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BOLSHEVIK BOMBSHELL! Father of Khazarian-Installed Congressional Hitman and Closet Communist Jamie Raskin Was Founder of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progressive Congressman Defends Father\u2019s Soviet Ties<\/h1>\n

by Cliff Kincaid
\nAccuracy in Media<\/p>\n

After delivering a powerful anti-Russian speech at Saturday\u2019s March for Truth in Washington, D.C., the \u201ceffective progressive\u201d Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) threatened this reporter, saying, \u201cif you talk about my father again you\u2019ve got a real problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly upset about a line of questioning that exposed his hypocritical anti-Russian stance, Raskin said, \u201cStop harassing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exchange,\u00a0captured on tape<\/a>, followed questions about his father\u2019s involvement in arranging conferences with Soviet officials during the Cold War, for the purpose of undermining then-President Ronald Reagan\u2019s anti-communist policies. His father was Marcus Raskin, a former Kennedy administration official who was a founder of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).<\/p>\n

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Regarding Trump and the Russians, however,\u00a0Raskin has Tweeted<\/a>, \u201cWe need an independent commission to scrutinize Trump\u2019s pervasive staff infection.\u201d It was a clever line he repeated in his speech.<\/p>\n

Described by the liberal press as\u00a0an \u201copen humanist\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with atheistic beliefs, Rep. Raskin seemed to threaten this writer with some kind of undefined action and asserted, \u201cI don\u2019t know who you are, but you\u2019re deranged.\u201d Walking away in disgust when I further questioned his father\u2019s involvement with Soviet officials, he told me, \u201cGo work for Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

My press credentials were hanging around my neck where he could see them.<\/p>\n

A vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Raskin refused to engage in any extended substantive discussion with this writer, and his press secretary gave me his business card, hoping that would satisfy me and I would go away. I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

As I stood by, Raskin spoke French with a French broadcaster for several minutes, apparently repeating his allegations that the Russians had intervened against the successful pro-European candidate, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Macron, in the recent French presidential election.<\/p>\n

Raskin\u2019s own particular \u201cMarch for Truth\u201d consisted of marching away in anger and disgust when I pressed him about his father\u2019s ties to the Russians and the nature of his father\u2019s think tank, the IPS.<\/p>\n

The record is clear. In the 1980s, in order to undermine Reagan\u2019s defense buildup, Marcus Raskin and the IPS planned several conferences with Soviet officials believed to be under the influence or control of the Soviet intelligence services. At the time, 12 members of the U.S. Senate and 70 members of the House wrote to Secretary of State George Shultz, warning that the Soviet Union would use the events for intelligence purposes.<\/p>\n

IPS subservience to the agenda of the Soviet Union and its client state was a major topic of concern to those backing Reagan\u2019s anti-Soviet policies.<\/p>\n

Journalist and author Brian Crozier wrote in\u00a0National Review<\/em>\u00a0that the IPS was \u201cthe perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB.\u201d S. Steven Powell\u2019s book on the IPS,\u00a0Covert Cadre<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0includes photographs of identified Soviet agents who attended IPS functions or associated with IPS personalities. He names two as KGB officers.<\/p>\n

The IPS even hosted convicted Soviet spy Alger Hiss. It regarded him as innocent and launched a series of \u201cAlger Hiss lectures\u201d in 2002, after receiving a bequest from the estate of Alger and Isabel Johnson Hiss.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Rep. Raskin used\u00a0his D.C. speech<\/a>\u00a0to denounce the Russians for using \u201cactive measures\u201d or influence operations against the United States, the same kind that his own father\u2019s organization facilitated.<\/p>\n

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In his heated speech to the \u201cMarch for Truth\u201d crowd of about 1,000 people, Raskin attacked President Trump and other administration officials as Russian agents or dupes. He also claimed that former Trump advisor Roger Stone hosted a show on Russia Today (RT), the Moscow-funded channel. \u201cHe hosted a series on the Russia propaganda network,\u201d Raskin said. Stone has said he appeared on the channel but didn\u2019t host a show.<\/p>\n

Later, when I asked Raskin for his opinion on Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz, two progressives who do host shows on RT, he claimed ignorance, saying, \u201cDrop me a note.\u201d When I pressed him on the matter, he said they were \u201cprivate citizens\u201d and not government officials.<\/p>\n

As more proof of rank hypocrisy on the part of the rally organizers and speakers, evidence shows that Hartmann is on the board of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), one of the \u201cNational Partner organizations<\/a>\u201d of the \u201cMarch for Truth\u201d demonstration.<\/p>\n

Hartmann, who has been paid by RT to do a show on the Kremlin channel for several years, tried to\u00a0rip a camera out of my hands<\/a>\u00a0when I questioned him a few years ago about his Moscow funding.<\/p>\n

Raskin also demonstrated curious sensitivity on the subject of Senator Bernie Sanders\u2019 (I-VT) connections to Moscow. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Sanders, then a Democratic presidential candidate,\u00a0appeared on the air<\/a>\u00a0with RT host Schultz, formerly of MSNBC.<\/p>\n

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Sanders had worked on a pro-Stalin Israeli Kibbutz during his younger days and, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, had participated in a conference sponsored by the U.S. Peace Council, an organization controlled by the Moscow-funded Communist Party USA. He is a frequent speaker at events sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), one of whose members,\u00a0Kurt Stand<\/a>, is a convicted communist spy for the Soviet Union (and later Russia) and East Germany.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, Sanders and his wife went to the old Soviet Union on their honeymoon.<\/p>\n

But when I asked Raskin if Sanders should be investigated for his Russian ties, he was skeptical and responded, \u201cTo search for what crime?\u201d When I told him that \u201ccollusion\u201d and \u201ccollaboration\u201d with the Russians, the justification for the ongoing Trump investigation, were sufficient grounds, Raskin was still not convinced but conceded that an independent commission might be able to look into it. In regard to the Sanders honeymoon, he asked, \u201cWhat year was that?\u201d as if it had occurred too long ago to investigate. He eventually walked away, saying, \u201cStop harassing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At that point, I was suggesting that Russian influence over his father\u2019s organization, the Institute for Policy Studies, was also a suitable subject for investigation. The IPS still exists and today\u00a0calls itself<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society. In partnership with dynamic social movements, we turn transformative policy ideas into action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raskin and his father also have deep ties to academia.<\/p>\n

While Rep. Raskin was a\u00a0Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Government Program<\/a>\u00a0at the American University Washington College of Law, his father Marcus Raskin is currently serving as a professor at George Washington University. He is still listed on the IPS website as one of its \u201cexperts<\/a>,\u201d and\u201d a \u201cDistinguished Fellow and Founder\u201d specializing in \u201cDemocracy, National Security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Media ties to Raskin and the IPS crowd are substantial. In the 1980s, many journalists were so close to the IPS that they actually taught classes at the organization. One, Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post, told students that \u201cmost journalists now, most Western journalists at least, are very eager to seek out guerrilla groups, leftist groups, because you assume they must be the good guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That IPS class was held during a time when the old Soviet Union and its surrogate, communist Cuba, were destabilizing Central America and hoping to install a series of communist governments. Reagan had stopped the Soviet takeover at a critical juncture when he ordered the military liberation of communist-controlled Grenada.<\/p>\n

Today, DeYoung is an associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Washington Post, where she covers the Trump administration and U.S.-Russia relations.<\/p>\n

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