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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.• . 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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. This headline says, ment. In that operation, John Paulson openly advertise how to make money at “How to Make Money in a World of Risk.” helped Goldman select a pile of dubious the expense of others and profit from their But the point is still the same—there is loans that were likely to fail but were sold misery? money to be made while the world—and to investors anyway. Paulson was not in- But this is how the hedge fund short eventually America—goes up in flames. dicted, however. sellers and their apologists work. While Fisher is betting on the collapse Also not surprisingly, Fisher insisted the First, our media claimed the stock mar- of the European Union’s currency, major charges against Goldman are “flimsy” and ket plunge on May 6 was a fat finger push- upheaval in the United States is not too that it was “irrelevant” who picked the ing the wrong key on a computer. That far behind. loans because all of the players were “big ridiculous assertion was laughable. Then, The Global Europe Anticipation Bul- boys” who should have understood the the absurd claim was that it might have letin (GEAB), which predicted the current nature of the transaction. been a cyber attack by some unnamed financial crisis, has been predicting a U.S But “little people,” who lose their homes foreign adversary. A conspiracy theory is default on some of its debts. The default or much of the value of their homes, get not needed to explain this. All available has been temporarily postponed because burned. And now, because of what hap- evidence points to the involvement of the of the unprecedented spending and issu- pened in the markets on May 6, the “little hedge fund short sellers. These are people ance of debt on top of debt by the Obama people” with good reason are scared to who specialize in selling short and then Administration. It predicts the next debt death to invest in the stock market.• buying long, in order to make money at crisis in Britain, to be followed inevitably

June-B 2010 3 continued from page 1 ing occasional media appearances. His quick trip” to Vietnam in late February members of the US delegation to sign program on MSNBC was cancelled in 1968. the treaty.” A left-wing organization, the 2003, his former senior producer Jeff Co- The Tet Offensive “was a major North Center for Defense Information, is named hen claims, because he was too anti-war. Vietnamese blunder,” notes Uwe Siemon- as being in the position of providing a Other claims made in the documents— Netto, an international journalist who “military person” to sign the document. that Cronkite assisted anti-Vietnam War covered the war. At Tet, he writes, Hanoi In the area of industry, a first name, protesters and said that CBS would rent lost 45,000 men and its entire a helicopter to transport Senator Edmund infrastructure in the south. “Yet Muskie to an anti-war rally—have been major United States media out- Despite his reputation as an seized upon by other news outlets which lets portrayed Tet as a defeat for apparently got batches of the same mate- their own side,” he said, referring honest and objective newsman, rial through separate FOIA requests. to Cronkite and others. “Fol- Cronkite was a key player in an The offer of support from Cronkite to lowing Tet, [President] Johnson on-the-air CBS News assault on the anti-war organizers is consistent with announced that he would not the Reagan Administration’s de- the fact that the CBS newsman had al- stand for re-election. Though a fense buildup. ready declared that the communist 1968 military victory for the United Tet Offensive was a defeat for the U.S. States and its allies, Tet ultimate- and that the American government should ly marked the beginning of their negotiate a military withdrawal. Cronkite’s defeat.” verdict that the war was unwinnable— Stearman concluded, “...thanks to U.S. “Armand,” is listed, an apparent reference and its acceptance by other media and media, the enemy won the war where it to Armand Hammer, the late chairman of many members of the public—forced the most counted—in the United States.” Occidental Petroleum who was a family transformation of U.S. policy into one of The Soviet Communists, who were friend of Al Gore and a Soviet agent. negotiations with the communists and waging the same kind of propaganda war The “Labor” designation includes a ref- eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces, lead- against U.S. policy makers and the pub- erence to the ACTWU, the Amalgamated ing to the Communist takeover of South lic, were not as successful as the Vietnam Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Vietnam in 1975. Communists. Reagan not only persisted The memorandum says that Alan in his arms build-up and beat back com- Thomson will take the signed “peace Communist Plan for Victory munist aggression in Central America treaty” to Moscow and present it to the Communist North Vietnam had but launched several efforts to expose and Soviet Peace Committee. Thomson was launched an invasion of South Vietnam combat Soviet propaganda operations. the executive director of the National in 1960, creating the “National Liberation We now know, because of documents Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Front of South Vietnam,” or Viet Cong, discovered and released after the Soviet Despite his reputation as an honest and as surrogates to wage war. collapse, that Senator Ted Kennedy made objective newsman, Cronkite was a key In the March-April 2010 issue of Mili- an offer to the Soviets to help organize op- player in an on-the-air CBS News assault tary Review, in an article titled, “Lessons position to Reagan’s pro-defense policies. on the Reagan Administration’s defense Learned from Vietnam,” Dr. William L. Kennedy was the leading congressional buildup. Stearman revisits the controversial period sponsor of the “nuclear freeze” campaign We wrote in a column, “After Ronald to prevent deployment of U.S. Reagan took office as President and pro- nuclear weapons in Europe to ceeded to build up U.S. national defense counter the Soviet threat. capability, in the wake of the disastrous At Columbia University in Jimmy Carter years, CBS News acted to 1983, a young Barack Obama counter the Reagan effort. They aired a wrote sympathetically about five-part program, ‘The Defense of the groups involved in the “nucle- United States,’ in which Cronkite ap- ar freeze” campaign and the peared to tell us that the relationship with dangers of “militarism” and the Soviet Union was dominated by ‘the expressed the hope for total same old fears and doubts’ because we disarmament. As President, didn’t have a genuine dialogue with the he is pursuing the goal of a Soviet communists.” Vietnamese boat people world free of nuclear weapons, AIM founder Reed Irvine noted at the which many experts say is un- time of the broadcast that CBS gave us of 1968-1969, which was critical for the verifiable, and just signed a new Strategic “the Kremlin view that it is the United Vietnamese Communists because, despite Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia that he States, not the Soviet Union, that is striv- Cronkite’s claims, they had actually been wants ratified by the U.S Senate. Obama ing for an impossible military superiority, militarily defeated by U.S. and South Viet- is opposed to modernization of the U.S. while creating fantasies about Soviet ag- namese troops during their Tet Offensive. nuclear deterrent. gression.” Stearman notes that Cronkite’s hasty and Cronkite and the other media person- Irvine drew attention to the “persistent faulty verdict on the war came after “a alities were included in a list of “possible anti-defense bias of CBS News” under continued on page 5 4 June-B 2010 continued from page 4 Cronkite and commented, “One has to system which no longer exist, and give KAL Flight 007, by Michel Brun, a retired wonder why the anti-defense bias is so viewers a way to see the Cold War from French pilot. strong and persistent at CBS. My own another perspective,” the academy says. Brun had argued that the Korean air- feeling is that it is a reflection of the views While the Soviet political system may liner shootdown was a hoax perpetrated enunciated by Walter Cronkite that show not exist, the Russians have continued by the CIA, during which American jets a benign view of the Soviet Union.” many of the old Soviet-style intelligence destroyed the civilian airliner and then While Reagan pursued his arms build- and influence operations. The book,Com - later engaged in a bloody dogfight with up, including development of the Stra- rade J, based on the revelations of a Rus- Soviet interceptors, an air battle both sides tegic Defense Initiative, and the Soviet sian master spy, Sergei Tretyakov, identi- agreed to cover up. Union eventually collapsed in 1991, the fied former Clinton State Department Oberg commented, “Despite the egre- effort to save Vietnam from communism official and now Brookings Institution giously crackpot nature of the theory, the was not successful, thanks in large part to head Strobe Talbott as a dupe of Russian stridently anti-American spin of its con- Cronkite’s influence. intelligence. clusions, and the sloppy and cooked-up The bloody result: 58,260 U.S. ser- Talbott had been a columnist for Time ‘facts’, Cronkite allowed (I verified this vicemen and nearly one million civil- magazine, where he wrote about the need with his staff) his words of support to be ians died in the Vietnam War. The South for world government, a cause also em- published on the book jacket.” Vietnamese military lost about a quarter braced by Walter Cronkite. Cronkite’s endorsement stated, “This of a million dead, and over one million book has importance far beyond its sensa- Communist soldiers were killed. Tens of The KAL Shootdown tional and dramatic revelations of a Cold thousands of South Vietnamese allies of James Oberg, a veteran NASA mission- war intelligence ploy that turned into a the U.S. left behind after the American control engineer and well-known writer on military engagement—an aerial battle that military withdrawal were tortured in com- aviation and space exploration, recounts could easily have escalated into World War munist camps. Thousands of others fled working with Reed Irvine to counter pro- III.” in leaky boats, becoming known as the Moscow propaganda that was accepted Oberg noted that the book “portrays “boat people.” by Cronkite and others in regard to the US government officials as cold-blooded The government of Vietnam today re- Korean Airliner atrocity—the Soviet murderers as well as secret plotters and mains a Communist dictatorship. shootdown of KAL-007 over international liars—but without any evidence that Meanwhile, the National Council on waters on September 1, 1983, after it had any serious aerospace historian considers American-Soviet Friendship turned its overflown the Kamchatka Peninsula and valid. Yet that indictment was endorsed collection of pro-Soviet films over to the Sakhalin Island while off-course. This by Cronkite, who loaned his credibility Academy of Motion Picture Arts and tragic event took the lives of nearly 300 to the claim.”• Sciences. “The films provide a fascinat- people. Cronkite had endorsed the book, ing window into a country and political Incident at Sakhalin — The True Mission of

Cliff’s Notes How can gay men be exchange: lifting of the FDA ban? be screened. That is why the admitted into the Armed Dean: …You can actually Dean: That I have to do ban exists. He wants gays Forces, where they might screen well enough so that more work on. It’s certainly in the military but doesn’t be called upon to save the doesn’t have to be an issue. possible to do it because of know if they should be per- lives through blood trans- But let’s just leave that de- the screening techniques mitted to donate blood? fusions of their fellow sol- bate aside. Nobody’s going that exist. But before I’d give Dean is being reckless and diers, when they are already to make somebody donate you an opinion on that, I’d irresponsible. prohibited from donating blood who doesn’t want to want to go back and look at A policy change made in blood because it might be donate blood. the literature. I’m not going the face of the overwhelm- tainted? Kincaid: What if you’re in to say yes or no right now. ing scientific and medical I had the opportunity, a situation where you have I haven’t looked at that evidence will be done for when covering a gay rights to depend on your comrade health literature for five or political reasons, in order demonstration in Washing- for that blood from that six years. to appease a special inter- ton, D.C., on May 2, to ques- blood transfusion? Dean says, “You can ac- est group. We cannot permit tion former Democratic Par- Dean: If that comrade’s tually screen well enough this to happen. Gay blood ty chairman Howard Dean, a not there, you die. so that doesn’t have to be threatens all of us.• medical doctor, about this. Kincaid: Right. an issue.” But that’s not Dean was there to support Dean: Definitely. true. The fact is that all of the gays. Here is part of our Kincaid: So you favor the the tainted blood cannot

June-B 2010 5 SPOTLIGHT on the Media

Illegal Alien Group Gets Favorable Coverage from Post

By Cliff Kincaid

ASA de Maryland, the group be- hind a May 1 “May Day” rally in fa- vor of “immigrant rights” in Wash- C A protestor at the May 1 Casa ington, D.C., is financially supported by de Maryland rally the Catholic Church, Big Business, the federal government, and various Maryland governmental entities. The demonstration took the form of opposition to Arizona’s new law that is designed to discourage “Only in America can groups like CASA dation, which is named after the former illegal immigration. and their illegal alien criminal clientele use owner and publisher of The Washington CASA de Maryland has distributed an tax dollars to lobby for amnesty and equal Post, is currently listed as a financial spon- eight-page book telling illegal aliens how rights, all to the detriment of the American sor of CASA. The Foundation reports that to avoid law enforcement authorities. The people and our way of life,” commented it provided $405,000 to the group. CASA book, Know Your Rights, flatly says, Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland. The Herb Block Foundation, named “Don’t provide government officials infor- In the past, Accuracy in Media has pro- after the long-time Washington Post edi- mation about your immigration status.” tested support given to CASA from the torial cartoonist, is also a CASA sponsor. Gustavo Torres of CASA was a listed Philip L. Graham Fund, which is staffed This foundation provided funds for one of speaker on the subject of “United States: by current and former officials of the several controversial “Day Laborer Cen- A possible revolution” in Marxist-ruled Washington Post and includes Donald ters” operated by CASA.• Venezuela in 2007. CASA received $1.5 E. Graham, Chairman of the Board of The million from the Venezuelan oil company Washington Post Company, as a trustee. Citgo. The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foun-

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