What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of behind-the-scene manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev regime by the New York billionaire.<\/p>\n
In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked \u201cConfidential\u201d Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled, \u201cA short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,\u201d the memo from Soros calls for steps to \u201crestore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement.\u201d To do the restoring, Soros blithely notes that \u201cGeneral Wesley Clark, Polish General Skrzypczak and a few specialists\u00a0under the auspices of the Atlantic Council<\/strong>\u00a0[emphasis added\u2014f.w.e.] will advise President Poroshenko how to restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk\u00a0agreement<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO presence in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>.\u00a0The Atlantic Council is a leading Washington pro-NATO think\u00a0tank<\/a>.<\/p>\n Notably, Wesley Clark is also a business associate of Soros in BNK Petroleum which does business in Poland.<\/p>\n Clark, some might recall, was the mentally-unstable NATO General in charge of the 1999 bombing of Serbia who ordered NATO soldiers to fire on Russian soldiers guarding the Pristina International Airport. The Russians were there as a part of an agreed joint NATO\u2013Russia peacekeeping operation supposed to police Kosovo. The British Commander, General Mike Jackson refused Clark, retorting, \u201cI\u2019m not going to start the Third World War for\u00a0you<\/a>.\u201d Now Clark apparently decided to come out of retirement for the chance to go at Russia directly.<\/p>\n Naked asset grab<\/strong><\/p>\n In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President Poroshenko\u2019s \u201cfirst priority must be to regain control of financial markets,\u201d which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to assist in: \u201cI am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of \u20ac11 billion via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in effect using the EU\u2019s \u201cAAA\u201d top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for investment into Ukraine.<\/p>\n Whose risk would the EU insure?<\/p>\n Soros details, \u201cI am prepared to invest up to \u20ac1 billion in Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an attractive investment destination.\u201d Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, \u201cThe investments will be for-profit but I will pledge to contribute the profits to my foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies in search of personal gain. \u201c<\/p>\n For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980\u2019s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic \u201cdemocracy-building\u201d projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990\u2019s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using Harvard University\u2019s \u201cshock therapy\u201d messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a \u201cfree market\u201d at once, rather than gradually.<\/p>\n The example of Soros in Liberia is instructive for understanding the seemingly seamless interplay between Soros the shrewd businessman and Soros the philanthropist. In West Africa George Soros backed a former Open Society employee of his, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, giving her international publicity and through his influence, even arranging a Nobel Peace Prize for her in 2011, insuring her election as president. Before her presidency she had been well-indoctrinated into the Western free market game, studying economics at Harvard and working for the US-controlled World Bank in Washington and the Rockefeller Citibank in Nairobi. Before becoming Liberia\u2019s President, she worked for Soros directly as chair of his Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA<\/a>).<\/p>\n Once in office, President Sirleaf opened the doors for Soros to take over major Liberian gold and base metals assets along with his partner, Nathaniel Rothschild. One of her first acts as President was to also invite the Pentagon\u2019s new Africa Command, AFRICOM, into Liberia whose purpose as a Liberian investigation revealed, was to \u201cprotect George Soros and Rothschild mining operations in West Africa rather than champion stability and human\u00a0rights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Naftogaz the target<\/strong><\/p>\n The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, \u201cThe centerpiece of economic reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the introduction of market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden\u00a0subsidies<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his Shock Therapy: \u201cI want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical, \u2018big bang\u2019 type of approach. That is to say, administrative controls would be removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than gradually\u2026Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the hidden\u00a0subsidies<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US consulting company, McKinsey, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization \u201cbig bang<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The Puppet-Master?<\/strong><\/p>\n The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation\u2019s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine\u2019s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.<\/p>\n Soros\u2019 foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros\u2019 International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:<\/p>\n Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe their activities \u2014 democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. \u2014 but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the\u00a0same<\/a>.<\/p>\n Soros shapes \u2018New Ukraine\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros\u2019 IRF money is behind creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine\u2019s legislature. Soros writes, \u201cThe framework for bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged. The National Reform Council (NRC) brings together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers, the Rada and its committees and civil society. The International Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until\u00a0now<\/a>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Soros\u2019 NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override parliamentary debate to push through \u201creforms,\u201d with the declared first priority being privatization of Naftogaz and raising gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households, something the bankrupt country can hardly\u00a0afford<\/a>.<\/p>\n In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that he played a key role in selection of three key non-Ukrainian ministers\u2014Natalia Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister; Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health minister from Georgia. Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to his proposal for a \u201cbig bank\u201d privatization of Naftogaz and price rise, states, \u201cYou are fortunate to have appointed three \u2018new Ukrainian\u2019 ministers and several natives (sic) who are committed to this\u00a0approach<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto creating the impression within the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally cleaning out the notorious corruption that has dominated every Kiev regime since 1991. Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the EU to cough up the \u20ac11 billion annual investment insurance fund. His March 2015 paper says that, \u201cIt is essential for the government to produce a visible demonstration (sic) during the next three months in order to change the widely prevailing image of Ukraine as an utterly corrupt country.\u201d That he states will open the EU to make the \u20ac11 billion insurance guarantee investment\u00a0fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about his proposals to reform Ukraine\u2019s constitution to enable privatizations and other Soros-friendly moves, he complains, \u201cThe process has been slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures and total\u00a0transparency<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Soros suggests that he intends to create this \u201cvisible demonstration\u201d through his initiatives, such as using the Soros-funded National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine\u2019s legislature.<\/p>\n George Soros is also using his new European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank to lobby his Ukraine strategy, with his council members such as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff or Joschka Fischer or Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, not to mention former ECB head, Jean-Claude Trichet no doubt laying a subtle role.<\/p>\n George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps. Soros told the TV moderator, \u201cThere was no sense that I shouldn\u2019t be there, because that was\u2013well, actually, in a funny way, it\u2019s just like in markets\u2013that if I weren\u2019t there\u2013of course, I wasn\u2019t doing it, but somebody else would.\u201d<\/p>\n This is the same morality apparently behind Soros\u2019 activities in Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d\u2019etat is riddled with explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor. George Soros is clearly a devotee of \u201cpublic-private-partnership.\u201d Only here the public gets fleeced to enrich private investors like Mr. Soros and friends. Cynically, Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, \u201cGeorge Soros\u2013A self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n The views of the authors do not necessarily coincide with the opinion of the editorial board.<\/em><\/p>\n F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine \u201cNew Eastern Outlook\u201d.<\/p>\n