The author of this article, William Arkin, is a notorious anti-American military leftist who has been associated with the Marxist/Rubin Foundation funded “Institute for Policy Studies”. See the very revealing book of the same name by S. Steven Powell, “Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”. (IPS).
Arkin was one of their Fellows and wrote for their created newspaper “In These Times”, now reportedly an “independent” leftist paper (but I wouldn’t trust them to tell the truth if they paid me).
Arkin was responsible for “exposing” supposed U.S. nuclear weapons sites in the U.S. (he says from public sources). References to him in “Covert Cadre” are found on pages 24, 90, 98, 269, 305, 343, 362, and references to this book (1985)”Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race” is found on p. 91. This book (also written by Richard Fieldhouse, listed what they claimed were, from classified US secret documents. “what the authors believed are all American an allied nuclear weapons installations”.
Arkin, in 1984, was the source of secret classified documents on U.S. nuclear weapons/policies re our allies and he gave them to leftist New York Times writer, the slimy Leslie Gelf who wrote an article on Feb. 14, 1985, “U.S. Tries to Fight Allied Resistance to Nuclear Arms”.
Keywiki.org founder Trevor Loudon, back then in his native New Zealand, helped to expose the KGB operation/disinformation operation there which were the result of the Arkin 1984/Gelb article. From p. 90-91, in “Covert Cadre” is the following:
These stories struck a raw nerve in the alliance in the aftermath of the March 1985 action of Dave Lange, the prime minister of New Zealand (a far-left Soviet dupe, if not asset), who prohibited American warships carrying nuclear weapons from entering New Zealand’s water. As the navy refuses to comment on which of its ships carry stomic devices, the sanction effectively excluded all U.S. ships from the harbors of new Zealand, and subsequently led to the demise of the ANZUS alliance.”
Trevor find one of the KGB’s top assets in New Zealand and got exposed him as one of the leaders of the keep US ships out of New Zealand movement, the result of Arkin’s writings and Lange’s reactions to them.
Arkin was the “Second Coming” of fake Vietnam veteran Al Hubbard, one of the leaders of the leftist, then Marxist Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam (VVAW). Hubbard revealed that U.S. ships with nuclear weapons were visiting Japan, and the Japanese Reds (both Soviet/Red Chinese aligned parties, including the hardcore Marxist KGB-aided Japanese Socialist Party and their fronts, the Gensuiken and another one that sounded like it, possibly Gensuikaken), roared into action with massive protests.
Even when Hubbard was exposed as a fraud re Vietnam veteran , pilot, etc., the American and foreign media swallowed and regurgitated whatever he said. However, as more was learned about his communist contacts in the Soviet Union, Japan, and possibly No. Vietnam, he began to fade into obscurity and another leftist opportunist (Purple Heart 3 times fraud) named John Kerry arose in the leadership ranks of VVAW between 1971-late 72. See “Unfit for Command: Swiftboat Veterans for the Truth About John Kerry”, John O’Neill and Jerome Corsi, 2004, Regnery Publishing, for the first story, and then Swett & Ziegeler’s “To Set The Record Straight”, New American Media Publishing, 2008.
If their ever was a so-called “journalist” traitor in the American media, it would be Arkin, and he has never stopped trying to destroy our national defense systems/agencies.
Newsweek has given him a “home away from home” for his “writings”, and some Newsweek writers have become his co-writers, helpers. This would include Michael Isikoff, one of their top writers.
When you read something by Arkin, remember that he is not for America and never has been. His works prove it.
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Shortly after 9/11, Arkin wrote a book on how to gain access to classified U.S. military records, which included code names for many programs. Dana Priest, deeply involved in Nigergate reporting, is another collaborator of his.