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Red-Thread.Pdf The Red Thread THE RED THREAD A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy DIANA WEST Center for Security Policy Press This book may be reproduced, distributed and transmitted for personal and non-commercial use. Contact the Center for Security Policy for bulk order information. For more information about this book, visit SECUREFREEDOM.ORG The Red Thread is published in the United States by the Center for Security Policy Press, a division of the Center for Security Policy. ISBN The Center for Security Policy9781796761276 Washington, D.C. Phone: 202-835-9077 Email: [email protected] For more information, visit SecureFreedom.org Inner design by Bravura Books Praise for The Red Thread iana West’s The Red Thread stands as a sterling example of penetrating D counterintelligence analysis, the kind one seldom sees issuing from intelligence circles, let alone from a private researcher. Diana’s previous books mark her as one who goes far beyond the usual academic policy analysis, to penetrate to the heart of hidden history that seldom makes it to the light of day. Reading The Red Thread prompted me to recall Honoré de Balzac’s observation that there are two histories: the official one, mendacious; and the secret history, shameless, but the real cause of events. Diana West plumbs the depths of Balzac’s secret history in a way that surfaces the realities of an ideological underworld that too many deny and would rather not see exposed. Diana West is a one-person intelligence agency. — JOHN J. DZIAK, Ph.D., former senior intelligence executive and author of Chekisty: A History of the KGB. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C. nce again, Diana West provides us with invaluable analysis, O meticulously documented. She exposes the radical Leftist ideological roots of the Trump “lawfare” coup plotters masquerading as “respectable” Establishment law enforcement and intelligence professionals. Ms. West delivers facts, history, documentation and context like no other. Her work is essential reading. — CHRIS FARRELL, Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch and a member of the organization’s Board of Directors. He is a former Military Intelligence officer and Special Agent of U.S. Army Counterintelligence. iana West exposes a red thread running through the campaign to D unseat President Trump. It is the story of a socialist cabal painting itself in false patriotic colors, camouflaged behind a facade of national concern. West shows that the conspirators’ true ideals are opposed to nation and Constitution. Yet it is more than a conspiracy she reveals. It is the latest iteration of that same old phenomenon of subversion, driven forward by something Whittaker Chambers called “man’s second oldest faith.” — JEFF NYQUIST, author of Origins of the Fourth World War and The Fool and His Enemy, and co-author of The New TaCtics of Global War. In memory of Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons (1927-2018) and George S. Gerhard (1928-2018) Contents FOREWORD ................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 1 1. Meet the Ohrs .......................................................................................... 3 2. Daughter of the Academic Left .................................................................. 4 3. The ‘Excitement’ of Stalin’s Russia ........................................................... 6 4. The Revisionists Seize the Campuses .....................................................11 5. Back in the USSR ...................................................................................12 6. Nellie’s Protégé? .....................................................................................16 7. If the Soviet Union Vanished, Who is Running the kGB? ..........................21 8. Christopher Steele, ‘Confirmed Socialist’ ..................................................22 9. Language Like a Red Flag .......................................................................26 10. Trump-Russia and the Fourth Estate ......................................................27 11. Red-Green Brennan ..............................................................................30 12. Brennan’s Journey ................................................................................33 13. Violating Liberty and Justice for All .........................................................35 14. Why Is James Comey Laughing? ...........................................................39 15. An FBI Director of the Old Frankfurt School ............................................44 16. The Longest War ...................................................................................49 17. Enter the Clintonistas ............................................................................54 18. Could the Second Dossier Be the First? .................................................60 19. ‘Special, Unofficial’ Strobe .....................................................................61 20. Madeleine Albright, Edward Lieberman, and ‘Russians for Hillary’ ...........65 21. kremlin Influence and the Experts ..........................................................70 22. A Bouquet for Putin ...............................................................................71 23. What Do the Founders of the CPUSA Have to Do with It?.......................75 24. Unspooling John kerry ..........................................................................80 25. Fusion Confusion ..................................................................................88 26. Remembering the Browder Family Communist Network .........................94 27. Better Dead Than … Anti-Anti-Communist .............................................97 AFTERWORD ............................................................................. 103 NOTES ...................................................................................... 105 INDEX ....................................................................................... 113 That power to influence policy has always been the ultimate purpose of the Communist Party’s infiltration. It was much more dangerous, and, as events have proved, much more difficult to detect, than espionage, which beside it is trivial, though the two go hand in hand. — WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, Witness The movers and shakers of today have little interest in digging for the truth. Who knows what one may come up with? You may start out with the communists, and end up with yourself. — VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY, Judgment in Moscow Foreword he months and years following the November 2016 election of President Donald J. Trump have seen an unrelenting onslaught from T anti-Trump cells inside federal bureaucracies, the Democratic Party as well as some Republicans, the media, and a network of organizations. What these factions have in common is a shared interest in repudiating the legitimacy of the election. They have sought to advance this goal by alleging that Donald Trump’s electoral triumph was the illegitimate result of “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia. A few dogged investigative journalists, Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch, and some heroic congressional leaders like Rep. Devin Nunes and Sen. Chuck Grassley have methodically pursued the lawless attempt by those so terrified of this American patriot president that they were willing to risk all. Thanks to their revelations, we have come inexorably to learn who is behind the most dangerous assault on our democratic republic in its history. Less fully explored, however, are the real reasons President Trump’s opponents are so desperate to destroy Donald Trump. Arguably, no one has done more to examine the actual motivations of the individuals behind what amounts to an anti-Trump coup d’état than Diana West, a brilliant author, blogger, columnist and researcher. Starting in late 2017, she issued a series of essays on her blog under the rubric of what she called The Red Thread. These essays connected the myriad, insidious players – both those who are part of the Deep State inside the U.S. government (many of them holdovers from the Barack Obama administration) and others outside it, notably, those centered in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Ms. West’s best-selling book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, provides a compelling expose of the massive, Moscow-directed penetration and subversion of America's highest echelons of government, and the desperate attempts to conceal it all. Its findings inform and underpin her analysis of the current-day conspiracy to destroy our Republic. Specifically, Diana West draws on her deep understanding of the chasm between, on the one hand, the globalists of the Left and, on the other, those who – like President Trump – are dedicated to the rule of law, the sovereignty of the nation state and an America First agenda to explore the Marxist subversion coursing through the anti-Trump conspiracy. As her series of essays unfolded week by week, the Center for Security Policy recognized the importance of what she had uncovered and asked her to adapt her essays for publication as a monograph by the Center’s Press. The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Coup is the result of that effort. Dedicated to the memory of two towering American patriots, Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons (1927-2018)
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