Notes from the underworld By J.R. Nyquist 10.16.01

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Notes from the underworld
By J.R. Nyquist 10.16.01
http://web.archive.org/web/20020615212036/www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/oct/16/nyquist.htm
The Marxist-Leninist combines the terrorist and the criminal. If you
don't believe me, consider the words of the highest ranking defector
from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff,
Col. Stanislav Lunev.

Three years ago I asked Lunev whether there were any good people in
the "former" communist hierarchy of Russia. He looked at me as if I'd
asked an idiotic question. "These are not human beings," he said with
emphasis, "these are crazy persons."

Lunev went on to describe the communist mentality. "What is a
criminal?" he asked. "A criminal is a misfit and communists are
misfits. Lenin was a lawyer who couldn't win a case. He was a misfit.
Stalin was a misfit too."

Lunev had thought deeply about this question. He glimpsed inside the
revolutionary mind -- of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and the others. All
misfits and criminals, he said. Not one normal person in that gang.
They are people who cannot adjust to normal life. They therefore
created an abnormal situation for themselves. They created the Soviet
regime.

The underworld is a very real phenomenon. In religious terms we think
of Hell, the lower depths, where Satan and his angels are said to
exist. Satan has been described as an angel-revolutionary who rebeled
against the Creator. But Satan is not the only rebel in the universe.
There is also an earthly underground. I am talking about criminal
networks that span the globe, that import drugs and turn young girls
into prostitutes. And also, let us not forget the political
underworld.

Anyone who has read Fedor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from underground" will
catch a glimpse of the interior world of the misfit (who lives
underground). In essence, Dostoyevski depicts this person as a
nihilist, a destroyer mired in the horror of petty thoughts and
feelings. The great Russian novelist begins this classic memoir of
disheveled discontent with the following lines: "I am a sick man ....
I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man."

It is not a pretty portrait. The memoir is realistic enough that
latter-day university students might well recognize a type of person
they've met on campus -- professors, graduate students and other
individuals in need of treatment. It is the portrait of someone who
suffers from unimportance and mediocrity.

Col. Lunev saw something in the communists akin to what we find in
Dostoyevsky's "Notes from underground." It is no accident that Karl
Marx once said there was nothing more wonderous in all the universe
than the mind of a criminal. And it is no wonder that every communist
regime (so far) has also been a criminal construction.

Recently Col. Lunev revealed deeper, more direct connections between
former Soviet institutions and organized crime. "I would like to
reveal to you today some 'secrets' about the Rusisan mafia," wrote
Lunev in his Newsmax column. "The Red Mafia is the continuation of
Russia's Communist old guard. This is why the Russian mafia is totally
controlled and populated by 'ex-KGB' and 'ex-GRU' agents."

I can confirm the truth of this statement from my own investigations.
I have interviewed victims of the Russian mafia here in California. I
am told, without any doubt, that Russian mafia leaders in Sacramento
are GRU (Russian military intelligence) operatives. Other East Bloc
secret services are also linked to them, like the Polish and Czech
intelligence services. The latter can also be traced to some of the
Arab terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center.

Readers should note that Lunev refers to the Russian mafia gangsters
as "ex-KGB," etc., placing the phrase in quotation-marks. This is
because the expression ex-KGB is a nonsense term. It contains
disinformation. The only way you leave the KGB or GRU is to defect or
die. "In reality," noted Lunev, "these men still work for Russian
intelligence agencies and are still communist and still intent on
destroying America -- but today they have a new front and one that
appears to the West less menacing."

This is the most striking public statement Lunev has made so far. It
should be etched into the understanding of every FBI special agent, of
every CIA analyst and it should be repeated and memorized in the White
House.

Lunev estimates there are one million "soldiers" in the Red Mafia
banded together in over 500 syndicates. "Using practically unlimited
resources from Russia," writes Lunev, "these criminal syndicates are
working independently and in close cooperation with local gangsters to
establish control over America's profitable small and medium-sized
businesses."

Even worse, the Red Mafia is interested in stealing sensitive
information, scientific discoveries and new technologies. Drug
trafficking also figures largely in Russian mob activity. Fraud,
prostitution and money-laundering are basic, with the latter having
grave implications for the future of U.S. banking and high finance.

Lunev says that U.S. law enforcement agencies "have not been able to
cope with this problem." From following this subject, from
interviewing victims who have been ignored or thrust aside by the FBI,
I must agree with the colonel's assessment.

Last week Herbert Romerstein, a long-time expert on Soviet espionage
was interviewed on the Michael Savage radio program. Romerstein noted
that the terrorist networks (which are also criminal) were the
creation of the KGB and GRU during the Cold War. They are a kind of
inheritance, he said.

Americans must come to understand that old-style communism has
morphed. It has changed its old skin for new skin. Or as KGB defector
Anatoliy Golistyn would say, it has traded "New Lies for Old."

At bottom we are dealing with criminals and misfits, as Lunev once
told me. We are dealing with "crazy persons." Throughout the world
these persons have been organizing. And we are their target. It is
time to realize that we are not merely dealing with a threat from
Osama bin Laden. We are dealing with something much larger.