1 March 2009
I must say that I am baffled by your apparent
unwillingness to even make mention of this article after you posted mine
about spin doctors Christopher Andrew, and the Reddaways. And this one is
more clear-cut about Andrew's deliberate cover up of who ANITA really is
- apparently the pivotal, current German Chancellor.
Sincerely,
Trowbridge
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Is Chancellor Angela Merkel A Former Communist Spy?
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by Trowbridge H. Ford
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Whenever a sovereign nation is conquered by another, its inhabitants, whether
they be from its elite or dregs, ultimately have a hard time
adjusting to foreign occupation because they don't know how long it
will last, and what it may be replaced by. The process is made more
difficult if it seems that there is no alternative to the conquerers, especially
if they appear to represent some wave of the future. But then, there
are always surprises in history, and some seemingly sure things turn out
to be nothing more than delayed dead ends. Of course, the alternative
to such a course is to continue to fight the occupiers tooth and
nail as there seems to be no choice about the matter, but the costs
of such a course are usually devastating.
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The best example of the latter is the sad fate of Poland when it was
confronted by nemeses on both its borders as World War II
approached. It refused to compromise with either of its threatening
neighbors, and paid heavily for its choice. The victim of yet more
partitions of Poland, it still refused to accommodate with either of its
invaders. Poland was the only country in Europe, when overrun, refused
to recognize and cooperate with its conquerors. In fact, it proved so
obstreperous to its Soviet occupiers that it felt obliged to execute the
leading officers of its military in the infamous Katyn Forest massacres
for fear that they would fight with the invading Nazis when the
showdown between Berlin and Moscow finally occurred. The uncooperative Poles
in the German occupied areas fared even worse as they were forced to
fight back because of the Nazi liquidation of increasing numbers of
its Jewish citizens, culminating in the infamous elmination of the Warsaw
Ghetto.
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The Poles preferred, in sum, partitions of their country aka Polonization
rather than
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experience some kind of 'Quisling' rule - the sobriquet given the German
occupation of Norway under the collaborationist administration
of Vidkun Quisling. Traditionally, the term Polonization had meant
the political and cultural expansion of the country at the expense of its
neighbors, especially Germans and Lithuanians, but now the term was
used to identify the reverse process. Ever since the failed Warsaw uprising
of 1831, except for the chaos left after the collapse of World War I, the
Poles had been resigned to the fate history had dictated for them, as was
amply demonstrated when neither the French nor the British supplied the help
they had promised when the Nazi blitzkrieg struck in
1939.
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The trouble with this passive, go-it-alone strategy by the Poles when
it came to improving the nation's fortunes was that it could easily
be sidetracked by others. When the prospects of its government
in exile in London started to improve, its head, General Wladyslaw Sikorski,
was conveniently assassinated in Gibraltar by the Brits, it seems, in
July 1943. Sikorski was a courageous leader who was willing to make
hard choices, deciding better 'Stalin than Hitler' immediately after the
Nazi forces invaded the USSR, and his vigorous cooporation with them promised
some hope for the Poles in the postwar settlement - what Churchill
recognized, and had MI6 apparently sabotage the plane's controls while
it was refueling, making it look like a Soviet plane, parked next to it,
had been its source. Without Sikorski, the anti-communist Poles
tried to go it alone when the Soviets forces approached Warsaw, but Stalin
would not hear of it.
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The postwar settlement in Poland was the most repressive of all in Eastern
Euope. The country itself was a convenient hodge-podge at German expense
which just provide another example of Polonization. The terms of the
Yalta Conference guaranteed that its politics
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would be Soviet-dominated, and the consequences were the least troublesome
to its authorities when it came to anti-regime efforts, as the Vasili Mitrokhin
files from the KGB demonstrate. There is hardly any mention of Poland
in the book Christopher Andrew wrote about it, The Sword and The Shield,
until the revival of Catholicism during the late 1970s under Cardinal
Karol Wojtyla, and the rise of Lech Walesa's Solidarity Movement in the
1980s. Until then, the Polish regime had essentially bought off its
opponents under the watchful eye of Moscow. When the fear of Soviet military
intervention collapsed in Poland, the regime fell surprisingly
quickly, like a stack of cards.
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For anyone living in Europe after WWII, especially in the Soviet bloc,
Poland offered the least insights into how to deal with Soviet
Communism domestically, and how it would fare in the
world. Poland seemed like the worst place to choose as a jumping off
spot for some kind of better future as the soft, repressive
character of its communist regime appeared like a fixed monolith, quite
impervious to change, because of the immediate presence of the USSR right
next door - what turned out to be a paper tiger when Mikael Gorbachev took
over.
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Actually, a more flexible, compromising attitude towards an invader
seems like a more profitable course for an subject country, as France experienced
under Nazi rule, and after its liberation. Paris, always worried
about the discontinuaties of its turbulent past, always kept a lifeline
to its republican past, no matter how comforting the autocratic
ways of Marshal Pétain, and the prospects of the Nazi-invaders seemed
while it too experienced partition with the creation of the Vichy
regime. The duplicity of all concerned was well-illustrated by the
behavior of the National Assembly which voted away its power after the fall
of France, only to try to restore itself after the departure of the
Germans. The Marshal's
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infamous Deputy Premier, Pierre Laval, and then his successor, Admiral
Darlan, were quite prepared to work for the Nazis until it seemed much
more profitable just to work for themselves.
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The same transition occurred within the population at large, as the chorus
of support for Pétain turned slowly in favor of a unfied resistance,
General de Gualle was transformed from a troublesome traitor into the
nation's savior, insignificant resistance groups became the National
Resistance Council, and right-wing hopes of an administered autocracy were
dashed by the Vichy fiasco. One can still only wonder if
liberation would have turned out so well if Churchill's dealing
with the difficult General had resulted in this one's assassination too.
When Churchill only informed de Gaulle of the D-Day landings
after they occurred, he reacted so furiously that the British Prime Minister
wrote him "..a letter," Gordon Wright has written in France in Modern
Times, "breaking off all personal relations and ordering de Gaulle off British
soil." (p. 394) Fortunately, the letter was not sent.
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The experiences of Poland and France during WWII, and in the post-war world
must have influenced everyone growing up in their mutual neighbor, Germany,
West and East, especially one who moved from zone one to the
other. The whole socializing process on either side of the border would
have created all kinds of problems between peers and parents. And it
would have become even more disruptive if there was an
ideological-religious difference between parents and children.
The divided character of the country would have proven most vexing to
all Germans, as they seemed caught up in an endless quandry of occupation
- what no one really knew the outcome of, and when it would occur.
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This analysis seems germane while trying to put together the life of Angela
Kasner, eldest daughter of Lutheran priest Horst Kasner, and current
Chancellor of the German Federal Republic, especially since she is most reluctant
to talk about it. Born in Hamburg in 1954, and moved to East Germany
shortly thereafter as her father obtained a pastorship in Quitzow, near
Perleberg, in nearby Brandenburg, she had the Cold War almost embedded in
her very bones. He was born in the Pankow district of Berlin, then part of
the Soviet sector.
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Her mother's parents still lived in Elblag - formerly
East Prussia's Elbing - in Poland when Angela was born. At
the nearby Teutonic Knights' fortress of Malbork - what Nazi
Germany received under the terms of the September 1939 Non-Aggression Pact
and its Secret Protocols - 1,900 German Communists, who were returned
to Germany under its terms, were apparently executed there, helping explain
why Angela was so eager to adopt hard-line Marxism. Her
similarly-minded maternal grandparents, it seems, must have not
only known what happened to the like-minded returnees before
the Soviet conquered the fortress in 1944 but also why they stayed
on in Poland, unlike so many
other Germans.
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The Kasners' move to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was apparently
an effort to better position themselves for whatever happened to their divided
country, particularly since they lived further in the GDR, setting up
a household in Templin, 80 kilometers north of Berlin. While Horst
was trying to improve relations between the West's and the East's Lutheran
churches, Angela was attending state schools, becoming a member of its Free
German Youth (FDJ) program, though she did not take part in its Jugendweihe,
the secular coming of age rite, preferring to be confirmed in the Lutheran
church. Apparently, there was growing tension between the
stern father, and the ambitious, talented daughter. Angela became
so proficient in Russian that she even won a prize.
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After Angela graduated from secondary school in 1973, though, details about
who she was becoming, and what she was doing become few and far
between. She attended the University of Leipzig. She also married
in 1976 fellow undergraudate student Ulrich Merkel, explaining
that it was considered the thing to do, though they never had any children,
and the marriage started breaking down as soon as she got appointed
to Berlin's Academy Sciences where she became FDJ's secretary for
recruiting aka 'agitprop' children of its members into its program,
showing that she was covertly supporting the GDR's future. In fact,
she was so busy doing other things that it wasn't until 1986 that she finally
completed her Ph.D degree.
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Quantum chemistry aka quantum physics is a highly theoretical field
which combines quantum mechanics with general field theory, and has all kinds
of practical applications regarding plasmas, nuclear rehabilitation, and
electromagnetism. The Soviet Union had built all kinds of nuclear devices
on a crash basis - weapons, power plants, nuclear-powered submarines,
radioisotope thermo-electric generators (RTGs), etc. - and were becoming
concerned about what to do with them when they were no longer useful.
There were nuclear power generating plants all around the country whose safety
was becoming questionable, nuclear-powered submarines around the ports of
Murmansk and Archangel which were dangerously rotting away,
and spent RTGs littering the Kola Peninsula.
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While the Soviets did not have the resources to deal with these problems,
they looked to the East Germans - whose Berlin Academy of
Sciences still had a great reputation in the field - to find the know-how,
given its contacts in the West. The Berlin establishment traced its origins
back to 1700 when the Prussian Academy of Sciences was started, and included
among its membership such distinguished scientists as Gottfried Leibniz,
Max Planck, and Albert Einstein. Even though it had been revived by the GDR
after WWII, it still had over 200 members, including some two dozen
from the West. It had grown now to include research in quantum
chemistry - where Angela was working at its Central Institute for Physical
Chemistry.
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To take advantage of Merkel's potential, Markus Wolf's foreign section of
the Stasi, the Hauptverwaltung Aufkluring (HVA), recruited her, it seems,
to handle illegal agents the GDR was sending across The Wall to gather secrets
from research facilities in the Federal Republic (FRG), France, Norway,
and other Western countries - what she had learned about from her meetings
and contacts at the Institute.
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The future seemed to be turning in the GDR's favor since détente had
been established between Washington and Moscow, and the two German states
had recognized one another's existence in 1972. Most important, the
Stasi had nursed along Willy Brandt's bridge-building government towards
the GDR until 1974 when its spies in the Chancellor's Office, the Guillaumes,
were exposed, Gunter declaring proudly: "I am an officer of the (East
German) National People's Army!" (Quoted from Andrew, p. 445.) Despite Wolf's
claims after the GDR's collapse that this was a grave mistake - what Andrew
believes - it was deliberate, thinking that it would just enhance Eric Honecker's
potential in German reunification.
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Thanks to the KGB Archives that its librarian Vasili Mittrokhin supplied
Andrew, we now know about the extensive use of Stasi 'Romeo' spies who
provided the KGB with all kinds of information. The glaring exception
was the performance of Wilhelm Kahle (codenamed WERNER), a laboratory
technician who assumed the identity of a West German resident in the
GDR, and worked in the West in various capacities, and capitals,
particularly in labs at Cologne and Bonn universities. By the late
1970s, though, his intelligence take had become too thin, though quite
extensive, resulting in a ten-volume file in the Archives, that
the KGB became suspicious of his bona fides, especially when it learned
through his communications with his mother in East Germany that he was
fearful of being recalled to Moscow because of the wealth he had amassed
in Paris.
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In 1978, Kahle was summoned back to Moscow, and given a lie dedector test
on a contrived basis just to determine how unreliable he had
become. It proved that it was extensive, resulting in its putting its
most accomplished agent, codenamed ANITA - who spoke both German and
Russian fluently - on the case. It was one
of putting a 'Juliet' on a runaway 'Romeo', apparently
a first in intellgence history. After intensive questioning during their
liaisons, Andrew wrote, "ANITA's report confirmed the Centre's suspicions."
(p. 450) She wrote that he had become an ideologically
unreliable, completely self-serving agent who had no qualms about using
others, even targets, for his own purposes. "As a result of ANITA's
report," Andrew concluded, "Kahle appears to have been sidelined. He
was formally removed from illegal work in 1982."
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The trouble with Andrew's treatment of ANITA is that he never explained how
she had become such an important counterintelligence specialist, who she
might be, and why he never explained in the notes the disposition of her
case since the Berlin Wall had come down, and the Cold War was
over. Then Andrew went out of his way in the notes to make it appear
that all 'Romeos', except Wolf's spy FELIX, had been identified - even
going out of his way to account for the identity of "Franz Becker" aka
Hans-Jurgen Henze (note 57, p. 649) - when there is no idenfication
of either Kahle and his superior 'Romeo' ANITA.
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Also, there are questions about what she might have done for
the KGB after Mitrokhin's records ran out. She could well have been
the KGB agent who infiltrated Egon Bahr's entourage - what Andrew mentioned
when he discussed SDP Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's dealing with the newly
elected President Reagan over a month's delay of his visit
to Washington - what KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov explained, thanks to the
KGB agent's report "of special importance", to the Soviet chief Leonid
Brezhnev, was "designed to enable Washington to gain time to build up its
armaments with the aim of overtaking the USSR in the military field." (Quoted
from ibid, p. 455.)
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The KGB source also stated that there were all kinds of Western agents flooding
Bonn to stop the growing commercial contacts between the FRG and
the USSR, especially the proposed construction of a pipeline to bring natural
gas from Siberia to the West - what Schmidt, to Moscow's delight, was vigorously
pressing ahead with.
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With the KGB's agent - stationed in the GDR, and apparently Angela Merkel
- tipping off Moscow about Washington's new arms race, it was hardly
surprising that she finally received her Ph.D. in quantum chemistry.
Thanks to her contacts, and the input from various illegals in the West,
she had obviously learned alot about what was going on in the field. Just
compiling her agent reports into a coherent document would have been enough
for the Institute to give her the degree. More important, the whole
field was becoming much more important with the Soviets having to face nuclear
rehabilitation with its aging nuclear arms, and everyone having to worry
about nuclear meltdowns of atomic plants - what happened at Chernobyl
just when she received her doctorate.
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Unfortunately for Merkel, her hopes for Honecker's all-German socialist republic
did not work out, at least as far as we know now. Thanks to the Reagan
arms buildup, and Gorbachev's refusal to engage in an arms competition after
the near fatal non-nuclear showdown with the Anglo-Americans - what
was to be triggered by the assassination of Sweden's statsminister Olof Palme
- the communist Soviet bloc, and its individual states underwent deadly collapse,
triggered by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Merkel, to cut her losses from potential blowback, suddenly got
involved in politics, joining East Germany's new party, Democratic
Awakening. Following the first democratic election in the GDR, she
became deputy spokesperson for the pre-unification Prime Minister Lothar
de Maiziere, a long-time Christian Democratic politician, and suspected agent
of Erich Mielke's Stasi - an allegation which led to his disappearance
from politics after Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU gained control of a united
Germany.
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Kohl's promotion thereafter of Merkel, aka his " Madchen", cost him
dearly though. He had to engage in all kinds of bribes to get the Stasi
to destroy embarrassing files, especially those relating to ANITA. and when
he refused to identify who supplied the money, he was finished politically
after 16 years in office.Then the intelligence coordinator of the
Chancellor's Office, Ernst Uhrlau - who went on to become the director
of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND) - went to
the greatest lengths to retrieve a Stasi index file of its agents (Operation
Rosewood) that the CIA had, and was refusing to turn over. "It is
unacceptable in the long run," Uhrlau explained to the Associate Press
on December 10,1998 regarding the possibilities of blackmail, "for the
German government that relevant files are sitting in the United States,
and a possible or likely double in Russia." After a two-year effort,
the files were returned to Berlin.
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It was not prepared for the fact that Moscow long had held the most dangerous
ones, those regarding ANITA, and they had been released to the world by the
tome that Christopher Andrew wrote, thanks to the Archive Mitrokhin he had
access to. This book was doubly troublesome because by that time Merkel
had married, it seems, her old flame, WERNER aka Wilhelm Kahle
and now divorced Joachim Sauer. They had had at the same
time similiar totally unexplained careers at the Central Institute of
Physical Chemistry.Sauer is even more tight-lipped about his life than she
is, even declining to mention that he was born in East Germany
in Senftenberg, 50 kilometers north of Dresden - where he called his
mother when he got into the KGB's soup.
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Of course, this would explain why Sauer has adopted such a low-profile
existence to Merkel's growing importance and popularity. He seems
afraid that someone, especially one of his 'honey trap' victims might
still recognize him. It would also explain why his wife has the best
relation with Russia's Vladimir Putin, and why she is apparently
being blackmailed by the Mossad when it comes to Israel's treatment
of the Palestinians, EU policy towards Iran, and missteps by the Pope
when it comes to The Holocaust.
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In fact, she has followed a policy so favored by the Social Democrats
in the current economic meltdown that her CSU Economics Minister
Michael Glos suddenly resigned two weeks ago - what the press explained
in terms of an alleged lack of input when it came to economic policy-making,
but he explained ominously: "She always believed I didn't have a clue
about a lot of things."
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It seems that as other people learn more about who Angela Merkel really is,
she will have increasing political difficulties. She seems to have taken
just too many risks in our ever-changing
world.
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