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Excerpt
from the full text published by the Russian official website
The
anti-Russia statements by CIA Director Mike Pompeo
We
could not but take note of and comment on the June 24 statement by CIA Director
Mike Pompeo during his NBC interview. The statement dealt with Russia’s alleged
longtime attempts to undermine the American democracy and meddling in US
elections. It appears that in his opinion, Russia’s longtime attempts to
undermine US democracy have culminated in the interference in US elections.
As
we know, the issue of Russia’s meddling in the election process has become a
favourite media story and an obsession in the United States. This story has
been adopted by anti-Russia propagandists. This issue continues to pick up
momentum and is mentioned in statements by officials who are trying to accuse
Russia of engaging in unlawful actions but who have failed to produce any
evidence to date. We would like to remind them about some outstanding pages of
US history. Unlike the Americans, we have real facts at our disposal, and we
know what we should focus on.
It
is common knowledge that since the early 1990s the United States had voiced its
intentions to establish a Jeffersonian democracy in Russia. But the very fact
of setting such a task completely runs counter to the ideas of Thomas
Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the American nation and democracy.
All of us know that he called for respecting various forms of government,
chosen by other nations, and said the United States would not impose its will anywhere.
He was mistaken. Thomas Jefferson referred to the idea of dictating the form of
government to an independent country as arrogant, brutal and outrageous. It
appears that the ideologists of the present-day America have very poor
knowledge of their own history and the foundations of their statehood, if the
concepts of “exporting democracy” and “humanitarian intervention” have become
their favourite method for conducting an aggressive foreign policy and
part of their national concept. For decades, dozens of countries all over
the world have been suffering from US-imposed state system formulas that are
trying to equate all countries under one and the same pattern, without any
consideration for what makes each of them unique. This policy and experiments cannot
be called harmless. In the past few years, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt,
Syria and Ukraine have fallen prey to this concept. Needless to say, al- Qaeda
in all its manifestations, ISIS and other radical terrorist groups of all
religious denominations evolved on the fertile soil created by the Americans
and in fact often were the brainchildren of these forces.
Generous
financial injections in the form of projects and grants through numerous
foundations and NGOs is another “grey zone” through which the United States has
been trying to influence political processes all over the world for many years.
Russia virtually tops the list of these allocations. Various government and
non-government organisations, including the Peace Corps, the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID), the National Democratic Institute, the
International Republican Institute and many other similar agencies, have been
planting their agents for decades in order to penetrate the Russian political
establishment and media community and to influence public opinion. According to
some sources, the United States had spent $5 billion for these purposes in the
1990s alone. It is very strange that, while making such statements, Mr Pompeo
forgets that many decisions stipulating the allocation of funding were approved
by his own agency.
It
is strange that Washington forgets the fact that in the run-up to the 1996
Russian presidential election, the Federal Reserve Bank delivered $500 million
in cash to the US Embassy in Moscow under a far-fetched pretext of avoiding
frenzied demand during the exchange of old $100 notes. Operatives from the
CIA’s Moscow Embassy station, headed by Michael Sulick, virtually slept on the
money bags, while guarding them. Foreign-made cars delivered small batches of
money from the Embassy to certain individuals. Who did the US sponsor using
this money? I believe we will also learn this someday.
Here
are only a few examples of diverse US activities aiming to undermine stability
in various regions worldwide and in those areas that are not ready to follow
American instructions. We are in no way demanding that Mr Pompeo should stop
his rhetoric because this is in the realm of fiction. One should simply
understand that every action has a reaction. We are ready.
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