I
venture that few outside the Russian Federation will even know the
name of Anatoly Chubais, today the CEO of a Russian high-tech company
called Rusnano. Following the high-profile November 15 arrest of
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s Minister of Economics, Alexei
Ulyukaev, on charges of accepting at least $2 million in bribes in a
state privatization involving Rosneft and Bashneft energy companies,
the spotlight has turned to the company of Anatoly Chubais, Boris
Yeltsin’s 1990s privatization czar, today CEO of state-owned
Rusnano. If charges are formally brought against Chubais–undeniably
one of the most hated of the Yeltsin-era kleptocrat “reformers”
who worked with the CIA during the 1990’s to plunder Russian state
assets worth hundreds of billions for just pennies – it will signal
that Putin feels in a strong enough position to purge the pro-free
market liberal mafia that still holds a lock grip on the development
of the Russian economy.
by
F. William Engdahl for the Saker blog
On 16
November, the day after the dramatic arrest of Ulyukaev, state
prosecutors and police raided the offices of Chubias’ Rusnano.
Notable about the reports of the prosecutors’ questioning Chubais
and other top officers at Rusnano, is the fact that several have fled
Russia in recent months to avoid prosecution. To the present, Chubais
remains, and vehemently claims innocence.
In my view,
there is vastly more at stake here than the innocence or guilt of
Chubais. This move, if combined with the arrest of Ulyukaev, signals
a major cleanup of corrupt elements who, beginning even before 1991,
organized to sell Russia to the CIA and Western speculators like
George Soros.
Some history
that has generally been blacked out in the West about the true role
of Anatoly Chubais and the Yeltsin Presidency are instructive to also
understand the irrational rage of Washington and US banks and
oligarchs directed at Putin and at everything he does to re-establish
Russian sovereignty and stability.
Part
1 - CIA’s Yeltsin ‘Democracy’ Coup
The rape of
Russia–the Russian nation, the Russian state, the Russian
people–beginning the end of the 1980’s, was a coup d’état
engineered by the US Central Intelligence Agency along with rogue and
not so rogue networks directed by former CIA Director, then
President, George Herbert Walker Bush and continued by Bush’s
successor, Bill Clinton. Western accounts of what took place inside
the Russian Federation during the Yeltsin years of the 1990’s speak
of “Russian mafia,” or “Russian Organized Crime.” Never do
they mention or even hint that those Russians who plundered their own
country were organized and paid, made rich by the West, to be more
precise, by the Old Boy CIA networks loyal to former CIA Director and
then US President, George Herbert Walker Bush.
What took
place in the 1990’s under the Russian Presidency of Boris Yeltsin
was described by one knowledgeable US insider, Mortimer Zuckerman, a
member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and owner of US
News & World Report as, “the largest giveaway of a nation’s
wealth in history.” The giveaway or more precisely said, theft,
was done through outright theft, currency war and a fraudulent
loans-for-company stock shares program that Anatoly Chubais directed.
The Bush Sr.
Administration’s attack on post-communist Russia, dubbed “Operation
Hammer,” had four distinct covert elements. The CIA would secretly
finance the August 1991 Generals’ coup against Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev. They would use their secret financial war-chest to
destabilize the Ruble. They used corrupted Russian Gosbank national
bank officials to organize the theft of the country’s official gold
reserves, most all of it. Then they began a systematic takeover of
strategic energy, raw materials and military state industries in the
Soviet Union via IMF-dictated privatization operations that were run
by Yeltsin’s Finance Minister, Yegor Gaidar and his close associate
responsible for state privatization, Anatoly Chubais. Gaidar and
Chubais worked in league with Harvard’s Jeffrey Sachs and other
friends of billionaire hedge fund speculator, George Soros in the
literal rape of Russia as one insider described it.
As the rogue
ex-KGB generals and their hand-picked protégés looted the gold
reserves of the now defunct Soviet Union, as well as the significant
financial assets of the now-banned Communist Party, all with the
blessing and complicity of Boris Yeltsin and his inner circle, the
Bush CIA Old Boys were ready to launch the next phase, systematic
takeover of strategic energy, raw materials and military state
industries in the Soviet Union via IMF-dictated privatization
operations that were run by Yeltsin’s Finance Minister, Yegor
Gaidar, and his accomplice, Anatoly Chubais.
In November
1991, Chubais became a minister in the Yeltsin Cabinet where he
managed the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo–the Committee for the
Management of State Property, which Yeltsin decreed to be the agency
responsible for devising Russia’s privatization of the state
companies. Gaidar and Chubais worked in league with George Soros, the
Wall Street speculator and funder of the CIA front, National
Endowment for Democracy. Soros in turn brought Harvard’s Jeffrey
Sachs, architect of the Polish “economic shock therapy,” and
other American “friends,” to the Yeltsin circles.
George Soros
and his Open Society Foundations had been linked to the CIA by
Chinese intelligence and others. His Open Society institutions
“coincidentally” appeared in every situation where the CIA’s
National Endowment for Democracy front and the US State Department
sought regime change to a pro-Washington government. Already back in
1987, while Gorbachev still headed the Soviet Union, Soros took
advantage of the regime’s efforts to reform and open cautiously to
the West by founding his Open Society Institute in Moscow. There he
could give money to key researchers and others to support “market
economy” research.
All actions
of Yeltsin were guided by his CIA and rogue KGB handlers, notably KGB
Generals Filipp Bobkov, Alexei Kondaurov and Yeltsin’s personal
bodyguard, General Alexander Korzhakov–the cabal who, in
coordination with George Bush Sr. and his CIA Old Boys described,
staged the phony KGB “coup” attempt against Gorbachev that
propelled Yeltsin, with support of mainstream Western media, as the
“champion of democracy.” In December 1991, four months after,
Yeltsin, then President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic, the largest federated “republic” within the Soviet
Union, met with the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus and signed what
was called the Belavezha Accords declaring the dissolution of the
USSR that had formally existed since 1922. It was the key note in the
US-backed coup to open up the rape of Russia. By then Gorbachev had
been utterly discredited and resigned.
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