Did Jesus have Nato in mind?

Luke 8:17 reads like a current report on the West’s failure to protect classified information: “For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”

Some 500 years before Jesus prophesied the West’s lax security, the Chinese strategist Sun Tsu talked about the need to “mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy”, a tripartite task that presupposes secrecy.

Actually no great strategic talent is required to reach the same conclusion. Common sense would suffice – and this is a faculty woefully absent in Western governments.

Just look at the Manhattan Project, the super-secret American programme to produce nuclear weapons during the Second World War.

One would assume that no scientist even remotely seen as a security risk would be allowed anywhere near the Project, an assumption that the US government quickly dispelled. The Project was filled not only with left-wing sympathisers but even with known members of communist organisations.

One such was its head Robert Oppenheimer, who was self-admittedly “a member of just about every Communist front organisation on the West Coast.” Amazingly Oppenheimer was eventually given a security clearance, and only lost it, along with his career, a few years later.

Numerous scientists involved in the Manhattan Project were suspected of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. The Italian communist Bruno Pontecorvo turned a suspicion into certainty by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1950. Others, such as Fermi and Szilard, were probably also involved, though this was never proven. One way or the other, it’s hardly surprising that American atomic secrets didn’t stay secret for long.

This was hardly an isolated incident. Fast forward to 1999, when Eastern European nations began to join Nato. The military and security officers of these countries (not to mention the former constituent republics of the Soviet Union) were trained in the Soviet Union or at least under close Soviet supervision.

Professional training was only part of the process. At least as important was political indoctrination, whose objective was to brainwash trainees into unwavering loyalty to the common anti-Western cause.

There’s little doubt that some Eastern European officers didn’t really feel the loyalty to their Soviet masters they had to profess. However, there’s even less doubt that some did.

Suddenly, over the next few years, they all found themselves at the heart of Nato, with full access to its classified information. Sun Tsu probably spun like a top in his grave.

The spinning must have reached its red-line RPMs in 2008, when Nato appointed the Hungarian Sandor Laborc to lead its Committee for Security and Intelligence.

Gen. Laborc is a career KGB man and honours graduate of the KGB Dzerjinsky Academy in Moscow. Throughout his seven-year course, he was constantly vetted by his Soviet superiors who were rather adept at the art of interrogation.

They were satisfied with Laborc’s loyalty to his spiritual motherland. And Nato’s powers-that-be were equally certain that their secrets were safe in Laborc’s hands. One finds it hard to imagine how differently Nato would have acted had it been committed to self-liquidation.

This brings us to today’s news that Jeremy Corbyn has graciously agreed to take his place on the Queen’s Privy Council, to which he is entitled as the new leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. With this post comes access to top-level security briefings – this though even some in his own party regard Comrade Corbyn as a security risk.

Now the concept of Her Majesty’s Opposition doesn’t mean opposition to Her Majesty and everything she represents. Yet Comrade Corbyn has throughout his career made no secret of his visceral hatred for the monarchy.

His loyalty is cordially pledged to Her Majesty’s enemies: IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS terrorists, Putin at his most aggressive, the international brotherhood of Trotskyists and other anti-Western fanatics.

In his new position he’ll campaign for the dissolution of Nato, the abolition of the Trident and nuclear weapons in general, the de facto disbanding of our armed forces. As a symbol of his ideas on national defence, Corbyn has announced he’ll wear a white ‘peace’ poppy to the Cenotaph this year, rather than the traditional red flower of the Royal British Legion.

This creature will now be able to lay his hands on most of Britain’s and Nato’s secrets. Are we sure he won’t use them the way Manhattan Project communists used the atomic secrets?

It should be self-evident that the right to participate in the British political system must be contingent on loyalty to it. A manifestly subversive fanatic should be allowed to scream off a soap box, but any nation not bent on suicide would keep him a ranting distance away from top political offices.

Yet our democracy run riot is no longer capable of keeping at arm’s length those who, given half the chance, would destroy it. Nor can we any longer keep our secrets out of the grubby hands of men whose loyalty is manifestly pledged to our enemies.

 

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.