Abraham Lincoln said--and he was a pretty good President--
let the people know the facts and the country will be saved.
It's just as true today as it was back then. So I'm distressed
that some members of the media are thinking we're trying to
scare everybody to death. We're not trying to do that. We're
trying to get the facts out so that we know that if there's
nothing to fear, there's nothing to fear; and if there is, that
we get it cleaned up.
OK. I think we'll start with Colonel Lunev, and I'd like to
say before Colonel Lunev starts to speak that this is not his
real name. He is in the witness protection program with the--
you say the FBI and CIA together. In fact, I'll ask him that
question in a minute and--but he is, as I said, a very high
official, the highest GRU official that's defected to the
United States. So we'll start with you, Mr. Lunev.
STATEMENTS OF STANISLAV LUNEV, FORMER GRU OFFICER, AUTHOR OF
``THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ENEMY;'' WILLIAM GREEN, CALIFORNIA
STATE UNIVERSITY--SAN BERNADINO, NAVAL RESERVES INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER; AND PETER VINCENT PRY, FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AUTHOR OF ``WAR SCARE''
Mr. Lunev. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies
and gentlemen.
Mr. Burton. Would you speak--pull the microphone as close
to you as you can.
Mr. Lunev. First of all, thank you for inviting me for so
beautiful place like Los Angeles. Of course, weather is a
little bit different from East Coast now which is under ice and
snow, you know, and, of course, I would like to spend few of
your minutes, especially to explain you my position about all
this--actually, very dangerous stuff which unfortunately is in
place now in time when former Soviet Union doesn't exist about
one decade.
For me, it was really surprise that after I wrote my book,
actually after publishing of this book, that American people
know so little about possible danger for the national security
of this country. Last year when I began to work for one of the
Internet companies, its name is newsmag.com, I had a chance to
give a lot of radio and TV interviews to different people, and
it's one more to underscore my point about shortage of
knowledge of American people about national security of this
country.
First of all, I need to return back to history because in
time of former Soviet Union existence, Soviet General staff
designed special plan for the future war against America and
American friends and allies worldwide. According to this plan,
Soviet special operation forces commanders need to come to this
country and other NATO countries in few days, maybe hours,
before real war would be in place, like students, tourists,
visitors, businessmen, by regular airlines, and before real war
would be in place, they need to pick up weapons systems which
are already located in this country, including technical
nuclear devices. This is--official name is technical portable
atomic demolition devices, containers with chemical and
biological weapons, conventional weapons system, communication
devices, actual money, credit cards, documentation, which are
already storage in this country, and in few hours or minutes
before regular nuclear missile strike will hit American soil,
this special operation forces commanders will pick up this
weapons system, move this weapons system to their area of
operational use, and we will destroy economical and military
political infrastructure of this country; first of all, targets
which could not be destroyed by regular missile nuclear strike.
- RUSSIAN THREATS TO UNITED STATES SECURITY IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
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