-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.foxnews.com/nav/js_stage_foxwire.sml?content=/news/wires2/0911/n_rt_0 911_233.sml Former Spy Says Russia Buried Explosives In U.S. 1.41 p.m. ET (1744 GMT) September 11, 1999 NEW YORK � Soviet spies buried explosives across the United States and Europe as part of a Cold War sabotage campaign that identified power stations, fuel pipelines and other infrastructure sites, a former KGB official says. The revelations are included in a new book co-authored by ex-Soviet spymaster Vasili Mitrokhin and discussed in an interview he gave to the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), excerpts of which will be broadcast Sunday by the CBS News program "60 Minutes.'' Mitrokhin, whose disclosure about Briton Melita Norwood's nuclear espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union made headlines Saturday, says that for years he copied top-secret documents by hand and smuggled them from Russian intelligence headquarters, sometimes in his shoes, and hid some of them in a mattress. He wrote "Sword and the Shield: Secret History of the KGB'' with British academic Christopher Andrew, who spoke with "60 Minutes'' about Mitrokhin's note-taking and smuggling activities over a 12-year period that began in the early 1970s when he was put in charge of moving the KGB archives to a new site. Mitrokhin, now 77 and living as a British citizen under an assumed name, was motivated by apparent disillusionment over Soviet crackdowns on dissidents. "I wanted to show the efforts, the tremendous efforts of this machine of evil,'' Mitrokhin told the BBC. "And I wanted to demonstrate what happens when the foundations of conscience are trampled over and when other moral principles are forgotten. I regarded this as my duty as a Russian patriot.'' Mitrokhin divulges a trove of information about KGB efforts in the United States, including an aggressive disinformation attempt to pin the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the Central Intelligence Agency. But a major disclosure involves Mitrokhin's claim that Soviet spies surveyed hundreds of potential sabotage sites in the United States and Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. ''As part of that,'' according to "60 Minutes'' "they buried booby trapped arms caches near some of the targets.'' The explosives presumably are still there. In the United States, the KGB sabotage plan covered areas across the country. One of the first targets identified by the KGB was an oil pipeline running from El Paso, Texas, to Costa Mesa, California. The Hungry Horse Dam in Montana also was on the list as was a "tremendously elaborate system'' for knocking out electrical power to New York state, "60 Minutes'' reports. Mitrokhin's files, said "60 Minutes,'' did not "spell out'' how many explosives were buried in the United States or their exact locations, but Andrew says in his U.S. TV interview that the Kremlin knows where they are. In Europe, Andrew said one of the sabotage sites was ''checked out'' in Switzerland. Mitrokhin's directions were followed "precisely'' and when investigators began to dig, they uncovered something dangerous. "They turned a fire hose (on the site) and it exploded,'' he said. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
