Written by M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D.
While the
FBI and major media obsess about the Sicilian Mafia (the “Cosa Nostra”) a far
more powerful and sinister force is in existence that has controlled most of the
globe’s organized crime for at least two decades—the Jewish mafia from Russia (a
“Kosher Nostra”). Yet there is not even a desk at the FBI for their crimes,
which dwarf those of the Italian gangsters in scope, violence and depth.
Alexander Lebed
Alexander Lebed
On April 28, 2002, a military
helicopter went down in the southern part of the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.
On board was a major Russian dignitary, Gen. Alexander Lebed, governor of the
region. Lebed was pronounced dead at the scene. Almost immediately, the
international press blamed “heavy fog” for the incident. However, at the time,
every member of the Russian military was convinced the death of Lebed was no
accident, but rather another hit by the international Jewish mafia, an
organization that had long since taken control over much of Russia’s economy.
Lebed, likely the most popular man in Russia at the time, was going to build a
national socialist empire—possibly with Chinese assistance—based on the massive
oil and mineral wealth of the region.
Had he succeeded, world history
could have changed, and the 21st century would look very different. Prior to
that, dozens of anti-Zionists in Russia had been murdered by car bombs or other
devices, while none of the cases was ever solved. Only a handful was even
investigated.
The very fact that the Jewish mafia (often misnamed the
“Russian” mafia) was capable of completely covering its tracks, being completely
left out of all news reports surrounding the incident, while the common people
(in Russia) were utterly convinced of their complicity, proves the immense
strength of this rather new movement of organized crime. The Jewish mafia is
nothing like their Irish or Italian predecessors in its American or European
operations. They are richer, more international in scope and far more violent
and ruthless. They kill children. They kill policemen and their families. They
kill whomever they like.
There has been nothing like it before in the
history of the globe. And they are just getting started.
Investigative
reporter Robert I. Friedman
The investigative stories of Robert I. Friedman
(1951-2002) appeared from the early 1980s. Allegedly, he died of a tropical
blood disease. But many had their doubts and believed he was poisoned. The
daring Jewish journalist made headlines exposing politicians, bankers and
mobsters who preyed on the powerless. The ADL maligned him, death threats poured
in, and he was badly beaten by West Bank thugs. Friedman warned the FBI of the
threat posed by the first World Trade Center bombers and delivered vital reports
on the long arms of the Russian Jewish mafia, which offered $100,000 to have him
killed.
The major figure in uncovering the web of secrecy that surrounds
the Jewish mafia was a journalist named Robert I. Friedman, who died at an early
age from a “tropical disease.” He has interviewed the major figures in this
underground and has uncovered their hiding spots and plans. After his book on
the subject was published, major mafia leaders put a bounty on his head. The
“Russian” mafia knows that it can kill with impunity, and, given their cozy
relationship with European and American intelligence agencies, their immunity
from real prosecution will only get more pronounced.
Friedman’s work is
breathtaking in scope, and this essay will cite him extensively, especially his
book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Friedman is not afraid
to state the obvious, namely, that the entire “Russian” mafia is Jewish, without
exception, and that they have used this as a shield to deflect criticism. This
shield has permitted them to grow and prosper. Further, Friedman is also not
afraid to admit that Jewish organizations throughout the world, led by the
Anti-Defamation League, are the beneficiaries of largesse coming from organized
crime, and that the organizations in question are aware of it. In other words,
Jewish organized crime is considered an acceptable part of Jewish life, and that
Jewish organizations have actually lobbied law enforcement to stop
investigations into this phenomenon, almost always with success. The
confirmation of Zionist Michael Chertoff, to the post as chief of Homeland
Security guarantees that Jewish organized crime in America will not be at the
receiving end of the many stings that have targeted the Italian Mafia.
The roots of Jewish organized crime, it is said, go far back into
tsarist times. Organized crime syndicates assisted Lenin’s gangs in bank
robberies and the creation of general mayhem. During the so-called revolution,
it was difficult, sometimes impossible, to distinguish between Bolshevik
ideologues and Jewish organized crime syndicates. They acted in nearly an
identical manner.
However, in more modern times, they seem to have had
their roots in the waning days of the stagnant USSR under Leonid Brezhnev. By
the late 1970s, the Russian economy was driven by the black market, and the
early stages of the Jewish mafia were involved in this black underground. In
fact, the Russian socialist economy would have collapsed much sooner if it had
not been propped up by the extensive black economy. Soon, the rulers of the
black market became so powerful they were able to form their own “people’s
courts,” which dispensed “justice” completely apart from the Soviet state, and
away from its control. Many of these black marketeers had been recently released
from the gulag system of prison camps in an earlier era for their black market
activities, and the toughness that was required to survive these dungeons served
this new criminal elite very well (Friedman, 9).
The black market acted
as a safety valve for the Soviet state for decades, making all estimations of
the strength of the Soviet economy subject to speculation. The black market
provided many goods and services the overextended Soviet system could not
provide. In the gulag, they had formed brotherhoods, much like blacks and
Hispanics currently do today in prison. They formed Jewish bunds that, upon
release, served to create deep bonds that exist today, maintaining a highly
secretive organization almost impossible to deal with or penetrate.
Sen.
Henry “Scoop” Jackson’s famous bill, the JacksonVanick law, linked Soviet trade
privileges to the treatment of Soviet Jews. It was a bill lobbied heavily for by
American Jewish organizations. And while non-Jews could not emigrate from
Russia, Jews could. Quickly, the KGB took this opportunity to dump its hardcore
criminals into the United States, many who were Jewish, as conservatives
cheered, believing, naively as usual, to have scored a major victory against the
USSR. Much of the Jewish mafia’s penetration into the United States came as a
result of these Soviet “boatlifts,” which were partially financed by groups such
as the ADL or the Hebrew Aid Society. Given the substantial nature of the black
market and the Soviet criminal underground, and its exclusively Jewish
character, it is difficult to believe that the Jewish groups who were financing
the immigration of Russian Jews to America were unaware of the connections of
many of the new arrivals. Regardless, much of the money earmarked for
immigration to Israel was pocketed by the mafia and redirected to settling Jews
in New York—the New Promised Land.
Marat Balagula was one of these. A
major Jewish crime figure, he bought a restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn,
named it the Odessa (a major port city in Ukraine), and quickly converted it
into a central recruiting base for mobsters. It was also closely linked with
Zionist agencies in the area, including the women’s group Hadassah, who used the
establishment for meetings and fund raising dinners (Friedman, 17). This
restaurant also became the seat of real political power in Brooklyn, for in the
upstairs part of the establishment, Balagula and other Jewish mobsters would
convene the “People’s Courts,” and their word was (and is) law. Ordinary courts
in the area could not hope to compete with the mobsters, well protected by
powerful Jewish groups within the city and the municipal government itself.
“These courts, controlled by the Jewish mob, were more powerful and acted
more quickly than the regular municipal courts of New York City. Balagula had
created a state within a state.”
These courts, controlled by the Jewish
mob, were more powerful and acted more quickly than the regular municipal courts
of New York City. Balagula had created a state within a state. The Italian gangs
in New York didn’t know what hit them. Public executions and torturings were
common in Brooklyn, and in broad daylight. Often, public murders would happen
for the tiniest offenses, or to prove one’s toughness. While the Italians were
very cautious and deliberate, the Jewish mob was flamboyant and gratuitously
violent.
Yuri Brokhin, another Jewish mobster who had already made a
name for himself in America, and Balagula were heavily into stealing diamonds
from jewelry stores and replacing them with cheap fakes. At one incident,
narrated by Friedman, the pair pulled such a scam in Chicago, and was caught at
the airport with $175,000. As it turns out, the duo was seen by a Jewish
security guard in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport wearing their phony Hassidic garb on
the eve of Yom Kippur, when Jews are strictly forbidden to travel. This
sloppiness got them caught. The duo was convicted, but as proof of the power of
the Jewish mafia, they both got off without a jail sentence, having committed
major grand larceny, among other crimes. Of course, Friedman does not speculate
as to why this would be, since a major felony such as this often carried
sentences over 20 years. Both Brokhin and Balagula were criminals in the USSR,
and were able to transfer their wealth to America via Zionist and “charitable”
organizations of Jewry.
A major connection between the halls of American
political power and the Jewish mafia is the rabbi Ronald Greenwald. He knowingly
did business with con artists and mafia figures, and used his major political
connections to shield them. Greenwald was a major player in CREEP, the
re-election campaign for Richard Nixon in 1972. Greenwald was used heavily by
Nixon and other Republicans to gain the Jewish vote, which he doubled for Nixon
during that election (Friedman, 31) in the state of New York. Soon, the rabbi
was given a post as an “advisor” to Nixon on “Jewish poverty programs,” a post
which certainly made some snicker at the time, though it was clear that Nixon
owed Greenwald, and the rabbi made quick use of his newfound powers. He used his
power to protect the mafia’s bilking of Medicaid programs and other crimes that
were never investigated by the authorities.
His post as head of the
“Jewish poverty” initiative permitted him to shield those involved with such
financial scams, as well as call off any and all FBI investigations of his
friends. Part of the rise of Jewish mafia groups was the protection afforded it
by Greenwald’s political connections.
Greenwald was also instrumental in
protecting Marc Rich, a billionaire Jewish investor with mob ties. Rich, a major
player in the Clinton administration, swindled investors out of billions.
Nothing was done, again, though negative media treatment against Rich was
permitted largely because he did do business with Iran, and thus was considered
a traitor by his fellow Jews. Eventually, Clinton pardoned Rich in a
much-publicized case, and Rich is now free.
Jewish mafia investors all
but took over Las Vegas, also with the political protection and patronage of
Greenwald. Some years back, a movie was released called Casino, starring Robert
DeNiro and Joe Pesci. Concerning itself with the takeover of Las Vegas, the film
depicted Mr. Rothstein (played by the Jewish DeNiro) as the suave and successful
entrepreneur, and Pesci as the typical Italian wiseguy, brash and insolent. Of
course, the purpose of the movie was to absolve Jewish organized crime and
transfer all blame to Italian mobsters. The opposite was true.
Balagula,
before taking over Jewish mafia interests in the United States, acted as a mob
functionary for the KGB. In his very own words, Balagula said that the “KGB gave
him visas, no problem” (Friedman, 44) and was instrumental in sending him stolen
art and jewels, which he sold to foreign tourists. The KGB also set him up as
head of the largest food co-op in Ukraine, a position he quickly turned into a
major black market operation with the blessings of the KGB. Near the end of the
Cold War, members of the KGB viewed the Jewish crime syndicate as a source of
possible new jobs for them after the old system was destroyed. So, not only did
they have the patronage of the American political establishment under Greenwald,
but also the decaying intelligence apparatus of the USSR as well.
BOOTLEGGING
What needs to be kept in mind about the bootlegging
operation is that it was never small time. Nothing the Jewish mob did was ever
small. This operation was multinational in scope. They had a fleet of massive
oil tankers, tanker trucks and hundreds of gasoline stations and
distributorships, all owned by Jews loyal to the mob. Balagula had created a
massive mafia empire leading from North Africa to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela to
Brooklyn. The Jewish mobsters developed an infrastructure within the oil trade
that made them invincible. Mafia influence is substantial in the price of oil,
as well as acting as the occasional go-between between the Mossad and Arab
oil-producing sheikdoms. No one of substance was ever brought to justice.
With all the power that the Jewish mob has amassed,
they are merely a pimple on the back of the master of them all, and a man who
truly controls much of the globe. There is no one on Earth more powerful than
he, and, as per usual, he remains unknown, left out of all press and television
reports on the subject. The CIA considers him a “grave threat” to global
security and the “world’s most dangerous man” (Friedman). The fact that he
remains almost unknown shows the power of the Zionist-controlled media and their
relentless drive to suppress all investigation into Jewish crime. He has created
a massive, global communications network and employs hundreds of Ph.D.s in
computer science, physics and economics to run his massive financial empire. He
has penetrated every stock exchange in the world and controls much of the
trading therein.
He was also the mastermind of the largest
money-laundering scheme in U.S. history, “washing” $7 billion through the Bank
of New York, which is a major branch of the Federal Reserve and his bank of
choice. His name is Semion Mogilevich, born in 1946.
Basing his first
operations in Israel, where he fleeced Jewish refugees from Russia, Mogilevich
acquired Hungarian citizenship after making the comment that the biggest problem
with Israel is that there are “too many Jews there.” However, he single-handedly
controls the brothels in Israel, where Ukrainian and Russian girls are forced
into sexual slavery. This is legal in Israel if the girls are non-Jews. The name
of Mogilevich has been left out of every report on the phenomenon in Israel,
Ukraine or the United States.
Mogilevich also controls the vodka trade
in Russia and Central Europe.
Most ominously, Mogilevich has bought
Hungary’s armaments industry. In other words, he controls the military equipment
being manufactured in Hungary. He has his own army, artillery, mechanized
infantry, antiaircraft guns and missiles of all types. NATO has said that he is
a “threat to the stability of Europe,” though his name remains little known.
This mobster is militarily more powerful than many European countries. He has
nuclear weapons from the former Warsaw Pact countries and is presently trading
with various governments and providing them with nuclear technology. He has
agents in the intelligence agencies of all European countries, which means that
he may never be prosecuted, for he is made aware of any pending investigation
into his activities, which quickly gets quashed.
German television
reported that the German intelligence service, the BND, had entered into secret
negotiations with Mogilevich whereby the latter would supply information on his
rivals in Russia. He has a similar arrangement with French intelligence. He has
close connections to the Mossad, which destroyed his criminal file (Friedman,
245-247). Therefore he is immune to prosecution and travels freely. He controls
the black market from Central Europe to Russia. He has a Rockefeller connection
as well, as his main economics advisor, Igor Fisherman was a consultant to Chase
Manhattan Bank. Friedman writes, concerning the Fed and its relations to
Mogilevich: “While the bank has not been charged with any wrongdoing, some
investigators believe that the money laundering could not have taken place
unless senior bank officials were bought off or otherwise involved” (259). When
the Justice Department began a criminal investigation into Mogilevich (which
went nowhere), he accused the Department of an “antiSemitic conspiracy.”
George W. Bush’s professed mentor, Natan Sharansky, has long and deep
ties to organized crime. The Congress, State Department and the CIA all have
lengthy dossiers on Sharansky, who acted as a bridge between the Republican
Party and Jewish thugs in a similar manner to Rabbi Greenwald. Sharansky,
knowing his power, simply refused to sever his ties with organized crime,
infusing the Jewish mafia into the highest echelons of the Bush administration.
A pattern emerges in relation to the Republican Party: Russian Jews usually pose
as “anti-Communists.” They did this partially because they had been arrested by
security services for their black market activities, but also because this
posture would make them valuable to Republican operatives and the Beltway
“conservative movement.” Their reputations as “dissidents” protected them almost
as much as their religion.
George W.’s father refused to cooperate with
several investigations into Russian mob activities in Switzerland. The CIA has
commented that there is no “major Russian mob figure that does not carry an
Israeli passport.”
Because of this, George W.’s father also refused to
cooperate with several investigations into Russian mob activities in
Switzerland. The CIA has commented that there is no “major Russian mob figure
that does not carry an Israeli passport,” but the Israeli state refuses to take
any action against the gangsters. Yitzhak Rabin was the one exception, and met
with Mossad figures, as well as Shin Bet and Israel’s FBI, to combat organized
crime, believing that it could destabilize Israel. Within a few days, he was
murdered. His successor, Shimon Peres, shelved the recommendations formulated
under Rabin, where they collect dust to this day.
CAUSES
It might be
worthwhile to delve into some of the causes of this phenomenon. Why the Jews? It
is true that many culture groups have engaged in ethnic based organized crime,
but it seems only the Italians get frequently mentioned. Today, Chechen,
Hispanic and Albanian gangs are growing in power, but none has come close to
being even a footnote to the Jewish clans. Few people in the FBI, CIA or DEA
speak Hebrew or Yiddish. Some Jewish mobsters go back and forth between
languages, including Russian, so as to make themselves more indecipherable. The
power of the Jewish gangs is wielded more ruthlessly than any other criminal
gang. Jewish mobsters enjoy inflicting pain, they murder children as well as
unarmed men and women. The old code of honor among Irish and Italian gangsters
is nonexistent. These old-time mobsters would only kill another mobster. The
Jewish gangs have no regard for these rules, and thus are more feared. The sheer
arrogance of the Jewish gangsters and their outrageous self-assurance have
allowed their “competition” among the Italian gangs to take a very cautious
stance toward their Jewish counterparts.
The state of Israel is a major
factor in the rise and power of the Jewish mafia. Jewish drug dealers, child
porn pushers and slave traders are free from prosecution in Israel.
The
state of Israel is a major factor in the rise and power of the Jewish mafia.
Jewish drug dealers, child porn pushers and slave traders are free from
prosecution in Israel. Israel does not consider these to be crimes, again, so
long as the victims are non-Jews. The mafia proved its power in the murder of
Yitzhak Rabin. The Israeli state will not extradite its citizens to nonJewish
countries, and, therefore, Jewish murderers can quite easily escape punishment
in Israel.
The unique situation in the former USSR, and the fact that
Jews predominated in the Soviet bureaucracy, provides another link in the rise
of the mafia. Jews predominated in the earlier and more primitive black market
in Russia, and thus these groups were physically more ready to take advantage of
the crisis in Russia beginning in the mid-1980s.
Jewish organized crime,
connected to both the KGB and Mossad, automatically had the skids greased to
remain off the radar screen for allied intelligence agencies.
Likely the
most important factor is the complete control of the media by Jewish families
and the power of the ADL in American culture. The power of the Jews in America
is so great that any serious investigation into Jewish crime will see shrill
attacks from every major media outlet in America. In terms of public relations,
it is just not worth it. Therefore, one will see a television program like The
Sopranosabout Italian mobsters, but one will never see the same program
featuring Jewish mobsters.
WHATCANBEDONE?
There is very little
that can be done at this time. There is every reason to believe that soon,
nationalists and Revisionists will be targeted by Jewish criminals with strong
ties to the Mossad. The fate of the west is being decided in Moscow, not in
Washington, D.C. or New York. Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to continue
to centralize power in his own person. His elimination of provincial governors
was meant primarily as a crime fighting campaign, as local governors were making
peace with the crime bosses. Putin also needs to continue to reform the military
and security services, making them more and more loyal to the new Russian order.
Putin should begin publicly drawing attention to the global power of the bosses
and the connivance of western powers in their rise and present prosperity.
The ruble should be made non-convertible (so as to prevent its
manipulation by crime bosses in the currency markets), and a strong Sino-Slavic
trading bloc needs to be solidified. Police work in Russia is now a rough
business. Poorly paid policemen need to be supplemented by local militias to
begin direct and militant confrontations with organized crime and corruption
wherever it might arise. Putin has the popularity and the power to create a
major security bloc against organized crime, as well as capitalist imperialism.
Russian banks need to come under state control, and be purged of all criminal
elements. Furthermore, the church, currently the second most popular institution
in Russia after Putin, needs to place its powerful seal on the development of a
mob-free Russia, and call on all Russians to repent and begin building a
nationalist and communitarian system. Agriculture and the village commune should
receive government support to repopulate the countryside, making Russia
self-sufficient in food.
And, of course, Russia’s extremely important
and strategic oil and natural gas reserves need to be protected by interior
ministry troops and placed under government control if need be. Putin, the
nationalists and the church have tremendous popularity and influence. This
capital should be spent on developing a nationalist system dedicated to purging
Russia of Jewish-inspired crime, imperialism, depopulation and liberalism. He is
already moving in this direction, and Russian economic growth and a low
inflation and unemployment rate are its fruits.
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ENDNOTE: This
article is based chiefly on: Robert I. Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob
Has Invaded America, 288 pages, hardcover, Little, Brown; May 1, 2000; mass
market paperback publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (2002). Other books of
similar interest: Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture, and Crime by
James O. Finckenauer; Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya, by Stephen
Handelman; Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of
Gangster Capitalismby Paul Klebnikov; Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian
Criminal State, by David Satter.
DR. M. RAPHAELJOHNSON received his
Ph.D. in political science at the University of Nebraska. He is widely published
in both peerreviewed journals as well as popular journals of opinion. He is
presently a college professor in Pennsylvania. He lives with his family in
Chambersburg.