![]() A Republican Church Committee? By Cliff Kincaid You are hearing a lot about a “Republican Church Committee” that will uncover “the weaponization of government” against conservatives. We are being promised the “unveiling” of FBI, CIA, and other federal agency abuses. But some of the new popular conservative commentators do not understand the damage done by the Church Committee, and who its chairman, Frank Church, really was. Equally important, we must understand how the FBI, CIA and other agencies were stripped of their ability to target our enemies and instead were directed to monitor and imprison President Trump and his supporters. That is the key issue. In my view, these agencies were hollowed out from within by people like Frank Church and turned over to left-wing activists and foreign infiltrators, reaching the zenith of their power under Barack Hussein Obama. A Senate website offers this analysis of how the original Church Committee came about: “In 1974 Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a front-page New York Times article claiming that the CIA had been spying on anti-war activists for more than a decade, violating the agency’s charter. Former CIA officials and some lawmakers, including Senators William Proxmire and Stuart Symington, called for a congressional inquiry.” However, a conservative analysis shows that the purpose of the Church committee was to sabotage the ability of the intelligence agencies to conduct warfare against communist entities at home and abroad. Frank Church, an ultra-liberal Democratic Senator from Idaho, was defeated in 1980 when Republicans came to power under Ronald Reagan. For an analysis of what was truly happening in the United States at the time, in terms of so-called “anti-war activists,” I recommend the so-called Huston Report, compiled by former Nixon aide Tom Huston. I have posted this hard-to-find declassified report in two sections (part one and part two) at the America’s Survival, Inc. web site. I have also posted a declassified summary of intelligence information concerning the foreign connections of the Weather Underground, whose leaders escaped justice and went on to support Barack Hussein Obama for the presidency in 2008. One of the great minds working for the American people at the time of the Church Committee was James Angleton, the former chief of counterintelligence at the CIA from 1954-1974 who believed that the CIA itself had been deeply penetrated by Soviet agents. He reportedly said, “The Church Committee has opened up the CIA to a frontal assault by the KGB. This is the KGB's chance to go for the jugular. The whole plan is being masterminded by Kim Philby in Moscow. The KGB's only object in the world is to destroy me and the agency. The committee is serving as the unwitting instrument of the KGB.” Kim Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to Soviet Union in 1963. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence on the basis of his devotion to Communism. James Angleton and Charles J. V. Murphy wrote an article, “On the Separation of Church and State,” which is essential reading. I have posted a copy at the America’s Survival, Inc. web site. They explain the damage done by the Church Committee and quote from the additional views of committee member Senator Barry Goldwater, a staunch anti-communist who puts into context such “abuses” as the CIA role in helping the opposition to the Cuban-backed Marxist Salvador Allende in Chile. Angleton reportedly asked, “Whose payroll is [Church] on: KGB? GRU [Soviet military intelligence]? Or perhaps the Cubans have recruited him?” It is also worth noting that Benjamin S. Civiletti, attorney general in the Carter Administration, facilitated the release of four unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorists, the dropping of charges against Weather Underground terrorists, had FBI officials indicted for violating the civil rights of friends and relatives of Weather Underground terrorists, and provided CIA defector Philip Agee with immunity from prosecution. A Republican Church Committee won’t do its job unless it identifies the communist-Muslim network that spawned the Obama presidency. Over the years, Soviet/Russian moles in the CIA and FBI have included Aldrich Ames, Harold Nicholson, and Robert Hanssen. We have a right to know if others exist, and if Obama was among them. In the real Russia-gate scandal, when Democrats utilized Russian disinformation against Trump, the FBI knew not only that Hillary Clinton had used a private unsecured email server but that she had communicated with Obama over that server. What’s more, Obama had used a pseudonym in these communications, to protect his own identity. Who else was he communicating with and why? The evidence also shows that America’s first Marxist president was briefed on Hillary’s Russia-gate plan by his CIA chief, John Brennan, who voted for the Communist Party in his youth. To put it bluntly, Russia-gate was an Obama operation, designed to sabotage Trump’s presidency and prevent the purge of the Obama holdovers. Remember Obama had been caught secretly promising then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have more “flexibility” regarding his policies toward Russia after his re-election in 2012. “I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” Medvedev said. Two years later Russia staged its first invasion of Ukraine. A Marxist student of Russian agent Frank Marshall Davis, Obama met with Chinese Communist President Xi after his two presidential terms to plot the final phase of what the communists call the world revolution. That meeting led to the release of the China virus, the “election” of Joe Biden, and the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unless and until the Republican Church Committee comes to grips with Obama’s service to the Russians and the Chinese, it will stop short of analyzing and understanding America’s current predicament. Always keep in mind that it was Obama, as president, who had to approve Russia-gate. He also happened to be the president who tried to get Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. When that failed, Biden made him Attorney General. We disclosed that Garland, then a federal judge, had approved a cover-up involving the dropping of terrorism charges against communist terrorist Elizabeth Anna Duke, linked to the same Weather Underground terrorists who backed Obama for president in 2008. Obama’s DOJ had requested that those charges be dropped. Understand what is happening: Obama and his terrorist comrades are being protected while Trump and his supporters are being targeted. Who benefits? The Russians and the Chinese. Even without a Republican Church Committee, we have the basic outlines -- and many details -- of the plot. We don’t need a new Church Committee; we need an old-fashioned House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose work including the questioning of Obama’s communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. I attempted to put the pieces of the puzzle together in two books, Comrade Obama Unmasked, and Red Star Rising. They tell the story of how Obama came to power and was protected in office by Deep State or communist operatives in the U.S. intelligence community who were then enlisted in a campaign against President Donald J. Trump. It’s time to issue a subpoena to Barack Hussein Obama and unravel this aspect of what James Angleton had indicated was a communist “monster plot” that goes back decades. If the House Republicans don’t use their power wisely, we will continue on the road to Obama’s “Permanent Revolution,” the title of our third and final book on the legacy of the Obama presidency.
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![]() The Sad State of Conservative Journalism By Cliff Kincaid I received an email ad from a “conservative” website promising “Walter Cronkite-style” reporting. The terrible truth is that Walter Cronkite symbolized liberal media bias and used that bias with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. That media bias today, some of which is on the right side of the political spectrum, aims to depict the Jewish President of Ukraine as a Nazi running a fascist regime. It is a variation of Russian KGB President Vladimir Putin’s communist propaganda. The spurious reference to Cronkite’s “objectivity” demonstrates that a conservative audience is a special target for those peddling disinformation and propaganda about world events. It is evident in some of the “conservative” media coverage of Ukraine. But the fact is that new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, despite his flaws, has voted with the majority of Republicans in favor of aid to Ukraine. Some “conservatives” are not prepared to recognize the role of former KGB colonel Putin and his comrades in the world today. They think Putin is just a misunderstood Russian nationalist defending Russia against an evil defensive alliance called NATO. Putin was raised a communist and became a spy for the communist regime in Moscow. He never disavowed communism and in fact lamented the demise of the old USSR. His modern mission is to reassemble it, making him a junior partner of Red Chinese dictator Xi. In light of this, consider a “conservative” column entitled, “How to Make Republicans and Others Ditch Ukraine.” And if Ukraine is to be ditched, why not Taiwan? Or South Korea? It made me wonder if the author had wanted the French to ditch the American revolutionaries. The columnist, Kurt Schlichter, was one of those pundits who had predicted a “Red Wave” and series of Republican victories on November 8. Now he is advocating a “debate” over the destruction of Ukraine and insists he is not a Putin puppet. Or consider Breitbart writer Kurt Zindulka’s article about French President Emmanuel Macron’s “potentially escalatory move” in supplying old tanks to Ukraine for defense against Putin’s invasion. Responsible conservatives -- those devoted to Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist philosophy -- should ask these outlets why it is escalation to engage in self-defense. Is it “escalation” to pull a gun on someone burglarizing your own home and murdering your wife and kids? Almost every day brings more news of Putin’s brutality against the people of Ukraine. And Schlichter, Stephen K. Bannon, and Tucker Carlson want a “debate” over whether they should survive. The Pentagon release, “Ukraine Troops to Get Bradley Fighting Vehicles,” is long overdue and should change the terms of the debate. JoeBama has been too slow in delivering the weapons Ukraine needs. Townhall columnist Schlichtaer proclaims, “Sorry, Ukraine and Ukrainians, but America and Americans are more important to me than you.” He apparently doesn’t realize that Ukrainians are fighting their own war, and simply asking for our moral and military support. As former U.S. Colonel Oliver North has noted, the Red Chinese are watching to see if America supports Ukraine, and what that means for the survival of the Republic of China on Taiwan. Supporting Ukraine doesn’t mean we have to lose sight of domestic problems. On the contrary, Ukraine’s fight for freedom gives us hope. Schlichter says he is concerned about other things, such as “Inflation. Crime. Perversions and communist CRT crap.” But the communist crap emanating from the mind of Vladimir Putin has to be addressed as well. He is a hard-core communist whose brutality is apparent for all to see. We addressed his effort to reconstitute the Soviet empire in our 2014 book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire. Schlichter goes on to say, “Americans change their mind when Washington lies to them. Remember Vietnam? That Democrat war ended when the American people decided to stop it.” During the 10-year period of the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, more than 58,000 Americans sacrificed and died to save that country from communism. The truth is that Vietnam would be free today except for a Democratic-controlled Congress. Lewis Fanning’s excellent book, Betrayal in Vietnam, notes that “…it was not the Hanoi communists who won the war, but rather the American Congress that lost it.” I have written extensively about the Vietnam betrayal and will repeat the lessons, as noted by Fanning. He wrote, “It was not until after the United States elections in the fall of 1974 that North Vietnamese field commanders received the go-ahead in their plans to conquer South Vietnam. As a result of the Watergate scandals, the Democrats had gained forty-three seats in the House. This liberal victory meant that in the 94th Congress there would be 291 Democrats and only 144 Republicans. In the Senate, the Democrats had gained three seats and the lineup was now 61 Democrats to 39 Republicans. This leftward shift of both congressional chambers played a significant role in the North Vietnamese decision to unleash its army.” Going through the provisions of various bills offered by Democrats in Congress, he presents the case that “A Democratic caucus of the Congress of the United States, aided and abetted by a few liberal Republicans, cast the South Vietnamese people into Communist slavery.” That left-wing caucus, Members of Congress for Peace through Law, decided that American military involvement would end, and dramatically reduced aid to the government of South Vietnam. Republican President Gerald Ford, who took power after Richard Nixon’s resignation, understood that Congress would not provide enough assistance to keep the country free of communism. Hundreds of thousands of “boat people” tried to escape the Hanoi communists who took power in Saigon while the communist Khmer Rouge took power in neighboring Cambodia, eliminating almost two million people. The American backing of South Vietnam wasn’t a lie; it was an honorable and noble mission for freedom. We are also backing South Korea for the same reason. It is why we should continue to back Ukraine – and the Republic of China on Taiwan. So-called “conservatives” who don’t recognize what’s really happening in the world and urge the abandonment of Ukraine are undermining the fight for freedom in the world today. We should ditch their defeatist no-win attitude.
![]() Dear Friends. It’s important for conservatives, especially religious and Catholic conservatives, to understand what we call “The Religious Face of the New World Order.” With the passing of Pope Benedict, and his funeral this week, we need to understand the role of the Roman Catholic Church in world events. It has some of the powers of a government and represents more than one billion people. Despite various scandals, it still is the largest denomination in the United States. However, it depends on foreign immigrants to fill the pews. Hence, it has a major role in the fiasco on the southern border. The church is global in nature and scope. At one time we published several ground-breaking reports on the church, but they were lost in cyber space when we encountered some major set-backs. As you may know, my group America’s Survival, Inc. had a television channel with 500 anti-communist videos that was terminated by YouTube. At the same time, a left-wing legal group threatened a lawsuit against us, causing the expenditure of thousands of dollars on a legal defense, and the downsizing of our organization, so that we have one website left, www.usasurvival.org We also lost a major funder, and our direct mail program fell into disrepair when COVID hit, causing delays in the mail and even a failure by print shops to be able to function and print monetary appeals on our behalf. The bottom fell out. Today, we have one web site and I have been scrambling to re-launch the organization on a sound financial basis. One thing I have been doing is re-assembling some of our old reports, by going back to the archives, and I am happy to say I have reconstituted a report by Lee Penn on “The Religious Face of the New World Order” from 2010, when Benedict was pope. It is eye-opening. A few “conservatives” are saying Benedict was a defender of the faith. That’s true to a point. But he was also captured by the Vatican bureaucracy, as reflected in his Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) encyclical and proposal for world government. All of this is addressed in the special report I am now offering for a donation to our cause. Click here. My own views are contained in the column, “Pope Benedict’s World Government Disaster,” just released. In my introduction to Lee Penn’s report, I note the contents of an interview I conducted with Vatican insider Malachi Martin in 1990, in which he said the belief of the Vatican was that both systems, communism and capitalism, would collapse, and that out of the chaos would come the New World Order. The church wants to play a role in this outcome. A New World Order has also been the announced goal of Joe Biden from the days when he was a Senator. Of course, he is a Catholic, and a Catholic in good standing, according to the bureaucrats in the church. Interestingly, Malachi Martin would note in his own book, The Jesuits, that it was Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who would issue a refutation of Liberation Theology in 1984. Twenty-five years later, as Pope Benedict, he would preside over the publication by the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, of an October 21, 2009, article by Georg Sans that praised the Marxist theory of alienation under capitalism. Sans teaches the History of Contemporary Philosophy at the Università Gregoriana, the first Jesuit university. Anyway, this sets the stage for understanding the “world political authority” proposed by Benedict. Lee Penn wrote, “Caritas in Veritate should be seen as what it is: a theological and political earthquake. The Roman Catholic Church, which was once a guardian of tradition worldwide, now wishes to use radical means (a ‘true world political authority’) for its own ends. It is as if Benedict wishes to mount and ride a wild beast, and imagines that he (and those who believe as he does) will be able to direct that fierce beast’s course. Ordinary prudence – even without reference to the dire symbolism of Revelation 17:3-18 – should have warned the Vatican against such folly.” The appropriate reference is this: “Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.” Our report includes this quotation: “The question is not whether there will be a New World Order. The question is who will control it, and for what ends.” Pope Francis is serious about making this world political authority a reality. As we go forward in the new year, I am pleased to present this report and hope you will respond with financial support for our organization. I can truly say there is no other organization with the expertise to understand these unprecedented events in human history. I am gathering more information from like-minded sources. I hope to soon re-launch our TV channel, where we can broadcast this truth to a large audience. Our home page includes a “give” feature for donations. Thank you. Cliff Kincaid, president ![]() Pope Benedict’s World Government Disaster By Cliff Kincaid On January 1, Catholics celebrated the “Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God,” but I find that many Catholics are not aware of the fact that “Our Lady of Fatima,” another name for Mary, is regarded by the church as a miracle appearance that concerned the errors of Russia. The message, delivered in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, to three children, is not only ominous but relevant to world events. They are even more significant with the passing of Pope Benedict, a proponent of a world government designed to bring “peace” to the world. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is today spreading death and destruction in Europe, while Putin puppet Daniel Ortega is doing the same in Nicaragua, helping produce hundreds of thousands of refugees at our southern border. Yet, some leading “conservative” commentators, such as Tucker Carlson and Stephen K. Bannon, ridicule the fight for freedom in Ukraine, while talking endlessly about the invasion of America through the southern border. They seem not to grasp the global dimensions of this conflict. The evidence shows that Russia is behind much of the turmoil in the world, including the production of refugees fleeing to Western countries. According to the Fatima vision, the “errors of Russia,” as evident by the Soviet revolution in 1917 and the spread of international communism, could only be stopped by the “consecration” of Russia, a sacred act that was intended to make sure the nation was converted to Christ. Whether we are talking about Soviet Russia or just Russia, the problem remains the same. However, whether the consecration took place is a matter of some debate among Catholic scholars. But as anybody can see in Ukraine, which is under constant Russian bombardment, there is no “Christian Russia” today. Nobody can seriously believe that Putin is a Christian statesman, in view of his alliance with China and Iran and refusal to disavow Soviet communism. By the same token, we have to admit that, under the Biden Administration, so-called “Christian America” is going through the motions of appearing to support Ukraine but has decided upon a policy that provides only defensive weapons of limited value. JoeBama’s policy seems intended to bleed the people of Ukraine to death, until they capitulate in some way. It is strange that the Catholic Church pleads for help for Ukraine while failing to educate Catholic parishioners about the solution to the problem – eradication of the remnants of the KGB regime in Russia. Without the conversion of Russia to Christ, this is the only solution. Indeed, regime change must apply to Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and any other country cooperating with our enemies. Ultimately, of course, JoeBama must be replaced. The no-win policy of the JoeBama regime in Washington, D.C. is not only immoral but costly financially, since it will take hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild Ukraine and resettle refugees from the conflict. That’s assuming Putin decides to negotiate. Under this outcome, of course, Vladimir Putin and his KGB cronies remain in power in Russia. Supporters of Ukraine are coming to acknowledge this terrible state of affairs, speculating that the absurd rules of engagement imposed on Ukraine are designed to force “negotiations” and ultimately sacrifice territory to Russia. Such negotiations would presumably occur under the auspices of the United Nations. Our best military minds understand what’s happening. The former Commanding General of the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodge, comments, “Why do we allow Russia to fire from sanctuary? By not providing ATACMS, F16's and other long-range strikes capabilities to Ukraine, we have in effect granted sanctuary to Russia which is able to kill innocent civilians in Ukraine without fear for consequences.” That is in fact the case. Our pro-Ukraine policy reduces Ukraine to rubble while Russia is protected from counter-attack. Since the purpose of Biden’s policy is not to win, another outcome has to be considered. In this context, Biden’s long-standing devotion to a New World Order has to be remembered, along with the fact that Pope Benedict put the Roman Catholic Church firmly on the path to world government. Once the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, Benedict endorsed a "World Political Authority," a form of world government, in his 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate.” This world authority, in the Vatican view, is supposed to bring about “timely disarmament” and ensure “food security and peace.” Keep in mind that it was Benedict who defined this global authority as political in nature. But how many Catholics understand this is the goal of the church they subsidize every Sunday with their donations in the collection plate? My group America’s Survival published several reports and articles about this “world political authority” at the time Benedict proposed it. But it now takes on more significance in view of the release of the important book, The Devil and Bella Dodd, about the life and revelations of a former high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA. While ex-communist Whittaker Chambers exposed communist penetration of the U.S. Government, Bella Dodd declared that the Roman Catholic Church was the target of communist infiltration, and she said she recruited more than 1000 communists to be Catholic seminarians. Her mentor, Bishop Fulton Sheen, suggested that the Vatican itself had been penetrated by a communist mole operating in the Jesuit order. Citing her various statements and interviews, the authors of the Bella Dodd book, Mary Nicholas and Paul Kengor, quote her as saying the goal of the communists is world government. “My dear friends,” she said, “there are four or five different strands working towards world government. One of them is socialism. One of them is communism.” She also declared, “The communist conspiracy consists of men and women who are located in New York, in Moscow, in Paris, in London, in Saigon, in Hong Kong, and throughout the world…. It consists of a group of people who cooperate with each in moving toward a world government…” For his part, Whittaker Chambers had identified the U.S. Government as being compromised for the purpose of ushering in a world government under communist control. In that regard, we know that Chambers fingered top State Department figure and United Nations co-founder Alger Hiss as a communist spy. Therefore, it is rational to assume that the U.N. was and continues to be an organization under which these sinister forces will gather to force global change on the world. Indeed, the United Nations has to be considered the headquarters of what Joe Biden had described in a Wall Street Journal column as the New World Order. Significantly, Benedict was a big booster of the United Nations, whose General Assembly was once head by a Catholic Priest and communist by the name of Miguel D’Escoto. He served as President of the U.N. General Assembly from September 2008 until September 2009 and was suspended from his priestly functions by Pope John Paul II, the anti-communist pope, in 1985. D’Escoto had been a member of the communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and served as foreign minister, after which the Soviets recognized his service by giving him the International Lenin Peace Prize. As a result of President Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist foreign policy, however, the Sandinistas were eventually thrown out of power through free elections. In a significant development, D’Escoto, an advocate of Marxist-oriented “liberation theology,” was returned to his duties as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, after a 29-year suspension, by current Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to hold that position. D’Escoto wrote a “Dear Brother President Barack Obama” letter, seemingly modeled on Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America, seeking destruction of global capitalism. In this regard, both President Obama and Pope Francis worked on normalization of relations with Communist Cuba, a dictatorship that is still producing refugees that are arriving at our southern border. Today, not surprisingly, a significant number of the most recent refugees from Central America come from Nicaragua. A New York Times story acknowledged, “Hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled their country in recent years, escaping poverty and repression under an increasingly authoritarian government.” That “authoritarianism” is communism. If Republicans had any sense, they would emphasize that many of those coming to America to escape communism will unfortunately find it here, under JoeBama. At the same time, they should remind their dissidents in the ranks that opposing aid for Ukraine will not solve the refugee problem. What will solve the refugee problem is taking out regimes that produce refugees for the purpose of destabilizing the West. History shows that the Sandinistas returned to power in Nicaragua in 2006. Then, in 2014, Vladimir Putin made a “surprise visit” to the Central American country. Sandinista President Ortega said Putin’s visit was “like a ray of light, like a flash of lightning.” That same year, Putin also staged his first invasion of Ukraine. At first, the Sandinistas fooled many Catholics into supporting them and even had Catholic priests in their government. That was a ruse. Today, according to researcher Martha Patricia Molina Montenegro, the Catholic Church in Nicaragua is being persecuted and repressed. She said 2022 “was the most disastrous year” for the Nicaraguan Catholic Church and that it was the target of “140 attacks from the Sandinista dictatorship.” Consolidating Russia control of this nation, the Sandinista regime provided troops to take part in a major multinational military exercise, Russia's quadrennial military exercises known as Vostok. Military units from China and Syria, among other countries, also participated. Putin personally attended the exercise. Benedict’s “world political authority,” which will facilitate a "settlement" to the benefit of our enemies, is a disaster of Biblical proportions in waiting. If they love their country, Catholics in particular need to understand the message of “Our Lady of Fatma” has relevance today, as America faces a coordinated Russian-Chinese axis of military power that spreads suffering on a global basis and is preparing to deliver a death blow that is described in the Bible as Armageddon. At the same time, Catholic leaders should speak out regarding how the JoeBama regime is allowing all of this to happen.
December 31, 2022: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies
Note: The Pope is a religious leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, with 63 million of them here in the U.S. It’s precisely because the Catholic Church is the largest religious body in America that the statements of its leader deserve media scrutiny. Pope Benedict and World Government Update: From The Devil and Bella Dodd, about communist infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church Excerpts: Bella addressed the subject of Fabian socialism during her talks around the country after she left communism. For example, at an address in Detroit in 1961, Bella was asked: “Is Fabian socialism a forerunner of communism or is it the same thing under a different name?” Her reply was illuminating:
By Cliff Kincaid Originally published on July 7, 2009 Some in the media are calling it just a statement about “economic justice.” But Pope Benedict XVI’s “Charity in Truth” statement, also known as an encyclical, is a radical document that puts the Roman Catholic Church firmly on the side of an emerging world government. In explicit and direct language, the Pope calls for a “true world political authority” to manage the affairs of the world. At the same time, however, the Pope also warns that such an international order could “produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature” and must be guarded against somehow. The New York Times got it right this time, noting the Pope’s call for a world political authority amounted to endorsement of a New World Economic Order, a long-time goal of the old Soviet-sponsored international communist movement. Bloomberg.com highlighted the Pope’s call for a new world order with “teeth.” The Pope’s shocking endorsement of a “World Political Authority,” which has prophetic implications for some Christians who fear that a global dictatorship will take power in the “last days” of man’s reign on earth, comes shortly after the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis issued a call for global taxes and more powerful global institutions. U.N. General Assembly President, Miguel D’Escoto, a Communist Catholic Priest, gave a speech at the event calling on the nations of the world to revere “Mother Earth” but concluded with words from the Pope blessing the conference participants. The controversial Papal statement comes just before a meeting of the G-8 nations and a scheduled meeting between the Pope and President Obama at the Vatican on July 10. Sounding like Obama himself, Pope Benedict says this new international order can be accomplished through “reform of the United Nations Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real teeth.” The “teeth” may come in adopting the global environmental agenda, which the Pope warmly embraces. Sounding like Al Gore, the Pope said that one pressing need is “a worldwide redistribution of energy resources, so that countries lacking those resources can have access to them.” He adds that “This responsibility is a global one, for it is concerned not just with energy but with the whole of creation, which must not be bequeathed to future generations depleted of its resources.” “The Church has a responsibility towards creation and she must assert this responsibility in the public sphere,” he explains. In a statement that sounds like an endorsement of a new global warming treaty, which will be negotiated at a U.N. conference in December, the Pope says, “The international community has an urgent duty to find institutional means of regulating the exploitation of non-renewable resources, involving poor countries in the process, in order to plan together for the future.” “The technologically advanced societies can and must lower their domestic energy consumption, either through an evolution in manufacturing methods or through greater ecological sensitivity among their citizens.” he declares. In terms of how this new “world political authority” should look, the Pope says that it, too, should have “teeth” in the form of “the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums.” Pope Benedict declares that “such an authority would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights.” But the document, which is more than 30,000 words long, is contradictory in that it pretends that a world government can co-exist with freedom and democracy. For example, the statement calls for “a greater degree of international ordering, marked by subsidiarity, for the management of globalization.” The term “subsidiarity” is usually defined as having matters handled by local authorities, not international bureaucrats. In another example of double-speak, the Pope declares that “Globalization certainly requires authority, insofar as it poses the problem of a global common good that needs to be pursued. This authority, however, must be organized in a subsidiary and stratified way, if it is not to infringe upon freedom and if it is to yield effective results in practice.” He doesn’t explain how it will be possible for citizens to influence or control this “world political authority” when they are under its bureaucratic control. In the statement about how the New World Order could turn into a tyranny, the Pope is also contradictory, declaring that “…the principle of subsidiarity is particularly well-suited to managing globalization and directing it towards authentic human development. In order not to produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature, the governance of globalization must be marked by subsidiarity, articulated into several layers and involving different levels that can work together.” Against, he doesn’t explain how people on the local or even national levels will be able to resist this tyranny. In a strong endorsement of foreign aid, the Pope says that “In the search for solutions to the current economic crisis, development aid for poor countries must be considered a valid means of creating wealth for all.” But there must be more. He says that “…more economically developed nations should do all they can to allocate larger portions of their gross domestic product to development aid, thus respecting the obligations that the international community has undertaken in this regard.” This statement seems to be an urgent call for fulfilment of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which involve an estimated $845 billion from the U.S. over a ten-year period. The Pope goes on to say that the social order should conform to the moral order, but the fact is that on moral issues such as abortion and homosexuality, the agenda of the United Nations is opposed to that of the Catholic Church. Even on capital punishment, there is disagreement. The U.N. opposes it while traditional church teaching (Section 2267 of the Catholic Catechism) allows it in certain cases. In his statement, the Pope declares that “Some non-governmental Organizations work actively to spread abortion, at times promoting the practice of sterilization in poor countries, in some cases not even informing the women concerned. Moreover, there is reason to suspect that development aid is sometimes linked to specific health-care policies which de facto involve the imposition of strong birth control measures. Further grounds for concern are laws permitting euthanasia as well as pressure from lobby groups, nationally and internationally, in favour of its juridical recognition.” What he doesn’t mention is that some of these groups operate through and with the support of the United Nations. ![]() Two-Faced Tulsi By Cliff Kincaid On March 19, 2020, then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Joe Biden for president. Now she is a paid contributor on Fox News lecturing the public about “integrity” in politics. “Tulsi Gabbard calls out lying politicians: 'No greater form of disrespect of democracy'” was the Fox News headline about her grilling of Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” A long-time Democrat who supported socialist Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, she left the Democratic Party in October, after previously endorsing Biden, and then campaigned for Republicans. However, her career includes attacks on President Trump’s foreign policy and her determination to see him defeated in 2020. This notorious flip-flopper is supposed to be an example of honesty in politics. Emphasizing Santos’ deceptions about his background, she said, “George Santos' lies are inexcusable, but let's be real. He is a small fish in a sea of sharks in Washington who've been deceiving us for a very long time and at great cost and consequence to the American people, our security and our freedom.” Let’s take a look at Gabbard’s career. Significantly, she was against Biden before she was for him, leading observers on the left and the right to question Gabbard’s history of controversial statements and flip-flops. A socialist website noted that in her video endorsement of Biden posted to her Twitter account, Gabbard heaped praise on Biden, stating, “I know that he has a good heart and he’s motivated by his love for our country and the American people… So today I’m suspending my presidential campaign, and offering my full support to Vice President Joe Biden in his quest to bring our country together.” Biden replied, “I’m grateful to have her support and look forward to working with her to restore honor and decency to the White House.” Then she abandoned him. President Barack Obama endorsed her congressional run in 2012 and she was given one of five vice chair positions on the Democratic National Committee after her victory. She was at Obama’s inauguration in 2013, saying she was honored to lunch with Obama, Biden, and others. Although she is now sounding like a Republican, she was a Democrat for 20 years and supported Barack Hussein Obama and his vice-president Joe Biden and their policies. When 181 House Members in 2015 filed an amicus brief in court to support Obama’s Immigration Executive Actions, Gabbard was among them. “Immigration is a tremendous economic benefit for Hawai'i and our country as a whole,” she said, advocating the “Dream Act” for illegal aliens. Running for Congress, she answered various surveys about her views, demonstrating that she was a committed leftist. Asked if working illegal immigrants be given temporary amnesty, she answered, “Yes, create a simple path to citizenship for immigrants with no criminal record.” Asked if the U.S. should build a wall along the southern border, she said, “Yes, but make it a high-tech surveillance barrier instead of a physical one.” Gabbard supported Obamacare and wanted it expanded. In fact, she demanded “a mandatory single payer system,” saying it “would be even better.” That was the Bernie Sanders or socialist approach. She had a 10 percent lifetime score from one conservative group. Yet, now she is a paid contributor on a “conservative” news channel. Gabbard holds the distinction of being one of the few national politicians supporting the legalization of “sex work,” otherwise known as prostitution. Gabbard “publicly expressed support for decriminalizing prostitution,” reported Reason magazine, saying, “If a consenting adult wants to engage in sex work, that is their right, and it should not be a crime. All people should have autonomy over their bodies and their labor.” Reason said, “Gabbard is the only one [presidential candidate] to get a good grade on a recent report card put out by the group Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW).” When she ran for president in 2020, the journal Foreign Affairs noted that she criticized President Donald J. Trump’s “confrontational stance toward Beijing” and warned “about the downsides of escalating tensions with China.” The journal added, “She says the United States must maintain a cooperative relationship with China in order to address climate change and other areas of mutual concern.” In another foreign policy matter, Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton in January 2020 over an interview in which Clinton called Gabbard a favorite of the Russians. Her lawsuit declared, “Tulsi has been harmed by Clinton’s lies -- and American democracy has suffered as well. With this action, Tulsi seeks to hold Clinton, and the political elites who enable her, accountable for distorting the truth in the middle of a critical Presidential election.” Then, suddenly, she dropped the lawsuit. Reuters news service reported, “Gabbard and her campaign filed a notice of dismissal that said they ‘remain certain of the action’s legal merit’ but wished to focus on the coronavirus crisis and ‘defeating Donald Trump in 2020, rather than righting the wrongs here.’” You can read her notice of dismissal in this court document, in which she said she was determined to defeat Trump. Gabbard was sensitive about the charge of being a Russian agent, since she served two tours of duty in the Middle East and continued her service as a major in the Army National Guard. The controversy stems from Gabbard emerging as an independent and dissident voice in the Democratic Party who was willing to blow the whistle on Obama’s pro-terrorist and pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies in the Middle East, which contributed to a civil war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. She took to the House floor to say that Obama’s CIA had been aiding the Islamic terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda for the purpose of overthrowing the Syrian regime. She introduced legislation to curb the Obama administration’s pro-terrorist policy, calling it the Stop Arming Terrorists bill. It was Trump, opposed by Gabbard when he ran in 2020, who terminated that policy. Gabbard’s problem in making her well-documented claim about CIA support for terrorism was that she visited Russian-backed Syrian dictator Assad in Syria in early 2017. “Gabbard is attempting to provide legitimacy to Bashar Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies who have murdered hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians,” declared the Syrian American Council. Her career is marked by a series of flip-flops that make her current statements on Fox about political integrity ring hollow. “Do you have no shame?” she said to Santos. Good question. But what about Tulsi Gabbard, a flip-flopping politician who supported Sanders and opposed Trump but now has landed a paid gig on a “conservative” channel?
![]() Send the Migrant Buses to the Catholic Bishops By Cliff Kincaid Roman Catholic Governors Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are shipping illegal aliens from border states to other parts of the country. Why don’t they send them to the D.C. headquarters of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops? The address is 3211 4th St NE Washington D.C., 20017. The Catholic Church has a “Join the Justice for Immigrants Campaign” that urges people to “Take action in solidarity with immigrants, migrants, refugees and people on the move.” Why not send the immigrants, migrants, and refugees to Catholic Churches or the homes of Catholic politicians? I’m amazed that this “solution” is not being discussed. Whether left-wing or right-wing, Catholics seem to be united in demanding that the church’s role in this on-going invasion be ignored. One exception is Brian Burch, president of Catholic Vote, who says, “American Catholics deserve to know the full extent of the U.S. government’s role in funding and coordinating with Catholic Church-affiliated agencies at the border, and what role these agencies played in the record surge of illegal immigrants over the past year.” He joined with Judicial Watch to file FOIA lawsuits to investigate the conduct of government and Catholic officials. So far, according to One America News, Texas has bused over 15,900 migrants to sanctuary cities. That includes:
In the latest stunt, Abbott sent them to Vice President Kamala Harris’ house on Christmas Eve. But these migrants should have been bused to the Catholic churches in the area, so that parishioners could understand the policies supported by the Catholic Bishops they finance through the collection plate. Catholic support for illegal aliens is a subject of censorship because Catholic officials, who run the largest religious denomination in the United States, don’t want the Catholics in the pews to understand the church role in this debacle. To his credit, Abbott has sparked outrage from the Catholic bishops in Texas by declining to participate in the federal refugee resettlement program, which finances Catholic Charities and other entities. But busing them to other cities is not a solution, either. On “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” on December 24, the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, discussed “the true meaning of Christmas” and how a recent report on people attending church and believing in God are “at historic lows.” He said the challenge is winning people back to Christ amidst the “darkness” of the present age. Perhaps the Catholic role in facilitating the invasion has something to do with people leaving the church. It is a sensitive topic. One possible solution is for the Catholic Bishops to support American sovereignty and take care of the immigrants themselves, rather than depend on federal largesse. In fairness, there are some efforts in this regard. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS) says it works with dioceses across the country, relying “upon parishes and other local community groups to carry out the scriptural mandate” to “welcome the stranger,” as “personified in refugees, migrants, and other men, women, and children on the move.” There is one Catholic project, Parishes Organized to Welcome Immigrants and Refugees (POWIR), described as “a privately funded national initiative” led by the USCCB which “seeks to develop a base of support, mentorship, and welcome for the newcomer through local, parish-based ministries of hospitality.” But very little is known about the scope of this campaign. It is reported that POWIR has helped “thousands of refugee clients” find places to live, make friends, learn English, find work, receive pro bono legal counsel and medical services, and achieve social integration. In terms of overall figures, however, that number is very small. Under Biden, says the group Help Save Maryland, “We are talking about over 6.5 million NEW illegal aliens operating in our country in 2023, on top of the 25-35 million illegals already hiding in plain sight!” One of many organizations warning about the impact of illegal aliens, it says the results will be property tax increases, greater drug trade and deadly overdoses, overcrowded public schools and hospitals, depleted social welfare budgets, growing human sex slave trafficking, and increased crime, rape of minors, and gang violence. Meanwhile, a Catholic group called the Catholic Climate Covenant says it wants “to advance the common good by protecting our Common Home.” So why not open Catholic homes to the illegal aliens? It’s easy to talk about “Mother Earth.” But what about opening their homes to the illegal aliens? Let’s see if they walk the talk. I think we have the answer. I visited the Vatican and found it is surrounded by a wall. Local Catholic churches are locked so that homeless people can’t come inside and get warm. I once interviewed Dan LeRoy, author of a book, Liberty’s Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America, which examines the role of Catholics in winning American independence in the Revolution. LeRoy looks at people like Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Leroy addressed how anti-Catholic discrimination at the time of the revolution gave way to Catholic domination of the Supreme Court today. It is an amazing story. Catholics have much to offer America but they have to demand that Catholic officials practice what they preach, not only in regard to the scandals affecting the church but the impact of its pro-immigration policies. The problem we face today, the darkness identified by Dolan, is corruption in government, the media, and the church that runs so deep that it is uncomfortable for some to even talk about it publicly. The Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote about the corruption in the Danish State Church, declaring that everyone knew privately that the system was rotten and corrupt but they would not say so publicly. “Just as one says that death has marked a man, so we recognize the symptoms which demand to be attacked. It is a battle against lies,” he said. And who is the father of lies? Dolan can tell us.
![]() The Luciferian Plot to Steal Christmas By Cliff Kincaid Until I read The Devil and Bella Dodd, I thought the greatest defector from communism was Whittaker Chambers, who fingered Alger Hiss as a communist spy for Soviet Russia and identified a communist network in the highest levels of the U.S. Government. But former high-ranking communist Bella Dodd, a teacher, lawyer, and union activist, exposed communist clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church and identified Lucifer, the fallen angel in the Bible (Isaiah 14:12-17), as being the agent of destruction. The concept of “Lucifer” is considered by Christians to be the devil or Satan. The implication of Bella Dodd’s statement is that a church representing more than 1.2 billion Catholics has been dangerously compromised by evil. The complete title, The Devil and Bella Dodd: The Story of One Woman’s Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption, documents the problem and the solution in personal terms. We know individuals can be redeemed. But as we contemplate the impact of this important book, published by TAN Books, we wonder if whole nations – indeed, the world -- can be saved. Bella Dodd, who wrote her own book, School of Darkness, isn’t just an ordinary communist who testified before congressional committees about communism’s influence in American society, especially the educational system, as important as that is. She described communist infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church and identified their ultimate goal as world government. Her story helps explain, in a dramatic way, why this powerful church based in Rome continues to experience scandals that have enormously damaged its credibility as a religious institution and driven many away from the church. The Capitalists Behind Communism There are many revelations in this important book, including how she told a close friend by the name of Frank Savile that as she rose in the ranks of the Communist Party USA, she realized that the communists were agents of a higher power, not only Lucifer, which she identifies by name, but elites with power and money. She names them as the representatives of the Rockefellers, the Lehmans, and the Harrimans – capitalists and politicians who made possible the rise of the Soviet state into a terrible fact of life that still haunts the world to this day. They financed the rise of communism, including the Soviet Union and Communist China. The communists, she said, were part of a larger conspiracy. The co-authors Mary Nicholas and Paul Kengor report that W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI special agent, attorney, and researcher, interviewed Bella Dodd several times in the 1960s and asked her the question “Who is trying to take over the world?” She replied, “I think the communist conspiracy is merely a branch of a much bigger conspiracy!” The Bella Dodd Cover-Up Bella Dodd’s friend, Frank Savile, gave his explosive interview about the capitalists behind communism to the late conservative commentator Stan Monteith, a radio host who wrote Brotherhood of Darkness. In another revelation, Savile says that Dodd’s book on the communists, School of Darkness, was apparently edited before publication to withhold some of her most explosive charges. The book instead focused on “pieces” of her testimony, he said, and her reconversion to the Catholic faith. Although the Nicholas and Kengor book goes into some detail about these additional charges, confirmed in general terms by Bishop Fulton Sheen, there are no names of the communist clergymen she had knowledge of. For certain reasons not yet entirely clear, Sheen advised her not to name names in public. It is possible these names were provided in confidence to top Catholic officials and covered-up. At the same time, the book quotes Sheen, who helped in Bella Dodd’s reconversion to the Catholic faith, as saying at a church in Rome that communists had in fact infiltrated the church and he was apparently aware of one, a Jesuit priest by the name of Father Alighiero Tondi, who had been a communist mole in the Vatican. The FBI Cover-Up What’s also significant is that a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI about Bella Dodd produced a massive file that the Bureau seemed reluctant to divulge and waited decades to disclose. It was as if the secrets that Bella Dodd had possessed were too terrible even for the FBI to reveal. Bella Dodd’s allegation that she recruited more than a thousand communists to infiltrate the seminaries is shocking enough. But could this scandal be related to the admission by a top Catholic official about the homosexual nature of the sex abuse scandals in the church? And has a combination of both scandals effectively destroyed the church’s credibility, leading to the period some Christians regard as the “End Times” and Christ’s return? The Bella Dodd book brings the sordid story of corruption in the church up to date by citing a 2019 article titled “The Catholic Case for Communism” in a Jesuit publication, written by a so-called Catholic Communist. Marxists in the Church The Jesuit article about Catholic Communism is a starting point for naming the names. The author quotes extensively from the writings of Dorothy Day, a Marxist Catholic being promoted for sainthood by American Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, considered by some a “conservative” clergyman. Indeed, it started to dawn on many in and out of the church many years ago that Jesuit Pope Francis had come down on the side of the “progressive,” and even Marxist, forces in the world today.
Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() The Moral Bankruptcy of the Catholic Church By Cliff Kincaid If you want to close the border, shut down federal funding of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Nothing else will work. The church is the handmaiden of the JoeBama regime in facilitating the invasion of the southern border. I once thought the primary motivation of open borders was chaos and conflict designed to sabotage our national sovereignty. That explains the communist role, and it is significant. Communist countries produce refugees. I figured another motivation was to generate new voters for the Democratic Party. Still another factor was the need by the elites for chauffeurs, gardeners, nannies, and waiters. Now I am convinced that the Catholic Church is playing a major role, if not the major role, and that its purpose is to generate new parishioners to replace the Americans leaving the church in disgust over the child sexual abuse scandals. It is estimated by one law firm that $2 billion dollars in assets has been buried by the Catholic Church to avoid paying clergy sexual abuse victims. But the immigrants also serve another purpose. Since the church doesn’t produce enough native-born priests to serve its parishes, the number of foreign-born priests is rising. Despite the so-called “separation of church and state," the Roman Catholic Church makes lots of government money by hosting and serving the immigrants. In effect, the Catholic Church is facilitating the migrant smuggling networks funded by JoeBama’s administration. These facts are considered by some to be anti-Catholic, which is why you seldom read or hear about them in the major media. But the fact is that millions of American Catholics are disgusted and outraged by the Catholic hierarchy’s misleading statements and antics on this and other issues. For example, Rep. Lance Gooden has questioned whether Catholic Charities’ partnership with the Biden Administration conflicts with the teachings of the Catholic Church. “I’m also curious if some of these migrants are being coerced when they’re being offered abortion services…,” he said. “I suspect many of them are Catholic and pro-life.” In 2010, I covered a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to force congressional passage of “comprehensive immigration reform.” The rally was preceded by a Mass in support of immigrants at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. I took a series of photos of the demonstrators and the assorted Marxists who were there passing out their Spanish-language pro-communist literature. The demonstrators carried many different signs, one of them saying, “Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform,” with a reference to “Justice for Immigrants” in smaller letters. The “Justice for Immigrants” project was officially sponsored by the Catholic Bishops. While the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was rallying to the cause of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, Catholic parishioners in Cleveland, Ohio, were protesting a plan to “downsize the diocese” and close 50 churches. The parishioners were calling themselves “Endangered Catholics” and launched a website to save the ethnic European and black Catholic churches targeted for closure. The closures were being blamed on financial shortfalls and “changing demographics,” meaning that Hispanics have become more important to the church and whites have become less important. U.S. News & World Report cited evidence that four times as many Catholics were leaving the faith as were joining it but that a surge in Hispanic immigration had “offset the steady decline of white Catholics.” Now think about the nearly 5 million foreign nationals who have entered the U.S. illegally since Biden took office. We don’t know the precise ethnic or religious make-up but I think it’s a safe bet that many if not most are Catholics from Latin America. The arm of the Catholic Church known as Catholic Charities is under scrutiny in this regard. Reps. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, Reps. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., Jake Ellzey, R-Texas, and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., wrote to Catholic Charities USA and other NGOs, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and Jewish Family Service of San Diego, expressing concern about "the growing role [NGOs] play in fueling the drastic increase in illegal aliens crossing the southern border.” Gooden has introduced the Stop Federal Funding for Human Trafficking and Smuggling Act, “which would defund any U.S. non-profit organizations found complicit in human smuggling or exacerbating the crisis at our southern border.” Instead, however, the Vatican has been cooperating with a movement to protect “Mother Earth.” On December 21, PBS will broadcast “The Letter: A Message for Our Earth,” a documentary on the message of Laudato Si’ and how “four frontline leaders” from the Catholic Climate Covenant traveled to Rome for a conversation with Pope Francis. Pope Francis is a Jesuit who cited the mystical views of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his environmental encyclical “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers, and Catholic Climate Covenant have published the Ecumenical and Interreligious Guidebook, Care for Our Common Home, noting the significance of the United Nations Environmental Sabbath, “observed with attentiveness to the goodness of creation.” The “Environmental Sabbath” project was created to teach kids to hold hands around a tree and meditate. The purpose, through meditation, is to become “one” with trees, rocks, and dirt. Jesuit philosopher Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to combine the theory of evolution with the Catholic faith declared, “The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.” Ironically, however, the Vatican’s anti-capitalist agenda will destroy the lives of the people on the earth, especially the immigrants the church claims to be representing.
The trailer for "Oppenheimer" has been released. “Oppenheimer” premieres in theaters on July 21, 2023.
By Cliff Kincaid For more background, read this column, "Oppie Was A Commie." Consider that in 2004 the Senate voted unanimously voted to recognize the “loyal service” of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the World War II Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. But the overwhelming evidence shows that Oppenheimer was a communist. Herbert Romerstein, co-author of a book on Soviet espionage, The Venona Secrets, told me at the time, “There isn’t any question that Oppenheimer was a traitor to the United States and doesn’t deserve any of the honors that these people [in the Senate] want to give him.” The evidence was based on several sources. One is the American interception of communications by the Soviet intelligence service during World War II. The code name for that interception was Venona. They identify and describe the activities of Soviet agents. The second source is the Soviet spymaster Gen. Pavel Sudoplatov, who, when he fell out of favor with the Soviet establishment, wrote a letter to the then-head of the Soviet Communist Party, Yuri Andropov. Sudoplatov boasted about his achievements, including getting information on the U.S. atom bomb. One of the critical sources of information for the Soviets, Sudoplatov said, was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sudoplatov had no reason to lie because he knew that Andropov could easily have verified this information. Romerstein, who worked on Capitol Hill for 18 years, told me at the time that the resolution honoring Oppenheimer was passed by unanimous consent when it was likely that few Senators were even on the Senate floor. Out of the 100 Senators, he said, there probably aren’t five of them who know anything about Oppenheimer. One factor may have been a controversial development that occurred during the Clinton administration, when a statement from FBI Director Louis Freeh was released, taking issue with the evidence that Oppenheimer had knowingly supplied classified information to the Soviets. However, this was before the Venona secrets were released, confirming Oppenheimer’s espionage activity. Whatever the explanation and circumstances, it is a sign of the times that the Senate honored a figure who was a member of a group that betrayed our secrets to our enemies. |