Van Jones, admitted communist revolutionary, was appointed Green Jobs Czar, precisely because of his previous communist revolutionary works, and later resigned under pressure. Van Jones is currently associated with the Center For Ameican Progress which has significant influence over White House policy. Photo from the files of The Center For Ameican Progress.
Recently, eleven Russian spies were arrested on charges of failing to register as foreign agents and money laundering. Almost immediately the Administration made a deal to exchange them for four alleged US spies held in Russia. The Russian spies were whisked out of the country and the exchange effectuated before any court hearings, admittedly because the government did not want information about them to be made public. Superficially, this was to protect investigative methods of the government, but could it have been done to protect the administration from divulging the true extent of Russian penetration of the US government and politics?
Little information was released as to what the spies were up to and their significance was uniformly minimized by government agents and the Media in general. It has been reported, however, that they were deep moles working to establish themselves in US party politics. (Is there any doubt as to which party they establishing themselves?) Was the money laundering related to money illegally brought into the US and then used to influence US elections? I have heard only one other mention in the news of the activities of these spies and that was that he/she was working for an agency of the US government involved in disarmament agreements. That does not sound innocuous to me.
In the 1920’s, much like today, communism became the politically correct ideology of the intellectual elite. Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford were fertile recruiting grounds. By the 1930’s the horrors of communism in practice in the USSR became apparent in spite of the liberal media’s efforts to hide the truth. (The new York Times has since apologized for its intentional effort to hide the Atrocities of Stalin before WWII).
At the beginning of WWII, The Soviet Union was an ally of Hitler and were complicit in starting World War II by invading Poland simultaneously with Germany pursuant to a secret non-aggression pact. By the time we got in the Hitler had already attacked Russia. Roosevelt made the Machiavellian decision to form an alliance with Stalin against Hitler. As a result, the Soviet Union gained unprecedented access to the inner workings of the United States Government, including the Military establishment, the State Department and the Treasury. Stalin did not miss the opportunity. Large numbers of sympathetic intellectuals were recruited as soviet spies.
In the east the government of Chaing Kai-Shek and the communists under Mao Se Dong waged their own separate fight against the Axis ally Japan. We supported both Mao and Chaing. Our ally, the Soviets, however, were successful in placing three agents within the US State Department in the precise place necessary to decide the fate of China. These three agents were the official US observers of Chaing and Mao and reported on which group was the more deserving of our support and ultimately to rule post WWII China.
They relentlessly misreported the facts in support of Mao and against Chang. They lambasted Chaing as a corrupt and inept dictator, and minimized his fight agsint hte Japanese; on the other hand, they veritably deified Mao as a true advocate of democracy, a lover of capitalism and the west and the only effective anti-Japanese fighter. As a result of their efforts, the US eventually reduced its support for Chaing and ultimately boycotted Chaing in the post WWII Chinese civil war. Without US aid to Chaing in the face of massive Soviet aid to Mao the communists were ultimately victorious. Chaing withdrew to the small inland of Tiawan off the mainland of China.
When it soon became apparent that Mao was no friend of the west, there was an uproar over how we could have let this happen. Even though there was much evidence at the time of the connections of those responsible with the USSR, and at least two of the three fled to Communist China from the US, the Truman administration nad the Demoicratic congress, relentlessly defended the people responsible and minimized their importance. Howerver, internal documents from the FBI, State Deparment, White House and Congress, produced fifty years later pursuant to declasification and Freedom of Information Act, have confirmed the US govenment knew all too well that the treachery was real and the US had been duped by Soviet spies. This was also confirmed by KGB files, released by Russia after Glasnost, that at least two of the three were in fact Soviet agents and many others were higher up in the chain of command.
Contrary to the false reporting from the communist agents anti-Chaing rantings, Chainng's China became a model of capitalism for the third world to aspire. Mao’s Peoples Republic of China, on the other hand, became one of the most repressive places on the planet. Mao will live in infamy for his lack of concern for how many people he killed in pursuing his policies. It is generally accepted that Mao Zedong was responsible for over 70 million deaths caused by his policies. In addition, his regime caused massive losses to the US over the next thirty plus years in both the Korean and the Vietnam wars. China is responsible for the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Korea, and Pakistan and attempts to extend them to Iraq, Syria and probably Iran. In spite of our recent economic relationship, China and its offspring North Korea, remain a lethal threatw to the United States instead of a staunch alies which would have undoubtedly been the case if we had supported Chaing instead of Mao.
It has been many years since the atrocities of the Soviet Union and Communist China. They are distant memories. The stories of how the Soviet Union through willing American dupes was able to change the course of history for the worse has been repressed by politicans eager to cover their own inattention to security, educators and the press who relentlessly advance their leftist ideology.
Communists in our government are very dangerous. They have never gone away. Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Willaim Aires, Cas Sunstien and numerous other leftists with influence in our govenment are not isolated phenomenon. They are part of a dedicated extremist movement. They have been relentlessly at work in our political system and today they are perhaps a more dangerous threat than at any time in our history, precisely because we seem to have become apathetic to the risks.
