And, for my pal, reggie, whose education often requires a push-start:
In several posts I've shown how Franklin Roosevelt followed a foreign policy that conformed far too closely to Joseph Stalin's wishes to be a coincidence.
I just came upon an interesting petite tale that pertains to that period.....
The story is found in a book by Robert J. Lamphere...
"Robert J. Lamphere, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who supervised the investigations of some of the biggest espionage cases of the cold war, including those of the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and Kim Philby, died on Jan. 7 in a Tucson hospital. He was 83."
Robert J. Lamphere, 83, Spy Chaser for the F.B.I., Dies - NYTimes.com
In his book, "The FBI-KGB War,", he recounts the following narrative of a captured German spy, Erich Gimpel. Note what Gimpel says about Germany, and about the Soviet Union....
1. In early 1944, an American seaman with Nazi sympathies, William Colepaugh, jumped ship in Portugal and promptly joined the Third Reich. Admiral Canaris' Abwehr (German Army Intelligence) primed him for an espionage mission in the United States.
2.Colepaugh was partnered with Erich Gimpel, a German, and the two were trained and then put on a U-boat to cross the Atlantic, and dropped near Bar Harbor, Maine, November 29, 1944.
3. The two made their way to NYC....
If it weren't for the low-life Colepaugh, Gimpel might not have been caught. The Abwehr had given them ninety-nine small diamonds, sixty thousand dollars in cash, two guns, false identity materials, and various espionage paraphernalia. Being of the character Colepaugh was, he waited for Gimpel to leave their hideout, and he split with everything.
4. The traitor had a friend in Queens, and the two spent the night drinking. His pal turned him in to the FBI. Colepaugh spilled the beans, and soon the FBI was looking for Gimpel.....
5. ...and soon, they tracked him to Grand Central Station, ...
6. Lamphere reports how he developed a relationship with Gimpel, and the two of them discussed the war. Now, this was a loyal German, high up in the intelligence corp, and he admitted that it was well known that Germany was beaten.
7. Gimpel went on:
"In the postwar period, though, the United States had better watch out, he warned, for there would be no real peace because the Soviet Union would seek to dominate the world. He advised that the Allies' best course of action would be to sign a separate peace with Germany's military leaders, and then for the Allies, augmented by Germany, to face down the Soviets....the Germans would take care of Hitler themselves."
Lamphere, "The FBI-KGB War," p.7.
"....the Soviet Union would seek to dominate the world."
8. Simply German military propaganda? Perhaps. But everything he said about the Soviet Union has turned out to be true.
The United Nations sprang from the doctrines of communism, i.e., international socialism. The first leader of the UN was Soviet Spy Alger Hiss.
Soviet spies got the materials and plans for the atomic bomb to Stalin.
Spies in the Truman administration lost China to the communists, which became a satellite of Stalin's.
Stalin used the leverage of having the bomb to produce the Korean War.
The Soviet Union ignited proxy wars worldwide.
a. "It is clear today, based on archival evidence, unearthed by researchers in Russia and released in the United States, that "Absent an atomic bomb, Stalin would not have released Pyongyang's army to conquer the entire Korean peninsula. Confident that his possession of atomic weapons neutralized America's strategic advantage, Stalin was emboldened to unleash war in Korea in 1950."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America," p. 143, 545.
And Romerstein and Breindel,"The Venona Secrets," p. xv, 253.
Believe what you will about Gimpel's story of the Germans disposing of Hitler, there is no doubt that they would have continued to be an enemy to Stalin's Soviet Union.
Too bad the same wasn't true of Franklin Roosevelt.
In several posts I've shown how Franklin Roosevelt followed a foreign policy that conformed far too closely to Joseph Stalin's wishes to be a coincidence.
I just came upon an interesting petite tale that pertains to that period.....
The story is found in a book by Robert J. Lamphere...
"Robert J. Lamphere, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who supervised the investigations of some of the biggest espionage cases of the cold war, including those of the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and Kim Philby, died on Jan. 7 in a Tucson hospital. He was 83."
Robert J. Lamphere, 83, Spy Chaser for the F.B.I., Dies - NYTimes.com
In his book, "The FBI-KGB War,", he recounts the following narrative of a captured German spy, Erich Gimpel. Note what Gimpel says about Germany, and about the Soviet Union....
1. In early 1944, an American seaman with Nazi sympathies, William Colepaugh, jumped ship in Portugal and promptly joined the Third Reich. Admiral Canaris' Abwehr (German Army Intelligence) primed him for an espionage mission in the United States.
2.Colepaugh was partnered with Erich Gimpel, a German, and the two were trained and then put on a U-boat to cross the Atlantic, and dropped near Bar Harbor, Maine, November 29, 1944.
3. The two made their way to NYC....
If it weren't for the low-life Colepaugh, Gimpel might not have been caught. The Abwehr had given them ninety-nine small diamonds, sixty thousand dollars in cash, two guns, false identity materials, and various espionage paraphernalia. Being of the character Colepaugh was, he waited for Gimpel to leave their hideout, and he split with everything.
4. The traitor had a friend in Queens, and the two spent the night drinking. His pal turned him in to the FBI. Colepaugh spilled the beans, and soon the FBI was looking for Gimpel.....
5. ...and soon, they tracked him to Grand Central Station, ...
6. Lamphere reports how he developed a relationship with Gimpel, and the two of them discussed the war. Now, this was a loyal German, high up in the intelligence corp, and he admitted that it was well known that Germany was beaten.
7. Gimpel went on:
"In the postwar period, though, the United States had better watch out, he warned, for there would be no real peace because the Soviet Union would seek to dominate the world. He advised that the Allies' best course of action would be to sign a separate peace with Germany's military leaders, and then for the Allies, augmented by Germany, to face down the Soviets....the Germans would take care of Hitler themselves."
Lamphere, "The FBI-KGB War," p.7.
"....the Soviet Union would seek to dominate the world."
8. Simply German military propaganda? Perhaps. But everything he said about the Soviet Union has turned out to be true.
The United Nations sprang from the doctrines of communism, i.e., international socialism. The first leader of the UN was Soviet Spy Alger Hiss.
Soviet spies got the materials and plans for the atomic bomb to Stalin.
Spies in the Truman administration lost China to the communists, which became a satellite of Stalin's.
Stalin used the leverage of having the bomb to produce the Korean War.
The Soviet Union ignited proxy wars worldwide.
a. "It is clear today, based on archival evidence, unearthed by researchers in Russia and released in the United States, that "Absent an atomic bomb, Stalin would not have released Pyongyang's army to conquer the entire Korean peninsula. Confident that his possession of atomic weapons neutralized America's strategic advantage, Stalin was emboldened to unleash war in Korea in 1950."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America," p. 143, 545.
And Romerstein and Breindel,"The Venona Secrets," p. xv, 253.
Believe what you will about Gimpel's story of the Germans disposing of Hitler, there is no doubt that they would have continued to be an enemy to Stalin's Soviet Union.
Too bad the same wasn't true of Franklin Roosevelt.
