MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment
REALAUDIO NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains FTRs 646 and 647 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute seg­ment.

Intro­duc­tion: Recorded in late August, just before the Demo­c­ra­tic con­ven­tion in Den­ver, the pro­gram exam­ines a num­ber of against the back­ground of the 2008 pres­i­den­tial race. The McCain cam­paign gained con­sid­er­able momen­tum from the Geor­gian war, with rhetor­i­cal flour­ishes aimed at both Russia–the “New Evil Empire”–and Barack Obama, dimin­ished by the GOP and Cit­i­zen McCain as weak on for­eign and national secu­rity pol­icy. Depart­ing sharply from the pre­vail­ing jour­nal­is­tic wis­dom on the Geor­gian war, the pro­gram sets forth the analy­sis pre­sented by the U.S. ambas­sador to Rus­sia, John Beyrle. Beyrle swam against the diplo­matic tide and pub­licly opined that the ini­tial Russ­ian mil­i­tary response in Geor­gia was jus­ti­fied, a far cry from the posi­tion taken by the GOP and “The McCain Mutiny,” which pro­jected the con­flict as bes­tial, Russ­ian impe­r­ial instinct made man­i­fest. Although Russ­ian excesses are not to be excused any­where or any­time, that nation’s actions must be exam­ined against the back­ground of Amer­i­can diplo­matic and national secu­rity pol­icy taken in the post-Cold War period. Exem­pli­fy­ing and embody­ing that pol­icy is the pres­ence in the U.S.-backed Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment of the for­mer Kather­ine Chu­machenko, now mar­ried to Ukrain­ian head of state Vic­tor Yuschenko. In a pre­vi­ous polit­i­cal incar­na­tion, the for­mer Ms. Chu­machenko was the point ele­ment for a Ukrain­ian emi­gre fas­cist move­ment that col­lab­o­rated with the Third Reich (the SS in par­tic­u­lar), Ger­man intel­li­gence and the CIA. Despite the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has con­tin­ued to pur­sue a pol­icy of ter­ri­to­r­ial and polit­i­cal con­fronta­tion and com­pe­ti­tion with Rus­sia, con­tin­u­ing the long­time U.S. adop­tion of “Roll­back” or “Lib­er­a­tion The­ory.” Adopted by dom­i­nant ele­ments of the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity and the GOP, this for­mer Third Reich polit­i­cal and mil­i­tary strat­egy entailed the dis­so­lu­tion of the for­mer Soviet Union into its eth­nic republics. With the ascen­sion of Ronald Rea­gan, George H.W. Bush and William Casey (all deeply involved with the Nazi emi­gre milieu that allied with the GOP), the dom­i­nance of the Third Reich alumni within the Repub­li­can Party became insti­tu­tion­al­ized and [almost] for­mal. U.S.–and McCain–policy in Geor­gia must be seen against the back­ground of this ongo­ing polit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare dynamic. Mrs. Yuschenko–the for­mer Ms. Chumachenko–was the Deputy Direc­tor of Pres­i­den­tial Liai­son under Ronald Rea­gan. Another of the Nazi appointees within the Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion was Bob Whitaker, a neo-Nazi who held the posi­tion of ” . . . Spe­cial Assis­tant to the Direc­tor of the Office of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment, in charge of secu­rity clear­ances, staffing, and that sort of thing. . . .” Yet another of the Rea­gan appointees with Nazi traces was John Koehler, the suc­ces­sor to Pat Buchanan as White House Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor. Koehler had to resign when his mem­ber­ship in a Nazi youth orga­ni­za­tion became pub­lic. As the elec­tion sea­son unfolds, this Nazi ele­ment within the Repub­li­can Party is some­thing to bear in mind. The con­clu­sion of the pro­gram turns to events unfold­ing as the Demo­c­ra­tic con­ven­tion approached. After not­ing the assas­si­na­tion of the head of the Arkansas Demo­c­ra­tic Party, the pro­gram sets forth the alleged sui­cide of a Somali native and Cana­dian cit­i­zen, found dead in his hotel room in Den­ver with a pound of cyanide.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The pres­ence on the board of the Diebold elec­tion soft­ware com­pany of Tim Timken, the Bush administration’s ambas­sador to Ger­many; analy­sis of the sig­nif­i­cance for this elec­tion of the GOP/Muslim Broth­er­hood connection.

1. The U.S. ambas­sador to Rus­sia has bro­ken diplo­matic ranks to opine that the [ini­tial] Russ­ian mil­i­tary response was justified.

“The US ambas­sador to Moscow, endors­ing Russia’s ini­tial moves in Geor­gia, described the Kremlin’s first mil­i­tary response as legit­i­mate after Russ­ian troops came under attack.

This was the first pos­i­tive state­ment by an Amer­i­can offi­cial about Moscow’s first response to the Geor­gian inva­sion of South Osse­tia, after a string of con­dem­na­tions from the heads of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. It came from US ambas­sador John Beyrle, who arrived in Moscow last month, in an inter­view pub­lished by the Russ­ian daily Kom­m­er­sant Fri­day, Aug. 22.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly dis­closed Fri­day in its lead arti­cle that Wash­ing­ton and Moscow are work­ing qui­etly and inten­sively to set up a sum­mit between Pres­i­dent George W. Bush and Russ­ian prime min­is­ter Vladimir Putin to bring crisis-ridden US-Russian rela­tions back on an even keel. (Both Pow­ers Push for a Bush-Putin Summit.)

Ambas­sador Beyrle’s words were the first pub­lic depar­ture by a US offi­cial from the crit­i­cal remarks of Moscow’s con­duct heard uni­formly from Bush, Con­doleezza Rice and Robert Gates. . . .”

“US Con­cedes Kremlin’s First Mil­i­tary Response in Geor­gia Was ‘Legit­i­mate’”; Debka Net Weekly; 8/22/2008.

2. Not­ing a fun­da­men­tal ele­ment of U.S. pol­icy toward Rus­sia in the post-Cold War era, the broad­cast notes that Ukrain­ian head of state Vic­tor Yuschenko is mar­ried to a promi­nent mem­ber of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist emi­gre milieu. Note also that Mrs. Yuschenko–the for­mer Kather­ine Chumachenko–served as the Deputy Direc­tor for Pub­lic Lisai­son at the Rea­gan White House. (The text excerpt is from FTR 529.) Hav­ing suc­cess­fully imple­mented “roll­back” or “lib­er­a­tion” the­ory vis a vis the for­mer Soviet Union, the U.S. has con­tin­ued to empower and back polit­i­cal fas­cist ele­ments in some of the for­mer republics of the U.S.S.R.

“ . . . On July 20, 1988, George Bush reaf­firmed the ties between the Repub­li­can Party and the ABN by mak­ing a cam­paign stop at Fedorak’s Ukrain­ian Cul­tural Cen­ter in War­ren, Michi­gan. Bush deliv­ered a hard-line for­eign pol­icy speech to those attend­ing the annual Cap­tive Nations ban­quet spon­sored jointly by the Cap­tive Natins Com­mit­tee and the ABN. Shar­ing the dais with Fedo­rak and Bush was Kather­ine Chu­machenko, for­merly the direc­tor of the UCCA’s Cap­tive Nations Com­mit­tee and cur­rently the Deputy Direc­tor for Pub­lic Liai­son at the White House. [Empha­sis added.] Ignatius M. Billinsky, Pres­i­dent of UCCA, had already been named Hon­orary Chair of Ukraini­ans for Bush, and Bohdan Fedo­rak named National vice-chair of Ukraini­ans for Bush. . . .”

(Old Nazis, The New Right, and the Repub­li­can Party; by Russ Bel­lant; South End Press [HC]; Copy­right 1988, 1989, 1991 by Russ Bel­lant; ISBN 0–89608-419–1; pp. 76–77.

3. Not­ing the legacy of the Helene Van Damm/Otto von Bolschwing axis within the GOP, the pro­gram high­lights the fact that Amer­i­can neo-Nazi Bob Whitaker held a sen­si­tive posi­tion within the Rea­gan White House. A pro­tege of Otto von Bolschwing–one of Hitler’s pri­mary archi­tects of Nazi pol­icy against the Jews–Helen Van Damm selected the lists of per­son­nel from which Rea­gan made his pres­i­den­tial appoint­ments. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests very strongly that Van Damm served as a func­tionary of the Under­ground Reich. Notice the posi­tion of Bob Whitaker within the Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion: ” . . . Spe­cial Assis­tant to the Direc­tor of the Office of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment, in charge of secu­rity clear­ances, staffing, and that sort of thing. . . .”

” . . . KAS: When we intro­duced you for the first time to our read­ers in National Van­guard, we gave a cap­sule biog­ra­phy of you as follows:

“Mr. Whitaker was born and raised in South Car­olina, and attended the Uni­ver­sity of South Car­olina and the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia Grad­u­ate School. He has been a col­lege pro­fes­sor, an inter­na­tional avi­a­tion nego­tia­tor, a Capi­tol Hill senior staffer, a Rea­gan Admin­is­tra­tion appointee, and a writer for the Voice of America.”

So you’re a Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion appointee — what’s the story behind that?

BW: I was Spe­cial Assis­tant to the Direc­tor of the Office of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment, in charge of secu­rity clear­ances, staffing, and that sort of thing.

KAS: Why is some­one with such excel­lent estab­lish­ment cre­den­tials defend­ing the White race, as you do in your work, with­out apol­ogy or regret? Isn’t that some­thing that sim­ply “isn’t done” these days by any­one who wants to retain his posi­tion in pri­vate or pub­lic life?

BW: Well, I did it. And they cleared me at the high­est pos­si­ble lev­els, so if you do it right, you can do it. And I’m good at it. . . .”

“A White Future is Com­ing: an Inter­view with Bob Whitaker” by Kevin Alfred Strom; Amer­i­can Dis­si­dent Voices; 7/3/2004.

4. Another piece of the Van Damm/Von Bolschwing legacy con­cerns Pat Buchanan’s des­ig­nated suc­ces­sor as White House Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor. John O. Koehler has served in a Nazi youth orga­ni­za­tion dur­ing his boy­hood days in Germany.

” . . . Baker swiftly dis­posed of one inher­ited per­son­nel prob­lem. He dis­missed John O. Koehler, who had replaced Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor Pat Buchanan last month. Koehler’s mem­ber­ship in a Nazi youth orga­ni­za­tion at the age of ten had embar­rassed the Admin­is­tra­tion, but what sealed his fate was his arro­gance, illus­trated by a refusal to move out of Buchanan’s office to make way for Can­non. . . .“

“Baker Breaks the Fever” by Ed Mag­nu­son; Time; 3/16/1987.

5. Turn­ing to Bush sup­porter Tim Timken, the pro­gram notes his posi­tion as a direc­tor of Diebold.

” . . . But Mr. Timken wears another hat: He’s a long­time board mem­ber of the Diebold Cor­po­ra­tion, another Canton-based com­pany that is one of the largest ven­dors of elec­tronic vot­ing equip­ment in the country.

Like the Timken Com­pany, Diebold has a his­tory of gen­eros­ity to the Repub­li­can Party. The com­pany and its exec­u­tives have given more than $400,000 to var­i­ous cam­paigns, state com­mit­tees and the national party since 2001, accord­ing to electionline.org, a non­par­ti­san group that tracks news on elec­tion reform. Last sum­mer, Diebold’s chief exec­u­tive, Walden (Wally) O’Dell-himself a Bush-Cheney Pio­neer, with more than $100,000 in con­tri­bu­tions collected-caused a stir by send­ing out an invi­ta­tion to a fund-raising event in which he said he was “com­mit­ted to help­ing Ohio deliver its elec­toral votes” to Bush in the Novem­ber pres­i­den­tial election. . . .”

“Meet Tim Timken, Election-Reform Case-Study” by Ali­son T. Hoff­man; The New York Observer; 9/5/2004.

6. Timken is also the Bush administration’s ambas­sador to Germany.

“Washington’s choice for future US ambas­sador to Ger­many has all the mak­ings of a polit­i­cal bomb­shell. For years, a com­pany owned by the mul­ti­mil­lion­aire and newly-appointed diplo­mat William Timken, Jr. has been prof­it­ing from anti­com­pet­i­tive tar­iffs — at the direct expense of Ger­man companies. . . .”

“How Bush’s Berlin Ambas­sador Pick Prof­ited from Pro­tec­tive Tar­iffs against Ger­man Com­pa­nies” by Georg Mas­colo and Juer­gen Dahlkamp; SpiegelOn­line; 1/8/2005.

7. As the Democ­rats pre­pared for their con­ven­tion in Den­ver, the chair­man of the Arkansas Demo­c­ra­tic Party was shot to death. Dis­missed as the work of a lone nut, the event must be crit­i­cally eval­u­ated against this country’s sad his­tory of dis­miss­ing polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tions as the work of iso­lated individuals.

“A man barged into the Arkansas Demo­c­ra­tic head­quar­ters and opened fire Wednes­day, fatally shoot­ing the state party chair­man before speed­ing off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the sus­pect after a 30-mile chase.

Police said they don’t know the motive of the sus­pect, who they described as about 50 years old but whose name has not been released. . . .”

“Arkansas Demo­c­ra­tic Party Chair Shot, Killed” by Andrew DeMillo [AP]; The San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 8/14/2008; p. A5.

8. A Somali native was found dead of cyanide poi­son­ing in Den­ver shortly before the con­ven­tion. Note in the con­text of his death that Soma­lia has expe­ri­enced rule by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and ele­ments asso­ci­ated with and/or inspired by al-Qaeda.

ay had been in con­tact with a female rel­a­tive in the Col­orado city in the days before his death, accord­ing to the direc­tor of a U.S.-based Somali activist group who is now assist­ing the man’s family. . . .”

“Infor­ma­tion Sparse on Cyanide Death” by Andrew Sey­mour; Ottawa Cit­i­zen; 8/14/2008.

9. The sus­pect was in pos­ses­sion of a pound of cyanide, sug­gest­ing that the deceased indi­vid­ual was more than just a casual, tragic deviant.

“Author­i­ties in Den­ver say they have found about a pound of highly toxic sodium cyanide in a hotel room where a man’s body was discovered.

Police say foul play is not sus­pected and FBI spokes­woman Kathy Wright said Wednes­day there was no appar­ent con­nec­tion to terrorism. . . .”

“Pound of Cyanide Found in Room Where Man Died”; Asso­ci­ated Press; 8/14/2008.

10. Author­i­ties are dis­miss­ing any pos­si­ble link between the cyanide pro­curer, ter­ror­ism and the Demo­c­ra­tic con­ven­tion. This denial should be viewed against the back­ground of both the endemic denial of polit­i­cal con­spir­a­to­r­ial process by the main­stream jour­nal­is­tic and aca­d­e­mic estab­lish­ments in this coun­try, as well as the GOP’s hard con­nec­tions to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Bank al-Taqwa milieux.

” . . . The Demo­c­ra­tic National Con­ven­tion opens in Den­ver this month, but The Burns­ley is not on the list of hotels where del­e­gates are staying.

Five rooms on the fourth floor were occu­pied, and those guests were moved to other floors. . . .”

“Den­ver Police Sus­pect Cyanide Death at Hotel” AP; WKBT.com; 8/11/2008.