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The Jamestown Foundation
Posted by **Hippie J** on Apr 30, 2013 at 5:26:53 AM:
The New Geopolitics of the North Caucasus
Mission
The Jamestown Foundation’s mission is to inform and educate policy makers and the broader community about events and trends in those societies which are strategically or tactically important to the United States and which frequently restrict access to such information. Utilizing indigenous and primary sources, Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter or agenda. It is often the only source of information which should be, but is not always, available through official or intelligence channels, especially in regard to Eurasia and terrorism.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaevattended a workshop sponsored by the CIA-linked Jamestown Foundation, Izvestia reports today (see English translation here). The Russian newspaper cites documents produced by the Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia confirming that the NGO "Fund of Caucasus" held workshops in the summer of 2012 and Tsarnaev attended.
In 2012, Tsarnaev spent six months in Dagestan, a region neighboring Chechnya. The FBI interviewed him the previous year but said it found no evidence that he was a threat. On Tuesday, Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano said her agency was aware of the trip and, on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry stated Tsarnaev returned from Russian trip "with a willingness to kill people."
The Caucasus Fund was established in November, 2008, following the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. The main purpose of the organization, according to Izvestia, is "to recruit young people and intellectuals of the North Caucasus to enhance instability and extremism in the southern regions of Russia."
Moscow has explicitly criticized the Jamestown Foundation for engaging in an anti-Russian propaganda campaign. "Organizers again and again resorted to deliberately spreading slander about the situation in Chechnya and other republics of the Russian North Caucasus using the services of supporters of terrorists and pseudo-experts. Speakers were given carte blanche to spread extremist propaganda, [and] incite ethnic and inter-religious discord," said the Foreign Ministry of Russia in December, 2007.
The Jamestown Foundation is a known CIA front. It "is only an element in a huge machine, which is controlled by Freedom House and linked to the CIA," writes the Voltaire Network. "In practice, it has become a specialized news agency in subjects such as the communist and post-communist states and terrorism." It "publishes specialized bulletins on both the post-communist world and terrorism, which serve as reference for Washington's think tanks. University scholars and journalists are dedicated to depict a ghost-filled world whose very same hostility justifies the U.S. empire."
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