US, NY Times caught faking Russia forces in
Ukraine
US President Barack Obama
Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:11PM GMT
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By Jim W. Dean
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The State Department and the NY Times got
caught red-handed with faked evidence of Russian aggression in East Ukraine.
But the story is now one of a double and maybe a triple hoax.
One might become curious at the US repeatedly
claiming that Russian troops and agents were the tip of the spear on the East
Ukraine civic building takeovers. Why? Because day after day the charges went
on and on without any proof being put on the table.
Now mind you, this is after we have had several
big intercept releases, which we assume were from Russian intelligence,
starting with Victoria Nuland and her potty mouth discussing who was going to
be in the post-coup government in Kiev. This is the same Ms. Nudlemann that was
shoehorned into a top level State Dept. job some years ago with only four years
of college and no diplomatic experience. It is the kind of placement that would
catch the eye of counter-intelligence people of someone being planted.
What made her position so strange is that she had
started as an assistant to Dick Cheney, so her qualifications were family and
Israel Lobby political connections. That she was kept over from the Bush thugs
by Obama is still mind boggling, when all the NeoCons should have been cleaned
out in the first day security sweep.
And then we had the EU's Catherine Ashton and the
Latvia Foreign Minister talking about the Maidan coup killings, and how
everyone knew who had done it, and how nonchalant Ashton was about that news.
Those were major intelligence coups by the Russians to use on YouTube to stake
out who the real aggressors were in Ukraine.
The West had
their controlled corporate media to help them publicize the endless charges
above, using the old tactic of “the offense is the best defense.” Accuse your
opponent with what you are doing, because who said it first always stays
imprinted in the public's mind. But we were expecting some payback from NSA and
CIA via releasing some intercepts of their own to show the Russians being
caught red-handed.
General Breedlove added his failed spin attempt
to this sad record of deception on the American people by releasing outdated
satellite-photo “proof” of the Russian offensive build-up on Ukraine's borders,
taken a year ago. It was shot down in flames by the Russians, without an S400
being needed.
The Russians would have expected to be blamed for
the East Ukraine city takeovers after Crimea, which was a totally different
situation, as the troops were already based there with agreements to reinforce
in times of threats. So it would not have made sense for the Russians to ruin
the clean record they had hitting the “Crimean invasion” slow-ball hype out of
the ball park.
The West failed miserably trying to pound that message
onto the World public. And the 97% vote count on the referendum put the nails
in the coffin of that attempt.
A pattern emerged of the State Department making
charges and the Russians denying. This kept on until we were wondering if
someone was trying to bore us all to death. If the US had proof of Russians on
the ground running the protest movement, why was Kerry not putting it out in a
Cuban Missile crisis fashion with some updated version of U2 spy plane photos
of Soviet missiles there? We could think of nothing to justify holding it
except... they didn't really have anything.
It seems that
things came to a head when the Russian Foreign Ministry got tired of making
endless denials. Lavrov threw the gauntlet down and demanded the US show its
proof. And therein is where the “mis-attributed photo” psyops was born out of
need to cover the lies.
YouTube videos and photos on the East Ukraine
protests were all over the Internet and we knew that payroll duty Intel workers
would be sifting through them carefully with orders to “find us some Russians.”
They didn't. So now time to fake some. They found a photo of freelance
photographer Maxim Dondyuk... a bunch of gnarly-looking militia guys all decked
out in combat fatigues and ready-to-do-business gear, including their weapons.
Other photos were found in the Ukraine shots with some of the same faces. The
question then was what to do with them.
“We see in the photos that have been again in
international media, on Twitter, publicly available, is that there are
individuals who visibly appear to be tied to Russia. We’ve said that publicly a
countless number of times,” Jen Psaki, State Dept spokeswoman said.
And the answer was someone decided to add a
caption to Dondyuk's photo that said, “Group photo taken in Russia.” The other
photos they had from the protests with some of the same faces, they just
circled and presented them with the “Russian” photo as the evidence.
We think some State Department Intel dummies did
that. Yes, State does have its own intelligence division, one that is not
highly respected for being over-paid and under worked. Their mistake was that
the caption was too pat. No really good psyops guy would have done that.
The State Department circulated this to all those
involved in pandering the charges, to make them feel they were on solid ground
that the meanie Russians were lying. Because the State Department is filled
with dual-Israeli citizens, they like to show they can be valuable in a jam, so
they got the photos over to the Israel Lobby's favorite newspaper for planting
stories -- other than the Wall Street Journal -- the New York Times.
They participated in the scam by not making sure
the photo was real, as it was being used as proof the Russians were lying. No
major paper would forget to run down the photo, or they would not have run the
story. The Times did it because someone they are close to asked them to.
The hoax was up when Mr. Dondyuk saw his
mis-attributed photo and put a call into the NY Times pronto. “It was taken in
Slavyansk [Ukraine],” he told NYT over the phone. “Nobody asked my permission
to use it.” So now it was damage control time, and big outfits like this are
not without some experience in that department.
The standard spin, when caught, is to admit that
a mistake was made and then never say anything other than that. They will take
the sloppiness hit, even being laughed at by other media, but they don't want
to be grilled on whether they orchestrated the hoax.
But here are more clues, like the duplicitous
language used by Jen Paski, “individuals who visibly 'appear' to be tied to
Russia.” The key word is “appear”. They knew when they put this out that it
would be taken by the public as “proof”, but she did not say that it proved
they were Russians. The language used was carefully crafted for deniability if
needed.
That folks, is run of the mill wordplay deception
that governments run on their publics all the time. But what makes this evil,
and an attack on the American people by its own government, is that this
deception was being used to cover US aggression by framing the Russians so that
the people would be primed to support military action, if the US goes that
route.
It was a violation of the oath of office that the
top people take... "to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and
domestic.” These people, who concocted this faked photo story and all
their other orchestrated aggressions to pin them on the Russians, are exactly
why those words “domestic enemies” were put in the oath.
They crossed over the oath red line and became
our enemies. Nuland, Cheney... there is a long list. It is time for others who
took that oath to defend us from these domestic enemies. They have attacked us
with lies in an escalating war situation. They are not fit to serve. On the
contrary... maybe they should be POWs.
JD/NN
Jim W. Dean comes
from an old military family dating back to the American Revolution. His father
was a WWII P-40 and later P-51 Mustang fighter pilot. Jim's mother was a WWII
widow at 16, her first husband killed with all 580 aboard when the SS Paul
Hamilton, an ammunition ship with 7000 tons of explosives aboard, was torpedoed
off the coast of Algiers. He has appeared on PBS most recently on the Looking
for Lincoln documentary with Prof. Henry Lewis Gates and lectured at the Army
Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon. His current writing focus is
on national security, intelligence, black and psyops, military/Intel history
including personal video archives, and the current wars. Jim Dean is the
managing editor of Veterans Today. More articles by Jim W. Dean
