FTR#1427: Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice and Counter-Culture Fascism, Part 3
NB: This post contains strong language, which may prove offensive to many. Mr. Emory feels it is important to present Parfrey’s ideological pronouncements in all of their candor, in order to present an unerring presentation of his political outlook.
Introduction: The concluding program of a three-part series, this broadcast further develops the Nazi and White Supremacist efforts and ideology underpinning Adam Parfrey, a publisher whose fascist outlook and professional works have flown largely below the radar.
The program also introduces the fascist ideology and Nazi-fellow traveling of Parfrey’s Abraxas Clique associate Boyd Rice, as well as placing their efforts in the context of the deadly manifestations of the Atomwaffen group.
An important recent book by Spencer Sunshine details the efforts of the two most important members of the Abraxas Clique, a neofascist “think tank,” that aimed at the creation and dissemination of “countercultural fascism.”
Combining a fixation with, and idealization of, Charles Manson with elements of Satanism and traditional Nazi and White Supremacist rhetoric and ideology, Parfrey, Rice and Abraxas helped mint a significant, though largely overlooked, stratum in the contemporary and ongoing fascist political landscape.
From defunct “Unpop Art” site, run by Adam Parfrey and Boyd Rice.
These connections and Boyd Rice’s outlook and pronouncements are further fleshed out in this, the third program in this series.
The phenomenon of counter-culture fascism, the Manson operation and related topics are covered in, among other programs, FTR#‘s 437, 1085, 1163, 1164, 1165 and FTR#‘s 1391, 1392, 1393.
Discussion and Analysis Includes: Boyd Rice’s embrace of Rangnar Redbeard’s Might is Right; Rice’s networking with Anton La Vey; Anton La Vey’s overlaps with the Nazi milieu; Abraxas’s 8/8/88 event; The celebration of the Tate-La Bianca killings (which took place on the same date in 1969; Rice’s appearance on right-wing Christian Bob Larson’s show; The presence of Doris Tate in that appearance (with the Manson-celebrating Rice); Rice’s involvement with Nazi Robert Heick; Rice’s appearance in Nazi uniform (brandishing a knife) alongside Heick; Heick’s American Front and its involvement with the deadly Nazi skinhead movement; Rice’s belief that the world should return to a “Pre-Christian” state; Rice’s belief that three-quarters of the earth’s population should be exterminated; The influence of James Mason and “Siege” on the deadly Atomwaffen milieu; Mason’s embrace of total violence or complete drop-out from society.
FTR#1426: Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice and Counter-Culture Fascism, Part 2
Introduction: The second program of a three-part series, this broadcast further develops the Nazi and White Supremacist efforts and ideology underpinning Adam Parfrey, a publisher whose fascist outlook and professional works have flown largely below the radar.
The program also introduces the fascist ideology and Nazi-fellow traveling of Parfrey’s Abraxas Clique associate Boyd Rice.
An important recent book by Spencer Sunshine details the efforts of the two most important members of the Abraxas Clique, a neofascist “think tank,” that aimed at the creation and dissemination of “countercultural fascism.”
Combining a fixation with, and idealization of, Charles Manson with elements of Satanism and traditional Nazi and White Supremacist rhetoric and ideology, Parfrey, Rice and Abraxas helped mint a significant, though largely overlooked, stratum in the contemporary and ongoing fascist political landscape.
These connections and Boyd Rice’s outlook and pronouncements will be further fleshed out in the third program in this series.
The phenomenon of counter-culture fascism, the Manson operation and related topics are covered in, among other programs, FTR#‘s 437, 1085, 1163, 1164, 1165 and FTR#‘s 1391, 1392, 1393.
1.The work of the Abraxas Clique is synopsized by Spencer Sunshine as follows:
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 164–165.
” . . . . Part of the goal of the Abraxas Clique’s interest in 1960s figures like Manson, [Church of Satan founder] Anton] La Vey . . . . was to help build a lineage of ‘countercultural fascism.’ ”. . . This vision of a reactionary cultural movement was not based on traditional forms, but rather avant-garde and iconoclastic approaches–was another way in which the Alt Right of the 2010s inherited the fruits of Abraxas Clique’s labors. . . .”
From defunct “Unpop Art” site, run by Adam Parfrey and Boyd Rice.
2.Parfrey’s political outlook is exemplified by his communications with Nazi theoretician James Mason, whose Siege was published with Parfrey’s assistance.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 212.
” . . . . Yeah, the Jews got pissed at that magazine I sent you. None of them want to see my friend Hitler get his due . . . [Hitler] lifted the pride of the white people up and tried to get rid of the commies and exile the Jews where they wouldn’t hassle anyone but themselves . . . But of course ‘society’ is making an ‘example’ of Charles Manson in the same way they made an example of the Germans at Nuremburg . . . . I was looking for a spot 3,000 miles away from California, and found it in spades and spics and Jews and rich assholes . . . I want to work with you, but more than that, I hail you with a stiff-armed salute from ground zero. . . .”
3.Another revealing passage is contained in a later communication between Parfrey and Mason:
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 215–216.
” . . . . I’m counting on heavy censorship, condemnation and subtle boycotts by ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government] when it appears. I’m trying to get together a book written by nigger and spic gang members on youth gangs for release at about the same time. To me, letting these cocaine-addled nigger murderers prattle on about their miserable lives will be rope enough for them to hang themselves. But then I can always point to the book when the ADL gets on my case about racism, neo-Nazism, etc. . . .”
4.Highlighting Parfrey’s bigotry against Latinos and his anticipation of “The Great Replacement Theory” that has become a watchword in the second Trump regime, Parfrey wrote to [important Nazi theoretician and practitioner James] Mason:
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 216.
“ . . . . a country that is overcome by immigrants of racial difference would have been called an ‘invasion.’ I live in a Mexican gang neighborhood, gunfire every night. Many of the Mexicans who move here aren’t aware that we have flush toilets, so many deposit their babies’ shitty diapers in public places. . . . What might happen when these people can’t get food stamps or welfare? What about a simple drought or a severe economic situation? I don’t look forward to those times , but I do have front row seats to the apocalypse. . . .”
5.Exemplifying and illustrating Parfrey’s ideological orientation is his description of the Second World War. Note that he omits all reference to the Pacific theater of war.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 216.
“ . . . . Parfrey described that war [World War II] as ‘really a civil war between white people, and white people have been feeling guilty about themselves ever since.’. . .”
6.Pafrey’s journalistic ethics are illustrated by an excerpt from his writing in Nazi Robert Heick’s Aryan Warrior.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 217.
“ . . . . He [Parfrey] also specifically mentioned that [Nazi Robert] Heick’s Aryan Warrior included ‘contributions from a Manson-inspired group called the Abraxas Foundation that preaches a doctrine of evil’—while conveniently omitting his own membership in said group. . . .”
7.Parfrey manifested a virulent, profane misogynism.
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 223.
“ . . . . In Kevin Coogan’s article [‘How Black is Black Metal/’] one of the endnotes said ‘Feral House types hated women like Andrea Juno.’ Parfrey replied that ‘Not one word has ever been printed in a Feral House book insulting or even discussing Andrea Juno.’ Coogan’s reply was to quote an interview where Parfrey himself called Juno ‘a psychotic cunt.’. . .”
8.Parfrey’s significance in the expansion of important Nazi James Mason’s ideology is encapsulated in a communication to Parfrey by Mason:
Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sunshine; Routledge Press [SC]; Copyright 2024 by Spencer Sunshine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 217–218.
“ . . . . In late 1992, Mason thanked Parfrey for being ‘primarily the one that first picked up my old leaflets from the mid-Seventies and breathed new life into my stuff’ and sold him the mockups of his late 1970s flyers and magazines. Parfrey was also thanked in Siege and after he got is copy, told Mason that, ‘I’m bowled over by the SIEGE book’ and that ‘it’s better than good: it’s definitive!’. . .”
First Patreon Talk of The New Year: Murders, Murderers, Online Fascism and Trumpian Corruption
Dave’s first Patreon talks of the New Year detail a number of topics and investigations, highlighting murders and murderers, from California serial killers as terrorists to Ukrainian Nazis and the corruption of Team Trump. As people with an obligation to our descendants, we have the responsibility to preserve a record of the events leading to the collapse of our social and political milieu. There is no better way of fulfilling that obligation than by obtaining the latest flash drive, containing all of Dave’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fascist books. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE.
Important Talk by Spencer Sunshine About Counter-Cultural Fascism, Terrorism
In the latest talk on Mr. Emory’s Patreon platform, he interviewed Spencer Sunshine, author of an important recent book about counter-cultural fascism, terrorism and the presentation of Charles Manson as a Nazi Icon.
As people with an obligation to our descendants, we have the responsibility to preserve a record of the events leading to the collapse of our social and political milieu. There is no better way of fulfilling that obligation than by obtaining the latest flash drive, containing all of Dave’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fascist books. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE.
Analysis of Iran, U.S., Israel War on Patreon
Dave is presenting ongoing analysis of the Iran/U.S./Israel war on his Patreon site. One can but wonder how the world will escape World War III? As people with an obligation to our descendants, we have the responsibility to preserve a record of the events leading to the collapse of our social and political milieu. There is no better way of fulfilling that obligation than by obtaining the latest flash drive, containing all of Dave’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fascist books. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE.
Biden and “BCCI Bipartisanship”
Joe Biden has had much to say about “bipartisanship” during his term so far. When he served on the Senate Banking Committee, he and GOP compatriot Orrin Hatch were recipients of funds from the terrorist and drug-dealing BCCI. The Committee did not investigate the bank. ” . . . . among later highly placed recipients of largesse from BCCI, its owners, and its affiliates were Ronald Reagan’s treasury secretary, James Baker, who declined to investigate BCCI, and Democratic Senator Joseph Biden and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary committee, which declined to investigate BCCI. . . .” WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE.
FTR #965 Are We Going to Have a Third World War?
Recent developments are suggestive of the ominous possibility of an imminent Third World War. We present some new information and recap and further analyze stories covered in previous programs in order to underscore and highlight the potential devastation of these events.
As the furor (“fuehrer”?) surrounding the potentially lethal political hoax known as “Russia-gate” gains momentum, it should be noted that the point man for the Trump business interests in their dealings with Russia is Felix Sater. A Russian-born immigrant, Sater is a professional criminal and a convicted felon with historical links to the Mafia. Beyond that, and more importantly, Sater is an FBI informant and a CIA contract agent: “. . . . There is every indication that the extraordinarily lenient treatment resulted from Sater playing a get-out-of-jail free card. Shortly before his secret guilty plea, Sater became a freelance operative of the Central Intelligence Agency. One of his fellow stock swindlers, Salvatore Lauria, wrote a book about it. The Scorpion and the Frog is described on its cover as ‘the true story of one man’s fraudulent rise and fall in the Wall Street of the nineties.’ According to Lauria–and the court files that have been unsealed–Sater helped the CIA buy small missiles before they got to terrorists. He also provided other purported national security services for a reported fee of $300,000. Stories abound as to what else Sater may or may not have done in the arena of national security. . . .”
Sater was active on behalf of the Trumps in the fall of 2015: “. . . . Sater worked on a plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow as recently as the fall of 2015, but he said that had come to a halt because of Trump’s presidential campaign. . . .”
Sater was initiating contact between the Russians and “Team Trump” in January of this year: “ . . . . Nevertheless, in late January, Sater and a Ukrainian lawmaker reportedly met with Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, at a New York hotel. According to the [New York] Times, they discussed a plan that involved the U.S. lifting sanctions against Russia, and Cohen said he hand-delivered the plan in a sealed envelope to then-national security advisor Michael Flynn. Cohen later denied delivering the envelope to anyone in the White House, according to the Washington Post. . . .”
A stunning development concerns extreme reticence on the part of the U.S. intelligence community:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence had an “interesting” response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding the release of the classified report given to President Obama back in January purporting to show the Russian government was behind the hacks. According to the ODNI, the requested document would present a risk to human intelligence sources by revealing the comparative weight given to human vs technical evidence, risking US sources and methods. But the ODNI went further, suggesting that even releasing a fully redacted document would present similar risks!
It is NOT easy to see the ODNI’s reluctance to release even a fully-redacted copy of the report as anything but disingenuous. In the context of potentially devastating deterioration of Russian/U.S. relations over Syria, Ukraine, and the Russian “election-hacking” uproar, the ODNI’s behavior cannot be anything but disquieting:
” . . . . The intelligence official argued that a redacted version of the original report would allow a trained eye to assess ‘comparative weight’ of human intelligence and signals intelligence reporting included in the compendium. Release of some of the information the privacy-focused organization wants made public ‘could prove fatal to U.S. human intelligence sources,’ [Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration Edward] Gistaro warned.
Gistaro also appears to argue that even if officials blacked out the whole report, highly classified information would be at risk.
‘I agree with the [National Intelligence Council] that a heavily or even fully redacted version of the classified report can not be publicly released without jeopardizing national security information properly classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET,’ he wrote. . . . ‘The ODNI should release the complete report to EPIC so that the public and the Congress can understand the full extent of the Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential election,’ EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg told POLITICO Tuesday. ‘It is already clear that government secrecy is frustrating meaningful oversight. The FBI, for example, will not even identify the states that were targeted by Russia.’ . . . ”
With the high-profile hacks being attributed–almost certainly falsely–to Russia, there are ominous developments taking place that may well lead to a Third World War. During the closing days of his Presidency, Obama authorized the planting of cyber weapons on Russian computer networks. Obama did this after talking with Putin on the Hot Line, established to prevent a Third World War. Putin denied interfering in the U.S. election.
The conclusion that Russia hacked the U.S. election on Putin’s orders appears to have been based on a CIA source in the Kremlin. Even when that intelligence was delivered, other agencies weren’t ready to accept the CIA’s conclusion and it took intelligence from another nation (not named) to provide the final intelligence tipping point that led to a broad-based conclusion the not only was the Russian government behind the cyberattacks but that Vladimir Putin himself ordered it.
That ally’s intelligence is described as “the most critical technical intelligence on Russia,” however the NSA still wasn’t convinced based on what sounds like a lack of confidence in that source. Thus, it looks like a CIA Kremlin source and an unnamed foreign intelligence agency with questionable credentials are the basis of what appears to be a likely future full-scale US/Russian cyberwar.
Of paramount significance is the fact that IF, on Putin’s orders (and we are to believe such) Russia continued to hack U.S. computer systems to influence the election, Putin would have to have gone utterly mad. Those hacks would have precluded any rapprochement between Russia and the United States under a President Trump. There is no indication that Putin went off the deep end.
Also auguring a possible Third World War are two developments in Syria. Seymour Hersh published an article in “Die Welt” revealing that, not only was the April 4 alleged Sarin attack NOT a chemical weapons attack but there was widespread knowledge of this in American military and intelligence circles.
What did the intelligence community know about the attack? The Russian and Syrian air force had informed the US in advance of that airstrike that they had intelligence that top level leaders of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra were meeting in that building and they informed of the US of the attack plan in advance of the attack and that it was on a “high-value” target. And the attack involved the unusual use of a guided bomb and Syria’s top pilots. ” . . . . Russian and Syrian intelligence officials, who coordinate operations closely with the American command posts, made it clear that the planned strike on Khan Sheikhoun was special because of the high-value target. ‘It was a red-hot change. The mission was out of the ordinary – scrub the sked,’ the senior adviser told me. ‘Every operations officer in the region’ – in the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, CIA and NSA – ‘had to know there was something going on. The Russians gave the Syrian Air Force a guided bomb and that was a rarity. They’re skimpy with their guided bombs and rarely share them with the Syrian Air Force. And the Syrians assigned their best pilot to the mission, with the best wingman.’ The advance intelligence on the target, as supplied by the Russians, was given the highest possible score inside the American community. . . .”
Following the attack, US intelligence concluded that there was no sarin gas attack, Assad wouldn’t have been that politically suicidal. The symptoms of chemical poisoning following the bombing was likely due to a mixture of chlorine, fertilizers, and other chemicals stored in the building that was targeted by the Syrian airforce created by secondary explosions from the initial bombing. ” . . . ‘This was not a chemical weapons strike,’ the adviser said. ‘That’s a fairy tale. . . .”
The symptoms of chemical poisoning following the bombing was likely due to a mixture of chlorine, fertilizers, and other chemicals stored in the building that was targeted by the Syrian airforce created by secondary explosions from the initial bombing. ” . . . . A Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) by the U.S. military later determined that the heat and force of the 500-pound Syrian bomb triggered a series of secondary explosions that could have generated a huge toxic cloud that began to spread over the town, formed by the release of the fertilizers, disinfectants and other goods stored in the basement, its effect magnified by the dense morning air, which trapped the fumes close to the ground. . . .”
The behavior of the Trump administration was not only in direct conflict with intelligence on the attack, but reinforced propaganda by some of the Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists the West has been using as proxy warriors in Syria and elsewhere: ” . . . . ‘The Salafists and jihadists got everything they wanted out of their hyped-up Syrian nerve gas ploy,’ the senior adviser to the U.S. intelligence community told me, referring to the flare up of tensions between Syria, Russia and America. ‘The issue is, what if there’s another false flag sarin attack credited to hated Syria? Trump has upped the ante and painted himself into a corner with his decision to bomb. And do not think these guys are not planning the next faked attack. Trump will have no choice but to bomb again, and harder. He’s incapable of saying he made a mistake.’ . . .”
Program Highlights Include: Review of a Trump administration warning of another supposed, impending “Syrian chemical weapons strike”–a warning that has since been retracted; discussion of brilliant Nazi hacker Andrew Auerenheimer’s orchestration of an “Alt-right” online intimidation campaign against CNN employees; Auerenheimer’s current residence in Ukraine; the ominous possibility of the activation/manipulation of the NSA cyber-weapons installed on Russian computer networks by a third party (perhaps someone with the capabilities of the brilliant Auerenheimer); review of the observations by a German professor–opposed to Nazism/Hitler–who described the essence of what it was like, subjectively, to live through the rise of Hitler–his observation presented in the context of the ODNI’s decision not to release even a fully-redacted version of the intelligence report on “Russian meddling” in the U.S. election: ” . . . . . . . . What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise, to receiving decisions deliberated in secret, to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand because of nationality security, so dangerous that even if the people the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. . . .”
FTR #964 Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
As we have noted in many previous broadcasts and posts, cyber attacks are easily disguised. Perpetrating a “cyber false flag” operation is disturbingly easy to do.
This is of paramount significance in evaluating the increasingly neo-McCarthyite New Cold War propaganda about “Russian interference” in the U.S. election.
Compounding the situation are some recent disclosures and developments:
1.–We learn that the CIA’s hacking tools are specifically crafted to mask CIA authorship of the attacks. Most significantly, for our purposes, is the fact that the Agency’s hacking tools are engineered in such a way as to permit the authors of the event to represent themselves as Russian.
2.–The NSA’s elite hacking technology has been made widely available to the hacking community, courtesy of “The Shadow Brokers.”
3.–During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Michael Flynn was professionally involved with numerous cyber-security and cyber arms manufacturing firms: “ . . . . The month before Flynn joined the advisory board of OSY Technologies, NSO Group opened up a new arm called WestBridge Technologies, Inc., in the D.C. region. (The company was originally registered in Delaware in 2014, but formed in Maryland in April 2016.) Led by NSO Group co-founder Lavie, WestBridge is vying for federal government contracts for NSO Group’s products. Hiring Flynn would provide NSO Group with a well-connected figure in Washington, to help get its foot in the door of the notoriously insular world of secret intelligence budgeting. . . .When you’re trying to build up your business, you need someone who has connections, someone who is seen as an authority and a legitimate presence,” Johnson said. Hiring someone with Flynn’s background in intelligence would ‘open up doors that they wouldn’t have had access to,’ Johnson said.Throughout 2016, Flynn worked for a number of cybersecurity firms personally and through his consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group. In addition to his advisory board seat at OSY Technologies, he sat on the board of Adobe Systems, a large software company with Pentagon contracts, and the boards of the cybersecurity companies GreenZone Systems and HALO Privacy. (Though Flynn described himself as an Adobe advisory board member in his financial disclosure paperwork, the group said in a statement that he provided only “periodic counsel to Adobe’s public sector team.”) . . .”
4.–NSO Group and OSY Technologies specialize in spear-fishing attacks, one of the methodologies used in the hacks of U.S. election computers. Is there any link between Flynn’s cyber-security/cyber arms links and the high-profile hacks during the campaign?
5.–A GOP tech database–Deep Root–Exposed the data of almost two hundred million American voters to widespread scrutiny. Is there any connection between Deep Root, the GOP and the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. voting computers?
Following a Bloomberg report about widespread Russian hacking of American elections systems: “ . . . . Kay Stimson, spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State, said the members of her group — which represents the chief election officials in 40 states — were taken aback by the allegation that 39 states were hacked. ‘We cannot verify any information in that report,’ Stimson told Benzinga. “It has some claims that have raised some red flags. I don’t know where they’re getting it. We’re not able to assess to the credibility.’ She said that some cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics at the state and local levels. ‘There are cybersecurity firms making some wild claims,’ she said. ‘It is a very aggressive industry.’ . . .”
With the high-profile hacks being attributed–almost certainly falsely–to Russia, there are ominous developments taking place that may well lead to a Third World War. During the closing days of his Presidency, Obama authorized the planting of cyber weapons on Russian computer networks. Obama did this after talking with Putin on the Hot Line, established to prevent a Third World War. Putin denied interfering in the U.S. election.
The conclusion that Russia hacked the U.S. election on Putin’s orders appears to have been based on a CIA source in the Kremlin. Even when that intelligence was delivered, other agencies weren’t ready to accept the CIA’s conclusion and it took intelligence from another nation (not named) to provide the final intelligence tipping point that led to a broad-based conclusion the not only was the Russian government behind the cyberattacks but that Vladimir Putin himself ordered it.
That ally’s intelligence is described as “the most critical technical intelligence on Russia,” however the NSA still wasn’t convinced based on what sounds like a lack of confidence in that source. Thus, it looks like a CIA Kremlin source and an unnamed foreign intelligence agency with questionable credentials are the basis of what appears to be a likely future full-scale US/Russian cyberwar.
Of paramount significance is the fact that IF, on Putin’s orders (and we are to believe such) Russia continued to hack U.S. computer systems to influence the election, Putin would have to have gone utterly mad. Those hacks would have precluded any rapprochement between Russia and the United States under a President Trump. There is not indication that Putin went off the deep end.
Also auguring a Third World War are two developments in Syria. Seymour Hersh published an article in Die Welt revealing that, not only was the April 4 alleged Sarin attack NOT a chemical weapons attack but there was widespread knowledge of this in American military and intelligence circles.
Ominously, the Trump White House is claiming they have advance knowledge of an impending Syrian chemical weapons strike and will punish Syria heavily, and hold Russia accountable.
Program Highlights Include: The fact that the bulk of activity detected by the DHS on U.S. election systems was “scanning”–standard operating procedure for hacking; a former NSA hacking specialist–Jake Williams–said that spear-phishing operation was of “medium sophistication” that “practically any hacker can pull off”; the question of whether or not GOP Secretaries of State might have deliberately responded to the spear-phishing e‑mails that permitted the “hit” on U.S. election systems; the Russian authorization of the use by the Syrian air force of a smart bomb to eliminate Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists; the release of a chemical cloud as a result of that strike that was caused by secondary explosions; Cambridge Analytica’s hiring of GOP online data-basing kingpin Darren Bolding.
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