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To: goldsnow who wrote (14419)	9/14/1999 4:52:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

As the article below shows us, not everyone was duped with Moscow's outrageous bombings: liberation.com Go to the 2nd article by Veronique Soule --headline: Uncertainties about the Caucasian Track. Interestingly, Ms Soule kept mum about Kremlin candidate Gen. Lebed --well, it's a French daily, after all! PS: why didn't you answer me about this accute/grave accent question of mine? It's important to me to know whether I can use French type or not.... no con here!

To: goldsnow who wrote (14419)	9/14/1999 6:26:00 AM
From: MNI	Respond to of 17770

I once watched a British comedian talk show of maybe '89, in which - as a running gag - the watchers were asked to take part in the game HUNT THE OLD LADY. Whenever a certain little old lady, sniffing and sneezing, complete with umbrella and handbag, was visible on the screen, the watchers should phone a certain number and win a prize. It was a hoax, of course, and the phone number led to a government agency or London police or something. Mrs Norwood's story reminded me, instantly ... <bg> Regards, MNI.

To: goldsnow who wrote (14419)	9/16/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

OK, it is yesterdays news, but here is the truth (pravda) about Ronald Reagan - as seen by KGB... Also interesting (for me, at least): KGB a source of the allegation that the CIA was behind the JFK assassination. enjoy, MNI. go2net.com New Book Reports KGB Troublemaking In U.S. By Tabassum Zakaria Sep 14 12:45am ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The KGB tried to stir up racial tensions in the United States during the Cold War and stoked conspiracy theories that blamed the CIA for President John F. Kennedy's assassination, a new book on the Soviet intelligence service says. ''The Sword and The Shield'' by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin is based on information smuggled out by Mitrokhin, a former KGB officer who defected to Britain in 1992. The book says grocery stores, movie theaters and train stations were among the KGB meeting places in U.S. cities from Boston to Seattle in the 1960s. A favorite Mitrokhin meeting place was a telephone booth near the Hot Shoppes Restaurant in the center of Hyattsville, Maryland, a Washington, D.C. suburb. The book says the KGB saw the Watergate scandal and revelations of CIA assassination plots against several foreign leaders in the mid-1970s as an opportunity to fuel theories that the CIA was behind the Kennedy assassination. The break-in at the Democratic national headquarters at Watergate hotel led to President Richard Nixon resigning in disgrace on Aug. 9, 1974. The KGB forged a letter to E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer who ended up as a Watergate conspirator, from Lee Harvey Oswald that was supposed to have been written two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated. Photocopies of the letter were sent to three conspiracy buffs in 1975 but did not receive publicity until 1977. KGB DISAPPOINTED The KGB was initially disappointed that instead of focusing on Howard Hunt, early press reports suggested the letter may have been intended for the late Texas oil millionaire H.L. Hunt. The KGB ''believed there had been a CIA plot to disrupt its own plot'' of disinformation, the 700-page book said. The U.S. Communist Party hoped to influence and guide the U.S. civil rights movement by placing secret party members in the entourage of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the book said. When it became clear that King was seeking fulfillment of the American dream rather than backing a fight against American imperialism, the KGB decided to try to discredit the civil rights leader and replace him with someone more radical and malleable. The KGB aimed to discredit King and his lieutenants by placing articles in the African press, which could then be reprinted in American newspapers, portraying King as secretly receiving government subsidies to tame the civil rights movement, the book said. The KGB reversed course and attempted to exploit King's assassination by portraying him as a martyr. It spread conspiracy theories that his murder had been planned by white racists with the knowledge of authorities. Trying to stir up racial tensions remained a staple of the disinformation arm of the KGB for the rest of the Cold War, the book said. BOGUS MAILINGS Before the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the KGB sent bogus mailings to the Olympic committees of African and Asian countries supposedly from the Ku Klux Klan with taunts such as ''The Olympics -- for the Whites Only!'' The Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the Moscow Olympics four years earlier because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The KGB failed to find anything negative to stick to former President Ronald Reagan who was considered more anti-Soviet than others running for office. ''Probably no American policymaker at any time during the Cold War inspired quite as much fear and loathing in Moscow as Ronald Reagan during his first term as president,'' the book said. The KGB tried to discredit Reagan during his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination in 1976, but seemed to have ''discovered nothing more damaging than alleged evidence of his 'weak intellectual capabilities','' the book said. The KGB was less involved in the 1980 presidential election, staying on the fence, but attempted in 1984 to prevent Reagan from winning a second term by trying to popularize the slogan ''Reagan Means War!'' ''Reagan's landslide victory in the 1984 election was striking evidence of the limitations of Soviet active measures within the United States,'' the book said.