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No Serbian Tears for Jeane Kirkpatrick!

By William Dorich

Ambassador Kirkpatrick was one of the 100 signatories on the September 2, 1993 letter to President Clinton seeking the bombing of Serbia. At the time I thought it self-serving hypocrisy for the Ambassador to place her signature on such a document knowing the immoral background of her husband, Evron Kirkpatrick, from whom she no doubt acquired her Serbophobia.

The Kirkpatricks earned millions of dollars each year from the U.S. government through a company called, Operations and Policy Research, Inc. The company studied psychological warfare, defense policy, and political behavior. It was a clandestine CIA operation. In the case of the Ambassador’s signature on the letter, I would surmise the Kirkpatricks would be immediately available after 78 days of hideous disproportionate bombing to research the ugly results of what Clinton unleashed on the Serbian people — which did $60 billion in infrastructure damage and destroyed their economy for the next two generations. In the process, the U.S. military secretly dumbed decades of weapons stockpiles while at the same time were able to use the bombing campaign to experiment on real human beings with new and modern weapons never before used in a war — the Stealth Bomber instantly comes to mind.

We Didn’t Know It was Invisible

This alleged “invisible” aircraft was the most expensive, most advanced, technological weapon known to mankind in the 21st century, and to the disgrace of General Wesley Clark, the Serbs brought it down on its first use in the war. I applauded the Serbs in Belgrade who carried protest signs the following day reading “Sorry, we did not know it was invisible.” Those same Serbs disgraced our so-called “military might” by bringing down multi-million dollar guided missiles from 30,000 feet with the use of simple $40 microwave ovens that the Serbs rigged to work with their doors open providing our “superior” weapons with “heat-seeking” targets. Wesley Clark was too egotistical to be embarrassed that the world discovered that his 78 days of bombing airplanes and tanks the Serbs made out of wood were only decoys. Much to his dismay, at the end of the war hundreds of hidden Serbian tanks rolled out of Kosovo caves as fresh as they just came off of an assembly line. The late Col. David Hackworth called Clark an “inept fumbler and military lightweight who was outfoxed by the Serbs.”

Sadly, 7 years later the Serbs have not received even one billion dollars in reparations from the U.S. to restore the damage to their country, while politicians in Washington are scrambling to give a billion dollars to Lebanon to restore damage done, not by the U.S. military, but by the Israeli army just a few months ago.

Project Bloodstone: CIA Hiring Nazi Criminals

During the Holocaust Nazi Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians helped to liquidate over 1.7 million Serbs, Jews and Gypsies in Yugoslavia — many of these war criminals were brought into the United States through a secret project called Bloodstone. Thousands of these war criminals were on the payroll of the CIA. Bloodstone became more than an umbrella organization that converted Nazi criminals into U.S. agents for sabotage and assassination operations in exchange for U.S. citizenship. One of the ring leaders of this ugly policy was none other than Evron Kirkpatrick, the Ambassador’s husband.

These efforts were directed by Robert Lovett, who later became the Secretary of Defense and Frank Wisner, who headed the lobby effort for Bloodstone within the National Security Council. Wisner’s memos to the Department of State, PPS 22/1, March 4, 1948, March 17, 1948, and May 26, 1948, are registered documents marked “secret” and clearly indicate Wisner’s activities. Further evidence and documents indicate that in the original group of emigres some 250 such experts were brought to the United States, 100 of them to work for the Department of State, primarily at Thayer’s Voice of America, while the remaining were disbursed in the armed forces.

In one original Bloodstone document it reads: “Unvouchered funds in the amount of $5,000,000.00 should be made available by Congress for the fiscal year 1949 to a component of the National Military Establishment. Upon receipt, the component should immediately transfer [the] funds to the Department of State... (which) should be responsible for the secret disbursement of these funds in view of the fact that the problem is essentially one of a political nature... as to conceal the fact that their source is the U.S. Government.” This proposal was approved on June 10, 1949 by SANACC, which stands for “State Army, Navy, Air Force Coordinating Committee.” This initiative was originally promoted by George Kenna and Franklin Lindsy.

Franklin Lindsay served during the war as OSS Liaison to Tito’s guerrillas in Yugoslavia. He later became the chief of the Office for Policy Coordination in charge of behind-the-lines guerrilla actions in Eastern Europe between. In 1968 President Nixon named Lindsay head of a secret task force on CIA reorganization. Lindsay published a book entitled Beacons in the Night, his recollections of the time spend with Tito forces. The book was published by Stanford University Press, an institution in which many of these war criminals were warmly welcomed.

“Too Bad Croats Killed the Jews, but Exterminating Serbs was a Good Thing”

At a Stanford University dinner party in 1992, the former president of the Hoover Institute said publicly: “All Serbs are Nazis” ... “It was too bad if the Croats killed the Jews, but they should have exterminated the Serbs, so that they would have no trouble with them today.”

This writer lost 17 relatives during the Holocaust who were burned to death in a Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Vojnic in 1942 by Croatians and their Nazi Catholic priests. I lost the last 5 relatives of my name during Operation Storm in August of 1995 when 200,000 Serbs were “ethnically cleansed” from Croatia — my relatives were too old and too sick to flee. They were found a month later with their throats slit. Operation Storm was aided and abetted by U.S. intelligence with cover from the US Airforce who turned off the radar system to allow Croatia to violate the “No-Fly Zone.” The Croats bombed and strafed fleeing Serbs, a war crime by every definition.

In the list of Bloodstone’s top officials you will find individuals who engineered U.S. cold war strategy for every administration from 1945 to 1963. That list included three U.S. ambassadors to Moscow; George Kenna, Charles Bohlen, and Llewellyn Thompson, a director of the Voice of America, Charles Thayer, a director of Radio Free Europe, Howland Sargeant and two directors of the State Department Intelligence section specializing in East Block affairs, W. Park Armstrong and Evron Kirkpatrick.

Evron mentioned Nikolai N. Poppe in particular as one of the scholars he was most proud to assist in placing in the CIA. Poppe was the “Soviets’ head of intelligence for the whole of Asiatic USSR” before he came to the U.S. and had supposedly defected directly from the USSR to the U.S. However, Evron’s version of this story was a lie. Poppe had been one of the Nazis’ senior intelligence analysts and had spent considerable time working for the Germans in Berlin before striking a deal with Kirkpatrick and Bloodstone. Bloodstone’s ability to circumvent U.S. immigration law existed for a good reason — coming through legal channels the majority of these Nazi war criminals and collaborators would have been denied entry into the United States.

Albanian Nazis Welcomed in Kirkpatricks’ Circle

While Poppe was an intelligence expert and Hilger a high-ranking diplomat, a large number of Bloodstone “recruits” were from pro-Axis emigre organizations. At least six high-ranking Albanian emigres had backgrounds as leading Nazi collaborators. Midhat Frasheri was the head of the Albanian Nazi collaborationist organization, Balli Kombetar. Stanford University’s Marc Truitt, in his doctoral thesis, disclosed the relationship of Albanians and the CIA. Some of these individuals included Xhafer Deva, minister of the interior of the Italian Fascist occupation regime in Albania, Hasen Dosti, minister of Justice in the pro-Fascist government, and Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, the Albanian premier from. It was more than apparent the Kirkpatricks did not discriminate about the company they kept.

Once inside the United States, Deva, Dosti, and Frasheri, along with several others, established the National Committee for a Free Albania, which was substantially financed by the CIA with funds laundered through Radio Free Europe.

Ribbentrop’s Aide Enjoys Protection of the State Department

The German diplomat Gustav Hilger is another classic example of the Kirkpatrick touch. Until the release of the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, Hilger’s role in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy toward Germany and the Soviets in the later 1940’s and 50’s was “secret.” So, too, were his close friendships with the Americans from the old Moscow embassy. During the War, Hilger went directly from the German Embassy in Moscow to service in the personal secretariat of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, becoming the chief political officer for Eastern Front questions in the German Foreign Ministry. In this capacity he was the liaison with the SS concerning the Nazi occupation of the USSR, a job which included the processing of SS reports on the mobile killing operations in the East. In 1942 Hilger successfully coordinated and obtained sanctuary in Germany for several Hungarian army officers responsible for the murder of 6,000 Serbs and 4,000 Jews. The Kirkpatricks welcomed such scum of the earth with open arms.

In 1962 Nazi hunter Charles Allen located Hilger at his residence in Washington, DC. Hilger, he said, “Still enjoyed enough clout at the State Department to have it maintain a telephone contact service ‘extension 11’ on his behalf.” This Nazi died in Munich on July 27, 1965. In addition to the protection of a known criminal and receipt of the benefits of this great country, Hilger also enjoyed a generous grant from the Carnegie Foundation. An interesting discovery when you consider that this same Carnegie Foundation provided income to George Kenney, the State Department dissident who resigned in protest of our foreign policy on Bosnia.

Vatican Ratline’s Connections with U.S. Intelligence

Supposedly, only three Treblinka SS guards are known to have entered the United States — Liudas Kariys, Feodor Fedorenko, and Ivan Demjanjuk. Rushing to their aid was veteran Nazi rescuers Jerome Brentar and Dr. Edward O’Connor. Brentar, a 70 year old Ohio travel agent, who raised an estimated $3 million for the John Demjanjuk Defense Committee, received a hero’s welcome in California in 1989.

Brentar, the American offspring of Croatian parents, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1922. “We spoke both Croatian and German at home,” he testified in 1982. Inducted into the US Army in 1942, he returned to the U.S. in 1946 and studied briefly at Michigan State. In 1947 he returned to Europe, encouraged to join the UN’s International Refugee Organization, which investigated and certified refugees for emigration. Subsequent investigations revealed that Brentar’s “mentor” was Dr. Edward O’Connor, executive of the War Relief Services of the national Catholic Welfare Conference from and the dominate member of the US Displaced Persons Commission), who had collaborated in secret operations to spirit Nazis out of Europe. They worked in top secret escape routes operations by US military intelligence, aided by the Catholic Relief Services and the Croatian priest Fr. Kunoslav Draganovic, who ran the Vatican Ratline that helped war criminals like Clause Barge escape from Europe. Draganovic also helped 743 Roman Catholic priests escape from Croatia, where they personally liquidated thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies with their own hands and ran Jasenovac, the Croatian Concentration camp known as the “Auschwitz of the Balkans,” which ranked 3rd highest killing camp of the war. These Catholic priests fled to Argentina where they escaped justice. If Evron Kirkpatrick has his way those Catholic priests would have been in the United States molesting little boys.

A top secret 1950 report by the CIC — Counter Intelligence Corps, entitled “History of the Ratline,” ties the Vatican and US intelligence to O’Connor and Jerome Brentar. Brentar admitted in an interview with Allan Ryan, Jr, the previous director of the US Justice Department, “He had developed a ‘close’ and ‘admiring’ relationship with Fr. Dragonovic Draganovic beginning in 1947.” “I was very interested in the Croatian problem and went to the St. Jeronimo Monastery in Rome, and [there] I met Fr. Dragonovic Draganovic.” Allen Ryan, Jr. is the author of the revealing book, “Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America.”

In 1983 Brentar went to Poland to gather evidence for Demjanjuk’s defense team. However, the Polish government expelled him for allegedly offering bribes in exchange for false eyewitness testimony. In 1988 Brentar worked for the Bush campaign as a leader of the GOP ethnic Heritage Group. He was dismissed after Bush was accused in the media for having anti-Semitic personnel on his staff.

False Humanitarians: George Soros’ Contribution to Islamization of the Balkans

Did those who signed the letter to President Clinton have a hidden agenda, such as that of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s? Why would Henry Siegmann of the American Jewish Congress sign such a letter in which a Jewish organization encouraged the mass lethal killing of a people? Especially when thousands of Serbs share common graves with Jews whom they hid in their barns and basements and were lined up and shot when the Nazis discovered them in Serbian homes.

Why would a Hungarian, George Soros, a man of enormous wealth, be driven by hatred between Hungarians and the Serbs to seek their destruction? This is a man who pretends to be a “humanitarian” but gave one dollar to Serb victims in Bosnia for every $25,000 he gave to Bosnian Muslims. This is the same Soros who helped fund the first Bosnian election in which 350,000 of the 410,000 refugees Serbs, just 200 miles away in Belgrade, were prevented from casting their ballots while Soros and company spent a million dollars making sure that every Bosnian Muslim in the U.S. or in various parts of Europe was able to cast their vote. The first Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic won the election by 41,000 votes through fraud and corruption. The 600,000 phantom votes put old Chicago’s ballot box stuffing to shame.

The Guardian reported on 24 September 1996, “West ‘covering up mass fraud in Bosnian polls’,” and that “The international organization supervising the Bosnian elections is attempting to cover up wholesale fraud involving an estimated 600,000 phantom votes, according to preliminary results that call into question the apparent victory for the Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic.” His margin of victory of 41,000 votes over the Bosnian Serb separatist, Momcilo Krajisnik, is dwarfed by the scale of voting discrepancies, the greatest of which are in predominantly Muslim areas.” The Washington Times of 21 September 1996, headlined, “Bosnia voting exceeds 100 percent, foreign watchdog group says.”

Such ugly disenfranchisement of the Serbian people is common among the Soros ilk and it was common with Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Now that she is dead, this is one less hateful Serbophobe to contend with — but for the Serbs, the plot continues to sicken.

Note: Following is a link to “Why Are We in Kosovo” by Jeane Kirkpatrick. Her attack on Milosevic was compelling since Richard Holbrooke said, “President Milosevic is a man we can do business with.” Milosevic has been dead nearly two years. Serbs are beginning to ask why they continue to be punished when the excuse for bombing them back to the middle ages was due to Milosevic. Ms. Kirkpatrick’s vitriolic anti-Serb rantings was the reason why I wrote “No Serbian Tears for Jeane Kirkpatrick.”

William Dorich is the author of 5 books on Balkan history including his 1991 book, Serbian Genocide co written by the late David Martin, author of The Web of Disinformation (1989) and the late Michael Lees, author of The Rape of Serbia (1989). Mr. Dorich is also the author of the 1992 book, Kosovo and the 1994 book, A Brief History of Serbian Music.

Regarding the photos illustrating this entry: it seems to be an unwritten rule for Western mainstream media to speak and write about NATO aggression on Serbia as “Kosovo mission/bombardment” supposedly undertaken in order to “prevent Serbian forces’ crackdown on Albanian rebels.” In reality, it was a vicious, vengeful punishment mission and aggression on entire Serbian state. There was virtually no city in Serbia that was spared. These and countless other photos and hours of video footage illustrate not just Kosovo province, but all of Serbia was NATO’s target and entire Serbian nation was under 78 days of merciless pounding, not merely Serbian army. Images showing destruction of cities of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Pancevo, Cacak, Varvarin, Vranje and dozens of others — from those far in the north of the country, down to the ones on Albanian border in the south — are not included here due to space restrictions.