J. MICHAEL WALLER: A message from the son of Soviet agent of influence Marcus Raskin, and one of Congress’ main defenders of USAID

A message from the son of Soviet agent of influence Marcus Raskin, and one of Congress’ main defenders of USAID. https://t.co/e3UrukRpCP

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) November 5, 2025

From USA Survival,

As we noted back then, Russia-gate was a brilliant Marxist dialectical maneuver, as seen in the fact that Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and a vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, emerged as a major critic of Russian influence in the Trump Administration. His father was Marcus Raskin, a former Kennedy administration official who was a founder of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and notoriously soft on Soviet Russia.

NYC in 1993

Now exists only as a memory pic.twitter.com/wM27XBzPpr

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 5, 2025

In the 1980s, in order to undermine Reagan’s defense buildup, Marcus Raskin and the IPS planned several conferences with Soviet officials believed to be under the influence or control of the Soviet intelligence services. At the time, 12 members of the U.S. Senate and 70 members of the House wrote to Secretary of State George Shultz, warning that the Soviet Union would use the events for intelligence purposes. IPS subservience to the agenda of the Soviet Union and its client state was a major topic of concern to those backing Reagan’s anti-Soviet policies. Journalist and author Brian Crozier wrote in National Review that the IPS was “the perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they 53 were to originate openly from the KGB.”

S. Steven Powell’s book on the IPS, Covert Cadre, includes photographs of identified Soviet agents who attended IPS functions or associated with IPS personalities. He names two as KGB officers. The IPS even hosted convicted Soviet spy Alger Hiss. It regarded him as innocent and launched a series of “Alger Hiss lectures” in 2002, after receiving a bequest from the estate of Alger and Isabel Johnson Hiss.

Ironically, Rep. Raskin used a speech in Washington, D.C. to denounce the Russians for using “active measures” or influence operations against the United States, the same kind that his own father’s organization facilitated.

We concluded that it was not too late for CIA and FBI investigations into the former president, Barack Hussein Obama, but that the Intelligence Community had to be purged of enemy agents, spies, and moles.

In the present context, this means the Congress needs a House Committee on Internal Security to uncover the enemy agents.  

Mamdani already making threats? 

Breaking: Jihadi Zohran Mamdani newest threat:

“Hear me when I say this, Donald Trump: If you come for one of us, you’re going to have to go through all of us.”  pic.twitter.com/kfq0OqIgzG

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