Litvinenko

Litvinenko

Friday, November 24, 2006

Alexander Litvinenko, a former Colonel with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), died of Polonium 210 poisoning at University College Hospital in London as a victim of assassination. Litvinenko was also a former soldier with the Russian Army. Litvinenko defected to England after he claimed that sinister forces loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin were plotting to murder him.

The recent news stories about Alexander Litvinenko’s assassination are deliberate fabrications and misinformation. While no defender of President Putin by any stretch of the imagination, I must tackle a deeper psychological operations construct that has appeared in the international media regarding Alexander Litvinenko so the facts regarding this individual can be looked at critically.

First, when Alexander Litvinenko learned that he was poisoned he admitted that he was meeting with “sources” in London that had specific information about the assassination of former journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Alexander Litvinenko was a very vocal proponent of the theory that the Kremlin ordered the assassination of Politkovskaya because she was trying to tie together a story that the Putin government had an official torture policy in the war in Chechnya. Now where does that sound familiar?

Alexander Litvinenko, himself a vocal critic of Putin’s government in Moscow, repeatedly told the international media apparatus since his defection to London that there was no possible method that Chechen terrorists could have planned and then executed the Moscow apartment bombings that occurred on September 8, 1999, September 13, 1999, and September 16, 1999, which paved the way for President Putin to order military action against Chechen terrorists in Chechnya.

In fact, Litvinenko also made the claim that the Putin government itself staged the bombings as a prelude to war in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Again, where does that sound familiar?

Take a look at Alexander Litvinenko’s book synopsis for his conspiracy theorist book “Blowing up Russia: Terror From Within”, S.P.I. Books (March 1, 2002), ISBN: 1561719382.

“The war in Chechnya has made human life cheap in Russia. The brutal killings and the trade in slaves and hostages have thrown our country back to the days of slavery. Thousands of people who go through the war in Chechnya are forced to kill. They can never go back to civilian life.”

According to Alexander Litvinenko, military veterans that serve in times of war: “can never go back to civilian life”? Now where have we heard that before! The quick answer is revolutionary communist organizations that oppose the free-state from defending itself from outside aggression. In graduate school when I was mastering revolutionary theory I studied this psyop because it is widely used against US veterans of war. The psyop basically goes something like this:

“A professional soldier that has served in a military force of a democratic nation-state is salvageable, provided that the soldier has not engaged in direct combat action against outside aggressors. The professional soldier of a democracy that has engaged in direct combat action against aggressors is the individual that is unsalvageable to Marxism because those professional soldiers can never be convinced of the theory and necessity of Utopia. What this means then is that “something must be done”—these individuals can never go back to civilian life.”

I have seen first-hand this logic applied at the university-level. It also accounts for the terrible and unjustified discrimination that many veterans of the US Armed forces experience when they leave military service and is a product of the vast intellectual base internationally that is hostile to the idea of America.

Alexander Litvinenko’s book description then is that of deliberate and functional communism and the Marxist’s desire to dismantle all military forces of the free-state. That is precisely what the ideology linguistics of his book description means. It is coded language to announce his loyalty to the far-left ideology.

Regardless of Alexander Litvinenko’s credentials, the facts as the media portray them do not add up. Litvinenko was arrested by the FSB in 1999, on what he claimed were “trumped up charges” and then he was released. After the Moscow apartment buildings were destroyed in a string of terrorist attacks by Chechen terrorists, it is predictable that the FSB would arrest one of their own if that individual was blaming the government for the terrorist attacks. Russia has always behaved that way, even as an emerging democracy. That does not mean that Russia orchestrated the attacks—it means that in the confusion in government following any terrorist attack upon it that agents of government that immediately blame the government itself for such activity may create dangerous national security conditions for the entire nation-state.

Alexander Litvinenko never provided proof of his assertions and they mirror the September 11, 2001, conspiracy theorist crowd that has emerged in the United States and the west since the al Qai’da terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the doomed flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field that was on its way to the White House to wipe out the Executive Branch of the US government. Even though film footage has been shown publicly that reveals Usama Bin Ladin meeting with the September 11, 2001, terrorists in Afghanistan at one of al Qai’da’s and the Taliban’s vast terrorist training camps, conspiracy theorists still perpetuate the fallacy that the US government was behind the September 11, 2001, attacks upon the American people.

The journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s slaying is demystified even easier. Politkovskaya was well-known for her investigative reporting of Russian organized crime elements in Russia and other locations, seedy and shadowy groups and other dangerous elements that may have wanted to do her harm. However, when she was assassinated outside her apartment in Moscow, it simply must have been due to her investigation of “state-sponsored torture” in Chechnya. According to the leftist media, no other explanation was credible and Russian organized crime would never eliminate Politkovskaya even though she worked tirelessly to expose their activities and the personalities that drove such elements. The fact is that Politkovskaya had many enemies, enemies that she fomented through her work as an investigative journalist. International media apparatuses that are hostile to democratization efforts by President Putin’s government and certainly hostile to the war in Chechnya took a different angle on the matter and dismissed all other possibilities as nonsensical. The only possible reason that Politkovskaya was assassinated was because of her investigative reporting on the use of Russian intelligence services against terrorism and the torture techniques those intelligence services were implementing against the Chechen terrorists in Chechnya.

Again, does this tired international media psyop sound all too familiar?

Of course it does. The hostile anti-Bush media has been after the Bush Administration for the same reasons that the international media and Alexander Litvinenko specifically have been trying to push their stories about Politkovskaya—US government intelligence activities in the War on Terrorism. Western media apparatuses reported that American detaining of terrorists amounted to the “Gulags of our times”. Criticisms of Putin’s efforts in Chechnya were just as severely treated by the international media.

All said and done however, the untimely deaths of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko do feed directly into the anti-democratic conspiracy movement that has been attacking democracies in an unsympathetic way in favor of terrorism since September 11, 2001. The construct of these psychological operations used by the international media against those defending from transnational terrorism are very sophisticated.

Never mind the fact that Russia is on the verge of entering the World Trade Organization as a member state and would risk that by assassinating an FSB defector that set up shop in London perpetuating conspiracy theories. Also, never mind the fact that Moscow would order the assassination of an widely-known investigative journalist because of her “theories” on torture by Russian intelligence in Chechnya, while her investigations into Russian organized criminal elements on the other hand would never put her in harms way.

This is what the international media is selling.

The assassination of Alexander Litvinenko at this point and time has been played beautifully by the leftist media with great intrigue. Not only is the Putin government being blamed for the action, but the method of assassination has been changed from “Thallium” (to tie in the FSB), to a new and unknown “poison” (polonium 210) that doctors can’t even detect using every modern test known to the vast western medical community. This has been done to elevate Alexander Litvinenko’s standing from that of the defecting narcissist that really had no special knowledge or importance to western intelligence, to the “victim” of a specially designed plot that must have originated from a Cold War esque Moscow that sent covert agents into a foreign country to assassinate him. In fact, the plot must involve Moscow, according to the media, because the poison can’t even be detected by modern medicine, and that means that only a sophisticated intelligence service could develop such a substance at great expense and risk of detection when the assassination attempt was carried out. If this media psyop under way is to be believed then, we must also believe that modern medicine can find a single bone buried underneath the ground from 200 years ago and determine the age, gender and cause of death of the human being, but a living human being that has been poisoned and sent to the hospital and dies over a period of “weeks” is an “absolute mystery” that has “baffled” and “astonished” doctors in London’s premier hospital.

If you buy into the September 11, 2001, conspiracy theory crowd, the leftist media angle on the deaths of Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya are perfectly explained. In fact, their deaths are being explained in ways that match the conspiracy theory nonsense that is being perpetuated in the United States against the Bush Administration.

However, when the curtain is pulled back from the circumstances surrounding the deaths of these two individuals, a more ominous plot appears. The culprits behind the plot are unknown, but their intentions are clear—embarrass and damage the Putin government. In fact, one could even argue that these are meticulously planned events to unseat Putin’s government as the Bush Administration has been unseated in many ways, and even derail Russia’s chances for entry into the World Trade Organization and Russian counterterrorism efforts in Chechnya.

Media reports in the coming days that will announce sympathetic “investigations” into the death of Alexander Litvinenko will provide more clues about whom the real conspirators in this matter are and what their objectives are as well.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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