Ukraine President Once Agent for US State Department
Ukraine President Once Agent for U.S. State
Department
by Michael Collins
June 10,
2014
Is he still working for
his former masters in Washington, DC?
Two diplomatic
messages from the WikiLeaks Public Library on U.S.
Diplomacy indicate that newly elected President of
Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko was an agent for United States
State Department. A confidential message from the U.S.
Embassy in Kyiv on April 29, 2006 mentions the newly
elected Ukraine president twice.
“During an April 28
meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro
Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his
influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on
Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr.”
“During an April 28
meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro
Poroshenko denied that he was behind Prosecutor General
Oleksandr Medvedko’s recent decision to issue an arrest
warrant for Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov. …
[to] question him about the alleged destruction of SBU
[Ukraine intel] files on organized crime figure Seymon
Mogilievich.” [Russian Mafia Boss of Bosses] WikiLeaks Public Library of U.S.
Diplomacy
The motivation for alleged destruction of
files appeared in an embassy message from April 14, 2006.
“– The files
contained information about Tymoshenko’s cooperation with
Mogilievich when she ran United Energy Systems in the
mid-late 1990s.” WikiLeaks
Yulia Tymoshenko, an
aspiring oligarch, is the darling of the both the Bush and
Obama administrations for her role in the 2004 Orange
Revolution that brought the first modern anti-Russian
Ukraine government to power. She helped negotiate the
natural gas deals between Ukraine and Russia.
Another
mention of Poroshenko made it clear that the State
Department saw the future value of Poroshenko’s insider
role.
“OU-insider Petro Poroshenko was in the
running for the PM job.” WikiLeaks
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton met with the current president in 2009 when he
served as Ukraine Foreign Minister. The content of the
meeting was described in a confidential message from the
U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on December 18, 2009:
[Speaking to
Ukraine Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko] “She [Secretary
of State Clinton] emphasized that the United States
envisioned multiple pathways to NATO membership.” WikiLeaks
Since he was doing his work
in secret, and he was “our insider,” it follows that
Poroshenko played the role of agent: “someone hired
or recruited by an intelligence agency to do its bidding.
The person to whom the agent reports — the actual agency
employee–is known as an operative.” Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and
Security
Poroshenko is a Ukrainian oligarch, one of
the fifty or so wealthiest citizens who run the country. It
is unlikely the president got cash for his services but
highly likely that he extracted financial advantage as a
result.
Amidst the chaos and ruin visited upon Ukraine,
Poroshenko’s recent election may mean a full synchronization
of U.S. – Ukraine policies regarding the eastern regions
where citizens of Ukraine are subject to bombardment by land
an air in their towns and cities.
False Hope at
D-Day Gathering?
At the recent D-Day
commemoration in France, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
French President Francois Holland arranged a fifteen-minute
meeting between Russian President
Vladimir Putin and the newly elected Ukrainian president.
Both leaders agreed that military actions must stop and set
up a date for meetings to accomplish that goal. Putin went
beyond military settlement by offering Ukraine its former
discounts on Russian gas.
According to the Guardian,
“Putin said he welcomed Poroshenko’s call for an end to the
bloodshed and liked his approach to settling the crisis but
wanted to wait until the Ukrainian leader could deliver
it in detail to the nation.” (Authors emphasis)
Poroshenko delivered some detail to the nation but it
wasn’t what Putin wanted to hear in order to move forward.
The inauguration speech in Kyiv included the new president’s
desire to sign the European Union (EU) association agreement
and seek full integration into the EU, which implies NATO
membership.
“Dear friends, my pen is already in my hands.
I am ready now. As soon as the EU takes a relevant decision,
the signature of the Ukrainian president will immediately
appear under this document. We see the association agreement
as only the first step towards Ukraine’s fully-fledged
membership in the European Union ” Petro Poroshenko, June 7
As Poroshenko
spoke, “Residents [of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine] said the
sounds of shelling reverberated around the city on Friday.”
ABC, June 7
Which Poroshenko can we
believe? The president who worked for the U.S. as “our
Ukraine insider” or the elected head of a sovereign state
engaged in honest diplomacy?
Right now, it’s safe to stick
with the bellicose rhetoric of the inaugural speech. In a
heavily documented report, RT showed the handiwork of
President Poroshenko’s troops in Slavyansk – eight dead
yesterday from aerial bombardment of the separatist occupied
city administrative building.
“Death and destruction is
reported in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv’s artillery has
resumed shelling the rebellious city of Slavyansk. Locals
tell RT they have been without running water and power for
days, and that hope is fading.” RT, June 8
The $5 billion spent to get a U.S. friendly
government in the Ukraine worked. “Our Ukraine insider,”
Petro Poroshenko, is president. He was informed five years
ago that the U.S. wanted Ukraine in NATO, and he no doubt
heard Vice President Joseph Biden’s speech in Kyiv. Without
a vote by Congress or a valid treaty, Biden assured the then
coup-run government that our government would be there to
help.
U.S. will stand by Ukraine in face of Russian
aggression, Biden says
“I came here to Kyiv to let you
know, Mr. Prime Minister, and every Ukrainian know that the
United States stands with you and is working to support all
Ukrainians seeking a better future. You should know that you
will not walk this road alone. We will walk it with you.” Vice President Joseph Biden, April
22
The players and plans have been in place for years
and it’s all paid off. The White House and their masters
finally have their insider in place in charge of
Ukraine. It’s worth listening to the assessment of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John E.
Herbst and his Deputy around the time they handled
Poroshenko. The ambassador saw him as a “disgraced oligarch”
and his deputy pointed out that “Poroshenko was tainted by
credible corruption allegations.”
Spreading brand
democracy around the world is a tough job. Somebody’s
got to do it.
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