Epstein Secrets

, deserves great credit for ensuring that when the Soviet empire did fall, as Eisenhower had much earlier worked to make happen, the transitions in Eastern Europe were peaceful. Where there could have been chaos Bush reached out to other world leaders and produced an orderly handover of power. He also waged a

ined with forbearance, and allow the weakness of their system to undermine them over time. Other presidents have similarly succeeded by avoidance. George H.W. Bush, to cite another example, deserves great credit for ensuring that when the Soviet empire did fall, as Eisenhower had much earlier worked to make ha

cause I feel that this is beyond reckless and dangerous — The Pentagon is considering positioning heavy weaponry and equipment in Baltic States and Eastern Europe to support training with regional allies, officials said Saturday, a move that could heighten tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. Cap

g undercover for the FBI at white supremacist meetings and conventions across the country. Kind of like in the movies, the former Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush operative put the wires on after he got mixed up in the wrong crowd (though he emphasizes that he never did anything illegal). Blodgett now gets ca

hrough the streets of Narva, a border city separated by a narrow frontier from Russia, were a dramatic reminder of the new military confrontation in Eastern Europe. The soldiers from the U.S. Army's Second Cavalry Regiment were taking part in a military parade to mark Estonia's Independence Day. Narva is a vul

s his daughter when he made an exception. George Bush 41 was the last President who didn't smoke pot. Pres

ears later after the=first President Bush refused to make aggressive statements about Gorbachev, who w=s then able to quietly withdraw support from Eastern Europe that led to the a=d of the Berlin Wall. The neocons simply misrepresented what happened and claimed that Reagan had followed their approach in deali

rone to repeating this line, that the Soviet Union lost, there is a widespread belief in Russia of the myth that Gorbachev was tricked by Reagan and Bush Sr. to give away the store and tha= ever since, the U.S. has been set on turning Russia into a colony fit only =or supplying cheap energy and raw materi

s wife in their home in Jerusalem. There, but for Grace of God and the luck of having grandparents and great grandparents with the foresight to leave Eastern Europe, go I. If Sharanksy’s grandparents had come to America and mine had remained in Europe, our roles could easily have been reversed. That’s why helping

inton case was resolved, John Kennedy, Jr.—the late son of the former President—called and asked me if I would contribute an article to his magazine, George. He asked me if I would describe the ten greatest legal blunders of the 20" Century. Here is what I described as the number | and 2 greatest blunders

tain in Army intelligence before joining the CIA in 1980. In the CIA, he had an unblemished record as a career officer, serving as a station chief in Eastern Europe and then the deputy chief of operation in Malaysia in 1992. Even though his career was on the rise and he was a dedicated anti-Communist, he became a

ted into reports, which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their importance, had been provided to the three American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the Inspector General found that the "senior CIA officers responsib