Dark Skinny

FSB Coat of Arms

“All warfare is based on deception.”

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Since the upheavals of Yeltsin’s time, the West was both impressed and relieved by the democratizing of Russia. The description “USSR” disappeared and the old and more comfortable name of “Russia” re-appeared. And the old KGB was dissolved and morphed into the new FSB - The Federal Security Bureau. It has a very Western ring to it doesn’t it ?– Sounds a bit like FBI.

When the KGB Chairman — Vladimir Kruchkov — led a failed coup to take over the government, Yeltsin split up the KGB, which ceased to exist on 6th November,

KGB Symbol

1991. Like it or not, but the Old KGB Guard is still in place however, and the KGB or FSB — pick any fancy synonym you like - which still remains both historically and operationally, the most deceptive agency which the experts refer to as “The world’s most effective intelligence agency”. Their record and capacity for obtaining foreign secrets, creating propaganda for deliberate disinformation, human target elimination methods and their patient ability to wreck and politically take over governments is renowned. Indeed, if you look closely and compare the coat of arms of the KGB and FSB they are apparently the same — except that within the new FSB symbol the sword has been blatantly moved behind the shield. Perhaps the FSB is diffferent now in some subtle way.

Putin Still Working with the Old Guard

Putin’s reign of Russia has been very successful so far. When he took over from Yeltsin, he did so quietly and bided his time. Since this period Russia has become richer by its oil, and Putin has remained steadily at the helm, the pin-up of Russia’s adoration. But during his reign the “KGB” style exploits are ongoing. Many journalists, satellite leaders and ex-KGB defectors have been successfully eliminated, and the Russia’s intelligence plays have become even more daring, patient and subtle.

Lech Walesa - A Communist “Sleeper” ?

In 2000, Walesa - the famous Solidarity Union Leader who defeated a Polish Communist government in the 1980s - was tried as a suspect Communist collaborator for the Polish secret police by the politically powerful Kaczynski twins; these accusations were later thrown out of court by the judge and Walesa was released. This year - in June - an investigative book has been published in Poland called “The Secret Police and Lech Walesa” by two eminent Polish historians. This Book sets out to prove without much doubt that Walesa was indeed a Communist and collaborator within the SB (Polish Secret Police). See the following articles in The Times and also a very convincing face-to-face interview in SpiegelOnline with Slawomir Cenckiewicz — one of the book’s authors. This article is called ‘Positive Proof’ Lech Walesa was a Communist Spy. If Lech Walesa - unbelievably - was a Communist collaborator, then the KGB/FSB have certainly done their work well. If the story is true then we must also safely assume that Poland - at all levels of governance and judiciary right now - is perhaps even more riddled with communist spies and collaborators than ever before.

And Poland is the country that Bush has picked to base his so-called “Anti-Iranian” missile defence system. He may well have been double bluffed and might even be playing right into Putin’s hands.

If these proposed US Polish bases hadn’t caused such a dangerous state of affairs - it would indeed be laughable, but once again shows how the KBG legacy methods are still payng such rich dividends for Russia . . .