>From: "Claudia K White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >DATE: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:02:50 >From: "secr (MG!)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Claudia K >White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: > [L-I] Imperialist secret services and the war in Chechnya > > Date: > Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:30:44 +0100 > From: > "Johannes Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: > 1 > > > > >Recent postings led me to the conclusion that some listers think >imperialist >states (Germany, UK, US) are actively supporting the Islamic rebels in > >Chechyna. I would like to know, what to make out of the following >article. > >Johannes > > >St.Petersburg Times, April 11, 2000 > >http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/558/news/n_report.htm > >Report Says Russian, Western Security Services in Collusion > >By Simon Saradzhyan >STAFF WRITER > >MOSCOW - Western voices have been among the loudest criticizing the >war in >Chechnya, but recent reports suggest American, British, French and >German >secret services have all provided Moscow with intelligence about the >Chechen >rebels. > >The reports, in the German and Russian news media, have been partially > >confirmed by German government officials, and have become something of >a >scandal in German national politics. > >Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition of Greens and Social-Demo >crats is >under some strain, with Green politicians - already unhappy with the >government over last year's NATO war in Yugoslavia - angrily demanding > >explanations. > >"Anything which indirectly supported or helped launch the war in >Chechnya >would demand absolute condemnation," Christian Stroebele, a left-wing >Greens >member of parliament, told ARD television. > >German and Russian agents swapped low-grade intelligence on whether >the >Chechens were being financed by international Islamic groups, the >magazine >Der Spiegel reported. > >"[The intelligence traded] was not much, certainly nothing decisive," >Der >Spiegel quoted an unnamed agent of Germany's main foreign intelligence > >agency, the BND, as saying. He then added, "The Americans, the British >and >the French gave far more precise information." > >BND chief August Hanning also traveled last month to Gudermes, Chech >nya's >second city, German government sources told the Deutsche >Press-Agentur. > >Hanning was seeking a firsthand view of the situation on the ground, >the >DPA's sources said, and the Segodnya newspaper reported he would next >week >present his conclusion - that a low-level guerrilla war in Chechnya >will >drag on for years - to the Bundestag. > >Der Spiegel reported that Hanning also offered Russian security >services >information about foreign Islamic groups that might be working with >the >Chechens. > >Ernst Uhrlau, the government coordinator of Germany's secret services, > >confirmed Friday that the Russian government had asked Western >governments >for intelligence assistance after a series of explosions in September >destroyed apartments. > >"Three hundred people were killed in those attacks last autumn," >Uhrlau told >ARD television in Germany, Reuters reported. "A request was made at >that >point to the Federal Republic, and to other states, to help with >intelligence." > >A spokesperson for the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, would > >neither confirm nor deny reports that the chief of the BND had visited > >Russia, or that intelligence had been swapped with Western secret >services. > >No further comment could be had by press time Monday from either the >German, >British or American governments. > >But some Russian intelligence figures were citing Hanning's visit as >proof >that the Western secret services view Chechnya as the Russians do - as >a >source of terrorism and instability. > >Nikolai Leonov, a former deputy head of the KGB's foreign intelligence > >branch, contrasted that pragmatic Western security service approach >with >that of Western parliamentarians and public politicians. > >"Secret services are far less emotional when it comes to the Chechen >campaign. For them, it is more of a hotbed of terrorism that can >spread to >their countries than a place where human rights are abused," Leonov >said. > >Leonov said Russia's intelligence community would sometimes swap >low-grade >data on terrorists with the West even at the height of Cold War. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leninist-International mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > > > >--------- End Forwarded Message ------------ > ============================= >Claudia White~Main Line News >Campaign International >http://www.angelfire.com/ut/Angel1 >Web Read & Subscription Info ;) >http://www.egroups.com/messages/MainLineNews >============================= > > > >Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at >http://comm.lycos.com > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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