Institute for Policy Studies targets President Bush and Cheney

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 21 July 2003

The Institute for Policy Studies is using a group called VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) sent President to target President Bush. VIPS sent Bush a letter that Cheney resign over the issue of Saddam's WMDs. Now who or what is VIPS? This is a question that many have been asking. The answer is simple. It is a front for the notorious Marxist-Leninist Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

This is what Brian Crozier (a highly respected commentator on intelligence matters and a fellow of the prestigious Institute for the Study of Conflict) had to say about the Institute for Policy Studies:

"The IPS is the perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were too originate openly from the KGB."

One of the signatories to the letter was David MacMichael a former CIA analyst. As an American patriot MacMichaels saw it as his duty to lecture at the Institute for Policy Studies and participate in its activities. Among others who share MacMichaels' enthusiasm for an organisation that acted as a mouthpiece for Moscow and which still gives Castro unstinting support were the likes of life-long communist Saul Landau and his wife, Peter Weiss, another Soviet supporter, Seymour Hersh, another great patriot; Dr Charles Clement, who actively supported communists guerrillas in Central America, is also a great supporter. Then we have New York Times reporter (surprise, surprise) Ray Bonner, and one-time Washington Post associate editor John Dinges. And so it sadly goes on.

Sharing Institute for Policy Studies lectures and seminars with these patriotic Americans were Soviet patriots like KGB operative Victor Taltz, Vladimir I. Strokin, KGB agent and Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in 1984, Soviet agent Igo Mishchenko and KGB operative Anatoliy Manakov. Plenty of other communist agents strutted their stuff at the IPS. For example, Rene Mujica who was first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section at the Czech embassy before the communist regime collapsed, much to the distress of the IPS and its American supporters. There was also Orlando Letellier who worked for Castro's DGI (General Directorate of Intelligence which was under the control of a KGB general), and Romesh Chandra, another KGB agent.

There is not a single communist regime the IPS has not supported, including Pol Pot's. Moreover, it has also supported every anti-Western terrorist group I can think of. Yet here we have the so-called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, an obvious IPS front, brazenly demanding, with a little help from the IPS and its friends in the media, the resignation of Mr Cheney. I personally would not hesitate to call these men liars. Come to think of it, there is another word that would fit them perfectly.

Of course, the likes of the Independent, The New York Times, CNN, CBS and the ABC have been too busy cheerfully parroting VIPS' agitprop line to bother mentioning its Marxist-Leninist connections. But no one really expects anything less from this bunch of Bush-haters, especially where the Institute for Policy Studies is concerned.

If the GOP were to closely examine the links between the IPS and those journalists and Democrats (is there really a difference?) who are running the VIPS-IPS line they might find the results very interesting.

Gerard Jackson is also Brookes' Economics Editor