(WMR) -- The more confusing the Litvinenko
poisoning affair becomes, the more it appears to be yet another example of the
dangerous neocon global network of spies, weapons smugglers, far right-wing
politicians, Russian-Israeli mafia businessmen, and Islamic mujaheddin false
flag provocateurs.
Former Russian spy
Alexander Litvinenko's death from polonium-210 radioactive isotope poisoning
has actually helped to cast light on this international network, which has its
fingerprints on the false intelligence that propelled the United States into an
impending military defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan; the false flag operations of
the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington; and countless other
operations, including political operations in Ukraine, Georgia, and Poland,
among other nations.
Litvinenko, far
from being some sympathetic figure battling the Kremlin, was a central player
in a global crime, disinformation, and terrorism network. He had contacts with
a right-wing British political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party
(which advocates the UK leave the European Union, abolition of the Scottish
Parliament and Welsh Assembly, has had past links to the fascist former British
National Front, and wants a strong commitment to NATO); the mujaheddin
movements of Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan, including the Georgia Pankisi
Gorge-based "Al Qaeda" branch (Al Ansar) led by the Jordanian
terrorist Faris Yusef Amirat, aka "Abu Hafs"; the Russian-Israeli
criminal syndicate of wanted Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and his
accomplices; and other bad actors involved in a host of illegal and dubious
activities around the world. Litvinenko defected to Britain through Turkey, a
major hub for the Russian-Israeli Mafia. He has also been linked to
Georgia-based Chechen operations in Turkey and Japan. Litvinenko was also
reportedly close to the widow of Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayev, killed by
an air-to-surface Russian missile attack in 1996. Litvinenko also had close
links to exiled and wanted Russian oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, now living in Tel
Aviv, and Erinsys, Ltd., a British mercenary firm with ties to Iraqi con man
Ahmad Chalabi, whose nephew Salem is a business partner of Jerusalem-based Marc
Zell, Douglas Feith's former law partner.
One of Litvinenko's
associates, who at first claimed to also have been poisoned by polonium but has
now been proven to be a "Curveball"-grade prevaricator, is Mario
Scaramella, a self-styled Italian spy who has charged that Italy's current
prime minister, Romano Prodi, was a KGB spy. Scaramella has not only been
dismissed as a neocon tool by the Russian and Italian governments, but has been
criticized as an insignificant "soap bubble" by Oleg Gordievski, the
highest-ranking officer to have ever defected from the KGB. Italians, who
witnessed Rome being used as a central location for the disinformation used to
promote the invasion of Iraq -- including the infamous Niger "yellow
cake" documents (involving another dubious Italian information broker
named Rocco Martino), know Scaramella as a swindler and a braggart. Scaramella
has also been under investigation by Italian authorities in Naples for weapons
smuggling.
So who is
Scaramella and what are his connections to the right wing? Scaramella has been
a longtime provocateur who has tried to link European progressive politicians
and the Russian government with Cold War misdeeds. He is also linked to the
Forza Italiana party of former (and indicted) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,
a figure having his own ties to organized crime. Scaramella and Forza Italiana
Senator Paolo Guzzanti, coordinated a political attack against Prodi aimed at
proving the progressive leftist leader was a KGB spy. Prodi has threatened a
lawsuit over the charge. Berlusconi, a major media tycoon, has, like his fellow
right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, used his media holdings to advance a
number of right-wing conspiracy theories about leftist and progressive
political leaders in Italy and abroad.
Italy has been
wracked by an investigation of the 2003 CIA kidnapping and rendition of Abu
Omar, a Milan-based imam, via Germany to Egypt for torture. Arrest warrants
have been issued for a number of CIA agents suspected of being involved in the
kidnapping. Italian authorities are also investigating the assassination by
U.S. or U.S.-controlled forces in Baghdad of General Nicola Calipari, the
deputy chief of the Italian SISMI intelligence service. Although ruled an
"accident" by US authorities, there is increasing evidence that
Calipari was a threat to the neocon network because of what he knew about the
CIA kidnappings, the source of the yellowcake documents, and Scaramella's
activities. Rather than CIA agents, informed sources now believe the Americans
involved with Italian intelligence in secret operations were members of former
Pentagon intelligence chief Stephen Cambone's parallel intelligence and special
operations network, a network that was set up by Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld to compete with the CIA.
Nicolo Pollari,
Calipari's immediate boss, was fired last month as the head of SISMI. An
Italian magistrate is now seeking indictments for 26 Americans and five senior
Italian intelligence officials, including Pollari and his one-time deputy,
Marco Mancini, for the kidnapping of Omar. Mancini was arrested by Italian
authorities in the case. Informed Italian intelligence sources have linked
Scaramella to the Pollari-Mancini network of neocons in SISMI.
Scaramella was a
consultant for the Mitrokhin Committee, a body set up by the Italian
right-wing-controlled Parliament in 2003 to investigate leftist Italian
politicians for their links to the Soviets. The committee was a ruse designed
to damage the reputations of Italian progressive leaders. Guzzanti was the
committee chairman and another Scaramella friend, Senator Lucio Malan, also of Forza
Italiana, served as a member. Italian sources report that Guzzanti told
Scaramella that the "Capo," meaning Berlusconi, was going to be
pleased with damaging information Litvinenko could pass on about Prodi.
Scaramella also reportedly told Italian right-wing politicians of support from
a top-level contact in or close to the U.S. government. That has been taken to
mean the CIA, but our Italian sources believe it is likely someone associated
with the neocon network in either the Pentagon or National Security Council of
the White House. Even more intriguing is a report from a confidential Italian
source that Scaramella received funding from a French environmental group
"front" activity, a possible link between the Italian agent of
influence and a huge neocon false flag operation involving French Interior
Minister and presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy, himself, has been
accused of receiving illegal funds through dubious bank accounts in Luxembourg
and some of those funds have Russian-Israeli mafia fingerprints all over them.
The Mitrokhin
Committee neocons and neo-fascists attempted to link the Italian left to the
kidnapping and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 and
the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981. We now know from
history that Moro was kidnapped and assassinated by Red Brigades in the
employment of the Italian fascists, particularly agents associated with the
fascist P-2 secret Masonic lodge and the similarly fascist Opus Dei, as
retaliation for Moro's plans to bring the Communists into a grand coalition. We
also now know that Mehmet Ali Agca, the would-be killer of the Pope, was a
member of Turkey's far right Gray Wolves and the plot was carried out to lay
blame on the Russian KGB and Bulgaria's secret intelligence service.
Sergei Stepashin,
former Russian Prime Minister and chief of the Federal Security Service (FSB),
said, "It is apparent that those who wanted to tarnish the current Russian
authorities, and primarily the president, killed Litvinenko." Two Russian
business associates of Litvinenko, Dmitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi (a former
agent with the KGB's 9th Directorate, which protected Russian nuclear weapons
caches), who met Litvinenko at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in London, have
reportedly been affected by exposure to polonium-210 and seven bartenders who
worked at the bar have tested positive for contamination with polonium-210. The
Itsu sushi bar in :Picadilly where Litvinenko met Scaramella is now not assumed
to be the location where Litvinenko was poisoned. Trace of polonium-210 were
found at the restaurant but focus is on the Pine Bar at the Millennium as the
scene of the poisoning.
Perhaps not
surprisingly, FBI agents have been dispatched to London to investigate Litvinenko's
death, even though the United States lacks jurisdiction in the case, since no
Americans are involved. However, since even before 9/11, the FBI has covered
for the international global mafia of terrorists and smugglers, and agents for
this network who have been caught in the United States, including Israeli
"art students," office and home furniture "movers," and
"tourists" photographing sensitive U.S. installations have merely
been deported by the FBI back to Israel. Many of the Israelis also possessed
passports from Russia and Ukraine. The FBI's interest in the case may be to
cover up the United States as a source of the polonium-210.
What is now even
more intriguing is where traces of polonium have also been detected in the
case. The British embassy in Moscow and two British Airways Boeing 767s used on
the Moscow-London route have tested positive for polonium-210. Kotvun and
Lugovoi met the deputy British ambassador at the British embassy in Moscow
prior to their trip to London and Lugovoi is claiming that someone, perhaps the
British government, is now involved in trying to frame him. A car used by
Kotvun in Hamburg on October 31, the night before he left for London, has also
tested positive for polonium-210. However, traces of polonium-210 were also
found on a Finnair plane that traveled to Moscow from Berlin via Helsinki.
If Britain's
intelligence service is involved in the plot to set up Putin by using two
unsuspecting Russian businessmen, it means that the Russian-Israeli global
mafia has as many links and resources inside British intelligence as it does
inside the FBI and U.S. intelligence. And that is a problem that would make
James Bond tender his resignation.
The International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cleared Russia as the source of any illegal
radioactive materials shipments. No shipments of polonium have been made by
Russia to the UK since 2001.
WMR was the first
to report on why polonium was possibly selected as the radioactive weapon of
choice. Polonium was discovered by Marie Curie, a champion of Polish
independence. The present neocon government of Poland is a now a favorite base
for the Russian-Israeli mafia. It is governed by two far right twins -- the
Kaczynski brothers (Lech Kaczynski, the President, and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the
Prime Minister -- and includes a noted neocon, Radek Sikorksi, formerly of the
American Enterprise Institute as Defense Minister. Sikorksi is a vitriolic
critic of the Russian-Germany undersea Baltic gas pipeline who has made no
secret of his dislike for Putin and Gazprom pipeline consortium chief Gerhard
Schroeder, the former Social Democratic Chancellor of Germany who is enjoying a
rise in popularity at the expense of Christian Democratic Chancellor Angela
Merkel, his successor. Any attempt to smear Putin also affects Schroeder, a
close friend.
[Note: It is always
interesting how the neocon Mafia reacts when someone gets close to their sordid
actions. A
web site that appears to be quite close to the fake progressive web
site Democratic Underground had a fit with the exposure of the Litvinenko
case.]
Poland's right-wing
government, like Italy's under Berlusconi, is now engaged in a major program to
"out" leading Polish politicians linked to Poland's Cold War-era
Communist regime. The process, called "lustration," has also been
used by Czech right-wingers to embarrass and ruin progressive political
leaders. Poland's lustration law, pushed through by the Kacynskis, resulted in
dirt being cast out on former Polish President Aleksandr Kwasniewski, whose
attempt to replace Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General was cleverly derailed as
a result of the accusations. South Korea's suspected Sun Myung Moon/Unification
Church adherent, Ban Ki-moon, was elected with the strong support of US
Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, a close friend of Sikorski and his neocon
Polish government colleagues, the Kaczynskis. However, one of the
"incriminating" documents found on Kwasniewski was a Polish security
service document that stated Kwasniewksi, while the Communist government's
sports minister, was a head security agent on Poland's Olympic team that
competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Kwasniewski would have reported
on any attempts to get members of the team to defect by U.S. intelligence
officers or agents of the host country, South Korea. At the time of the
Olympics, Ban was first secretary of the South Korean Embassy in Washington and
maintained close links to the Reagan-Bush intelligence infrastructure, an
infrastructure that was promoting a revolt in Eastern Europe using emigre
groups that included those affiliated with Sun Myung Moon's organization.
However, Poland's
lustration process appears to be more of an attempt to change the subject amid
a major political scandal involving one of the Polish right-wing coalition
partners -- the League of Polish Families which has the education minister
portfolio held by Roman Giertych. Photos of a League of Polish Families meeting
have surfaced in the Polish press showing swastikas and members giving the
"Sieg Heil" salute. As with the UK Independence Party, the Italian
neo-fascists, and French right-wing parties, the Russian-Israeli Mafia has no
problem dealing with Nazis, fascists, or anyone else that can provide it
influence. The Russian-Israeli Mafia has also shown itself adept at destroying
its political enemies.
Our Italian sources
also report that Naples, where Scaramella maintained ties to the local Mafia's
weapons smuggling operations, is a hotbed of activity for the Russian-Israeli
Mafia. It is also a major center for the Mafia to recruit local Italian police
and prison guards for various "services." The mysterious death of
Litvinenko may yet expose the Mafia's true leadership and aims.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based
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Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates.� He is the editor and
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