Read article--The Crossroads of History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist Ideologies

"....The true challenge of Islamic supremacism to America and the free world is not about Islam, Islamism, or terrorism, but about us.

It is a historic challenge to determine whether we truly have the courage of our convictions on equality and liberty and we are willing to fight for these ideals, or if we will instead accept the continuing growth of anti-freedom ideologies here and around the world...."

KGB surveillance photo of

CI Centre Professor Oleg Kalugin (circled) at the Russian

Parliament building on August 19, 1991, the first day of the coup.

Yeltsin is on the other side of the tank.

Had the coup been successful, Kalugin was placed high on a KGB

list of over 7,000 Russian people who were to be arrested.

CI Centre Professors Yuri Shvets and Val Aksilenko

were also high on that list.

From Kalugin's book, The First Chief Directorate:

"In the lobby of my building, which mainly housed KGB generals and Communist Party officials, a young woman pushing a baby stroller greeted me. She immediately burst into tears and said, "Mr. Kalugin, you must do something! This is an impossible situation. They are trying to bring back the old regime. Please do something!"

I told her I would do what I could. Her words had a strangely cheering effect: If this young woman, the daughter of a KGB general, was so violently opposed to the coup, then there was hope. She was proof that there was something deep inside the Soviet people that would resist a return to the past."

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In his book, Kalugin talks about his experiences during the events of the abortive coup. These include the fact that he was followed by KGB surveillance beginning two hours before the official coup announcement. At a later point, one of the surveillants warned him that he was to be arrested but that the surveillant would warn Kalugin when it was about to happen. Because the coup failed, Kalugin was not arrested. The surveillant was then assigned to keep Edward Lee Howard from drinking himself to death (Howard was a CIA officer who defected to the USSR in 1985). Counterintelligence note: Why was it important to keep Howard alive? He was still useful as a deception to keep investigators off the trail of Rick Ames and Bob Hanssen.

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