“The failure of discipline in empirical societies can be traced to warfare between the productive and the consumptive faculties. The spoiled child is simply one who has been allowed to believe that his consumptive faculty can prescribe the order of society.”
Richard M. Weaver
“The word betrayed has been defined as, ‘having been delivered to an enemy by treachery.’ That definition aptly fits the sordid betrayal of Nicaragua. Our nation was truly delivered into the hands of the Marxist enemy by President Jimmy Carter and his administration. In this treachery, his most active accomplices were Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba.”
Anastasio Somoza[i]
America has had many problems with liberal presidents destroying American allies abroad. Not only did Nicaragua go communist when Jimmy Carter was president, Iran also fell under the control of U.S. enemies (which ultimately led to Carter’s election defeat in 1980). But now we have a dangerous Republican president who is driving our allies into the enemy’s arms while his secretary of war says Joe Biden drove Russia into China’s arms. But Russia has been in the arms of China all along.
Is Donald Trump crazy? Is he normal? Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, reportedly told EU leaders the week before last that he was shocked by President Trump’s state of mind.[ii] Robert Fico, who has supported Trump in the past, privately expressed concern about Trump’s “psychological state,” which he described as “dangerous.” These remarks, which were attributed to Fico, were reported by POLITICO and denied by Fico as follows,
“I must emphatically reject the lies of the POLITICO about how I assessed my meeting with U.S. President D. Trump at an informal summit in Brussels. No one heard anything, no one said anything, there are no witnesses, but nothing prevented the POLITICO portal from coming up with lies.”[iii]
Fico added that he agrees with many strategies of the U.S. president. Chiming in, the White House also attacked the POLITICO story as “fake news.” But POLITICO has not backed down, pointing to diplomatic sources in Europe that described Fico as “traumatized” after his meeting with Trump. Fico allegedly said, in private, that Trump is “out of his mind.” And why would Fico say anything else? Trump has said some very crazy things in recent months. Not only has Trump publicly blamed Ukraine for the Russian invasion, he also has referred to Canada as “our beautiful fifty-first state.” He has said he wants Greenland, too. European leaders took this with a grain of salt, as a kind of joke; that is, until Trump threatened new tariffs against eight European nations he said were interfering with his plan to take control of Greenland. He has no need to invade, of course. He will strangle the trade of any nation that looks askance at his demands.
Naturally, Trump has many camp followers of questionable judgment who say – and often say – that Trump is right about Greenland and Canada. Indeed, these camp followers say he is right about everything. If Trump wanted the North Pole, Santa, the reindeer, and all the elves, MAGA pundits would devise arguments for stripping Santa of all he owns. Obviously, we need the reindeer for strategic defense! And Santa’s red suit would look good on Donald Trump. Perhaps he could then make Christmas great again.
Trump is so wise that his camp followers say he will get whatever he wants. But his wants are constantly changing. And then, does anyone really think Greenland is worth the $700 billion asking price? For that frozen wasteland? The many lackeys who write and talk about this deal as if it were in America’s interest discredit themselves by showing such poor common sense. The United States is going broke. We cannot afford $700 billion for a giant glacier with a few rock outcroppings. Meanwhile, the dollar is losing its ascendancy due to Trump’s tariff threats together with our rising indebtedness. It is galling, in fact, that so many nitwits say, “Trump is right. We need Greenland.” Or they say, “Trump is right, we should make Canada the fifty-first state.” Trump will tell you, and gladly, that Denmark is a little country incapable of defending itself. It does not count. So why doesn’t Trump take over all the little countries?
Denmark was perhaps the most pro-U.S. country in NATO, always arguing in favor of America’s positions. But Trump says Denmark is little, and little countries do not count. Let’s be friends with Russia and China, instead. Yes. The Germans are our enemies, or didn’t you know? So we will swap Germany for Russia. We will change sides in the New Cold War and snuggle with Putin even as we express contempt for V. Zelenskyy. We will slap all our friends and kiss all our enemies on the cheek.
Trump is not only a bully, but a stupid and mentally unbalanced bully. At the same time, the Russians have mocked Trump by calling him TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out). And some people have noticed. In fact, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that Europe has learned the secret of Trump’s method. He loves to threaten, but he is very poor on following through. Stand up to him and he will back down. The Chinese and Russians have learned this, too, and so has Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy. Trump loves threatening, blustering, bragging. Did he finish building his “big beautiful” border wall? Will he follow through on his promised strike against Iran? A giant military buildup in the Caribbean, with huffing and puffing, and all that happened was one guy and his wife were arrested, abducted, and taken to New York. The three little communist piggies down in the Caribbean are beginning to realize that the Big Bad Wolf has run out of huff and puff.
A Legacy of Bungling
It is a sweeping generalization, but: Americans are not so clever. Nothing illustrates this better than the history of CIA as told by Tim Weiner in Legacy of Ashes. It is a story of unbelievable bungling, stupidity, incompetence, and treachery. From Trump’s behavior you would think he was working for the CIA (an idea we will look at later). The CIA was a failure almost from the beginning, and any secret organization created to replace the CIA, to operate in secret behind it, would also be bound to fail. The reason is easy to explain. Any intelligence agency built by Americans would share the same American faults that made the CIA into “the gang that could not shoot straight.”
Of the CIA directors, Roscoe Hillenkoetter failed to warn of North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in 1950. He was replaced by General Walter Bedell Smith, who was suspected of being a Russian double agent, and who was replaced by his deputy, Allen Dulles, an “inveterate womanizer”[iv] who lost the trust of President Kennedy (another womanizer) after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. It was thought by at least one top counterintelligence official that Dulles was an easy blackmail target of the KGB. James Angleton, the chief of the CIA’s counterintelligence staff from 1954-74, once explained the vulnerability of Dulles during an interview with Joseph Trento in 1988:
“You know how I got to be in charge of counterintelligence? I agreed not to polygraph or require detailed background checks on Allen Dulles and 60 of his closest friends…. They were afraid that their own business dealings with Hitler’s pals would come out. They were too arrogant to believe that the Russians would discover it all.”[v]
This confession of Angleton’s was made as he was dying of cancer in 1988. “You know,” he said to Trento, “the CIA got tens of thousands of brave people killed…. We played with lives as if we owned them. We gave false hope. We – I – so misjudged what happened.”
Angleton told Trento:
“Fundamentally, the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars. The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted. These people attracted and promoted each other. Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, in looking back at my life, I regret. But I was part of it and loved being in it…. Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Carmel Offie, and Frank Wisner were the grand masters. If you were in a room with them you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell…. I guess I will soon see them there.”[vi]
America’s spymasters were power-hungry and blundering. Russia’s spymasters were cunning and largely successful. This is yet to be understood. The leaders of the Soviet Union and communist China were more deeply evil on account of their metaphysical commitments. The likes of Allen Dulles and Richard Helms were shallow and had no such commitments. They worked to aggrandize their tiny egos. It is part of the reason they were so ineffective and so easily countered by the Russian side. It is why the CIA was always the lesser of two evils.
Jacob Burckhardt, the Swiss cultural historian, said, “Power is evil.” Why did he say this? Because the good man in high office has no freedom of action or power insofar as he sees only a burdensome and dangerous responsibility. The bad man in high office, to the contrary, sees only the self-aggrandizement that power enables. Lord Acton said that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.” That is why America was politically formed as a system of checks and balances. And now, as our system of checks and balances is breaking down, the very worst aspects of human nature are coming to the fore. Nearing death, Angleton told Trento,
“I am afraid that whatever sins I have committed in my life, have now come home to roost…. I am fundamentally a failure. I failed to protect the CIA, because there was no real desire to secure the place from the Soviets. I never understood the great advantage the Russians had over us…. As Americans we just hold no real value in secrecy. God, it was such a simple explanation.”[vii]
America has not been very good at keeping secrets from the Russians and Chinese. The same awful people, the same liars, the same cheaters, have thrived in our intelligence services and our government. The highest leadership, found in the U.S. Senate and White House for decades, is not generally something to be proud of. In a book first published in 1970, George E. Reedy wrote, “The inner life of the White House is essentially the life of a barnyard…. Below the President is a mass of intrigue, posturing, strutting, cringing and pious ‘commitment’ to irrelevant windbaggery.”[viii]
Is There a CIA behind the CIA?
It is with these points in mind that we must deal with claims that a shadow CIA exists, or a shadow government, or a “deep state,” or an MJ-12. The first observation to be made is that a secret counterintelligence or government level might be kept from the American people, but it could not be kept from the KGB. Why? Because American intelligence has never been able to keep their pants zipped. They compromise themselves at every opportunity.
There has never been, and will never be, an omnicompetent pro-American conspiracy. What Americans excel at is organized crime, which has no higher vision. On the other side, the KGB/FSB/SVR always had a more strategic view of things (as well as a coherent, though evil, philosophy). The problem of anarchy, which has been the legacy of most countries in the Western Hemisphere, has not been fully acknowledged or understood. This comes into view more clearly when we look at Prohibition during the 1920s and the War on Drugs after World War II. It is the police, and their political bosses, who have been the great organizers and stewards crime in America. In this respect, the CIA also fell into a dark hole.
Setting aside the problem of communist bloc drug trafficking, which readily entangled the CIA and other Western services, there is the problem of child trafficking as seen in the infamous case of Jeffrey Epstein. The casual observer cannot help wondering if Epstein’s operation was linked in any way with the Franklin (child prostitution) coverup in Nebraska. In all probability, on reviewing the testimony of several witnesses, it seems these networks follow common practices and are part of a general system of subversion. This system is almost certainly much bigger in scope than anyone yet realizes. Consider, also, the testimony of Anneke Lucas in a book titled Quest for Love: Memoir of a Child Sex Slave. The network which owned her allegedly included leading politicians of European countries. In the introduction to her book, Lucas wrote, “People’s ability to absorb the dark facts of my childhood, which give a glimpse into how the elite secretly functions, has steadily increased. The world’s greatest curse is power abuse….”
And who is the ultimate abuser?
As the Epstein files are opened, we see a connection to Putin (which we will present in more detail). We now know that Russian girls were imported into the United States by Epstein. There were meetings between Epstein and Putin. And what do you suppose they talked about?
From this and other analyses we can see that any secret level of American counterintelligence, at work behind events, must have been neutralized long ago. To carry out a honeytrap of this size, involving U.S. presidents and businessmen, while U.S. counterintelligence did nothing, is proof that the United States has no meaningful defense against sophisticated espionage. This is something every American should know.
Is it any wonder, then, that Edward Snowden stole just about everything of importance there was to steal from our intelligence agencies? Is it any wonder he defected to Russia with his ill-gotten gains? Is it any wonder that twelve Russian sleeper agents (illegals) were sent back to Russia rather than arrested and jailed? To add insult to injury, most Americans do not have enough common sense to see that Snowden was a traitor to his country. Some people even think he was a hero. How could all of this have unfolded without major figures, in the United States, being on the hook to Russia? (For a detailed description of the Snowden affair, readers are encouraged to study Edward Jay Epstein’s account of Snowden’s treason.) [ix]
Despite mountains of testimony, and the dire strategic situation that now hangs over us, the average American assumes that U.S. intelligence services are the best. Americans, after all, think they won the Cold War. But the Cold War did not end. The Russians kept working against us, and they were using pedophile rings. Some will say this analysis is crazy because America is still prosperous, still strong. If America is still prosperous today, most have not understood the consequences of American indebtedness. They have not considered the collapse of the work ethic. They have not reckoned on our moral decline, our intellectual emptiness, or the nation’s physical slide into obesity and disease. Few have considered the contribution made to our decadence by the Russian and Chinese intelligence services. In reality, the Chinese communists have hollowed out our economy and are pumping us with fentanyl. Russian agents and their fellow travelers poisoned our culture through “active measures.” And the testimony on this lies unread in countless books by KGB and GRU defectors. Friedrich Nietzsche said we should never judge a thing by what it appears to be. We should judge it by what it is becoming. America is becoming a bankrupt, immoral, fat, addicted and diseased mass of entitled cretins. War and economic hardship might reverse these lamentable trends. On the other hand, we might be looking at the end of our society.
Consider the accomplishments of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as our last two presidents. What they have wrought is a “reign of error.” If we were circling the drain under Biden, we are now going down the drain under Trump. It is a wonder that two diametrically opposed villains can bring two entirely different tracks of national destruction together in one two-party political cocktail. Their wickedness and decrepitude deliver incompetence and scandal, strategic reversals and self-inflicted defeats – interspersed with pratfalls and potty accidents.
The partisans of both camps continually undermine common sense and national survival, each dialectically feeding off the other. The right seemed somewhat sane and reasonable at first. But now, with the success of Russia’s active measures, Donald Trump carries out his stratagems with a full orchestra and chorus of toadeaters. The resulting music has been badly scored. The libretto has neither rhyme nor reason. How did this happen? We should not, in attempting to understand Trump’s political success, underestimate the suggestibility of an industrial nation traumatized by de-industrialization, alienated by an atomizing and socially disintegrative feminism, frustrated by a managerial class with anti-American propensities, and perplexed by a massive invasion of foreigners. Americans have been guilted into surrendering their heroes along with their heritage. Now that people see what is at stake, and what has been lost, they are desperate to recover their country from a proto-totalitarian machine. But either way they turn, they are caught in a trap, their leaders are compromised, their country is being stripped of its power.
In this context, nothing could have been more to the liking of Beijing and Moscow than the rise of the QAnon hoax. More than a decade ago, an anonymous person known as “Q” infected cyberspace with laconic messages about a cabal of powerful, Satanic, cannibalistic, child molesters. (Sound familiar?) And Donald Trump was billed by “Q” as the man on the white horse who would “drain the swamp.” But now we discover that Trump was up to his neck in Jeffrey Epstein’s girls; and now we are shown that Epstein’s sex empire was a “KGB honeytrap” for harvesting kompromat” on celebrity Western businessmen and politicians, according to the Daily Mail.[x]
The QAnon cult was right in believing there was a cabal of child traffickers. On the other hand, they were duped into choosing the wrong leaders, and in misidentifying their enemy. These dear people marched forward with mottos, like, “Where We Go One, We Go All.” And they fell into the trap of 6 January 2021. Of course, they were told to “Trust the Plan,” advancing against the “Deep State” to “Save the Children” by “Following the Breadcrumbs” and swallowing the “Red Pill.” That a foreign enemy was leading them by the nose, they could not understand. Here we have the “triumph of provocation,” as a famous Polish anticommunist once called it.
Think for a minute. In the last three elections we had no real choice. Hillary Clinton’s connections to the communist left have been well-documented elsewhere. Joseph Biden was a creature of a communist front organization, the Council for a Livable World, and he was helped into the U.S. Senate by a KGB agent named Armand Hammer. Kamala Harris was cut from the same cloth. Such were the Democratic Candidates. In all three elections there was one Republican running. And now that we know who Trump is, seeing how close he was to Jeffrey Epstein, the facts bring reality into sharper focus.
- The Epstein files released so far, with half of them held back, include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow.
- Epstein met personally with Vladimir Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
- We also learn that U.S. security services had been monitoring Epstein’s Russian connections for years. (But did nothing while hundreds of children were being harmed.)
- Intelligence sources believe Epstein “was inducted into the world of espionage via business deals with Robert Maxwell, the disgraced media magnate who – like Epstein – died in murky circumstances….”[xi]
According to the Daily Mail, “Security sources say Robert Maxwell was a Russian asset from the 1970s, when he worked to extradite Soviet Jews to Israel, with the involvement of Israel intelligence service Mossad.”[xii] It is unusual when the mainstream media finally acknowledges what, for some of us, has been obvious for a long time. Robert Maxwell was the father of Epstein’s business partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. The whole underage girl thing was Moscow’s operation. According to the Daily Mail,
“U.S. security officials also believe Epstein had long-standing ties with Russian organized crime, who could have been blackmailing him. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in ‘girls’ from Russia.”
Was our police, our intelligence, our NSA, sleeping through all this? As the Daily Mail explains, “Epstein appears to have had another meeting scheduled with Putin in 2014.” From Putin to Epstein, from Epstein to Trump. Is that how it went? And now we are forced to reconsider the claims of Craig Unger, author of American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump.” Unger is now vindicated by his claim that Epstein relied on Russian pimps to supply him with girls.
Is Donald Trump going to fall? Yes, I think he will. And what about the MAGA movement? Some will defend Trump to the bitter end. But that will avail us nothing, since the Jeffrey Epstein roadshow promises a flood of dirt that promises to consume us if we do not put on our big boy pants. We must break these chains that bind our country. We must find the enemy agents. We must break their networks. We must unite the country against all enemies foreign and domestic.
A Schizophrenic Witness
A schizophrenic taxi driver, in 1991, alleged that he had been recruited to a super-secret counterintelligence group in 1974. I listened patiently to him. He knew all about the Soviet long-range strategy. I was intrigued even as I reached for The Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders. And yes, he exhibited all the symptoms listed for a paranoid schizophrenic.
The taxicab driver said he had been recruited to this supersecret counterintelligence agency after he singlehandedly stopped a bank robbery. He was given a job interview at the office of “Mr. Williams,” who was none other than George Herbert Walker Bush. This supersecret organization was established in the early 1970s when the CIA was found to be full of KGB moles. A counterstrategy had to be implemented, with a new organization to oppose the KGB. Membership in this supersecret organization required an oath and an agreement. And it was not a very nice agreement.
If a recruited agent fell under suspicion he would be forced to take a cocktail of chemicals that would render him schizophrenic and erase large chunks of his memory, destroying forever his credibility. This was the taxi driver’s explanation for his disability and his vocation. Naturally, being a fervent patriot, he signed on the dotted line. But, in time, he fell under suspicion because of a compromised safe to which he had a key. So he had to drink the mind-wipe cocktail.
A decade after encountering the taxicab driver, after more than two years writing and publicly warning that the Cold War had not ended, I was dining with hundreds of others at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, conversing with a Marine Corps general seated to my right. I then felt a hand pressed firmly on my shoulder. I saw that everyone at the table had stopped eating and rose to their feet. I stood up, turned around, and there was George H.W. Bush standing right there, reaching out to shake my hand. My mind immediately thought back to that crazy taxicab driver and his claim that George H.W. Bush had been the founding chief of America’s most secretive intelligence organization.
The taxicab driver had told me, “They are not going to help those who are genuinely patriotic. That might compromise the final sting operation against Moscow and Beijing. But they know who has been faithful to the country and who has not. And there will be a day of reckoning for the traitors.”
Of course, one must be careful before heeding the voice of someone who is off his meds. The story was implausible. The person telling this story was crazy, by his own admission. And even in that auditorium, when George H.W. Bush put his hand on my shoulder, I realized that the answer was simple. I was seated closest to the side entrance, with my back to the door. Of course the former president, entering by that way, would have walked up behind me first. It was only a coincidence.
Yet there was method in the madness. This poor man had insisted, 34 years ago, that our most patriotic leaders had no choice but to create a supersecret organization to counter the Soviet long-range strategy. He said it was the only way to preserve our freedom. They realized, that to fight communism in the open, meant a reversion to the methods of Joseph McCarthy. Such an approach, they thought, would lead directly to an authoritarian dictatorship. This was not acceptable, so, the Soviet Union would be encouraged to play out its long-range deception strategy. By subtly going along, said the taxicab driver, we would trap them in their own net. With uncanny accuracy, the taxicab driver outlined what actually would happen: (1) NATO would not fold as Moscow expected; (2) we would retain our nuclear weapons; (3) key Soviet agents within the U.S. Government would lure Moscow into a strategic trap (e.g., a Soviet civil war between Russia and Ukraine).
It is an odd fact, in this context, that President Bill Clinton disappointed Boris Yeltsin when Yeltsin demanded that the American president hand Europe over to Russia. Did the Kremlin then realize they had been duped? Or were they holding their pedophile rings in reserve?
Imagine a conversation with a retired CIA officer in 2015. A weird conversation in retrospect. This CIA officer said that Trump would be elected president in 2016, 2024 and 2028, but not in 2020. I do not say this prediction was given to me. It was given to someone else. And, if it happened, how do we explain it? Once again, I think back to that schizophrenic taxicab driver. What is the truth? How much of this can be explained as a one-off thing? – like prophetic references to a future Trump presidency in the “Bart to the Future” episode of The Simpsons, aired in the year 2000?[xiii] How strange it is to speculate that the future, somehow, is with us at every moment – as if the future casts a backward shadow. People long dead have spoken about our century, about our wars and disasters, though we hardly remember them today.[xiv]
There are conspiracies in history and Jeffrey Epstein was part of one. Insofar as this is history, it is not a theory. When acknowledging the existence of real conspiracies we must not fall into the errors championed by conspiracy theorists. These people have a peculiar faith in man’s ability to control history. And this faith is an error. Men do not control history. Some men control some aspects, some events. But there is no general system of control that lasts for long. Life is the life of the individual. In terms of larger events, there the role of culture and the life of the mind. While methods for manipulating masses of people have been improved upon, the prospective manipulators tend to be shallow. They tend to be destroyers and not creators. This is what we see in Jeffrey Epstein and his bosses in Moscow.
Through all the crazy diplomatic back-and-forth, and all the scandals, we might imagine that NATO is finished. And yet, looking over Epstein files, I begin to suspect that Donald Trump is the one who is finished.
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Links and Notes
[i] Anastasio Somoza and Jack Cox, Nicaragua Betrayed (Boston: Western Islands, 1980), p, 397.
[ii] https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/
[iii] Ibid.
[iv] Joseph J. Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (New York: MJF Books, 2001), p. 121.
[v] Ibid, p. 478.
[vi] Ibid, p. 479.
[vii] Ibid.
[viii] George E. Reedy, The Twilight of the Presidency.
[ix] Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft.
[x] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15516349/Epsteins-sex-empire-KGB-honeytrap-Paedophile-financier-Putin-Russian-girls.html
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] Ibid.
[xiii] Bizarre as it might seem, The Simpsons famously predicted a Donald Trump presidency in 2000, with an episode titled “Bart to the Future,” (Season 11, episode 17) where Lisa Simpson inherits a budget crisis from Trump. This episode also featured Lisa wearing a purple outfit and pearl necklace eerily similar to the outfit worn by Kamala Harris at her 2001 inauguration as vice president.
[xiv] During the 1970s and 80s one writer successfully predicted many political events with an uncanny precision. That writer was Ruth Montgomery, June 11, 1912 – June 10, 2001. Starting as a political journalist oriented to cold facts, Montgomery became the first female reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News. She was one of only 12 journalists invited to the funeral of President Franklin Roosevelt. She covered such events as the Berlin Airlift. She eventually had psychic experiences after the death of a friend. Her predictions included, for example, the assassination of Sadat and the advent of Gorbachev – and more. She also warned of an intellectual civil war in America, with rising division and corruption, economic and institutional collapse. She said that America would be spiritually depleted and broken down by activists. She described communism and related movements involved in breaking down belief in God. A Godless order was being prepared for America and the world. It would be a force using crisis for creating an unshakable power that would suppress freedom and Christianity. Montgomery saw an eventually revival of Christianity, when genuine repentance would occur, community by community. Her predictions are, perhaps, the most interesting for their accuracy in predicting unlikely specific events during the 70s and 80s. As might be expected, her twenty-first century predictions follow the usual New Age pattern (i.e., California breaking up and parts sinking into the sea, earth changes, new mountain ranges rising, and the arrival of interdimensional beings sent by God, etc., etc.).
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