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Iran Blamed For Major Cyberattack On BBC
Qedward writes "Iran is privately being blamed for a major cyberattack on the BBC that blocked access to its popular Persian TV service and disrupted the Corporation's IT using a denial-of-service attack. The multi-pronged March 2 attack took down much of the BBC's email, overloaded its telephone switchboard with automatic phone calls, and blocked a satellite feed for the BBC Persian station. BBC servers were also on the receiving end of a DDoS. In an unprecedented tactic, the BBC has trailed a speech to be given this week to the Royal Television Society in which Director General Mark Thompson will mention the attacks in some detail while stopping short of formally naming Iran as the perpetrator."
I'd rather have countries launching lame DDoS's than launching missiles.
And I wouldn't mind living in a world where everyone put down their guns and just started being dicks to each other on the internet instead. Besides, in that world, all us losers on /. could finally be the badass war heroes who women want to sleep with.
Of course, most will probably just use both the internet AND their guns/missiles.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Too easy to blame some country or entity for attacks these days. What proof do they have that it was Iran? It might have been someone else in the Arab region who wants to see Iran and Israel go at it because they benefit from higher oil prices due to a regional conflict, or that someone else is doing the dirty work for them.
Why are they saying Iran did it? Are they saying the country's leadership ordered it rather than a bunch of script kiddies? If anything, wouldn't it be more accurate to say Iranians did it than the country itself? It seems /. keeps lumping countries together, as if all China pirates or hacks etc.
Anyone else sick of these re-runs? For the past month the anti-Iranian propaganda has really ratcheted up. We're seeing the same tactics they used to scare the public in to supporting an invasion of Iraq.
Iranian State Media PressTV Claims Jamming in Europe and Online http://cryptogon.com/?p=27668 if that's true, that it was Iran, well they were just replying the cortesy....
I read the headline the first time and though, "Why does Iran hate good beer?"
I have moles digging through my backyard. I think Iran put them there. Damn you Iran! Damn you!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Nothing good is coming from any involvement between countries in the Greater Middle East and countries outside of it. Diplomacy is awful. The U.S. is waging war all over creating chaos. Humanitarian aid is handled disastrously. And any cultural exchange is met with hostility such as the BBC establishing a television channel.
Just let that part of the world be alone by itself and cut them off completely. Don't send them money. Don't send diplomats. Don't send businesses. Encourage your citizens from touring that area. And don't ever send soldiers and bombs.
All I hear about that part of the world when it comes to foreign relations are horror stories. The Middle East is backwards. They are regressing into even more oppressive religious states and I don't see outsiders feel like they need to be a military or cultural influence over there.
From Wikipedia's article on "Nuclear weapons and Israel" (Read and see whether it sounds a bit familiar, as in "the pot calling the kettle black" familiar.)
British aid
Top secret British documents obtained by BBC Newsnight show that Britain made hundreds of secret shipments of restricted materials to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. These included specialist chemicals for reprocessing and samples of fissile material—uranium-235 in 1959, and plutonium in 1966, as well as highly enriched lithium-6 which is used to boost fission bombs and fuel hydrogen bombs. The investigation also showed that Britain shipped 20 tons of heavy water directly to Israel in 1959 and 1960 to start up the Dimona reactor. The transaction was made through a Norwegian front company called Noratom which took a 2% commission on the transaction. Britain was challenged about the heavy water deal at the International Atomic Energy Agency after it was exposed on Newsnight in 2005. British Foreign Minister Kim Howells claimed this was a sale to Norway. But a former British intelligence officer who investigated the deal at the time confirmed that this was really a sale to Israel and the Noratom contract was just a charade. The Foreign Office finally admitted in March 2006 that Britain knew the destination was Israel all along. Israel admits running the Dimona reactor with Norway's heavy water since 1963. French engineers who helped build Dimona say the Israelis were expert operators, so only a relatively small portion of the water were lost during the years past since the first operation of the reactor.
Criticality
In 1961, the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion informed the Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker that a pilot plutonium-separation plant would be built at Dimona. British intelligence concluded from this and other information that this "can only mean that Israel intends to produce nuclear weapons". The nuclear reactor at Dimona went critical in 1962. By 1965 the Israeli reprocessing plant was completed and ready to convert the reactor's fuel rods into weapons grade plutonium.
Weapons production 1967–present
Israel is believed to have begun full scale production of nuclear weapons following the 1967 Six-Day War, although it may have had bomb parts earlier. A CIA report from early 1967 stated that Israel had the materials to construct a bomb in six to eight weeks and some authors suggest that Israel had two crude bombs ready for use during the war. According to US journalist Seymour Hersh, everything was ready for production at this time save an official order to do so. Another CIA report from 1968 states that "(...) Israel might undertake a nuclear weapons program in the next several years." Moshe Dayan, then Defense Minister, believed that nuclear weapons were cheaper and more practical than indefinitely growing Israel's conventional forces. He convinced the Labor Party's economic boss Pinchas Sapir of the value of commencing the program by giving him a tour of the Dimona site in early 1968, and soon after Dayan decided that he had the authority to order the start of full production of four to five nuclear warheads a year. Hersh stated that it is widely believed that the words "Never Again" were welded, in English and Hebrew, onto the first warhead.
In order to produce plutonium the Israelis needed a large supply of uranium ore, some of which was procured by the Mossad on the pretense of buying it for an Italian chemical company in Milan. Once the uranium was shipped from Antwerp it was transferred to an Israeli freighter at sea and brought to Israel. The orchestrated disappearance of the uranium, named Operation Plumbat, became the subject of the 1978 book The Plumbat Affair.
They turned me into a newt!
(I got better.)
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Was it Iran or someone else? It appears most of the hacking (and killing of nuclear power plant scientists) has been done by Israel, Britain, and the U.S.. The more I read the more I think Iran is being used as a patsy by Western warhawks:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?_r=2&hp
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/230303.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Speculations_about_the_target_and_origin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334001/Iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-wounded-separate-bomb-attacks.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?scp=1&sq=january 2009 sanger bush natanz&st=cse
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Oh yes, on the brink of war, the government that's most likely to get stomped by the US and it's allies, does something really stupid against a propaganda outlet that could precipitate said war.
If the Iranians did do this, and I doubt it since there's little to no strategic value in doing so, they're fucking morons.
But I think a greater and more scary possibility is that this is a false flag attack kind of like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that began the US invasion of Vietnam.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/US-bases-Iran11.jpg
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
The problem is that we're addicted to using their oil. It's not like we're giving them money out of charity.
I will pay tens of dollars to anyone that removes Iran from the map. Why do we put up with this shit? We have the bombs (to quote Dennis Leary)! We could nuke them back to the stonea......oh, right, nevermind.
Your network was probably hacked because you used lousy passwords and/or your employees got phished. If Iran didn't do it, someone else eventually would.
The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
* making the world safe for American corporations;
* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;
* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."
This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.
The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.
China, 1945-49:
Intervened in a civil war, taking the side of Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists, even though the latter had been a much closer ally of the United States in the world war. The U.S. used defeated Japanese soldiers to fight for its side. The Communists forced Chiang to flee to Taiwan in 1949.
Italy, 1947-48:
Using every trick in the book, the U.S. interfered in the elections to prevent the Communist Party from coming to power legally and fairly. This perversion of democracy was done in the name of "saving democracy" in Italy. The Communists lost. For the next few decades, the CIA, along with American corporations, continued to intervene in Italian elections, pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars and much psychological warfare to block the specter that was haunting Europe.
Greece, 1947-49:
Intervened in a civil war, taking the side of the neo-fascists against the Greek left which had fought the Nazis courageously. The neo-fascists won and instituted a highly brutal regime, for which the CIA created a new internal security agency, KYP. Before long, KYP was carrying out all the endearing practices of secret police everywhere, including systematic torture.
Philippines, 1945-53:
U.S. military fought against leftist forces (Huks) even while the Huks were still fighting against the Japanese invaders. After the war, the U. S. continued its fight against the Huks, defeating them, and then installing a series of puppets as president, culminating in the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
South Korea, 1945-53:
After World War II, the United States suppressed the popular progressive forces in favor of the conservatives who had collaborated with the Japanese. This led to a long era of corrupt, reactionary, and brutal governments.
Albania, 1949-53:
The U.S. and Britain tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist government and install a new one that would have been pro-Western and composed largely of monarchists and collaborators with Italian fascists and Nazis.
Germany, 1950s:
The CIA orchestrated a wide-ranging campaign of sabotage, terrorism, dirty tricks, and psychological warfare against East Germany. This was one of the factors which led to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Iran, 1953:
Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in a joint U.S./British operation. Mossadegh had been elected to his position by a large majority of parliament, but he had made the fateful mistake of spearheading the movement to nationalize a British-owned oil company, the sole oil company operating in Iran. The coup restored the Shah to absolute power and began a period of 25 years of repression and torture, with the oil industry being restored to foreign ownership, as follows: Britain and the U.S., each 40 percent, other nations 20 percent.
Guatemala, 1953-1990s:
A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of death-squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions, and unimaginable cruelty, totaling well over 100,000 victims -indis
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Iraq has WMD's
Muslim Terrorists performed 9/11
Sorry BBC and western zionist owned media - we're wise to your games.
Perhaps Iran thinks this is like the movie The Mouse That Roared. The plot was that a tiny nation declared war on the US in order to get rehabilitation funds after the tiny war ended. What the heck can Iran be thinking? Israel does not need much of an excuse to bomb Iran into the stone age and England and the US might not mind it either. Under conditions like that Iran needs to be pleasant, friendly and down right courtly to avoid chaos and destruction. It is too easy for US to do that to them.
US blamed for participation in the systematic murdering of half a dozen Iranian scientists, but who cares? That's not news, even for slashdot.
But if true, that's the definition of terrorism, for me.
evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.
If you think the Soviet Union wasn't using every dirty trick they knew to get pro-communists in power in those same countries you listed then you're delusional. Also, if you don't think they have done every legal and illegal thing they could have to maintain their hold over those "democratic" communist parties you're even more delusional. Of course, the Soviets had no legal mandate to ever release their records of such things.
So yes there was a conspiracy in the same way as there was a giant pro-US conspiracy, a giant game of chess played across the globe at hideous cost.
Both the Germans and the Japanese took on a military task that was far too large. Germany wanted to conquer all of Europe. The Japanese wanted to conquer all of SE Asia, including China. They had about 70M citizens. China had 450M. A small amount of help from 3rd parties, and Japan would have eventually lost.
Ho Chi Minh would have been as anti-Soviet or PRC as he was anti-US. More so. He'd been a student in France.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
1) Bad Weather.
2) Your constipation
3) Any politicians constipation.
4) 2012 December 21st, Iran destroys the world
5) You burn the pizza. (Classic Peperoni too...with the real Wisconsin cheese.)
6) The recent talk your girlfriend had with you about...that size issue.
7) Software Bugs...any software...doesn't matter.
8) Why ICS will never have decent apps with 15 gazillion versions running around.
9) You lost your job.
10) Yes, and the final reason why everything is IRAN's fault is:
Because it has been too long since we had a nice World War.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
See my comment from another post http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2716871&cid=39335521
Slide of hand used by all traditional magicians...look at this hand, and pay no attention to what is going on over there in my other hand.
Just sayin'
Keywords for the NSA overthrow oppressive regime true believers marathon Manhatten the financial district blueprints I
El Salvador:...A handful of the wealthy still own the country, the poor remain as ever, and dissidents still have to fear right-wing death squads.
This is basically wrong. I've lived in El Salvador. The country is richer now than before the war (although some say the land re-distribution was a bad thing), no one is afraid to vote for the 'wrong' party. I attended rallies favoring the 'wrong' party. The FMLN was fully integrated into the government, and has even won elections. Hope you had a better source of information for the rest of your stuff there, because someone is misleading you. I'll bet your source of information had an agenda.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Seeing how the BBC has Iran's cock so deep down their throat it's coming out the other end like a tail. Wait wait I know the answer to this one .....they both blame the Jews......
This was written over ten years ago.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I lived there over ten years ago. The war ended amazingly well. There was a peace agreement, the two opposing sides came together and formed a government. They created a new civil police force. Each side was adversarial, always watching to catch the other side do something wrong, so neither side got too out-of-hand. The people themselves were careful to vote in such a way that neither side got too much power.
The biggest complaints about the settlement were that the land redistribution was botched, and it probably could have been better. The second complaint was about the general amnesty for war criminals after the war. Some people wanted revenge.
But there is no question life is better for the average Salvadoran now, compared to before the war.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
...have you looked at the history of Vietnam before the Vietnam war at all? Ever?
Ho Chi Minh was falling out of power, those in power were very glad to side with the soviets. After all, the soviets were giving them supplies to cement their power bases with.
Or did you mean military opposition by Ho Chi Minh against his own pro-soviet government? Using weapons supplied by some magical fairy I take it or are you suddenly okay with the US interfering with the "internal" affairs of other countries?
OH NOES! IRAN THREATENS US AND UK!!!!
You should probably change the title of your post to, "Iran threatens its neighbors, Europe, the US, and some other country they want to remove from the pages of history." You didn't post anything about how convenient those the US bases in nearby countries make Iranian or Iranian backed attacks against US forces performing missions in those other countries. Also, I notice that Iranian bases and activities aren't depicted on the map - I suppose that would challenge the narrative of "poor little Iran". I will also note that this post is barely skimming the surface of Iran's activities. For instance, it doesn't cover much of anything about Iran's activities in Syria, where it is helping prop up the current regime, or Lebanon, where its proxy Hezbollah is virtually a state within a state, and armed with 50,000 rockets to attack Israel.
Gulf States on Arms Buying Binge to Counter Iran Threat
Iran Threatens To 'Freeze' Europe for Backing Sanctions - First Publish: 2/28/2010
Brigadier-General Hossein Salami of Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that Iran has the power to cut Europe's energy supply. The warning was issued as European leaders prepared to debate sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
"Iran sits on 50 percent of the world's energy, and if it wants, Europe will spend the winter in the cold,” Salami told Iranian troops in the city of Kerman. His speech was published by the Iranian Fars news agency.
Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz oil route
Iran threatens US Navy over Gulf activity - Warns US aircraft carrier not to return to Gulf waters
Iran Threatens Two More Naval Chokepoints - In addition to the Strait of Hormuz.
Considerable attention is being given to Iranian threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large proportion of the world’s petroleum sails. The U.S Energy Information Administration estimates that “almost 17 million barrels in 2011, up from between 15.5-16.0 million bbl/d in 2009-2010,” sails past Iranian gun and missile emplacements along the coast, mine-laying ships, and Revolutionary Guard fast boats. In 2011, that amounted to “roughly 35 percent of all seaborne traded oil, or almost 20 percent of oil traded worldwide.”
Yet the recent visit of two Iranian naval vessels to the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah should draw attention to two more vital naval chokepoints—the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the southern tip of the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal located between the northern tip of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. (See this map.) More than three million barrels of oil pass through the Bab el Mandeb every day on the way to the Suez Canal and the SUMED (Suez-Mediterranean) pipeline used by tankers that are too big to traverse the Can
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Anyone else sick of these re-runs? For the past month the anti-Iranian propaganda has really ratcheted up. We're seeing the same tactics they used to scare the public in to supporting an invasion of Iraq.
Should we be checking your post for secret clues as to your location and who is holding you hostage and forcing you to read and post on this issue? There are plenty of other stories on the front page to read and comment on. I think most people would consider apparent state sponsored DDOS attacks to be interesting and newsworthy.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Your post would have been considerably shortened if you had simply summarized it as the US fought Communism around the globe. That is why so many countries are free today. It is a good thing too or else the bloody, oppressive march of communism would have continued. Contrary to what you wrote, Communism was a world wide conspiracy, and a bloody one at that. Sadly I don't have enough time at the moment to correct all of the twisted renderings of facts in your post, as it would be a Herculean task. I think just comparing the history of the Berlin Wall to what you wrote might give a sense of how twisted the history you give is.
More information about: The Berlin Wall
And lets provide some background material:
Communism killed ~ 100,000,000 people in the last 100 years.
Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?
What Were Their Crimes?
Have you ever been late to work?
In the Stalin era, a person who arrived late to work three times could be sent to the Gulag for three years.
Have you ever told a joke about a government official?
In the Stalin era, many were sent to the Gulag for up to 25 years for telling an innocent joke about a Communist Party official.
If your family was starving, would you take a few potatoes left in a field after harvest?
In the Stalin era, a person could be sent to the Gulag for up to ten years for such petty theft.
Living in the Gulag
Some claim that the US is militarist, but it has no custom like the annual military parade through Red Square.
Soviet Military Parade 1984
Stalin World - Lithuania
The KGB Museum - (the Museum of Genocide Victims)
The Soviet Union conquered Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and annexed them. At the ends of WW2 it took part of Poland as its own territory. The Soviets turned the governments of East Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the rest of Eastern Europe into not merely client states, but puppet states.
Revelations from the Russian Archives - UKRAINIAN FAMINE
The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization. The heaviest losses occurred in Ukraine, which had been the most productive agricultural area of the Soviet Union. Stalin was determined to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism. Thus, the famine was accompanied by a devastating purge of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and the Ukrainian Communist party itself. The famine broke the peasants' will to resist collectivization and left Ukraine politically, socially, and psychologically traumatized.
The policy of all-out collectivization instituted by Stalin in 1929 to finance industri
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
After the communists lost an election and a referendum, the armed forces of the Greek communist party fought to impose a totalitarian dictatorship on Greece, with substantial moral and material support from the Soviet Union, against those who either fled or fought against the Nazis, causing a considerable loss of life.
"Popular progressive forces" being Stalin, who ordered the invasion and conquest of Korea, right?
I suppose you honestly do believe that the Berlin Wall was built to keep people out.
After the murder of his predecessor, whose policies Mossadegh opposed.
Arbenz never won a free and fair election.
Or rather, what happened was that Arbenz instituted land reform, but then banned opposing political parties, dismissed the supreme court, arrested the parliament, suspended civil rights, murdered his opponents, and sought arms from the Soviet Union to deal with his enemies. Only then did the CIA start sending guns to the resistance.
Bullshit.
Ho Chi Minh was sent from Moscow, where one of his duties prior to 1944 was organizing the murder of Vietnamese nationalists, to rule over Vietnam. Once in power, he purged 85 percent of the Communist party. During forced collectivization, which happened long before the US responded to his making war against the South, Ho Chi Minh set execution quotas of five people or five percent of each village.
Iran has not attacked any nation for over 300 years. The US has killed more civilians since WW2 than everyone else put together. QED.
Not to mention the IRS
In 1944 Major Jordan, more worried than ever, attempted to see the Lend-Lease liaison officer at the State Department but was intercepted by a junior official who told him "Officers who are too officious are likely to find themselves on an island somewhere in the South Seas". Not long after he was removed from White Falls. His book contains the complete list of Lend-Lease shipments which, as liaison officer, he was able to see and copy. This shows all the chemicals, metals and minerals suitable for use in an atomic pile which were transferred, and some of them may also be suitable for use in the hydrogen bomb; they include beryllium, cadmium, cobalt ore and concentrate (33,600 lbs), cobalt metal and cobalt-bearing scrap (806,941 lbs), uranium metal (2.2 lbs), aluminium tubes
[365] (12,766,472 lbs), graphite (7,384,482 lbs), thorium, uranium nitrate, oxide and urano-uranic oxide, aluminium and alloys (366,738,204 lbs), aluminium rods (13,744,709 lbs), aluminium plates (124,052,618 lbs), brass and bronze ingots and bars (76,545,000 lbs), brass or bronze wire (16,139,702 lbs), brass and bronze plates (536,632,390 lbs), insulated copper wire (399,556,720 lbs), and so on.
These lists also include the "purely postwar Russian supplies" (General Groves), such as an oil-refinery plant, forging machinery and parts ($53,856,071), lathes, precision boring-machines, canning machinery, commercial dairy equipment, sawmill machinery, textile machinery, power machines ($60,313,833), foundry equipment, electric station equipment, telephone instruments and equipment ($32,000,000), generators ($222,020,760), motion picture equipment, radio sets and equipment ($52,072,805), 9,594 railway freight cars, 1,168 steam locomotives ($101,075,116), merchant vessels ($123,803,879), motor trucks ($508,367,622), and endlessly on.
Among the major donations obviously intended to strengthen the Soviet Union industrially after the war, Major Jordan's records include one repair plant for precision instruments ($550,000), two factories for food products ($6,924,000), three gas generating units ($21,390,000), one petroleum refinery with machinery and equipment ($29,050,000), 17 stationary steam and three hydro-electric plants ($273,289,000). The Soviet lists reproduced by Major Jordan suggest that a spirit approaching hysteria in giving moved Mr. Hopkins and his associates, for they include items for which no rational explanation can be found, for instance: eyeglasses ($169,806), teeth ($956), 9,126 watches with jewels ($143,922), 6,222 lbs of toilet soap $400 worth of lipsticks, 373 gallons of liquor, $57,444 worth of fishing tackle, $161,046 worth of magic lanterns, $4,352 worth of "fun fair" devices, 13,256 lbs of carbon paper, two "new pianos", $60,000 worth of musical instruments and (an item which conjures up visions of the "Beloved Leader", Mr. Roosevelt's and Mr. Churchill's "Uncle Joe"), "one pipe", valued at ten dollars!
Posted for its entertainment value
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.
Mr. Hopkins's past as a professional fund-raiser and welfare-worker seems to show in the donation of $88,701,103, over four years, for "relief or charity"; those who have visited Soviet Russia may try to imagine this money being doled out by the Commissars to the poor! This was not the end of cash-giving under "Lend-Lease". In 1944 Mr. Henry Morgenthau junior, Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury, and his Assistant Secretary, Mr. Harry Dexter White (later shown to have been a Soviet agent) ordered the shipment to the Soviet Government of duplicates of the United States Treasury plates to be used for printing money for the use of the forces occupying Germany after the war. This meant that the money printed by the Soviet Government for the use of its troops was redeemable by the American Government as there was no distinction whatever between the paper printed. By the end of 1946, when public protests caused the American Government to stop paying its own troops with these notes, [366] so that the Soviet Government could make no further use of them, the United States Military Government in Germany found that it had redeemed about $250,000,000 in excess of the total of notes issued by its own Finance Office. (The Soviet Government ignored a request to pay the modest sum of some $18,000 for the plates and materials delivered to it, which had enabled it to draw $250,000,000 straight from the United States Treasury).
Thus for four or five years there was an unlimited transfer of the wherewithal of war, of supplies for post-war industrial use, and of wealth in manifold forms to the revolutionary state, and "re-discussion" of this policy lay under ban at the highest level. Moreover, "preference" and "priority" for this policy, in relation to American needs or those of other allies, was explicitly ordered at that level.
There were two other ways in which the revolutionary state could be "supported" and helped to "extend": (1) the conduct of military operations; (2) the direction of State policy at high-level conferences issuing from these military operations. As the policy of delivering arms and wealth was so firmly, even fanatically pursued in favour of the revolutionary state, it was logical to expect that the same policy would be pursued through military operations and the conferences resulting from them. In fact, this happened, as good observers foresaw at the time and as the receding picture of the war now plainly shows. It also was the inevitable result of the capture of a great measure of power behind the scenes, in the American Republic, by means of the invasion described in the last chapter.
The effort to turn all military operations to the advantage of the revolutionary state, which in complicity with Hitler had started the war by the joint attack on Poland, began soon after Pearl Harbour. It failed then but was entirely successful in the last stages of the war, as the outcome showed. The leading part in this process was taken by the most enigmatic figure of the Second War, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army. To him Senator Joseph McCarthy, in his oration before the Senate on June 14, 1951 (a carefully-documented indictment which is a major reference-source in this matter) attributed "the planned steady retreat from victory which commenced long before World War II ended" and the fact that America, having power to tip the balance, operated between the policies advocated by Mr.Churchill and the Soviet dictator Stalin "almost invariably in support of the Russian line".
In view of the vast consequences which General Marshall's interventions produced the circumstances of his original elevation are of interest. President Roosevelt appointed him Chief of Staff in 1939 over the heads of twenty major generals and fourteen senior brigadiers (six years earlier his nomination to general, being adversely reported on by the Inspector General, had been barred by the then Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur). One of General Marshall's earliest acts was, in
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.
Iran was always blamed for everything.