A WARNING FROM HISTORY – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:   A major intelligence archive from the Cold War is being released by Britain today.  Its revelations should scare us, for some of the same techniques used against the west by Moscow can be used today, even within our own country.  From London's Telegraph: 

Booby-trapped caches of weapons are probably still hidden around Britain after being concealed during the Cold War by Soviet agents preparing for conflict, a leading historian has said.

Details of how clandestine stockpiles of small arms and communications gear were hidden across Europe are disclosed in a KGB intelligence archive made public for the first time on Monday.

Documents from the Mitrokhin archive also reveal how a woman considered by some to be the Soviets' most important UK spy was given a medal and lifetime £20-a-month pension “for many years of excellent work” revealing nuclear secrets from her London office.

The trove of files copied down by a senior KGB archivist called Vasili Mitrokhin over a 12 year period before he defected in 1992 is considered one of the most invaluable intelligence sources of the Cold War and provides a detailed insight into Soviet spy operations.

COMMENT:  This is a great story, but don't expect any extensive coverage here.  Whenever Soviet archives are opened, and several have been, the leftist academics and journalists go into action, trying to minimize the importance of the exposed secrets.  Exaggerations!  Bravado!  Even the overwhelming evidence presented by the Venona intercepts – actual intercepts of actual messages, many during World War II – were ridiculed.  Must not destroy the image of the Soviet Union as a put-upon, misunderstood nation.

This new batch is especially disturbing because it reveals the placing of weapons and equipment in a major Western nation.  It is the very thing intelligence people fear today, that weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, could be smuggled across our southern border, or introduced through our ports or airports, and stored for later use.  Wouldn't be that difficult.  A small nuclear weapon would fit in the trunk of a car. 

The left is endlessly playing down real threats, but we now see that the old Soviets did exactly what an enemy might try to do today.

July 7,  2014