FOR THE RECORD
Question: Was ALICE PALMER the source of the ‘THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF BARACK’ story as told by TOM FIFE?
FROM TREVOR LOUDON:
Alice Palmer Re-examined-Was Obama’s First Political Boss a Soviet “Agent of Influence”?
EXCERPTS:
In 1985 Alice Palmer was part of a delegation of 16 Afro-American journalists to the Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia...
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Alice Palmer, as editor of the Black Press Review, was elected International Organization of Journalists vice president for North America, at the organization’s 10th Congress, October 20-23 1986, in Prague Czechoslovakia. Palmer’s IOJ duties were to include co-ordinating the activities of chapters in the US, Canada,
Mexico and the Caribbean.
The International Organization of Journalists was a well documented Soviet front operation, based in Prague, until its expulsion by the new anti-communist Czech government in 1995.
Like other Soviet fronts of the era , IOJ was staffed mainly by East Bloc personnel and was directed by the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union-which in turn was directly answerable to the Soviet Politburo.
The International Department, often with the assistance of the KGB, used fronts such as IOJ and World Peace Council, for “active measures”-programs to covertly influence the policies of other nations, to better advance Soviet interests. These might range from spreading propaganda and disinformation to embarassing publicity stunts or hoaxes to destroying the career of an enemy of the Soviet Union , or advancing the career of a friend.
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As late as 1994, when Palmer was known to be working with Barack Obama, she was also working closely with members of the Communist Party splinter, Committees of Correspondence.
It is now clear that Barack Obama has worked for years with Marxists with backgrounds in the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America and Committees of Correspondence.
That these groups have promoted Obama’s career, both in Chicago and nationally, is undeniable.
However the Alice Palmer case illustrates something even more concerning.
That is, a key Obama ally had, only a few years before meeting the future President, strong relationships with senior East Bloc officials.
Alice Palmer played an active role in promoting Soviet Bloc policy at the height of the Reagan era-when the Soviets and their proxies were threatening US interests in every corner of the globe.
A few years later Alice Palmer was actively promoting the career of a young activist lawyer. That man is now willing and able to negotiate arms control treaties with Alice Palmer’s old friends in Moscow...
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The First Time I Heard of Barack (with additional info)
Free Republic ^ | Sept 19, 2009 | Tom Fife
Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 6:17:34 PM by BP2
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