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While reading an intelligence brief today, I was directed to the following online article (URL above):
Obama's preferred future CIA chief supported leftist think tank targeted by KGB
13/01/09
Leon Panetta, US President-Elect Barack Obama's choice for future chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), previously strongy sympathized with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington based leftist think tank known for its bitter opposition to the intelligence community, notably the CIA, investigative reporter Emerson Vermaat writes for PipeLineNews.org.
As a member of US Congress Panetta supported the IPS's Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Line in 1983. He was also one of the congressmen who bienially commissioned IPS to produce an "alternative" budget that dramatically cut defense spending, online paper marks.
A FBI document classified IPS co-director Barnet as a "communist," providing details about his "contacts with Soviet Embassy personnel."S. Steven Powell, a kind of intern at the IPS's Washington Office, had "strange encounters with East Bloc diplomats who frequent the IPS." They were KGB agents who obviously tried to recruit IPS staff members or were involved in what could be interpreted as a variety of intelligence operations.
One of them was Valery Lekarev, Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington.Just in one year, Mr. Lekarev had been seen at IPS more than a dozen times, as had another Soviet diplomat, Victor Taltz. Among other Soviet diplomats who sought to cultivate IPS staff members were Igor Mishchenko, Anatoly Manakov, Pavel Pavlov and Vladimir I. Strokin. "Panetta can in no way be associated with hostile foreign intelligence services. But his previous support for a dubious think thank like the Institute of Policy Studies – an outspoken anti-CIA lobby group, manipulated in the past by former Soviet intelligence services is anything but a recommendation for a job like CIA chief," Vermaat concludes.
Obama's preferred future CIA chief supported leftist think tank targeted by KGB
13/01/09
Leon Panetta, US President-Elect Barack Obama's choice for future chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), previously strongy sympathized with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington based leftist think tank known for its bitter opposition to the intelligence community, notably the CIA, investigative reporter Emerson Vermaat writes for PipeLineNews.org.
As a member of US Congress Panetta supported the IPS's Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Line in 1983. He was also one of the congressmen who bienially commissioned IPS to produce an "alternative" budget that dramatically cut defense spending, online paper marks.
A FBI document classified IPS co-director Barnet as a "communist," providing details about his "contacts with Soviet Embassy personnel."S. Steven Powell, a kind of intern at the IPS's Washington Office, had "strange encounters with East Bloc diplomats who frequent the IPS." They were KGB agents who obviously tried to recruit IPS staff members or were involved in what could be interpreted as a variety of intelligence operations.
One of them was Valery Lekarev, Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington.Just in one year, Mr. Lekarev had been seen at IPS more than a dozen times, as had another Soviet diplomat, Victor Taltz. Among other Soviet diplomats who sought to cultivate IPS staff members were Igor Mishchenko, Anatoly Manakov, Pavel Pavlov and Vladimir I. Strokin. "Panetta can in no way be associated with hostile foreign intelligence services. But his previous support for a dubious think thank like the Institute of Policy Studies – an outspoken anti-CIA lobby group, manipulated in the past by former Soviet intelligence services is anything but a recommendation for a job like CIA chief," Vermaat concludes.
