August 30, 2007 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today urged caution, in attempting to sort out the complicated circumstances, surrounding the murders of a number of prominent Russian and Russian-based journalists. LaRouche was responding to reports from several well-placed U.S. intelligence sources, who said that some of the journalists who have been lionized by the John Train Foundation and like-minded Anglo-American spook circles, were not, during their lifetimes, necessarily "Train salon" assets. The sources singled out two murdered journalists, Anna Politkovskaya and Paul Klebnikov. Politkovskaya was gunned down outside of her Moscow apartment in Oct. 2006. She was the recipient of a John Train "civil courage" award shortly before her murder, and the British media, led by the London Economist, has tried repeatedly (as recently as the Aug. 30, 2007 issue of The Economist) to link her assassination to her critical coverage of President Vladimir Putin.
However, sources reported that she was working on many other stories at the time and during her career, and such simple-minded links are always wrong. Paul Klebnikov, who was the Moscow bureau chief of Forbes magazine, was assassinated in July 2004. He devoted much of his work to exposing the Chechen separatists. Klebnikov was married to John Train's daughter. He, too, the sources cautioned, was not necessarily a part of the Train project democracy efforts, and was a highly respected Moscow-based reporter and editor.
Lyndon LaRouche emphasized that such cautionary notes are of particular importance at this moment, given the British oligarchy's hysterical campaign to drive a wedge between the United States and Russia. One senior U.S. intelligence official noted that, if the U.S.-Russian strategic partnership, proposed by President Putin at Kennebunkport, is adopted as U.S. policy, it will lead to continental Europe also opening up deeper collaboration with Russia--and "this will finish off the British." Lyndon LaRouche agreed, emphasizing that the U.S.-Russia partnership is an existential issue for the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, and they will go to any length to stop it. Sensitive issues, like the Politkovskaya and Klebnikov murders, in this context, must be treated with a cautionary note.
LaRouche said: follow the facts of the cases, but do not jump to hasty conclusions. Just because John Train tries to exploit these two murders for an Anglo-Dutch "new Cold War" political agenda does not mean that people have to be stupid enough to take it on face value.
