nothing is found to be important at the moment, it is still kept aside because in the future it may end up useful. I am going to stop here. The FBI in American does what it want, I'm not the one to be teaching them anything.
On the importance of what is happening around us, you can find in the following book:
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Amid his efforts to expose the Russian mob, Robert I. Friedman learned from the FBI that "the most brilliant and savage Russian mob organization in the world" had put a $100,000 price on his head. Reading Red Mafiya, it's not hard to see why: this is a brave book about a troubling subject. Friedman, a freelance journalist, describes the research behind it: "I ventured into the Russians' gaudy strip clubs in Miami Beach; paid surprise visits to their well-kept suburban homes in Denver; interviewed hit men and godfathers in an array of federal lockups; and traveled halfway around the world trying to make sense of their tangled criminal webs, which have ensnared everyone from titans of finance and the heads of government to entire state security services." Their racket involves heroin smuggling, weapons trafficking, mass extortion, and casino operation, among other activities. "Blending financial sophistication with bone-crunching violence, the Russian mob has become the FBI's most formidable criminal adversary, creating an international criminal colossus that has surpassed the Colombian cartels, the Japanese Yakuzas, the Chinese triads, and the Italian Mafia in wealth and weaponry," writes Friedman. They've even penetrated professional hockey, as Friedman shows in an eye-opening chapter ("Federal authorities have come to fear that the NHL is now so compromised by Russian gangsters that the integrity of the game itself may be in jeopardy"). Red Mafiya benefits from a breezy narrative in detailing a master criminal operation whose influence on the United States is growing rapidly. Russian mobsters already have siphoned off millions of dollars in foreign aid meant to prop up their country's economy--and they may have a more direct impact on American national security concerns in the years ahead: "The Russian mob virtually controls their nuclear-tipped former superpower," writes Friedman. Now, there's a scary thought. Lifting the Iron Curtain seems to have been a mixed blessing: it let freedom in, and organized crime out. --John J. Miller |
 On the morning of June 29, 1989, pandemonium erupted in the corridors of power in the nation's capital. ``Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,'' screamed the front-page headline of the Washington Times with the kicker ``Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.'' The Times reported, ``A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington's political elite.'' The exposeé centered on the role of one Craig Spence, a Republican powerbroker known for his lavish ``power cocktail'' parties. Spence was well connected. He celebrated Independence Day 1988 by conducting a midnight tour of the White House in the company of two teenage male prostitutes among others in his party. Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole's chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring. Two of the ring's call boys were allegedly KGB operatives, according to a retired general from the Defense Intelligence Agency interviewed by the press. But the evidence seemed to point to a CIA sexual blackmail operation, instead. Spence's entire mansion was covered with hidden microphones, two-way mirrors and video cameras, ever ready to capture the indiscretions of Washington's high, mighty and perverse. The political criteria for proper sexual comportment had long been established in Washington: Any kinkiness goes, so long as you don't get caught. The popular proverb was that the only way a politician could hurt his career was if he were ``caught with a dead woman or a live boy'' in his bed. |
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Last Updated October 23, 2006.