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}}}>Begin Printable Version of topic -The War Room (http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/ikonboard.cgi) --War Room Gazette (http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/ forums.cgi?forum=11) ---Reaping what Clinton sowed (http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/warroom/ forums.cgi?forum=11&topic=97) -- Posted by Henrietta Bowman on 1:55 pm on Mar. 27, 2002 "Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." "We are moving toward a New World Order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road." -- Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to the Politburo in November of 1987. Gorbachev warned us. So did quite a few Soviet defectors, not to mention many excellent writers. The eight years of the commie-loving Clinton administration harmed American national security more than any administration in our history. We are now reaping the results. --Henrietta http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,673452,00.html Russian mobsters tighten their grip on LA Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Monday March 25, 2002 The Guardian Four bodies pulled from a reservoir in California are believed to be the latest victims of a huge organised crime network run by mobsters from the former Soviet Union. What is now surfacing, along with the corpses, is a picture of a highly intelligent criminal organisation that far outstrips in numbers and sophistication the traditional Italian mafia and any other such group in the US. The bodies are believed to be those of two businessmen, a bookkeeper, and one of their associates. All four were from the former Soviet Union and had settled in Los Angeles. They are believed to have been kidnapped, held for ransom, killed and their bodies dumped in the water. A fifth body was found floating in the reservoir in October. The discoveries have been followed by the arrest of four men, also from the former Soviet Union, who are alleged to have kidnapped one of the victims, Alexander Umansky, the president of Advanced Mobile Technologies in Hollywood and held him for a $250,000 (�175,000) ransom. Two of the suspects are alleged to have kidnapped another victim, George Safiev, president of a film production company, Matador Media, and held him for a $5m ransom. Two other Russians have been charged with receiving ransom money. The three other bodies found were those of Matador Media's chief executive officer, Nick Kharabadze; the bookkeeper Rita Pekler, 39, one of whose clients was Safiev; and the property developer Myer Muscatel. Kharabadze, the son of the Georgian actress Ruiko Kiknadze, was well known in Hollywood's film community. His family contacted the Georgian president, Eduard Shevardnadze, to ask him to enlist President Bush's help after last year's kidnapping. The abductions focused attention on the enormous growth in the US of organised crime groups from eastern Europe, and specifically the former Soviet Union. Anthony Colannino, deputy district attorney for LA, who specialises in Russian organised crime, said that between 1970 and 1985 about 300,000 legal Soviet immigrants entered the US, of whom 5,000-10,000 were "hardened criminals". There are now, he says, tens of thousands entering the US every year illegally, many crossing the Mexican border and going to LA. "They include ex-KGB officers, former special forces and government officers. They're very good at computer crime, electronic balance fraud, insurance fraud, pimping, narcotics, loan sharking, racketeering." They preferred to avoid violent crime, if possible, Mr Colannino said, "but they'll kill you if they have to". "Unlike the old Italian mob, who would send flowers to your wife after they'd killed you, they'll kill you, your wife, your children, your uncle, your cousins, your neighbours. They're bloody ruthless, they really are." Mr Colannino said that mobsters from the former Soviet Union now constituted the largest ethnically based crime group in the US. "The Italian mob have got fat and lazy like the rest of us Americans, but they [from the former Soviet Union] are used to hardship. You throw them in prison, they're living better than they were before." The growth of crime run by immigrants from the former Soviet Union is also penetrating the public consciousness. In the film Training Day it is the Russian mafia who appear at the end of the film, cackling as they riddle Denzil Washington's bent LA cop with bullets. Italian-American groups protest that they have been unfairly stereotyped for too long as criminals in movies. Now they may be handing the mantle on to the Russians. ~~~~~~~ http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/28/90942.shtml 'Red Mafia' Operating in the U.S. � Helping Terrorists Col. Stanislav Lunev Monday, Oct. 1, 2001 I would like to reveal to you today some "secrets" about the Russian mafia. Some background first. There are thousands of Mafia-type organized crime syndicates in Russia, including about 200 operating in Moscow alone, and more than 300 functioning internationally, according to Russian police estimates. Total membership of these gangs, known to intelligence sources as a "Red Mafia," approximates almost 1 million "soldiers" � or the equivalent of all the Russian army's ground forces. The Red Mafia is the continuation of Russia's Communist old guard. This is why the Russian mafia is totally controlled and populated by "ex-KGB" and "ex-GRU" agents. In reality, these men still work for Russian intelligence agencies and are still communist and still intent on destroying America � but today they have a new front and one that appears to the West less menacing. The Red Mafia is up to all the same tricks the KGB engaged in, but now Western leaders dismiss the problems as simply a "mafia" one rather than blaming the Russian government. The Russians are providing nuclear technology to rogue countries like Iran � and the Americans and media here buy the excuse that "the mafia" is doing it � as Russian leaders say, "We have no control over it." This is the same mafia that staged a series of apartment bombings in Russia � using, guess who, groups linked to Osama bin Laden. Today, U.S. intelligence experts believe that almost two-thirds of all commercial institutions in Russia, some 400 banks (those in Moscow alone control more than 80 percent of the country's finances), dozens of stock exchanges, and hundreds of large government enterprises are controlled by the mobs. About 40 percent of the GDP in Russia is in the hands of organized crime, working in concert with corrupt officials and businessmen. These are striking figures, especially when compared to a range of 5 percent to 7 percent in the industrialized countries and up to 30 percent for some African and Latin American nations. Of course this is Russia's domestic problem, but unfortunately now it is not only Russia's, because about 30 of the most powerful and dangerous Russian gangs are already operating in almost all American states. Using practically unlimited resources from Russia, these criminal syndicates are working independently and in close cooperation with local gangsters to establish control over America's profitable small and medium-size businesses. In addition, Russian mobsters are penetrating the most sensitive areas of large U.S. companies and corporations, stealing their secrets to sell and using stolen data for their own illegal activities. They are also very busy destroying local life by taking a very active part in contract murder, extortion and racketeering, money laundering, fraud, prostitution, and other criminal "business." Russian mobsters also pay very close attention to drug trafficking, considering this area as most promising and profitable. In this activity Russian mobsters are using their international connections and expertise in cooperation with the most dangerous drug cartels of Latin American countries. The seizure last May of 20 tons of cocaine from two "fishing boats" off the West Coast, manned by Russian and Ukrainian crewmen, has raised concerns in the U.S. intelligence community that Mexican drug cartels are doing business with the Red Mafia. American experts believe that drug cartels in Mexico, considered to be among the world's most ruthless, have followed the lead of Colombian cocaine smugglers in forging alliances with the Russian mobsters and other Eastern European crime syndicates. Led by the Arellano-Felix cartel in Tijuana, those alliances have been firmly established and involved in the shipment of both cocaine and heroin. It is known that Colombian drug cartels established connections with the Russian Mafia as early as 1992. Russian mobsters, who operated from New York, Florida and Puerto Rico, moved quickly to help the Colombians import drugs into Europe through Italy. Employing many former KGB agents, Russian criminal syndicates controlled almost all banks in Moscow and St. Petersburg and established others in Panama and the Caribbean to launder billions of dollars in illicit drug profits for themselves as well as for the Colombians. As NewsMax.com reported, the partnership gave the Colombians a new market for their cocaine and heroin, nearly all of which previously had been destined for the U.S. It also provided the Colombians with an access to sophisticated weapons, intelligence-gathering equipment and other military hardware, including dozens of airplanes and helicopters, and special super-speedboats now being used to ferry drugs out of the country. Chillingly, they almost got a Russian submarine for drug smuggling but the FBI destroyed the deal. Russian criminals are also very busy in cyberspace, considering this area a most profitable one for their future profits and development. The Red Mafia is working very carefully in cyberspace, and the real scope of this criminal activity is still little known by the American people. Until now we have known only about some cases involving Russian criminals and small-crime groups, which were disclosed by the U.S. law-enforcement agencies. However, Russian hackers are blamed for a series of spectacular feats in recent years, particularly for stealing secret Microsoft source codes, ransacking the Pentagon's computers, hacking into NATO's military websites, posting thousands of credit card numbers on the Internet, and stealing million of dollars from Western banks. According to press reports, Russian hackers first captured the world's imagination in 1994, when a young mathematician, Vladimir Levin, hacked into the computers of Citibank and transferred $12 million to the bank accounts of his friends around the world. He conducted the entire operation from his little one-room apartment in St. Petersburg. Levin was arrested, but his case inspired other hackers, for example, Ilya Hoffman, a talented viola student at the Moscow Conservatory, who was detained in 1998 on charges of stealing $97,000 over the Internet. Another group of Russians stole more than $630,000 by hacking into Internet retailers and grabbing credit card numbers. Some of the world's biggest Internet companies, including CompuServe and AOL, were forced to abandon Russia in 1997 because of the widespread use of stolen passwords. Currently, Russian hackers are very busy in coordinated attacks on commercial and military computers in the U.S. and other members of NATO. When the North Atlantic alliance launched its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia in 1999, Russian hackers retaliated with their own wave of attacks on NATO member countries, breaking into their websites, posting anti-war slogans and overloading them with floods of junk e- mails. In October 2000, a sustained break-in of Microsoft's highest-security network was traced back to a computer address in St. Petersburg. In January of the same year, an unidentified Russian hacker calling himself MAXUS stole more than 300,000 credit card numbers from CD Universe in an extortion bid, but was never caught. This list could go on and on, but there is no surprise over the quality of Russian hackers, who are extremely well-educated and talented. However, in Moscow there is a special training center for hackers named the Civil Hackers' School, which exists with the support of Russia's intelligence services and criminal syndicates. Officially, the school is preparing specialists for legitimate jobs in computer security by shaping the new generation of computer whiz kids. But in reality it is providing high-level training for young Russian hackers, who have provoked fear and anxiety in the West. Since 1996 this Civil Hackers' School, operating from a shabby little Moscow apartment, has trained several hundred highly trained hackers, who find jobs in the Russian intelligence community as well as in organized crime groups. In the high-stakes game pitting fleet-fingered Russian hackers against the giants of American e-commerce and law enforcement, the Russians have been winning almost every time. All of these crimes, however, pale in comparison to the sheer size and scope of a hacking and extortion web that was so large that the FBI took the unusual step of warning the public about it in a March 2001 press release. In this document, the FBI cited the ongoing danger from several organized hacker groups from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia and Ukraine, who were responsible for stealing more than 1 million credit card numbers and attacking the networks of over 40 businesses in 20 states of the U.S. Nobody apparently knows, or perhaps even cares, how deeply the Red Mafia has already penetrated the American establishment. But the danger of this activity is already real in many American states and needs very close attention from U.S. law enforcement agencies, which until now have not been able to cope with this problem. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2000_hr/hr_012400.htm Russian Threats to United States Security in the Post-Cold War Era a hearing before the House Government Reform Committee, January 24, 2000 (You really need to read this. --HB) http://www.politicaltexan.com/wwwboard/messages/38.html Russians Training Secret Army in US Defector Says ~~~~~ Our immigration policies of the past eight years will come back to haunt us. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no04/vo12no04_gates.htm Enemy Within the Gates Russian Mafia "Then there are the hundreds of thousands of �migr�s from the Soviet Union. What kinds of security measures have been taken to screen these recent arrivals? Almost none. Which is why the Russian mafia is cutting such a ferocious swath of terror across America. "Long before the Russian mafia had become a sexy media topic, the Soviet Union was deeply involved in promoting organized criminal activity in the U.S. and other Western nations. The 1980 Mariel boatlift initiated by Moscow's surrogate in Havana is a striking case in point. Genaro Perez, a defector from Castro's secret police, the DGI (which operates under the control of the Soviet KGB), revealed that the Mariel operation was part of Fidel's 'Plan Bravo' to insert agents who would 'incite Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and blacks' to riot and revolution. Another DGI defector, Mario Estebez Gonzalez, testified that he and about 3,000 other Cuban agents infiltrated into the U.S. among the 130,000 Marielitos. "These and other defectors also revealed the Soviet-Cuban plans for expanded narco-terrorism, the use of narcotics both as a weapon to destabilize and subvert American society and to fund terrorist group operations. The communist/drug cartel/terrorist connection, which has been exposed in numerous studies and congressional hearings, was most definitively revealed in Red Cocaine, the authoritative 1990 book by national security expert Dr. Joseph D. Douglass Jr. "However, Dr. Douglass' message has fallen on deaf ears, as have the warnings of many of those who have gone before him. In 1968, General Major Jan Sejna, one of the highest-ranking officials of the Communist Czechoslovak regime, defected, bringing with him detailed knowledge of the Soviet narco-terrorism plan launched in 1956. German defense analyst Hans Graf Huyn explains: "In 1956, the Soviet Union started a project studying the use of drugs as a means of destabilizing Western society. The project was organized under the auspices of the Soviet "Defense Committee" in cooperation with the KGB, the GRU, the Ministry of Health and the Soviet Academy of Sciences.... Following Directive M-220/00-0050 of 16 July by the Bulgarian state security service [KDS], over 50% of heroin trade in Europe, plus a proportion of the North American trade, was managed by KDS through its 'trade organization,' KINTEX, at Boulevard Antonov 66, Sofia. At KINTEX, Western mafia groups delivered heroin in exchange for firearms which were transferred to terrorist groups operating in the West.... The Cuban and Nicaraguan intelligence services, both affiliated to the KGB (GRU), organize drug operations out of Colombia into the United States. "Once the narcotics are in the U.S. they are fed into distribution systems that are dominated by criminal syndicates composed almost entirely of recent immigrants (legal and illegal) from Russia, Ukraine, Jamaica, China, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Haiti, Mexico, the Mideast, etc. What percentage of the massive drug trafficking business is run by freshly arrived foreigners? THE NEW AMERICAN asked that question of Special Agent John Dowd, who recently retired from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) after 25 years on the front lines of the drug war. Agent Dowd replied: 'I'd say conservatively 90 percent.' Joseph Occhipinti, the legendary DEA/INS officer who now heads the National Police Defense Foundation, concurs, saying that there's no question that the drug trade is 'overwhelmingly in the hands of aliens' who have taken full advantage of our pitifully lax immigration laws." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20010926- 945878 Bin Laden terror group tries to acquire chemical arms Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 9/26/2001 U.S. intelligence agencies have uncovered new information that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group, al Qaeda, are acquiring from the Russian mafia components for weapons of mass destruction. Bin Laden, the key suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, also is believed by U.S. intelligence to have a secret nuclear weapons laboratory inside Afghanistan, say officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. ~~~~~~~ http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has299010.000/ has299010_0.htm RUSSIAN THREAT PERCEPTIONS AND PLANS FOR SABOTAGE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES A MUST read! http://www.gangland.net/russian_mafia.htm Russian Mafia Russian organized crime has become a significant problem for California law enforcement agencies. During the past several years, some Russian emigres have established a growing number of loosely structured criminal networks in this state that are involved... NOTE: This lists US cities with heaviest Russian Mafia presence. 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