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Title: RED SMOKE, COMMIE MIRRORS
Source: [None]
URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch ... rect=on&utm_term=.1f470add6f8c
Published: Dec 8, 1991
Author: George Lardner Jr. December 8, 1991
Post Date: 2018-07-11 10:30:07 by VxH
Keywords: None
Views: 18317
Comments: 79

THE COLD WAR isn't over for Anatoly Golitsyn.

Since last summer's failed coup in Moscow, he has been churning out memos for the CIA, warning them of what he regards as the true import of the tumultuous events taking place in the former Soviet Union.

It is all "pretense," he says -- an elaborate exercise in strategic deception, designed to gull the West into embracing what is still an evil empire, still run behind the scenes by communist ideologues. Mikhail Gorbachev is in on the scheme. And so, too, says Golitsyn, is Boris Yeltsin.

"At the end, when they win," Golitsyn declares, "they {will} get rid of capitalists forever."

Golitsyn, you may remember, is the KGB defector whose assertions about Soviet moles at Langley once threw the CIA into a turmoil. The great mole hunt, actively pursued by the late CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, Golitsyn's indefatigable sponsor, lasted more than a decade, but never unearthed a single mole at the agency. According to the recently published "Cold Warrior" by Tom Mangold, a detailed study of Angleton's work, Golitsyn was actually a "minor and undistinguished KGB officer" whose paranoid fingerpointing ruined the careers of many of the CIA's finest officers and blackened the credentials of genuine Soviet defectors who threatened his standing.

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#1. To: VxH (#0)

The latest news from 1991?

These Soviet defectors working as CIA mouthpieces are a dime a dozen. You can get a lot of ex-KGB types to say this stuff for very little money.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-07-11   10:32:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)

"Dec 8, 1991 · But then Golitsyn added:

"The liberalization, however, will be false and will be aimed at breaking up NATO,..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arc hive/opinions/1991/12/08/red-smoke-commie-mirrors/57efa880-f632-479a-8138- bd3624a8caad/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1f470add6f8c

New Lies For Old?

https://archi ve.org/stream/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes/Golitsyn-NewLiesForOld- TheCommunistStrategyOfDeceptionAndDisinformation1984_djvu.txt

(D)onald Trump - Suuuuuper Genius.

 

VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   10:51:42 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tooconservative (#1) (Edited)

these Soviet defectors working as CIA mouthpieces are a dime a dozen

FAIL.

"Golitsyn worked in the strategic planning department of the KGB in the rank of Major. In 1961 under the name "Ivan Klimov" he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Helsinki, Finland, as vice counsel and attache.

He defected with his wife and daughter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via Helsinki on December 15, 1961"

 

 


VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   10:54:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: VxH (#3)

They were a dime a dozen, even during the Cold War.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-07-11   11:16:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)

"Of Golitsyn's 194 predictions, 139 had been fulfilled as of 1993.[4] "

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/09/the_perestroika_ deception.html

"and he states throughout his works that NATO would be dissolved"

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/01/did_communi sm_fake_its_own_dea.html

 

 


 

VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   11:22:43 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: VxH (#5)

"and he states throughout his works that NATO would be dissolved"

So? Ike held that same position for a number of years back in the day. He never thought NATO should be a permanent presence, that it would inevitably cause the Soviets to ramp up their military spending. Which it did.

Whether we have complete agreement on whether NATO was ever necessarcy, it is clear that the EU only considers NATO as a ticket for America to foot their defense bill in return for...well, nothing.

NATO is outdated. It should have been brought to an end when the Soviet Union fell, not expanded to nearly 30 countries for America to defend while all her "allies" are virtually worthless in any real military conflict with a country that has a credible military.

Tooconservative  posted on  2018-07-11   11:37:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Tooconservative (#6) (Edited)

So?

So Donny Dufas can't articulate the difference between the R in the former USA and the R in the USSR and the SFRY - where his (current) wife was raised by a card carrying member of the Soviet Communist Party.

And neither can members of his collectivist-ultra-nationalist Golf Hat fan club.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   12:03:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: VxH (#2)

I really like Nelson Mandella ~Trump

Rock on - Donald!

Hondo68  posted on  2018-07-11   12:26:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: VxH (#5)

Lost me...

Liberator  posted on  2018-07-11   12:59:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: VxH (#2)

You seem unable to grasp political nuance, ambiguity and the fine print. *did you read the REST of Trump's tweet back then?*

And to PROVE how much of a GENIUS Trump actually was/is, I shall remind you how he finagled the leftist MSM into giving him a BILLIONS DOLLARS in FREE PR in the run-up for President.

By the time they realized he was a serious contender, IT WAS TOO LATE.

Liberator  posted on  2018-07-11   13:03:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Liberator (#10)

And to PROVE how much of a GENIUS Trump actually was/is,

Fearless Leader (D)onny can't articulate the fundamental American ideological principles that made America great.

He's a divisive grifter propped up by the usual puppeteers.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   13:13:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: hondo68 (#8)

Rock on - Donald!

Woohoo!

You can blame Donald Trump for the success of Lady Gaga

Dec 23, 2011 by

Castina Watson Print

Trump says he discovered pop star 

http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/851023/you-can-blame- donald-trump-for-the-success-of-lady-gaga


VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   13:15:43 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: VxH (#11)

The Donnell's comb-over is better, that's why we're #1!

Hondo68  posted on  2018-07-11   13:35:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Tooconservative (#6) (Edited)

it is clear that the EU only considers NATO as a ticket for America to foot their defense bill

How much did the American Tax Payers pay to develop the F35 so the Zio- Bolshevik-Sodomite State-establishment could sell us spare parts?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-11   13:50:11 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Liberator (#9)

Lost me...

Is Putin's alleged ideological affinity with Solzenyitzen legitimate - and, if not, what sort of a deceptive landscape does that put the husband of Melanija Knavs in?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-12   9:06:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: VxH (#15)

Naah. That tangent is off the chart. Sorry.

Liberator  posted on  2018-07-12   11:56:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Liberator (#16)

You're as clueless as (D)onaldo.

Figures.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   0:44:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: VxH (#0)

THE COLD WAR isn't over for Anatoly Golitsyn.

Everything is over for Golitsyn. He died 10 years ago.

Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Transworld Publishers (May 1, 2018)

By Martin Pearce

[Excerpt]

It's easy to see why Angleton became intoxicated with Golitsyn and his theories, and equally easy to see why the official historian of MI5, Professor Christopher Andrew, was to describe him as 'an unreliable conspiracy theorist'. Golitsyn began by confirming the identities of two Soviet spies the CIA and M16 had known of but whose activities they had never been able to prove legally, and who were already safely in Russia: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. He then gave details of some spies who had not been unmasked, including the Briton John Vassall and a Russian double agent who had operated mostly in Germany named Aleksander Kopatzky. Vassall. a relatively low-level official at the Foreign Office. was later arrested, convicted and jailed. The case against Kopatzky was unproven and after a brief period seeking refuge in the Russian Consulate he braved it out and lived peacefully in Virginia for the rest of his days. Golitsyn also gave enough clues for the authorities, at last, to unmask Kim Philby — a spy who, having been effectively neutered a decade earlier, had arguably outlived his usefulness to the Soviets.

For Oldfield, the most relevant of the traitors was the largely anonymous Vassall.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   2:03:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: nolu chan (#18)

TRUMP'S 'ART OF THE DEAL' GHOSTWRITER TONY SCHWARTZ SAYS 'PUTIN OWNS TRUMP'


“So the Russians pursued Trump as an asset as early as mid-80s,” Schwartz tweeted this month after a story was published about Trump’s 1987 trip to Moscow hosted by the KGB’s travel agency. “His deep compromising connection with a sworn enemy is going to unravel soon in ways that boggle the mind,” he wrote.

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-art-deal-ghostwriter-tony-schwartz- says-putin-owns-trump-725615

 

New Lies for Old.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   9:21:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: VxH (#19)

Go get a source that is not just another discredited conspiracy theorist.

Newsweek, what a source. The whole damn magazine sold in 2010 for one dollar, $1.00. It ceased print publication in 2012.

https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/20/factsanfigures

Newsweek received more nominations for the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards than any other newspaper or magazine: one for Outstanding Magazine Article and one for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage, as well as two for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article and two for Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schwartz_(author)

In August 2017, Schwartz predicted Trump would resign, saying "Trump's presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner."

Tony Schwartz was full of shit then, he is full of shit now.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   11:08:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: nolu chan (#20) (Edited)

Tony Schwartz was full of shit then, he is full of shit now.

 

Credited co-author of WHAT, Nolu Clump?
Just how full of shyte was he THEN?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   11:24:41 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: VxH (#21)

Just how full of shyte was he THEN?

As full of shit as he was last year saying, "Trump's presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner."

Indeed, nearly as full of shit as you. Epicly full of shit.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   13:37:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: nolu chan (#22)

The Art of the Deal = full of shyte.

You sure?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   13:44:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: VxH (#23)

Play it again, Sam.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   15:34:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: nolu chan (#24)

The Art of the Deal = full of shyte.

That your final answer?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   15:44:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: VxH (#25)

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   16:47:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: nolu chan (#26)

Cadet Bonespur got Hillary in jail yet?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   16:56:27 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: VxH (#27)

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   17:15:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: nolu chan (#28)

VxH  posted on  2018-07-17   18:36:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: VxH (#29)

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the Hemisphere....”

Hillary Clinton, May 2013 speech to the Brazilian bank Banco Itau, [05162013 Remarks to Banco Itau.doc, p.28]

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-17   22:14:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: nolu chan (#30) (Edited)

My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the Hemisphere....” Hillary Clinton

Comrade Clinton's "Dream" is whatever her handlers at the Central Party tell her it is.

Got Dialectic Crisis?

VxH  posted on  2018-07-18   13:19:40 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: VxH (#31)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7874

Hey bro quick question.

From:Roy.Spence@gsdm.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-10-16 20:34
Subject: Hey bro quick question.

IRS was hacked. I think the State Department was hacked. Sony hacked. Banks hacked. As we try and close the Benghazi Chapter and the email drip drip. Is there ever a moment in Time not to Defend the decision but layout the fact.... HRC servers were not hacked. Know this is a naive thought but just thinking.

Sent from my iPhone

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-18   16:22:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: nolu chan (#32)


 

"I thought about something just now:

The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet government, whose composition was 80-85 percent Jewish,"

Putin said June 13 during a visit to Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pDtgWUtdUM

VxH  posted on  2018-07-19   13:38:59 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: nolu chan (#32) (Edited)

Face it.

(D)onaldo The Magnificent, Freeedy Drumpf's Poodle Dog heir - is a typical, LYING, shyster, con-artist buffoon who has a predictable and exploitable history of thinking with his dick. His LGBT Sodomite agenda pushing daughter and Son-in-law are a reflection of that morally RELEVANT FACT.

And Putin is operating on a whole other INFORMED level.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-19   13:42:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: VxH (#34)

And Putin is operating on a whole other INFORMED level.

As if you would know anything about operating on an informed level. )))

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-19   14:54:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: nolu chan (#35)

LOL.

VxH  posted on  2018-07-19   16:23:32 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: VxH (#36)

LOL

)))

Still too inept to effectively use the Google.

You appear to make pretty, if absurd, graphics with Google sketchup, even featuring a triangle with a side longer than the hypotenuse. You are a genius.

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-19   23:25:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: nolu chan (#37)

You appear to make pretty, if absurd, graphics with Google sketchup, even featuring a triangle with a side longer than the hypotenuse. You are a genius.

Do the math, Donkey Breath.

 

https://libertysflame.com/cgi- bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=53025&Disp=186#C186

VxH  posted on  2018-07-20   9:12:17 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: VxH (#38)

)))

Still too inept to effectively use the Google.

You appear to make pretty, if absurd, graphics with Google sketchup, even featuring a triangle with a side longer than the hypotenuse. You are a genius.

https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=53025&Disp=176#C176


#176. To: VxH (#175)

How you coming along with that Average Velocity for the 75 foot segment ending at 1950 ft?

It came along quite well. Anything that travels 1950 feet in 1.06 seconds travels an average velocity of 2122.64 feet per second. The formula is distance divided by time.

How are you coming along with your bullet going splat at ~520 feet ground distance from Mandalay Bay?

How did you work out that negative 33º angle?

Side a represents the vertical height of Paddock's vantage point. At the 32nd floor, and at 10.9 feet per floor, (32-1) x 10.9 = 338 feet.

The VxH specified shooting angle was -33°. This should probably be expressed as a positive angle of declination. Not all ballistic calculators will even accept a negative angle value, but specify 0 to 90 degrees.

For another calculator, see:

http://gundata.org/blog/post/223-ballistics-chart/

It appears that VxH drew an imaginary horizontal line d at a vertical height of 338 feet from the ground, and an imaginary 338 foot line e down to the ground, bringing into view a rectangle with a mirror image triangle to that above.

VxH guessed 33º as the acute angle formed at the junction of sides c and imaginary side d at point B. VxH guessed very wrongly.

With a specified shooting angle of 33º at the junction of lines c and d, the angle made by sides c and b would also be 33º, and angle ß, made by sides a and c would be 57º. (The right angle at point A is 90º. The other two angles must add up to 90º.)

With side a being 338 feet, side b would be 520.4743578 feet, and side c would be 620.5944 feet.

As may be seen, disregarding gravity, if the bullet flew downward at the specified 33º from a height of 338 feet, it would fly a straight line of sight path into the ground at ~520 feet from the Mandalay Bay at ground level.

Calculating the bullet velocity after that point may be difficult, even with secret Klingon math.

nolu chan  posted on  2017-11-07   16:14:00 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply

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#181. To: VxH, A K A Stone (#179)

VxH guessed 33º as the acute angle formed at the junction of sides c and imaginary side d at point B. VxH guessed very wrongly.

Yep. You're almost right - I've been meaning to take another look at the angle with a model in Google Sketchup... which says At 1290' from a height of 338' is -14.7

Damn, you are more screwed up than I thought.

Now you are presenting a triangle with side a being 338 feet, side b being 1290 feet 7 inches (1290.5833 ft), and an hypotenuse of 1009 ft 4 in. I positively can't remember the last triangle I saw where the hypotenuse was shorter than one of the sides. Your Klingon math is magic, and Google Sketchup is a miracle worker.

If side a is 338 ft, and the angle of elevation of 14.7º rises to that height of 338 ft, side b will be 1264.283557 feet. So, the hypotenuse is impossible, and side b is whack by 26 feet.

If the angle of elevation is 14.7 degrees, and the range is 1290' 7", then the height would be 345.0311072 feet and each floor would be over 11 feet.

Put down Google sketch and pick up a scientific calculator and do some trigonometry. You can actually get correct results with trig.

You are supposed to be dazzling me with your math skills, not some shit like Google Sketchup.

Google Sketchup? Really?

nolu chan  posted on  2017-11-08   23:52:54 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

nolu chan  posted on  2018-07-20   15:28:05 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: nolu chan (#39)

Do the math, Donkey Breath.

 

https://libertysflame.com/cgi- bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=53025&Disp=186#C186

VxH  posted on  2018-07-20   18:05:20 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: VxH (#40)

Any right triangle must have sides and angles where the Sine, Cosine, Tangent, C-Tangent, Secand, and Co-secant correctly compute.

If side a is 338 ft, and the angle of elevation of 14.7º rises to that height of 338 ft, side b will be 1264.283557 feet. So, the hypotenuse is impossible, and side b is whack by 26 feet.

Please do demonstrate the trigonometry behind your childish Google Sketchup nonsense.

Do the math. I will get you started.

Sine
SOH - opposite/hypotenuse

Cosine
CAH - adjacent/hypotenuse

Tangent
TOA - opposite/adjacent

Co-tangent
CAO - adjacent/opposite

Secant
SHA - hypotenuse/adjacent

Co-Secant
SHO - hypotenuse/opposite

You appear to make pretty, if absurd, graphics with Google sketchup, even featuring a triangle with a side longer than the hypotenuse. You are a genius.

https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=53025&Disp=176#C176


#176. To: VxH (#175)

How you coming along with that Average Velocity for the 75 foot segment ending at 1950 ft?

It came along quite well. Anything that travels 1950 feet in 1.06 seconds travels an average velocity of 2122.64 feet per second. The formula is distance divided by time.

How are you coming along with your bullet going splat at ~520 feet ground distance from Mandalay Bay?

How did you work out that negative 33º angle?

Side a represents the vertical height of Paddock's vantage point. At the 32nd floor, and at 10.9 feet per floor, (32-1) x 10.9 = 338 feet.

The VxH specified shooting angle was -33°. This should probably be expressed as a positive angle of declination. Not all ballistic calculators will even accept a negative angle value, but specify 0 to 90 degrees.

For another calculator, see:

http://gundata.org/blog/post/223-ballistics-chart/

It appears that VxH drew an imaginary horizontal line d at a vertical height of 338 feet from the ground, and an imaginary 338 foot line e down to the ground, bringing into view a rectangle with a mirror image triangle to that above.

VxH guessed 33º as the acute angle formed at the junction of sides c and imaginary side d at point B. VxH guessed very wrongly.

With a specified shooting angle of 33º at the junction of lines c and d, the angle made by sides c and b would also be 33º, and angle ß, made by sides a and c would be 57º. (The right angle at point A is 90º. The other two angles must add up to 90º.)

With side a being 338 feet, side b would be 520.4743578 feet, and side c would be 620.5944 feet.

As may be seen, disregarding gravity, if the bullet flew downward at the specified 33º from a height of 338 feet, it would fly a straight line of sight path into the ground at ~520 feet from the Mandalay Bay at ground level.

Calculating the bullet velocity after that point may be difficult, even with secret Klingon math.

nolu chan  posted on  2017-11-07   16:14:00 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply

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#181. To: VxH, A K A Stone (#179)

VxH guessed 33º as the acute angle formed at the junction of sides c and imaginary side d at point B. VxH guessed very wrongly.

Yep. You're almost right - I've been meaning to take another look at the angle with a model in Google Sketchup... which says At 1290' from a height of 338' is -14.7

Damn, you are more screwed up than I thought.

Now you are presenting a triangle with side a being 338 feet, side b being 1290 feet 7 inches (1290.5833 ft), and an hypotenuse of 1009 ft 4 in. I positively can't remember the last triangle I saw where the hypotenuse was shorter than one of the sides. Your Klingon math is magic, and Google Sketchup is a miracle worker.

If side a is 338 ft, and the angle of elevation of 14.7º rises to that height of 338 ft, side b will be 1264.283557 feet. So, the hypotenuse is impossible, and side b is whack by 26 feet.

If the angle of elevation is 14.7 degrees, and the range is 1290' 7", then the height would be 345.0311072 feet and each floor would be over 11 feet.

Put down Google sketch and pick up a scientific calculator and do some trigonometry. You can actually get correct results with trig.

You are supposed to be dazzling me with your math skills, not some shit like Google Sketchup.

Google Sketchup? Really?

nolu chan  posted on  2017-11-08   23:52:54 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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