NEW DURANTY TIMES LAUDS COMMIE ATOM SPY; Putin admits Russia couldn't have made the bomb on its own

In a remarkable, and remarkably disgusting front-page hagiogram, the New Duranty Times celebrated on November 12th, the day the Federal government observed as Veterans' Day, the life an career of a Jewish-American communist, George Koval, who was posthumously honored by Vladimir Putin as a Hero of the Russian Federation.

There are a number of interesting items in the Times story, but let's highlight the most important right away:

First of all, by awarding this signal honor to an atomic spy who "penetrated the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb," Putin is acknowledging that the Soviet Union would not have been able to come up with the bomb on its own, but was only able to do so by piggy-backing on the work done by American & European-refugee scientists in the United States. This fact underscores the significance of the Soviet espionage operation in America, and the damage done by high-ranking traitors such as Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White.

Second, the tone of the article is completely adulatory, and the Times seems to admire and approve the criminal actions by which George Koval enabled the Soviet Empire to impose and maintain its hegemony over 300 million victims by nuclear blackmail against the West. Even at this late date, the Times continues the work of Walter Duranty in aiding and abetting Stalinism and its successors.

Koval was born in 1913 and raised in Sioux City, Iowa. His parents believed in the Soviet lie, and emigrated to the Siberian Jewish "homeland" of Birobidjan in 1932.

By 1934, Dr. Koval was in Moscow, excelling in difficult studies at the Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology. Upon graduating with honors, he was recruited and trained by the G.R.U. and was sent back to the United States for nearly a decade of scientific espionage, from roughly 1940 to 1948.

How he communicated with his controllers is unknown, as is what specifically he gave the Soviets in terms of atomic secrets. However, it is clear that Moscow mastered the atom very quickly compared with all subsequent nuclear powers.

In the United States under a false name, Dr. Koval initially gathered information about new toxins that might find use in chemical arms. Then his G.R.U. controllers took a gamble and had him work under his own name. Dr. Koval was drafted into the Army, and by chance found himself moving toward the bomb project, then in its infancy.

The Army judged him smart and by 1943 sent him for special wartime training at City College in Manhattan. Considered a Harvard for the poor, it was famous for brilliant students, Communists and, after the war, Julius Rosenberg, who was executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for the Soviets.

But Dr. Koval steered clear of all debate on socialism and Russia, Dr. Bloom said. “He discussed no politics that I can recall. Never. He never talked about the Soviet Union, never ever, not a word.”

RTWDT for a glimpse into the blind naivety of American authorities, and the pro-communist adulation of the New Duranty Times.

And don't forget that a lonely and persecuted Senator Joe McCarthy tried vainly to get the communists --and those who protected them-- out of the State Department and the Department of the Army.

The Soviet empire was built, among millions of other crimes, on the lies and deceptions of traitors like George Koval.

As other posts tonight will show, we are still vulnerable to enemy spies. Stay tuned.

Reliapundit adds: GREAT post! BTW: I did a word count on this article and of the 1668 words only one is "betrayal" or treachery or traitor or any other word with a negative connotation for Koval's actions. The rest is PRAISE. Very telling. Especially since this is the man MOST responsible for the arms race - for BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS spent during WW3/The Cold War. If he hadn't done what he did do then maybe all the people SOLD into slavery by Alger Hiss would have been freed decades earlier.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: THE LEFT-WING COLLECTIVISTS WHO BUILT THE BERLIN WALL, CLOSED THE BORDER IN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST BERLIN

AUGUST 13, 1961:

As the Cold War continued, many East Germans began leaving East Germany for the West. East Germany closed the borders between East and West Germany in 1952, but did not seal off West Berlin; because there was freedom of movement between West Berlin and West Germany, Easterners could use the city as a transit point to the West. It was in large part to stop this drain that the East German government built the Berlin Wall, thus physically closing off West Berlin from East Germany, on August 13, 1961.

The Soviet "progressives" didn't stop with walls:

Seventeen years after German reunification, archivists have found the first written proof that East German border guards were ordered to shoot to kill at anyone trying to escape to West Germany, including women and children.

The seven-page order, dated Oct. 1, 1973, was discovered last week in the regional archive office in the eastern German city of Magdeburg. Though it is unsigned, it shows that the Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, had told guards that they must “stop or liquidate” anyone trying to cross the border.

“Do not hesitate to use your firearm, not even when the border is breached in the company of women and children, which is a tactic the traitors have often used,” the document said.

The discovery of the written order, which has stunned politicians here across the political spectrum, comes just before the 46th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall, which divided the city and became the symbol of the cold war. It was erected on Aug. 13, 1961, and remained for 28 years until it was toppled on Nov. 9, 1989, paving the way for the reunification of the city and the two Germanies.

ALL ideologies and political movements - whether nativistic or "progressive" - that can only operate from compulsion and coercion under threat of violence and death are all EVIL.

This is another thing the jihadists have in common with the communists.

There's another lesson in the history of this date: We should always remember that what brought the wall down wasn't detente or containment - it wasn't appeasement or accommodation; it was the courageously confrontational anti-totalitarian foreign policy of Reagan. Reagan called the commies what they were - an evil empire, and he sought to undermine them everywhere.

We need MORE of that kind of honesty and courage today.

Walls to keep people locked-in never ever created utopia, not anywhere or anytime.

And appeasement never won a war or liberated a single human soul.

We need to tear down those walls. Just like Reagan said.

We need to confront today's evil empire - the islamo-fascists of al Qaeda and Iran.

There's only one thing the thugs of the Soviet Union and the thugs of al Qaeda and Iran understand. IOW: No more hudnas.

More here.

DID 'CONTAINMENT' WIN THE COLD WAR?

In a thoughtful and useful essay at The American Thinker, Naval War College Professor James Holmes argues that an approach more aggressive and more interventionist than 'containment' will be necessary to win the Global War on Terror.

Far be it from this pseudonymous blogger to disagree!

However, in his careful work to avoid over-arguing his case, the Professor gives too much ground to the containment aficion. He writes:

This is the last place Washington should turn for guidance. Containment may have brought victory in the Cold War, but, applied to today's circumstances, the term implies cordoning off the Middle East and applying pressure at points of Islamist expansion. Moreover, references to Kennan conjure up bad memories in places like Moscow and Beijing, which found themselves on the receiving end of American containment.


A former ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kennan crafted a policy intended for decades of struggle against a well-armed, ideological foe with global reach. Kennan spelled out his ideas in an anonymous, deeply influential article titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct."

His "X" article appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs 60 years ago this month. (Emphasis added.)

If 'containment' brought victory in the cold war, it was a strange victory, indeed. Kennan's article was published in 1947. Let's look at what 'containment' accomplished.

• In 1945, there were two communist nation-states in the world, the Soviet Union, and the Mongolian People's Republic. Mexico was also a "revolutionary" state.
• By 1948, the Soviet Union had solidified its hold over the captive states of Eastern Europe, and in 1949, China, the world's most populous nation, was seized by the Communist Party.
• India, too, although nominally neutral, was drawn into the Soviet orbit.
• In the 1950s and 1960s, the emerging new nations in Africa and Asia were largely oriented towards the Soviet Union, if not openly socialistic or communistic.
• [Remember: Hungary was INVADED in 1956; Czechoslovakia in 1968.]
• Don't forget Cuba.
  
• In the 1960s and 1970s, all of Vietnam fell to the Communists, as did Cambodia, Laos, and Burma. Afghanistan succumbed to a communist coup.

• In fact, at the time [UNTIL REAGAN], considered opinion held that socialism was inevitable even in the United States, and that the Soviet Union was here for eternity.

As Ann Coulter has pointed out, going against the consensus of opinion in the west, and going against the consensus of opinion in our own State Department, President Ronald Reagan resolved to defeat the Evil Empire, and he did. His view of the Cold War was not containment; it was "We win, and they lose."

As Coulter wrote in "Treason":

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a fresh concept. At the time, it was widely ridiculed as a dangerous alteration of US policy. Only after it worked was Reagan's dangerous foreign policy recast as merely a continuation of the policies of his predecessors.

'Containment' was a failure. [Neither the USSR or communism were ever "contained". Countries under the "sway" of the USSR INCREASED steadily from 1947 to 1980.]

The policy of 'containment' was in part the product of an accomodationist State Department that had been infiltrated by Soviet agents such as Alger Hiss.





'Containment' was a process of losing the Cold War as slowly as possible.


[Reagan's confrontational and competitive polices brought the USSR to its knees. Along with Thatcher and the Popoe, the West confronted the USSR in Afghanistan, Poland, Central America - and in the arms race with the largest defense spending increases since WW2 and the threat of SDI.

Just as Reagan courageously stood against his accomodationist critics at home and abroad, so to has Bush.

Appeasement never won a war, pr defeated a vile foe- or an "evil empire."

WANT MORE OF THE TRUTH: Read this WSJ article and this book. Reliapundit]