Agency WPS
What the Papers Say. Part A (Russia)
February 21, 2005, Monday
TABLEAU: FIELD REPORTS FROM THE DEN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
According to our experts, the favorable coverage given by the
Washington Post and the New York Times to the Communist Party (CPRF)
protest rallies on February 12 (including quotes from Gennadi
Zyuganov: “the Putin regime is teetering”) cannot be a coincidence.
This is evidence that the extensive media pressure being exerted on
President Putin in the lead-up to the Bratislava summit is reaching
its peak; and these efforts to squeeze strategic concessions from the
Kremlin even involve anti-American opposition forces within Russia.
Thus, Putin is being driven into a position where he is caught in the
crossfire; then, according to the American strategists, he would have
to accept all terms for a “nuclear surrender.”
A pre-planned visit to Moscow by Henry Kissinger, former US secretary
of state and prominent member of global para-Masonic organizations
(Bilderberg Club, Trilateral Commission, etc.) served as a warm-up
exercise, viewed by the Washington administration as a key mechanism
of influencing the Kremlin leadership. Condoleezza Rice, who had
taken an extremely hardline stance at her meeting with Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov in Istanbul, played “bad cop”; while
Kissinger, who came to Moscow especially to “work on the target
directly,” played “good cop.” However, according to sources close to
the government, the demands made by Kissinger proved to be even
harsher than Rice’s public attacks. In effect, they come down to
demanding that Putin should reconcile himself to the “velvet
revolutions” in Ukraine and Georgia, and make no attempt to counter
similar processes in Central Asia and the European part of the former
USSR (Armenia, Belarus, Moldova); Russia should also reduce its arms
exports and cease cooperating with Iran in nuclear energy and high
technologies.
Actually, in relation to the Chinese-Korean “nuclear missle
maneuver,” the iron fist of the “world government” is thoroughly
encased in a velvet glove: if Russia joins in the American ultimatum
and supports a return to the six-nation negotiation process (USA,
Russia, China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea) with the purpose of
establishing international monitoring for Pyongyang’s nuclear
warheads, then strategic cooperation on safety and security measures
at Russia’s nuclear facilities could become more generous towards the
Kremlin. And a comprehensive agreement covering this area of
cooperation could be signed within nine or ten months of a
“declaration of intentions in Bratislava.”
Insider sources report that the Foreign Ministry secretariat has
received a directive from the presidential administration: be as
receptive as possible to American proposals across the full range of
issues under discussion.
According to our London sources, Russia’s North Caucasus may soon
witness some large-scale developments capable of starting the process
of Russia’s disintegration. British intelligence agencies have
prepared some recommendations for Islamic fundamentalists in Russia:
proposing to take advantage of the people’s growing discontent with
Putin’s social policies and Caucasus policy, as an irrefutable cover
story for terrorist attacks directed against Russian federal
officials.
As our experts predicted, despite the very “democratic” reduction of
the share of votes for Shiite representatives from 76% to 48% by the
occupational administration in Iraq, control over the government will
be exerted by the Shiite clergy. Thus, American intervention in Iraq
actually played up to Iran and enabled Iran to achieve goals not
achieved during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, according to our
sources in Beirut.
Henceforth a repeated positive verdict of the Texas court on the
lawsuit of YUKOS against the Russian Federation worth $28 billion
should be confirmed by the international court in the Hague, which
might take 12-18 months. If the lawsuit is upheld, sequestration of
all exports of Russian oil to cover the judicial costs, damages and
so on is an entirely realistic prospect.
Source: Zavtra, February 17, 2005, p. 1