There's so much to catch up on even in the last few weeks, but I have been trying to add the historical dimension to these momentous events of our recent days, hours. So you're looking at a quite a timeline, a half century timeline, that seems quite relevant to what we're looking at today, which is my bailiwick, the destruction of the West, the decline of the West, the destruction of the West. These ideas don't go away and these efforts to understand them continue to perplex. It's basically incomprehensible to a normal human, and there are only bits and pieces of it that you can really grab onto, but I'm trying to pull some more together here because there was a twin track to where we are today, is one way of saying it, and what I've been studying going back and refreshing and once again, and wherever you go back to your research, or your readings, your mentor's work, you always understand more. You always see more, new patterns, new names, associations, and so on, and so I kind of took a tour back through some of the greatest hits of communist subversion. Looking again at the Mitrokin writings, the documents, and Mitrokin was a KGB archivist who copied down everything he could and hid it in giant receptacles that he buried in his garden. And this would go back circa, well, he was copying all kinds of historical and contemporary documents as he found them, but he was working in the KGB, I believe, up until the mid 1980s.
2:03. And he was finally left exfiltrated however it went in I think it was 1991 1992 perhaps. Not by the Americans who turned him down but by the British who took him out and what's quite interesting to me in a new way something I did not realize trying to learn this material really the first few times around I did not really quite get it in terms of the chronology of Mitrokin. Mitrokin comes out with, I don't, know something like 25,000 KGB documents. Extremely incendiary because so much of it applied to actual contemporary personalities in politics, media, and so on in Europe, America. And maybe particularly Europe I'm thinking of Italy France countries like that England and they were essentially deep-sixed by the MI6 by the MI5 who originally did not even share what they had with the political leaders the elected leaders the Parliamentary Government that was in rule when they came out they kind of pretended they weren't there it seems and this led to some controversy later on but basically they kept it very close hold to a point where when we finally start to see as the public versions of these documents in the seminal books first The Sword and the Shield coming out I believe in 1999. So that's a 7-year lag. This was undertaken only under the mindership of the British intelligence approved Clarence endowed historian Christopher Andrew which was essentially always going to be sifting that information so it's not to cause too many waves. And this is a fact, and the Mitrokin was quite upset about this it turns out. And I'd like to learn more about this but be that as it may that material is coming out, and I'm going back to the Middle East sections of it and the terrorism sections of it and I also was reading Gordievsky again also his word his experiences go to the Esky and being an incredibly valuable double agent again to Britain KGB officer I think it was KGB, not GRU, but Soviet intelligence officer, worked 10 years undercover for the British. Had to leave. Comes out with all this information. They write a book too, again, dumbed down, tamped down by the British intelligence finder, Christopher Andrew. But still, you know, valuable, valuable, but you always know that you're not really getting what you should be. And again he has sections on the same very pressing matter. And we also have Claire Sterling's book, The Terror Network about the Soviet-sponsored terrorism, Soviet-enabled terrorism that dominated the 1960s, '70s. This book came out I believe in 1981. It became kind of a Bible for the Reagan Administration, and the public learned there about Soviet support for the Palestinian terrorists, the PLO, Yasser Arafat, many others, the IRA, etc., The Red Brigades here, there, Baadr-Meinhof, all these things had a big support coming out of Moscow, training, arms, etc. Through cutouts very often but literally trained in camps and universities in the Soviet Union as well as around the world basically so I went back to that I looked at some other books as well Pavel Stroilov's documents [Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen from the Kremlin that Sheds New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East, 2011] that he got out of the Gorbachev Foundation, Central Committee documents relating to the Middle East specifically.
6:23. I went back to Bukowski, and so that's one tranche of information. I went back to Bat Ye’or being the truly visionary historian of Islam as it's happened to us in the West and historically speaking. But I went back to Eurabia: The Euro Arab Axis, 2005, her book [and interview], it's about maybe 10 years old now, that lays out in completely documented detail the diplomatic, legal, educational, cultural, infrastructure that was laid by something basically--there were other organizations as well as other efforts but basically--this thing called the Euro-Arab Dialogue, which was created under the auspices of this unified Europe that we saw develop in the post-war period. European market was what we talked about originally Common Market then we go to we finally get to European Union that we know today but it's the same effort to consolidate Europe well one of the major decisions that they made in this consolidation of Europe, Europe wanting to serve as a counterbalance to the United States to break away from the United States was to come up with a foreign policy, a unified foreign policy. All these countries were supposedly now going to have one foreign policy, right? Well this relates a lot to the Soviet efforts to destabilize the Middle East
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