Cronkite Targeted by Soviet Intelligence by Cliff Kincaid
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AIM in the Hedge Funds Post gives fa- News Spark World vorable cover- Revolution age to illegal page 2 aliens page 3 page 6. For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting June-B | XXXIX-12 Cronkite Targeted by Soviet Intelligence By Cliff Kincaid he late CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite is named in a just-released FBI docu- Tment from 1986 as being targeted in a Soviet “ac- tive measures” campaign against President Reagan’s anti- communist foreign policy. Cronkite is named as a possible member of a U.S. delegation that would sign a pro-Soviet “People’s Peace Treaty.” Cronkite, once known as “the most trusted man in television news” because of his influence during the time when three network news programs dominated the na- tional dissemination of news and information, bears a great deal of responsibility for the American military defeat in Vietnam and the communist conquest of that Southeast Asian country. The term “active measures” in the FBI document carries Walter Cronkite special significance, since it designates Soviet intelligence operations to damage the United States and further the interest of Soviet foreign policy. The most common were political undermine Reagan’s U.S. conventional and nuclear arms buildup. influence operations in which high-profile U.S. and Western -po Assistant Director for Intelligence of the FBI Edward J. litical and public figures were used to promote Soviet objectives. O’Malley testified before Congress in 1982 that the National Released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Council of American-Soviet Friendship was founded in 1943 by Cronkite documents include an FBI cover letter, dated June 25, the Communist Party USA and served Soviet interests. 1986, which designates an attached internal memorandum from Cronkite, who retired as CBS Evening News anchorman in the “Campaign for a People’s Peace Treaty” as part of a “Soviet 1981 but continued to speak publicly about current events, was active measures” campaign. The document is addressed to the FBI a natural target of the Soviets and their agents because he was director and the attention of the Bureau’s intelligence division. already considered sympathetic to their cause. In 1979, he had While many questions remain about the nature of this secret given an interview to the Soviet magazine, Literary Gazette, and influence operation and its ultimate success, the documents told Vitaly Kobysh that the “Soviet threat” was “most likely...a provide absolute confirmation that the Soviets were targeting myth.” According to the magazine, Cronkite went on to say that major figures in the U.S. media. Other targets were talk-show “I will never believe in a ‘Soviet threat.’” host Phil Donahue, Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, Shortly after the interview was published, the Soviets invaded David Brinkley of ABC News and Bill Moyers of CBS News Afghanistan. and later with public television. Donahue, who pioneered the daytime television talk-show The “Campaign for a People’s Peace Treaty” was a project of format in the U.S. before Oprah Winfrey capitalized on it, had the Soviet front National Council of American-Soviet Friendship already been doing programs with Soviet journalist Vladimir and was designed to create public and international pressure to Pozner and continues to be a prominent left-wing activist mak- continued on page 4 Editor’s Message Dear Fellow Media Watchdog, in the News There has been an important development since we went to press with our AIM Report about communist and “Raza AIM Report editor Cliff Kincaid ques- Studies” courses in the Arizona schools. The Arizona legislature tioned Washington Post Company passed HB 2281, prohibiting such courses. Congratulations chairman Donald Graham at the to Arizona! There is no reason why American taxpayers should Post’s annual shareholder meeting. fund an insurrection within our borders. The concerns he raised about the In another important development, at the Washington Post paper charging for access to gov- annual meeting on May 13, I asked company brass about a ernment officials and Post reporters $175 a seat scheme to sell access to federal and state policy makers and Post journal- at an exclusive meeting formed the ists at a “Washington Post Live” conference in Virginia entitled, “The Business of the basis for a May 13 POLITICO article, Beltway.” The fee—if you were rich enough to get invited to attend—got you access to “Post’s event raises specter of salons.” an event featuring White House economist Austan Goolsbee, Virginia Governor Robert The article, which quoted Cliff, noted McDonnell, and Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein. that the event “has drawn fire from Post chairman Donald E. Graham acted perturbed that I kept returning, during a media watchdog group for its ex- the question and answer period, to the nature of the conference and why the paper clusivity.” was selling access for profit. McDonnell’s participation was perplexing. The Post had savagely attacked McDon- Cliff Kincaid discussed hedge fund nell during the campaign for his stands on gay rights, abortion, and other social is- short sellers on “The Savage Na- sues. The Post, a long-time Democratic Party paper, strongly supported McDonnell’s tion” with Michael Savage, one of opponent, Democrat Creigh Deeds. America’s top national radio shows The Post conference was being held in the wake of the Politico previously disclosing with over 9 million listeners. He dis- that the Post had been organizing an off-the-record session at the home of publisher cussed the same topic on World- Katharine Weymouth that could have cost lobbyists $250,000 a seat. The negative view Matters with Brannon Howse, publicity forced the paper to abandon this scheme. syndicated nationally on the Chris- Under Weymouth, the paper has been moving even further to the left, hiring blog- tian Worldview Network. gers such as David Weigel, who has called opponents of gay marriage “bigots.” Asked during the annual meeting about an offensive page-one photo in the Post showing The AIM Column “Hedge Funds two gay men kissing in celebration of gay marriage, Weymouth said she had used it Spark World Revolution” was quot- as a teaching tool for her own young children. ed by The Huffington Post, Media This is the liberal media mentality. No wonder the paper is losing money and Channel, and Disinformation. subscribers. Cliff Kincaid AIM editor Cliff Kincaid discussed Obama associate Bill Ayers with Jerry Pearce, host of “The Radio Detective,” nationally syndicated Your Letters on the Genesis Communications Immigration Network.• . Your article [on Catholic pandering to Please send letters to the Editor to: Mexican immigrants] hit home! We see Accuracy in Media this happening in our Parish. We are losing ATTN: Letters to the Editor English Masses to Bilingual Masses. Those 4455 Connecticut Ave, NW eventually change to full blown Spanish Washington, DC 20008 A bi-monthly newsletter published by masses. or email to [email protected] Accuracy in Media, Inc. Please keep your submissions to 50 words They might be getting more pews filled, or less. Editor: Cliff Kincaid but the donations are still falling short. Contributing Editor: Roger Aronoff This will come around and bite them when the illegals are forced out of the US and 4455 Connecticut Ave, NW #330 return to Mexico. Washington, DC 20008 202-364-4401 | www.aim.org Name withheld (Omaha,Nebraska) 2 June-B 2010 by the United States when “a ma- jor crisis” will affect its public debt holdings. Interestingly, while Fisher was quoted in Barron’s as mostly talk- ing about turmoil in Europe, he was full of praise for John Paulson, who saw “the forest for the trees” when he bet on a housing market collapse and made billions of dol- lars. For his part, Fisher is “short” on the euro and is betting on a “sig- nificant change” that would mean dissolution or massive devaluation Hedge Funds Spark World Revolution of the European currency. There is a 30 percent probability that the entire European financial system “blows up,” he says. By Cliff Kincaid both ends of the transactions. Any finan- These comments are made as if cial analyst with a brain knows that the he is playing a board game of Monopoly. he Marxists used to be the experts hedge fund short sellers operate this way. But real lives and the savings and jobs of in exploiting human suffering for It is not a mystery. millions of people are at stake. Tthe purposes of sparking revolution. If anything, the Goldman Sachs con- International Marxists, meanwhile, But the hedge funds are doing better than gressional hearings demonstrated this fact. have seized on the “revolutionary conse- the Marxists. The result has been a loss of even more quences” of what is happening in Greece, Consider that the business publication confidence in the system, putting the sur- saying that European Communist Parties Barron’s ran an article headlined on its vival of American capitalism in jeopardy. must organize in opposition, bring down cover, “A savvy hedge-fund manager re- It is something the Marxists have only current governments, and “replace them veals how to make money on Old World’s dreamed about. instead with the United Socialist States woes.” A better headline would have been The online version of Barron’s had a dif- of Europe.” “How to exploit human suffering.” At a ferent headline over the article, which con- Not surprisingly, Fisher found nothing time when people were dying in Greece sists of an interview with Adam Fisher, the objectionable in the short-selling scheme because of riots in response to economic 38-year-old founder of Commonwealth that earned Goldman Sachs an indict- problems, what kind of publication would Opportunity Capital.