Final_Judgment

[606] Final Judgment 704
whether the information he is presenting is Andrew's own interpretation,
based on the material of others. In that sense, then, while the book is quite
skillfully written in such a way that it appears to present the information
presented as having come from the KGB's supposedly purloined file, that is
not always necessarily the case. So the reader should thus be warned.
It appears Andrew's book is presenting the Mitrokhin archives as some
sort of effort to counter new official histories of the KGB that are being
released by the KGB's post-Soviet era successor, the SVR. For example,
Andrew lashes out at Lolly Zamoysky, the SVR's literary editor of the new
multi-volume official history, as having been "well known" in the KGB
"for his belief in a global Masonic-Zionist plot" and for having previously
published a 1989 book entitled Behind the Facade of the Masonic Temple
"which blamed the Freemasons for the outbreak of the Cold War."
According to Andrew, Zamoysky claimed that "Freemasons have
always controlled the upper echelons of government in Western countries . . .
Masonry in fact runs, 'remotely controls' bourgeois society . . . The true
center of the world Masonic movement is to be found in the most
"Masonic' country of all, the United States . . . ."
Thus, Andrew's book is effectively an attempt to counter allegations of
high-level Zionist intrigue that has been documented by the official post-KGB
Russian intelligence services.
WHERE'S ANGLETON? WHERE'S ISRAEL?
In that regard, it is quite remarkable to note that in the entirety of this
extensively documented and indexed 700-page volume, there is only one
indexed reference to Israel and not a single indexed reference to the
Mossad, this despite the widely-known fact that the Mossad played a central
role alongside the CIA in its operations in Western Europe throughout the
period that Andrew has purported to describe, based on Mitrochin's files.
Likewise, in the same vein, there are only two indexed references to the
CIA's longtime counterintelligence chief, James Jesus Angleton. This is
interesting—very interesting—since Angleton, who is best remembered for
his strident anti-Soviet stance, having spent decades looking for a "KGB
mole" in the upper echelons of the CIA and for KGB moles in allied
Western intelligence agencies—was also a devoted Israeli loyalist who
jealously guarded his role as the CIA's liaison to the Mossad.
Yet, despite all this, Andrew's passing references to Angleton refer to
subject matter that has appeared in dozens, if not hundreds, of other books
on the subject of intelligence intrigue. Somehow, some way the role of the
Mossad and its CIA ally, Angleton, have slipped through the memory hole
in this otherwise massive account of KGB intrigue that—if the official
histories would correctly have us believe—were under the direct purview of
Angleton's day-to-day counterintelligence operations at the CIA.
Perhaps the most glaring evidence of outright fraud, per se, in the
Andrew-Mitrokhin production is the flimsy and quite transparent attempt to
absolve the CIA of any involvement in the assassination of John F.