Publication time: 23 April 2012, 22:26
There are as many Russian intelligence officers operating in the US today as during the height of the Cold War. Michelle Van Cleave, who was head of US Counterintelligence under President George W. Bush, writes about this in The Wall Street Journal.
"It is arrests and criminal proceedings that have fallen off", says counterintelligence officer. "In 2010, the FBI had roughly 7,800 open foreign counterintelligence investigations on the books, including a fair number involving Americans suspected of working under Moscow's control. Yet none of the latter has led to prosecutions in the last decade", writes counterintelligence officer.
According to the Van Cleve, the power in Russia is concentrated in the Putin's gang of FSB (former KGB). In addition, there are "intimidation of nongovernmental organizations, and the systematic assassination of journalists and others critical of the regime. Not to mention all the spies in the US".
But the White House "cuts and reduces everything to do with counter-intelligence". "A case: 10 Russian illegals arrested in 2010, were sent off to Moscow before they could even get debriefed. Little wonder Putin personally welcomed them home singing the unofficial anthem of the KGB", says the counterintelligence officer and continues:
"Meanwhile, there is every reason to be concerned that more damaging spies are still in place, targeting essential secrets about American intelligence and military operations, negating decades of investment and putting American lives at risk.
It is a perfect storm of America. Russian global intelligence operations are a well-resourced and highly developed instrument of state power. Their main target-the United States-is preoccupied with other concerns. Even when presented with evidence of extensive espionage, the current administration looks the other way. And America's counterintelligence enterprise continues to lose ground.
Obama's Vice-President Biden recently said: "Romney acts like he thinks the Cold War's still on. I don't know where he's been".
11 years have passed since the arrest of Russian spy Robert Hanssen. That what Hansen gave can not be attributed to him alone. Somewhere in the US is sitting on at least one high-ranking Russian spy.
11 years. Nothing has changed. The Russians act like the Cold War is still being waged (it's actually waged, but only unilaterally, from the Russian side - KC). The question this administration should be asking is not where has Romney been, but where have Russia's spies been. No one, including our vice president, seems to know. And that's not good", concludes Michelle Van Cleave.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
According to the Van Cleve, the power in Russia is concentrated in the Putin's gang of FSB (former KGB). In addition, there are "intimidation of nongovernmental organizations, and the systematic assassination of journalists and others critical of the regime. Not to mention all the spies in the US".
But the White House "cuts and reduces everything to do with counter-intelligence". "A case: 10 Russian illegals arrested in 2010, were sent off to Moscow before they could even get debriefed. Little wonder Putin personally welcomed them home singing the unofficial anthem of the KGB", says the counterintelligence officer and continues:
"Meanwhile, there is every reason to be concerned that more damaging spies are still in place, targeting essential secrets about American intelligence and military operations, negating decades of investment and putting American lives at risk.
It is a perfect storm of America. Russian global intelligence operations are a well-resourced and highly developed instrument of state power. Their main target-the United States-is preoccupied with other concerns. Even when presented with evidence of extensive espionage, the current administration looks the other way. And America's counterintelligence enterprise continues to lose ground.
Obama's Vice-President Biden recently said: "Romney acts like he thinks the Cold War's still on. I don't know where he's been".
11 years have passed since the arrest of Russian spy Robert Hanssen. That what Hansen gave can not be attributed to him alone. Somewhere in the US is sitting on at least one high-ranking Russian spy.
11 years. Nothing has changed. The Russians act like the Cold War is still being waged (it's actually waged, but only unilaterally, from the Russian side - KC). The question this administration should be asking is not where has Romney been, but where have Russia's spies been. No one, including our vice president, seems to know. And that's not good", concludes Michelle Van Cleave.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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