trb@drux3.UUCP (08/30/83)
THE INCREDIBLE KISSINGER RETURNS
President Reagan's appointment of Henry Kissinger to head a
commission on Central America says a great deal more about
Mr. Reagan than it does about Dr. Kissinger. If even part
of the Kissinger record is examined, it becomes easy to see
why the move spells trouble for Central America.
"The Kissinger Philosophy"
There is a ton of evidence to suggest that Henry Kissinger's
career in government has proved to be an unmitigated
disaster for the United States. Wherever his hand has been
present, the United States has come up the loser. But what
is so surprising is that this Harvard-trained, Rockefeller-
connected power broker has told the world that he never
intended to represent the interests of our nation. He is,
instead, committed to a world government which presumably
would be run by him and his like-minded cronies.
We know this from his books. In "The Necessity of Choice"
(1961), he called for an end to nationalism and stated that
the West must "show the way to a new international order."
In "The Troubled Partnership" (1965), he chided
"institutions based on present concepts of national
sovereignty," and urged that preparation begin for a step
"beyond the nation-state." Students of Communist global
designs will note that such attitudes pose no conflict with
plans emanating from Moscow.
"The Kissinger Record"
Journalist Gary Allen wrote in "Nixon's Palace Guard" (1971)
that, when naming Kissinger to the post of national security
adviser, President Nixon issued a security waiver because
there was grave doubt that Dr. Kissinger could pass the
normal security check. Years later, the man who benefitted
from that waiver deleted a lengthy section on Soviet
espionage in the U.S. from a Rockefeller Commission Report
on the CIA.
In 1968, according to columnist Joseph C. Harsch, Kissinger
stated that victory in Vietnam was neither possible nor
*desirable.* Yet, he was allowed to become a major policy
setter for our forces in Vietnam in 1969. Then the
Kissinger-arranged peace treaty of 1973 permitted North
Vietnam to leave 300,000 troops in the South, which led to
the Red takeover of all of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
In 1972, as a part of his personally directed campaign for
detante, Kissinger pushed for the sale of sophisticated
ball-bearing grinders to the USSR despite Congressional and
Defense Department objections. This equipment has enabled
the USSR to place multiple warheads on intercontinental
ballistic missiles.
During the years he served the Nixon-Ford Administration,
Kissinger initiated the giveaway of the Panama Canal to the
Marxist dictatorship in Panama; arranged for the Helsinki
accords which formally ratified the Red takeover of Eastern
Europe; pressed for SALT I which enabled the USSR to pass
the U.S. in several military categories; and backed Marxist
terrorists in their seizing control of Rhodesia.
In 1971, CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton
assigned his entire European team to discover if there was
any validity to charges that Kissinger was a Soviet agent.
Kissinger survived and Angleton's CIA division was
disbanded. In 1974, Soviet official Anatoly Dobrynin let
slip that Kissinger "is negotiating for us too" in the
sensitive Middle East talks. It was later shown that, in
dealing with the USSR from Washington, Kissinger adopted the
highly unusual practice of using the Soviet communication
system rather than our own.
The growth of Communist power in Central America should
merit Washington's careful attention. But Henry Kissinger
can hardly be counted on to represent the interests of this
nation. His string of losses for our side and victories for
Communism is unbroken.
Tom Buckley