*** A TIME FOR WAR?: The Unpopular Truth... ***
J. Adams
March 5th, 1998
The Spirit Of Truth Page
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/
During the past seven years I have been struggling to get out
"The Truth" as opposed to antichristian lies that dominate the
world today. Unfortunately, I have been basically alone in this
effort. Thus, "The Lie" has prevailed and now it looks as if the
consequences are about to be realized in the form of a third
world war and the establishment of a global dictatorship of man
that will falsely claim to be a "kingdom of god".
At the current time it looks as if the United States is being
provoked into taking military action against Russia's historical
allies: Serbia and Iraq. This is a trap that has been set to
create a pretext for a military coup in Moscow and the rise of a
nationlist Russian dictator, possibly Vladimir Zhirinovsky. This
dictator, in turn, will wage an all-out, apocalyptic war against
the West now that the Western powers are least prepared and
Russia is no longer deemed an enemy of world freedom.
The reality, however, is that Russia is an ultimate enemy to
world freedom right now and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, or whatever
dictator is brought to power, is working on behalf of Mikhail
Gorbachev and the military/KGB establishment of the "former"
Soviet Union (the prophetic "Beast"). The West has been
intentionally misled into an ultimate false sense of security.
This Russian strategic deception is serving two main purposes.
First off, it has misled the West into dropping its guard so that
the East can attack most surprisingly and effectively. Secondly,
since the West is no longer militarily intimidated by Russia, the
Western powers, and America in particularly, can be lured into
throwing the first punches of world war three. In this way,
blame can be projected on to the West for unleashing the global
holocaust of mass destruction a third world war entails. Thus,
after the dust settles, Russia can replace any sort of evil
military dictatorship that fought world war three with a
seemingly benevolent government led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Since
the Western powers will be destroyed and considered responsible
for triggering global war, Russia can establish a globally-
dominant and popularly-supported regime, i.e., a global
dictatorship.
In relation to the developing situation, below are some
articles I have written over the years pertaining to the coming
war. The first article, entitled "A Time For War", was written
in February of 1993 for my college newspaper, but the editor
refused to publish it. The second article, what I've dubbed "The
Balkan Trap", was published in the paper after a good deal of
argument. When printed, it was entitled: "Involvement With
Serbia Will Trigger World War Three"- a title that might prove
very prescient. Lastly, a more recent article, called "Stop The
Delusion!", is presented to explain what Mikhail Gorbachev is
really all about.
All in all, my argument in these articles is as mentioned
above, that the Western powers are being provoked into taking
military action against historical Russian allies like Iraq and
the Serbs in order to stir a nationalist backlash in Russia.
This, in turn, will set the stage for a military coup in Russia
and the rise of a militant, anti-Western dictator, I believe
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who will unleash a third world war against
the U.S. and its allies now that the West least expects such a
conflict and is least prepared. After the dust settles and the
Western powers are destroyed, Russia's seeming dictator will be
overthrown and Mikhail Gorbachev will return to power, this time
on a global-scale, and supposedly save the world from self-
destruction. In this way, Gorbachev and his cohorts, who in
reality planned the coming holocaust, will be upheld as world
saviors. Accordingly, Orthodox Christianity can be established
as an ideological front in the place of Communism, and a
worldwide church-based state can be established that will be
man's false "kingdom of god"- the antithesis of what the Kingdom
of God would truly be.
In order to counter the antichristian lies that dominate this
world and are leading civilization into a holocaust of mass
destruction and a global dictatorship, I have been seeking to
tell "The Truth". Unfortunately, I have met little success thus
far. Rather than accepting reality and preventing self-
destruction, modern society, rampant with self-deluding greed and
arrogance, has utterly rejected the truth to the point of
considering me out of touch with reality and insane. It seems to
me, however, that I'm probably the last person still in touch
with reality and it is man as a species that is deluded and
insane. What's more, man poses a danger to himself and the
planet he inhabits.
How will the world's insanity be cured? Only by accepting
God's truth over the lies of this world and acting accordingly.
Since the Antichrist sees this coming, he will seek to abuse
God's truth for his own self-serving benefit. This is what
Russia's conversion from the lie of Communism to the lie of
Orthodoxy is all about. It is this antichristian lie that needs
to be exposed and rejected first and foremost for God's truth to
prevail and for the world to be saved. If "The Lie" is defeated
and "The Truth" prevails, then social harmony and the true
Kingdom of God will be realized. To this End, please read below.
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***A TIME FOR WAR***
By J. Adams
February, 1993
Soon after he came to power in the Soviet Union, Mikhail
Gorbachev released a book entitled 'A Time For Peace'. With the
emergence of Gorbachev and his supposedly peace-oriented ways,
the West took great comfort that finally the militant East would
no longer pose a threat and the Cold War could be brought to an
end. Indeed, everything, right up to the breakup of Russia's so-
called 'communist' empire, has taken place to lead us to believe
'it is peace for our time'. But really, is it a 'New World Order'
and global peace which is at hand, or a new world disorder and
global war.
Increasingly popular opinion is calling for no appeasement in
Yugoslavia. More and more Americans are urging Western military
intervention in Yugoslavia to bring stability to the region.
However, let it be clear that the West should have refrained from
appeasement long ago, but not with Serbia- with Russia.
There is reason to believe that what the West is walking into
right now is a trap set by Moscow in which Yugoslavia and Iraq
are the bait.
The explosive ethnic conflict taking place today in what was
once Yugoslavia is a product of blatant Serbian aggression. It
turns out, however, that Serbia is being sponsored by its
historical slavic ally: Russia. More specifically, even though
there is a tight arms embargo on Yugoslavia, the Russians are
continuing to underhandedly supply the Serbs with the weapons
being used to overrun Bosnia. That Russia is doing this
completely goes against Moscow's supposed devotion to resolving
the crisis and preserving the New World Order of international
cooperation, peace, and security. Furthermore, it raises serious
questions about just what is going on in the Balkans.
Russia's suspect activity with regard to Yugoslavia, however,
shadows in comparison to its policy towards Iraq.
For those who have not been watching (e.g., the Western
media), Russia sent a senior diplomat to Baghdad for three days
during the second week of February whose stated purpose was to
"consolidate friendly ties with Iraq". This visit has significant
implications. First off, it establishes growing open Russian
support for Saddam Hussein. Secondly, just as with arming Serbia,
building ties with Iraq is profoundly inconsistent with Moscow's
supposed devotion to international peace and security.
Russia's handshake with Saddam in February should come as no
surprise to those who have kept a critical eye on Moscow and
Baghdad since the Gulf Crisis broke out in the summer of 1990.
There has been strong indications that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
and the subsequent Gulf War were part of a large-scale deception
being engineered by Russia. Iraq and Russia had been close allies
for some thirty years going into the invasion, and it thus makes
sense that Moscow has been behind Saddam Hussein's seemingly
irrational actions from day one.
The strong alliance that developed between Moscow and Baghdad
during the 1970's and 1980's can be directly attributed to the
personal efforts of Saddam Hussein. Saddam played a principal
role in forging an Iraqi 'Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation'
with Russia in 1972, and when Saddam took over power in 1979, he
signed an agreement on military cooperation and strategic
consultation with then Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov. During
the 1980's the Soviets helped Saddam consolidate his power and
built Iraq into a regional military superpower. Given the deep
and dependent relationship he formed with Moscow, it is clear
Saddam would have never pulled-off a stunt as reckless as
invading Kuwait and challenging the West without the Kremlin's
approval.
The reality, however, is that Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was
not only approved by Russia, it was planned and carried out under
the orders and supervision of Moscow. During the six months prior
to the invasion, Soviet arms deliveries to Iraq accelerated to
twice the rate of the 1980's when Iraq was in an all-out war with
Iran. Two weeks before the invasion, the Soviets launched a
military reconnaisance satellite over the Gulf and sent one of
their top generals to Iraq along with a small expert staff. This
general and his delegation, along with the 8,000 Soviet personnel
that were already in Iraq, provided direct 'Quality Edge'
military assistance to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Soviet
assistance in planning and executing the invasion was made clear
by the surprising similarity of the operation to the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
In the aftermath of the invasion, Moscow did everything it
took to open the way for a Western-led attack against Saddam
Hussein's forces but continued to underhandedly support its Iraqi
ally. Even though it clearly went against Soviet strategic
interests, Moscow, for the first time in post-war history,
cooperated with the West in the United Nations so that a U.S.-led
military coalition could launch a war to free Kuwait from Iraqi
occupation. Meanwhile, the Soviets continued to send arms to Iraq
in violation of an international embargo, they fed Iraq
intelligence on Western forces building up in the Gulf, and
Soviet personnel helped the Iraqis jam eavesdropping by Western
aircraft.
With the Gulf War, Moscow continued to work behind the scenes
with Iraq. The Soviets continued to underhandedly ship arms to
Iraq and, as the National Defense Council Foundation later
reported, Soviet personnel were "all over the place" on the
battlefield. Russian language military communiques were
persistently heard on Iraqi radio networks; Soviet technicians
"continued to tune radars, fix tanks and planes and advise
(Iraqi) combat units down to the battalion level"; and the
Soviets supplied targeting information to Iraq and had their
personnel "help the Iraqis fire SCUD missiles at Israel and Saudi
Arabia".
The reason that Moscow has been deceptively making peace with
one hand and war with the other in the Persian Gulf and the
Balkans should be clear. Throughout Russian history, strategic
deception and military aggression has been the central way by
which the Kremlin has expanded its control. This approach served
Russia well in dominating virtually the entire East of this
world, and so it should come as no surprise that such a strategy
is now being used to conquer the world.
If the West intervenes in Yugoslavia and renews hostilities
against Iraq, you can bet that Russia will suddenly do a total
about-face. As Western military action is taken, a militant
neofascist dictator can be brought to power in Russia by throwing
some sort of bogus coup like in August 1991. This dictator- and
I'll even tell you his name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky- can then be
used to launch a third world war against Israel, America, and the
Western allies, just as had been planned from the beginning by
Gorbachev. Because it will appear to stem from Western military
intervention in Yugoslavia and Iraq, the supposed power shift in
Russia and seemingly consequent world war will be blamed on the
'imperialist' actions of the West rather than the premeditated
efforts of the guilty East. After the dust settles, Gorbachev
can reemerge to power claiming that 'he' has come to save the
world from self-destruction. Russian orthodoxy can be
established in the place of communism and a global dictatorship
of man- Gorbachev's false 'kingdom of god'- will be achieved.
It seems as with Europe during the late-1930's, the world
today has been easily deceived. Just as Hitler made peace before
war in accordance with his 'Big Lie' dictum, Russia has
befriended America and its allies over the last several years in
accordance with deceptive long-run strategic planning. Like with
Neville Chamberlain, we should have never appeased our enemy's
lies by signing 'paper' treaties and overlooking the gross
inconsistencies in the words and actions of our foe which have
invariably pointed toward an underlying intention to make war
rather than peace. If you want to be set free, no longer falsely
believe it is 'peace for our time' as Chamberlain foolishly
proclaimed in 1938. Find the courage to accept the truth. It is a
time for war...
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REFERENCES
Barkho, Leon. "Russian envoy arrives in Baghdad". 'Reuters
Library Report': 2/8/93.
Bodansky, Yossef. "Moscow's careful juggling act in the Persian
Gulf". 'Defense and Foreign Affairs' Strategic Policy': 12/90;
p18.
Daily, Brian (ed). 'Soviet Strategic Deception'. Hoover
Institution Press; Stanford, CA: 1987.
Douglass, Joseph. 'Soviet Strategy for Nuclear War'. Hoover
Institution Press; Stanford, CA: 1979.
Johnson, Michael. "Strategic Simpletons". 'The Geopolitical
Strategist': 1/1/91.
Pipes, Richard. "Why the Soviet Union Thinks it could Fight & Win
a Nuclear War". 'Commentary': 7/77; p21.
Schweizer, Peter. "Is Moscow playing cute on Kuwait?". 'The New
York Times': 8/22/90; pA25.
Sleeper, Raymond (ed). 'Mesmerized by the Bear: the Soviet
Strategy of Deception'. Dodd, Mead & Co.; New York, NY: 1987.
Walte, Juan. "Some secrets of Gulf War might never be told".
'Gannett News Service': 3/19/91.
"Washington Whispers: Brothers in arms". 'U.S. News & World
Report': 8/10/92; p18.
Yanov, Alexander. 'The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000'.
Basil Blackwell Inc.; New York, NY: 1987.
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***THE BALKAN TRAP***
(Published in February, 1994 with the title:
"Involvement With Serbia Will Trigger World War Three".
By J. Adams
February, 1994
"If we presume the coming transformation of the
Communist Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of
the Soviet Union, we would obtain truly the ideal
state, one which would fulfill the historical destiny
of the Russian people. It is a question of the
Orthodoxization of the entire world."
(Gennadii Shimanov)
"The messianic significance of Russia in relation to
the West is beyond doubt. Slavophilism alone can
still save the West from parliamentarism, unbelief,
and dynamite."
(Aleksei Kireev)
(Quotes taken from opening page of Alexander Yanov's
'The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000'.)
As the West prepares to take military action against the
Serbs, the world holds its breath wondering what will happen
next. For anyone who knows the truth, however, the future is
clear. Western military intervention in the Balkans is being
intentionally provoked by the Russian-backed Serbs in order to
trigger world war three.
The general strategy is to provoke the West into taking
military action against Russia's slavic brethren in order to
create a pretext for a Zhirinovsky coup and massive Russian
military aggression against the West.
Notably, Zhirinovsky visited Serbia the week prior to the
current crisis and declared that he would consider any action by
NATO against Serbia an act of war against Russia. More
specifically, Zhirinovsky proclaimed: "if a single bomb falls on
Serbia we will consider that an attack on Russia". Last year I
wrote an editorial, entitled "A Time For War", in which I warned
that Russia is setting a trap so that, when Western military
action is taken against the Serbs (and Iraq), "a militant
neofacist dictator can be brought to power in Russia....That
dictator- and I'll even tell you his name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky-
can then be used to launch a third world war against Israel,
America, and the Western allies...". Unfortunately, everyone
appears to be ignoring the meaning of my editorials as well as
the implications of "The Zhirinovsky Connection".
The reason I was able to anticipate the crisis the world is
currently being drawn into a year ago is because I believe the
world has been totally deceived. As I see it, ever since Mikhail
Gorbachev came to power in the mid-1980's and introduced his "New
Thinking", Russia has been living by its old thinking in a new
and far more dangerous form. One way to explain the unbelievable
reversal in Russia's behavior over the past decade most likely
stems from the "Russian Idea". In his books, 'The Russian New
Right' (1978), and 'The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000'
(1987), Sovietologist Alexander Yanov describes an ideological
transformation that was taking place at the top of the Soviet
power structure during the 1970's and early 1980's. This
transformation stemmed from Russia's historical messianic
complex. According to the "New Right", Russia's mission is to
save the world from the evils of liberalism and democracy by
waging an apocalyptic war against the West so that a global
orthodox dictatorship can be established. Before doing this,
however, communism needed to be overthrown and the Soviet empire
disbanded so that Russia could get back to its "spiritual roots".
As I see it, when Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, the
program of the Russian Right (Slavophiles), not the Left
(Westernizers), began to be implemented. Gorbachev's "New
Thinking", based upon the Russian Idea, was a long-term plan to
bring about exactly what we see today: communism is overthrown,
the Soviet empire disbanded, and, now that the West is most
vulnerable, Russia is about to have Zhirinovsky launch world war
three. After the dust settles and the West is defeated, Gorbachev
will undoubtedly reemerge to power and claim he is saving the
world from self-destruction. A global orthodox dictatorship will
then be formed by a man who is a liar and murderer from the
beginning.
The crucial point here is that what we are witnessing is a
total lie. Gorbachev extended Lenin's strategy to defeat the West
from "tell them what they want to hear" to "show them what they
want to see". History has been shaped over the past decade to fit
what Westerners *want* to believe: instead of communism and
dictatorship, there's been freedom and democracy; instead of an
arms race and Cold War, there's been arms reductions and world
peace. Unfortunately, it has all been literally too good to be
true. As KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn correctly anticipated, we
have simply been told 'New Lies for Old' (1984), while "the
fundamental nature and the objectives of the reformed adversary,
i.e., the Soviet Union, have not changed (quote from a letter
written to 20/20 in 1992)". Because the world has foolishly
accepted the lies of "The Old Enemy", it is about to receive the
opposite of what is expected: a third world war and global
dictatorship.
As it stands the West is being provoked into throwing the
first punches of world war three. While Zhirinovsky's rise to
power and the outbreak of global war will appear to stem from, at
the least, Western military action against Russia's historical
Serbian ally, let it be clear that this is deceptive. Countries
like Serbia are Russian puppet states, and Zhirinovsky is KGB.
Regardless of what people may *want* to believe, the West is
being framed for triggering world war three, and Zhirinovsky is
the scapegoat for what is truly *Gorbachev's* ultimate crime
against humanity.
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A provocative example that the Russian Right
is behind the transformation taking place
in Russia is the following articles:
Medvedev, A. "Orthodox Church instead of the communist party".
'Moscow News': 1/24/94; p6.
"Moscow Churches will be restored". 'Moscow News': 1/24/94; p14.
The following recent articles are very noteworthy:
Kaplan, Fred. "Russian church, shedding shady past, seeks new
role". 'Boston Globe': 9/27/94; p1.
Stanley, Alessandra. "From Repression to Respect, Russian Church
in Comeback". 'New York Times': 10/3/94; pA1.
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One of the most suspicious features of the move to restore
the Russian Orthodox Church in recent years is the renovation and
rebuilding of churches. Even though the Russian government is
supposedly broke (recently it was reported that electricity had
been shut-off to the command & control center of Russia's
strategic nuclear weapons because the military has failed to pay
its utility bills), it has been able to come up with money for a
massive campaign to restore and rebuild Russian Orthodox
Churches. In the Moscow area alone the number of churches has
surged from 130 to 600. Clearly this indicates that the
transformation to an Orthodox state is well underway.
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***STOP THE DELUSION***
By J. Adams
October 13th, 1997
If you fancy yourself as someone with the guts to face the
truth, could you please tell me what the hell this is all
about?!:
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WHAT THE HELL IS THIS...
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SOME INTRIGUING GORBY QUOTES:
(Note that Gorbachev supposedly "resigned"
on Christmas Day of 1991.)
On Friday, October 25, 1996 ABC television commentator
Charles Gibson asked Mikhail Gorbachev the following
question during an interview:
"It is an interesting paradox to so many Americans-
you are so honored throughout the world for
fundamental changes, but, I don't have to recite the
election results to you, in the last election you got
a very small, tiny percent of the vote. Why is
Gorbachev seen so differently outside Russia and
inside Russia?"
This was Gorbachev's response:
"Well, let's recall another example. Jesus Christ was
pelted with stones. He was blamed and condemned, and
then he was put with a bandit and they were taken for
execution. And when it was said that one of them could
be spared, the people said the bandit should be spared
and Christ was crucified."
Here are some more recent quotes from Mr. Gorbachev:
"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
peoples."
(from Gorbachev's new book- 'Memoirs')
"The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ,
not (Karl) Marx."
(USA Today, October 28th, 1996)
"Jesus Christ, he was also a reformer. He was pelted
with stones and insulted."
(New York Times, October 25th, 1996)
The excerpt below is from Reuters World Service, December 8,
1996, Sunday, BC cycle:
HEADLINE: FEATURE - "Vital Gorbachev refuses to let go of
politics"
(Gorbachev) is frank, though hardly contrite, about the
failures of judgement that led him to promote to senior
positions the very men who would plot to overthrow him in
1991.
"How do you explain Judas -- right there next to Jesus
Christ?" he asks. "How do you explain that? And Christ
did not recognise him for what he was. You could say
that's a metaphor."
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What are the above quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev, the "former"
leader of the atheistic, antichristian, communist country of
Russia, all about?!
Is it not abvious?
The Bible forewarns:
"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan
will be with all power and with pretended signs and
wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who
are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and
so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong
delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all
may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had
pleasure in unrighteousness."
(From The Second Letter of Paul
To The Thessalonians, Ch.2; vs.9-12)
And who is it that "(does) not believe the truth but (has)
pleasure in unrighteousness"?!
How about the people who walk the earth today? What about
the American people who have TWICE elected a president who is a
liar of an extraordinary sort? What about the people of this
world who today see the antichrist pursuing global destruction as
a christ-like figure who has saved the world from nuclear self-
destruction.
What the HECK do you think is the consequence of people's
selfishness and cowardice in the face of lies nowadays?!!! A
slight drop in stock prices....a small decline in financial
values....some minor political turmoil....a possible Middle
Eastern war with an unsubstantial rise in oil prices????!!!!
NO!!! The consequence is the destruction of society as we
know it....the consequence is the horrific destruction of the
world around us and an ultimate threat to the freedom people
today enjoy!!!!
How dare people who come across my warnings sit there like
apathetic sheep on their way to the slaughter!!!
WAKE UP...TAKE ACTION....FOR THE TIME DRAWETH NIGH!!!!!!!!
Gorbachev is the ANTICHRIST, Saddam Hussein is the FALSE
PROPHET (false Muhammed) and the world is moving head-long toward
self-destruction. To stop this trend requires a TOTAL COUNTER-
REVOLUTION. The hippies in the '60's were pathetic, drug-deluded
fools. To stop what the world is currently headed for requires
an UTTERLY RADICAL MOVEMENT beyond anything in human history.
Yet, all there is now is APATHY, the ultimate source of our self-
destructiion...
RISE UP AND REVOLT AGAINT "THE LIE". TAKE A STAND FOR "THE
TRUTH". STOP THE SELF-DESTRUCTION BEING REAPED BY THE WORLD'S
CURRENT SELF-DELUSION...
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"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is
inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to
attack. Our time will come in thirty or forty years. To win,
we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will
need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the
most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be
electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The
capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to
cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another
chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall
smash them with our clenched fist."
(Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii)
(Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931)
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If what I'm saying is not true,
then how do you explain the following?:
"Moscow Builds Bunkers Against Nuclear Attack"
By Bill Gertz
April 1st, 1997
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Russia is continuing a Cold War-era program to build deep
underground bunkers, subways and command posts to help Moscow's
leaders flee the capital and survive a nuclear attack, The
Washington Times has learned.
Among the ambitious projects: a secret subway being built
directly to the residence of Russian President Boris Yeltsin
outside Moscow.
"The underground construction appears larger than previously
assessed," a CIA report labeled "top secret" reported two weeks
ago.
"Three decrees last year on an emergency planning authority
under Yeltsin with oversight of underground facility construction
suggest that the purpose of the Moscow-area projects is to
maintain continuity of leadership during nuclear war."
A copy of the report was obtained by The Washington Times
from defense sources. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.
Disclosure of the secret multibillion-dollar construction
program comes less than two weeks after President Clinton and Mr.
Yeltsin agreed in Helsinki to extend the deadline for nuclear
arms cuts under the START II treaty because of Russian concerns
over "dismantlement costs."
U.S. officials said the Russian spending on strategic
defenses, coupled with ongoing procurement of new strategic
missiles and submarines, raises questions about Moscow's claims
not to have funds needed to carry out START II reductions.
The outlays also raise new worries among some U.S. officials
about whether U.S. aid to Russia is allowing Moscow to spend its
money on building new strategic forces and facilities.
"How can the United States be so gullible to accept Russian
claims that it doesn't have the money to comply with START II
when it's made the decision to modernize its forces and build
these underground facilities?" asked one U.S. government defense
official.
According to the CIA report, construction work is continuing
on a "nuclear-survivable, strategic command post at Kosvinsky
Mountain," located deep in the Ural Mountains about 850 miles
west of Moscow. Satellite photographs of Yamantau Mountain, also
located about 850 miles west of Moscow in the Urals near the town
of Beloretsk, show continued digging at the "deep underground
complex" and new construction at each of the site's above-ground
support areas, the CIA stated. Yamantau Mountain means "Evil
Mountain" in the local Bashkir langauge.
"The command post at Kosvinsky appears to provide the
Russians with the means to retaliate against a nuclear attack,"
the CIA report said. "The rationale for the Yamantau complex is
unclear."
According to the CIA report, the Russians are building or
renovating four complexes within Moscow that would be used to
house senior Russian government leaders during a nuclear strike.
A map published in the report showed new subway construction
under way from Victory Park Station in Moscow to Mr. Yeltsin's
dacha, some 13 miles west of the Kremlin and about four miles
from the Moscow Ring Road.
Additionally, the CIA report stated that a bunker for Russian
leaders at Voronovo, about 46 miles south of Moscow, is nearly
complete. A second bunker located at Sharapovo, some 34 miles
from Moscow, has a special underground subway running directly to
it.
The subway system for Russian leaders allows for "rapid
evacuation of leaders during wartime from Moscow," the CIA said.
Presumably, the leadership would then be flown to the Yamantau or
Kosvinsky complexes. According to the report, Mr. Yeltsin and
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin endorsed the construction of
the bunkers, subways and command posts, and funding for the
Yamantau facility was listed for the first time this year in the
Russian federal budget.
Peter Pry, a former CIA analyst and author of a new book on
Russian nuclear operations, said the continued construction of
the Russian strategic defense sites is ominous and cannot be
dismissed by U.S. officials as "inertia" from Cold War-era
strategic policies.
"It shows they take the threat of nuclear war so seriously
that they're willing to spend scarce resources on it," Mr. Pry
said, adding that he was not familiar with the CIA report. "These
things are tying down billions of dollars in rubles that could go
into other enterprises the Russians need -- for example,
providing housing for Russian military officers."
Mr. Pry said Russian press reports say the underground
facility at Yamantau Mountain covers an area as large as the
Capital Beltway. The Clinton administration has been providing
hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Russia to help
Moscow dismantle its nuclear arsenal.
Despite the aid, the CIA report shows that the Russians are
building both defensive and offensive strategic facilities and
weapons, including a new type of long-range strategic missile and
a new strategic missile submarine.
Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov said in February that
both the reliability and control of Russian nuclear weapons were
in question because of the deterioration of the armed forces, but
Pentagon officials have dismissed the statements as posturing by
Mr. Rodionov in a bid to boost his budget.
Mr. Pry said the Russian construction program also shows that
Russian leaders do not see a diminished threat of nuclear
conflict. "This is a manifestation of the Russians' continued
war-fighting attitudes," Mr. Pry said. "They believe in the idea
that you can survive and prevail in a nuclear conflict. These
kinds of facilities are designed to survive for weeks and
months."
By contrast, U.S. nuclear protective facilities have been
largely shut down. The complex underneath the Greenbriar resort
in Virginia was abandoned, along with another facility in
Virginia known as Mount Weather, U.S. officials have said.
The main nuclear command facility now in existence is located
inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., but it was only designed to
withstand small nuclear blasts and would easily be knocked out in
a large Russian missile attack.
By contrast, there are no nuclear weapons currently in the
U.S. arsenal capable of damaging the new Russian strategic
defense facilities.
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