Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force

Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by aww_dang on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:09AM (#23949743)

"A BBC radio interview circa 2004 given by the former head of the KGB, General Yevgeni Primakov, as well as a former congressman confirmed that Homeland Security hired Markus Wolf, the architect of the STASI informant program, as a consultant for DHS."

Just hard to find the original interview. You're welcome to search yourself, or perhaps discuss something else?

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Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by pandaman on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:33PM (#23953714)

Probably it's hard to find because there has never been such a person at the head of KGB? There had been 8 chairmen (K in KGB stands for "committee" hence its head's title is "Chairman") in the whole history of this organization and none of them had this or similar name. The only KGB-related person with such name is Yevgeni Maksimovich Primakov, who had been a head of the KGB's 1st Department for a brief period of time in 1991, but he had been a civilian so not the same person as the "General Yevgeni Primakov".

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Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by icebraining on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:16AM (#23949798)

What's the origin of that quote?

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Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by aww_dang on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:24AM (#23949854)

https://www.progress-index.com/article/20130708/NEWS/3070899...

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Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by NPMaxwell on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:58AM (#23950142)

Cool. HN timestamps show that took you no more than 5 minutes, maximum!

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Re:Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police ... by aww_dang on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:15PM (#23950305)

Would have been happier with a transcript from the BBC.

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