Stanislav Lunev, Russia’s highest-ranking GRU defector (a colonel assigned to D.C. under civilian cover), reveals Moscow’s post-Cold War preparations for war with the U.S., including Strategic Air Command drills and a secret underground city in the Urals—comparable to Washington’s size—for elite survival. Despite economic collapse (ruble at 17:1, nuclear stockpiles, and Yeltsin’s alcohol-fueled leadership), Russia funds seismic and electromagnetic weapons (tested mid-1980s) and maintains suitcase nukes under Special Forces control, not terrorists. Lunev calls Yeltsin’s 1997 Clinton summit "fruitless," citing broken promises on non-proliferation and ties to China’s military-industrial complex, warning that today’s instability—with missiles potentially reprogrammed to target the U.S.—poses a greater threat than Soviet-era confrontation. [Automatically generated summary]
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Good evening, sir.
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This is Coast to Coast AM.
I'm Mark Bell.
Well, next hour, we are going to endeavor to do something rather interesting.
Now, you're going to have to bear with us because what we have for you is Russia's highest-ranking military defector.
The highest-ranking military defector ever to defect.
And he wrote a book called Through the Eyes of the Enemy, Stanislav Lunov, and he said, quote, Russian military intelligence does everything it can to prepare for a war that it considers inevitable.
Let me be very clear about this.
The GRU, Russian military intelligence, is still recruiting agents, still preparing for war with the United States as we approach the supposedly peaceful post-Cold War millennium.
End quote.
The peaceful post-Cold War millennium isn't so peaceful in Russia.
Alexander Levin says Russia is close to catastrophe.
They're talking about a civil war, about Yeltsin pushing the country toward a civil war.
The Duma has put off the vote on Chernimyrdin.
Maybe there will be a compromise.
Maybe not.
It seems not like not to me.
294 to 51 was the last vote to not approve Yeltsin's choice.
Last time Yeltsin got three no's in a row, he had to shell the parliament building.
You remember that?
So that's what they're in the middle of over there right now.
And of course, the country is melting down financially.
So we'll talk to Stanislav next hour, if we can get him.
They continue to look at what occurred with the Swiss Air Flight 111 tragedy.
And the more I hear about this, the more I think I have my guess about what happened.
It was confirmed for me earlier that they were actually dumping fuel as they were in a spiral, a circle, coming down from 37,000 feet.
They're actually dumping fuel.
And when you dump fuel, it becomes a mist.
And I don't know how tight their turn was or their spiral down was.
But one has to imagine that what might have happened is that the aircraft engine that I think was on fire, or at least whatever fire there was, ignited the mist of fuel that they were spiraling down through.
Kind of like a fuel air bomb.
And that's my guess.
I also base it on the fact that all they have found are little tiny pieces.
Biggest piece they've even found so far is like a car hood or something.
Something about that size.
I think you get that kind of a breakup, and the breakup was incredible.
Just by hitting the water.
So there was an explosion at what altitude, I don't know.
Some think the plane sheared off part of a lighthouse.
Maybe it was part of a plane that sheared off part of a lighthouse.
Who knows?
Anyway, they're still looking.
When Alan Greenspan speaks, people listen.
And he said the central bankers are growing more concerned about the impact of the global financial crisis on the U.S. economy.
He said, this is really strange for Greenspan.
He said they're just as likely to vote to cut interest rates as to raise them.
He said, now listen carefully here.
This is Greenspan, quote, it's just not credible that the United States can remain an oasis of prosperity, unaffected by a world that is experiencing greatly increased stress, end quote.
That's Greenspan.
President Clinton, this is my big news on Monica Lewinsky, said, I'm sorry.
Somebody called the other night and said this guy went in for a cat scan of his brain.
They took it, and there was no brain in there, and all he had was a STEM?
Comes this.
Caramel Valley.
The president reported her neighbors are hydros.
That's H-Y-D-R-O-S hydros.
People who have fish brains instead of human brains, they are telepathically communicating with the garbage man and causing damage to her property.
Turned over to Adult Protection Services.
Hydros.
She claimed her neighbors were fish brain people.
And that they had been telepathically communicating with a garbage guy.
There is, you know me, I can't resist a cat story.
And this is a cat story and a California story.
California is a wonderful place, but, boy, I'll tell you, it's not the place it used to be.
Talk about regulation and regulation and taxation and regulation and more regulation.
That's California today.
Art, for your amusement and comments, please note, I had not been listening to your show.
Had I not, the following would not have occurred as I would have been peacefully asleep and blissfully unaware of the situation.
Sunday, August 15th, 2 o'clock in the morning, I'm up listening to your show.
Suddenly, a disturbing noise began at my living room.
It was the distinct noise of my furniture being destroyed by one of my pampered housecats.
I rushed to the scene, only to find Missy, that's in quotes, hard at work at the back of a good chair.
So I immediately took preventative measures and got a clipper and snipped the offending front claws.
This, of course, provoked countermeasures.
And yes, my cat managed to sink her aged and broken half fangs into the joint of my middle finger.
It bled a little bit, but soon felt fine.
The following day, Sunday, I spent several hours gardening and the wound got dirt in it.
By Monday, all swollen up.
Tuesday, I decided I'd better go to the doctor, secure antibiotics, which I did.
I had to fill out a form, though, which asked whose animal was it and was it vaccinated, and the circumstances of how the bite occurred.
I wrote that I'd been clipping her claws in response to her sharpening them on the furniture, checked the box marked vaccinated, said that she was my indoor house cat.
Upon reading the form, the doctor laughed, gave me a tetana shot, antibiotics, sent me on my way home.
All was improving until the following Sunday morning at about 10.30 a.m. arrives a Santa Cruz County Animal Control Officer showing up at the front door.
Since I had again been kept up by your show the previous night, I hadn't gotten dressed yet, didn't know who it was, so I didn't answer the door.
When my fiancé returned from coffee, he brought in a note demanding that we call the County Animal Control Office, which we did.
They demanded that our cat be quarantined for 10 days following the bite.
Seven days had already passed, and that we could bring her on down on the 10th day for inspection, or that we allow an officer to come and inspect her on that very day.
Well, since we have six cats and the county only allows two per house, we decided to bring her in.
They intended to charge us $25 for this pleasure.
However, they did waive the fee, which even if it had been charged, could not have paid for the man-hour costs to send an officer out on a Saturday morning.
I think the Animal Control Office completely overreacted to a very normal reaction of a very normal cat.
So I find myself asking, who's more competent?
The cat with a brain the size of a small apricot?
Or the Santa Cruz County Animal Control Office?
How would you answer that?
The moral of the story is, if you come to California and your cat bites you, tell the doctor you bit yourself, then had your cat suck the wound.
That way, you'd get appropriate antibiotics without the hassle.
have a nice night and don't look at the cats bites uh...
uh...
And I have a few more goodies for you yet this evening.
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I argue with people about disclosure time and time again.
I've told them governments are not going to come out willingly to tell us it's going to happen by mistake, it's going to happen by a whistleblower, but it's not going to be an organized thing.
Governments won't do that.
And the reason why they won't do it is because they do not want us to know.
They think that they'll lose control of us if we know.
If you actually truly believe that we were being visited by extraterrestrials and you had categorical proof that it was happening, do you think you would listen to some of the bull that government throws out all the time?
Absolutely not.
You'd look toward the heavens, you'd say there's got to be a better way, and you would start doing your own thing.
And you would forget all about government control and everything else.
So the bottom line is government will never, ever disagree.
We're about to go to the lines here, open lines in the first hour tonight, and then later on as well.
These are a few things that have been actually found to be written on people's tombstones.
In a New Mexico cemetery, here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me for not rising.
Real.
In a Silver City, Nevada cemetery.
Here in my state.
The West, here lies Butch.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger, but slow on the draw.
A widow in Vermont wrote upon her husband's new stone, Sacred to the memory of my husband, John Barnes, who died January 3rd, 1803, his homely young widow, age 23, has many qualifications of a good wife and yearns to be comforted.
and then finally the simplest is always the best definitely found in a georgia cemetery simply East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
And he relates results of some studies that show that at least part of the side effects from Viagra which can result in health and cardiac patients may be from the fact that it acts as the facilitator.
In other words, patients or individuals with heart disease that would normally be having That's a no-brainer.
I mean, look, anything that would cause you to do something that you wouldn't do normally you may be taking your chances.
I mean, you're taking your chan.
Of course, you take your chances with everything, with a lot of things in life, when you cross the street.
It's my attitude about flying.
I flew to Europe very shortly after Flight 800 went down.
I'm going to be flying to Africa next month.
And I'm going to do that not too far down the line after Swiss Air 111.
But you've got to get kind of an attitude about it, which I have, and that is, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen, you know?
And there's nothing you can do about that.
And it could as easily occur to you walking across the street, tripping in the bathtub, cracking your skull open.
There are lots of ways to die and lots of ways to live.
If you follow me.
And as long as you're alive, you might as well go ahead and live life and not worry about losing it all the time.
Anyway, that's the secret of how I get through all the things I get through that I hear about on this program, so you might want to know.
We'll be right back.
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Right back to where we started going Do you remember that day When you first came my way you I said no one could take your place And if you get hurt, if you get hurt
By the little things I say, I can put that down.
You can die, you can die, I can't die on your mind.
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, begin the dancing queen.
Friday night and the nights alone, looking out for a place to go.
We're the same about music, getting in between, you come to live for a king.
We're the same about music, getting in between, you come to live for a king.
Anybody could be that music.
You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time, tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from September 4th, 1998.
Isn't that what most people do on these three-day holidays?
Barbecue?
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Barbecue?
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when you look at what's going on around this planet it's almost as if someone has got a playbook to try to control all these countries all of a sudden You know, I wonder how people, how so many of you in so many parts of the country, live with the humidity that you live with.
I know that may sound strange.
I think we adapt.
We do adapt as human beings to our environment.
And I live in the desert.
I'm used to in the summer, single-digit humidity.
Sometimes 10 or 11% if it's a bad day.
But the last couple of days, we've had the remnants of some sort of storm or another that was generated off Mexico, and it's been just cloudy and raining.
According to the book, they had instructions to keep land and sea and air in view in their patrol incident because apparently command knew there was a UFO in the area and they encountered it.
But, okay, I wanted to mention a few nights ago on one of the major networks on TV, they had such an unusual show about automobiles, vehicles turning against the owners.
No, I didn't see it, and I'm killing myself for that.
I mean, there was one thing I really wanted to see, and I missed it.
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That is the producers, if you can get them on your show, because I saw, it really was eerie when we were looking at the tape from a security camera at a Dillard's department store.
We were looking out into the yard where all of the cars were parked, and there were four automobiles.
We got into a discussion based on this last night about what would be the most difficult car to kill, you know, just in case they did come alive and come after us.
And some guy sent me facts and said, well, if there is going to be a war, then your son should be a general because he sure did slay that metro.
It illustrates the point that those of us that don't believe this stuff already aren't going to be convinced by it, and those that do may or may not be convinced.
I'm pulling it because you have this long life ahead.
Now, you honestly don't think when you get older, there's a possibility that as you face your own mortality, you'll consider the possibility that there's more and you'll err on the side of caution at least.
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Well, but caution, I mean, which God do I then choose?
Yes, in fact, there's a chapter, chapter 8, called The Quickening.
And it's a reference to you.
And then there is, it says, The quickening in 1995, Art Bell, late-night radio talk show host, coined a term to describe the accelerating pace of events in the last few years.
He called it the quickening.
And it goes on, and I'm not going to read it all, but toward the end it says, Bell is careful not to interpret the signs that he sees.
He well recognizes the wide variety of religious and scientific and philosophical options among his listeners and is a master at balancing the tight rope.
Well, that's well said, and that's exactly correct.
I'm a talk show host.
I'm not a prophet.
I interview prophets.
I'm not a seer.
I interview seers and all that genre of folk.
People who have had NDEs, you name it, I do it.
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From what I've heard the last few months that I've been listening to you, yes, I do.
But if you have an opportunity, I suggest you get the book, Alien Encounters.
It's not, the title isn't really great.
It's more into the quickening phenomena.
And I believe a lot of your callers and a lot of the quickening phenomena, and I've been researching it for about two years, reading books, yay, thick, on Egyptians and the whole antiquity of man.
And for me, I am a born-again Christian, and this book definitely brought it together for me.
These gentlemen, Chuck Mills Meisler and Mark Eastman, they have many tapes out that from scientific point of views back up everything they say.
And it's interesting to know there's a chapter in there about the quickening.
In 1995, I saw all of this as clearly as can be, and that's why I wrote that book.
Now, so much of what's in that book, we are dead smack in the middle of.
And it didn't take very long, did it?
A lot of what I wrote about in 1995 was not going on in 95.
But I said it was about to be, and it is now.
And I repeat, I am not a prophet.
All I did was look at what was going on around me because I had to every day to do my job as a talk show host.
And I said, holy moly.
There really is something going on here, for lack of a better phrase.
The quickening is what I used.
And it is an accurate phrase to describe what I think is going on.
And that is, events are speeding up, events are spiraling up, ratcheting up very quickly.
Human events are becoming more frantic at a rather exponential rate.
And we are headed toward an event.
And by the way, that will be part of what we cover.
Sunday on Dreamland is coming Sunday on Dreamland.
It's all about the Mayan calendar.
You're not going to want to miss it.
The Mayan calendar ends in 2012.
In 2012.
And I have an author who says he has figured out what it all means.
And Sunday it will unfold before you.
And we talked a little bit about this during that program, actually quite a bit.
Maybe that'll give you a little hint of what's to come.
So if you've never quite exactly understood the Mayan calendar, what it meant, why it abruptly ends, and so forth and so on, you're not going to want to miss Dreamland on Sunday.
All right, we're going to break here at the top of the hour, and if things work out, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, we're going to be speaking with Stanislav Lunov, who wrote through the eyes of the enemy.
He is Russia's highest-ranking military defector.
With the news about Russia today, it should be an interesting interview.
Don't touch that dial.
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Just now is St. Petersburg, but it's one of paradoxes from Russian life because one of the largest Russian military districts located around St. Petersburg has absolutely the same name as before, Leningrad Military District.
What was your, when you were in this country, you say you were assigned to this country, what was your, you must have had some kind of cover for the work you were doing.
It was in the end of the 70s, because before I wasn't linked with journalism and corresponding job, absolutely nothing.
And so I need to have special training.
And I used several months in Moscow when I had this some kind of experience in writing articles and stories for newspapers, magazines.
Because before my life I was not connected absolutely with this writing process.
I was regular military officer, group platoon company commander, and was recruited to the JRU after my graduation from military law school in military political academy in Moscow.
Yes, that KGB they had this special training center equipped and built like American Small City with people who need to speak English only, American English.
Yes.
But I never been inside the city and I had the same information as you, so I heard about it.
Because before I was trained for the intelligence against China, and actually I worked against China in China, in Singapore and inside former Soviet Union.
Well, the organization that you work for, so people might understand, in America would it be like the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, what would it be like in America?
You can compare former KGB intelligence with American CIA.
CIA.
Yes, but my former agency you can compare for combination between different American agencies.
First of all, combination of DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Special Operation Forces Command with headquarters in Tampa, National Reconnaissance Office which is in charge of American space intelligence, and U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps intelligence agencies together.
Because in JRU all these institutions are only sub-directorates.
All types of information which could be used by commanders in planning of future war and actually in real war against any other country in the world, plus not only information gathering but active measures by Special Operation Forces commanders.
You are the highest-ranking military defector from an intelligence organization ever from the Soviet Union, ever, ever, ever.
When did you defect what year?
In 1992, after about four years of staying in Washington, D.C. Was that during the Cold War a great danger for the Soviet Union, that people like yourself sent to America begin to turn native?
Was that a big danger?
Did that happen to many others who were able to come to the West?
Then I was a spy, a military spy who worked against America under cover of Tasmania's agency correspondent.
And my main, more primary mission in this country was penetration through American national security system.
First of all, trying to find American plans and intentions connected with military use against former Soviet Union and last period of my life in Washington, D.C., Russian Federation.
It's very typical spy business because first of all I need to find people who was possible for recruitment and develop relations with this person to the stage when this person began to assist me in my spy business.
Actually, you already answered your question because of course we looked for people who is not satisfied by his living conditions, by his life, by his bosses or somebody else who need extra money and in his mind he was or is not strongly opposed possibility to sell his secrets for
money which he needs.
And let's say that in Washington DC it's not so difficult mission because in that area uh actually every other is uh working for American government and has very interesting information for foreign intelligence.
Yes, before I made the same job in Singapore, in China and in Moscow because when I was assigned to the JRU headquarter in Moscow, we did the same absolutely job against foreigners who visited or living in former Soviet Union.
Why did you discuss it's a very long story art very long story, but if very briefly I can tell you that I could not provide any more my very special services for absolutely unresponsible people,
corrupted from top to bottom, corrupted people and with direct links with organized crime groups in Russia.
I agree, Art, and you're right, because in my memory, I return back from time to time to the mid of 80s, beginning of 90s,
and I remember all our hopes for the future changes in Russia about the possibility of democracy, about some kind of reforms which could change Russian economy and change way of life for Russian people.
But unfortunately, nothing happened.
And just now the situation is becoming more and more difficult for Russian people and actually much more dangerous for the international community.
Danger which is coming from Russian Federation government activity.
Oh, but I remember there was noise all over the American press when you defected.
I remember that.
That was big news for a while.
All right, Stanislav, stand by, and we're at the bottom of the hour now.
Stanislav Lunov is my guest.
We're going to call him Stan.
He is indeed Russia's highest-ranking military defector in all the history of defections.
He was a spy for Russia, for the Soviet Union.
And in a moment, we'll dig deeper.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM.
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Stan, even though Russia was in the grips then and now, of the mafia, and there was much, a whole lot of corruption, the Russian people are a very proud people.
Very proud.
And what was your thinking like when you defected?
Yes, because in 1992, after the US Society's integration, counterintelligence didn't control everything for former Soviet military personnel abroad, and I had a chance to have all my family members together with me.
And after my decision for this defection, my family actually followed me.
I don't think that it was very good experience in compare of Russian and American special services in time of my debriefing because in a de factor position you cannot collect real information about your adversary, former adversary.
But my previous service, my previous intelligence business, it was very good evidence and how American intelligence is working worldwide.
So I can compare Russian and American intelligence communities from my whole practice and experience as an intelligence officer.
In time of debriefing, you cannot propose something really about people who is debriefing you because they are professionals and they cannot afford to show you their feelings or something else.
So usually they are neutral.
But from my previous experience, when I worked operationally against this country, I had much better chance to understand what does it mean American intelligence and counterintelligence agencies.
So only by this reason I am disputing with you from time of my experience before defection and after defection.
So before defection it was much more realistic assessment about American intelligence.
Did you have many, many secrets that you were able to give our intelligence or did your work in Russia in the Soviet Union, was it compartmentalized so you did not know too much or did you have a broad knowledge?
I had many secrets and not only because in former Soviet Union, when I stayed in Moscow, I had very high position in my former organization, but because of a very special job which I did before in my previous experience and expertise.
You remember last presidential election, it was one more.
Very interesting party.
And I don't know how to say it in a few seconds, but you know, actually when Soviet Union officials negotiated with Americans for a long, long period of time, usually it was much more easy to negotiate with the Democratic Party in the United States.
I'm sure.
But all breakthrough in relations between America and the former Soviet Union usually came from Republicans.
No, I cannot be a fan of this person because I met with him several times, I spoke with him several times, and let's say that last my meeting with him, it was one of last drops for my decision to defect.
Really, because it happened in 1992 when he was with his working visit to the United States.
And by the way, I was only one correspondent in Washington, D.C., Soviet and foreign correspondents, only one who had the chance to take interview from him after his conversations with then-time President Bush.
It's very difficult for me to talk about him because I found him absolutely unresponsible.
Person who actually thought about him himself and his big family members, not about country, not about people, and person who can sacrifice his direct responsibilities by his drinking of Alcado.
If more tanks in Moscow, it means repeatment of history.
You know what's going on in Russia because this country is actually non-stop economical, industrial, political, social, just now in very deep financial and constitutional crisis.
And to predict what could happen in Russia in the nearest time is very difficult.
But usually, usually, President and Parliament they can find compromise and finally approve a new cabinet of ministers for Russian Federation.
But if you keep in mind the very strong position of main Yeltsin opponents in Russian parliament, communists, because they are just now the most powerful organized group inside Russian lower house.
And they very strongly oppose Yeltsin candidacy for Prime Minister, his old buddy, Mr. Chernamurdin.
So they vote against Chernamurtin together with other blocs, including the third powerful organization in Russian parliament, this is Zhirinovsky Party.
You know Zerinovsky?
Yes.
Zerinovsky, this ultra-nationalist and guy who requested Aliaska return back to Russia and advised the Russian military to wash their boots in Indian Ocean.
But this guy is very popular and his organization, his fraction in parliament, they vote against Yeltsin candidacy Mr. Chena Mergin together with communists and with, by the way, with Democrats, so-called Jablaka or Republic led by Mr. Jewelinsky.
So it was coalition, coalition of opposition, who decided to vote against Czernamurgin.
Levitt talking too much, and sometimes he doesn't follow his own words.
He said only a few days before.
But these words that the Yeltsin government pushing Russia to the civil war, yes, it's correct, because all what is going on just now in Russian Federation, clearly demonstrating that in this country,
any other day, it could be social explosion of people who cannot afford to be in the same very, very bad position and situation as they are just now.
And if this social explosion would be in place, it would be in the country with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and hundreds of metric tons of chemical and biological weapons.
Because you are absolutely right that Russia's economy just now is melting down.
But it's not melting down.
And keep in mind that Russian people during about seven decades lived under totalitarian regime of Communist Party.
And in this time, when it was total repression against the whole population of the country, actually the best brain went out from Russian society.
We were washed out from Russian society.
And Russian people just now there are so much patience to everything and looking only for their survival that they are not active politically or socially.
And it's very difficult to wake up Russian people.
But if finally it happened and Russian people will wake up, it would be very difficult to find a way how to return these people to the normal life.
And what's just now is going in Russia, of course it would be some kind of revolution for all other countries.
But it's not enough for Russian people to wake up and destroy all this regime.
Because it's well known for me, well known for specialists.
Of course, it's not known for American public.
Why, I don't know.
But let's say that recently, only a couple of months ago, Russian Strategic Air Force Command Had very, very big field exercises.
And in time of this maneuvering, during several weeks, Russian military command trained military personnel for the future war against the United States of America.
Last week it was Navy exercises in Northern Fleet, and they trained Russian military personnel for the war against America and American friends and allies, first of all, by NATO organization.
Stanislav Lunev is Russia's highest-ranking military defector in history, and he is also my guest right now.
He defected to the U.S., ostensibly here spying, as a TAS news agency correspondent.
Met doesn't like Yeltsin, believes that Russia is planning a war against the U.S., still planning a war against us.
I asked him about that, and he said, are you kidding?
And of course, I'm not kidding.
We're going to probe into this area in just a moment.
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When you look at what's going on around this planet, it's almost as if someone has got a playbook to try to control all these countries all of a sudden.
I've always said that not everything is a conspiracy, but a lot of it is.
You know, when you start looking into things, there's only certain set of conclusions you can reach.
And unfortunately, this is one of them.
you know it's very very hard not All right, once again, here is Stan.
You know, I want to, before we get back into this war thing, I want to ask you one very important question.
Earlier in the interview, I asked you why you defected.
And you said because you could no longer do the job that you were doing, spying, for the corrupt people that you were working for.
Now, maybe this would be hard for you to answer, but if there was not corruption, if there was a pure communism, maybe there is no such thing, but if there was some, if it was pretty much a pure communism, would you still be there?
During the last several years, I had a chance to look through the history read a lot, and I found that actually in real life, it's impossible to have pure communism.
And people who will cover themselves like communists, but anyway, they will follow their own agenda.
And in this case, to believe that it's possible to have some kind of communism.
But, but, but, but in this country, uh you do have much more socialism than uh we did have in the former Soviet Union.
Oh, really?
Yes, and you know that uh your government from time to time is uh really concerned about its own people and trying to assist people who are in very bad shape financially, economically.
You know, your welfare programs and social security benefits.
So in this country you have much more socialism than we did have it in the former Soviet Union.
You know, of course, what MAD is, mutual assured destruction.
You said that Russia still plans a war against the United States.
What has always kept us from war is the fact that we would all kill each other mostly and poison the planet and commit suicide because of so many nuclear weapons.
Now, if Russia still believes that it will have a war with the United States, how does it believe it will survive such a war?
I do understand about the Russian people, but we are talking about the Russian government, or we are just talking about what communists are left in the Russian government.
But Russian government, they don't care about country people.
They care about themselves only.
And about much more money in their pocket, how it's possible.
And for future survival in possible and future war between Russia and other world, they prepare themselves to exist for many, many years after this terrible thing which could be happening to our planet.
Let's say that under Moscow there is one more city, underground city.
It's special bunkers for leaders of Russian Federation and their families.
And in Siberia, Ural Mountains, under construction there is very big, big underground city by the size of Washington, D.C. Beltway.
Can you imagine this underground city?
It's huge.
And it would be a bunker where Russian elite can survive if our planet would be destroyed for a long, long period of time.
I don't know because for me it's really surprising that American people know so little about hostile countries' military plans for the future war against America.
For me it's surprised why America does have free press and free press doesn't pay any attention to this real danger for the national security, not of only this country, but for the international community.
I remember that this news that Russian government has this huge construction in Ural Mountains, it was some kind of several news about this once and special hearing in Capitol Hill.
But why American public doesn't know about this once?
I don't think so, because if you will follow events in Russian Federation, you will find that intentions of Russian government are not very good.
Let's take every crisis which happened in the international community during last several years, and you will find that Russian government position usually is very different from American position.
You will find that in time when the whole world is worried about non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons, you will find that in any violation of non-proliferation regime, Russian government is involved.
And you will find that actually all promises made by Russian Federation government and president by himself, all these promises and obligations were violated by the same government in case of nuclear technology transfer to Iran,
Iraq, to missile technology, the same Iran, North Korea and other countries.
So in real life, promises, yes, they are promises, but they are not fulfilled.
No, just now there are tens of thousands of people who are existing on so-called business, who try to make money from everything where it's possible and usually cheating each other.
But this is the beginning of capitalism.
And by in time when Russians themselves named their capitalism, you know how do they name it?
Well, we hear rumors in the United States of 100 Russian suitcase-size nuclear weapons.
That 100 of those are someplace.
And of course, with all the money trouble in Russia, we worry that other nuclear weapons have left Russia and are going to the hands of terrorists around the world.
Because these technical nuclear devices, named by nuclear briefcases, they were designed in former Soviet Union by Special Operation Forces commanders and could be used by these commanders on the hostile territories in time of future nuclear war against targets which are highly protected and
cannot be destroyed by a regular nuclear missile strike.
But they are in the hands of Special Operation Forces commanders, not terrorists, and could be used only by the request of Russian Federation government.
To believe that international terrorists will get an access to these devices, I don't believe it.
And according to my information, these devices are in the hands of military, not terrorists.
And for international terrorists to get this access, it would be extremely difficult or impossible.
Yes, because these types of weapons could be used Special Operation Forces commanders in time of war and absolutely the same way as conventional weapon systems.
Here in the United States, during Ronald Reagan's administration, we had a very big military buildup.
The Soviet Union began to fall apart about when President Reagan was talking about Star Wars, about the Star Wars program.
That's about the time that the Soviet Union began to fall apart and break apart.
Do you believe that the threat of an arms race into space is what made the Soviets finally say we can't afford this anymore, so we've got to go underground?
Well, I mean that President Reagan was talking about spending so much money putting up this Star Wars that many people in America believe that the Soviets looked at what he was doing and said, look, we just cannot afford to keep up anymore, so we give up.
I remember that time and I remember this Star Wars program and all other American military programs.
It was competition between two different systems, between two different camps.
And actually as a result of Reagan administration strategy, not only by his strategy, but his strategy is segregated process of the USSR, his integration.
It was very, very powerful strategy.
It worked very hard against the former Soviet Union.
And of course, at that time, I remember that the Soviet economy was overheated by these military preparations, by military buildup.
And actually, it was beginning of the end of communist totalitarian regime and former Soviet Union.
If you ask me about President Reagan, I'm one of big fans of him and I'm really excited of him.
Yes, because not only me, but a lot of my former associates and my friends, we thought about Ronald Reagan as a genius.
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If you can call it good listening to this, Stanislav Lunov is my guest.
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And in a moment, we're going to talk about the central issue, that of nuclear war, direct nuclear confrontation between the two great powers.
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When you look at what's going on around this planet, it's almost as if someone has got a playbook to try to control all these countries all of a sudden.
I've always said that not everything is a conspiracy, but a lot of it is.
You know, when you start looking into things, there's only certain set of conclusions you can reach, and unfortunately, this is one of them.
You know, it's very, very hard not to see things like that when you start looking at things in a larger picture.
Now we take you back to the night of September 4th, 1998, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
Stan, you believe that a war between what used to be the Soviet Union, Russia I guess now, and the United States is inevitable and will happen, that Russia will attack the United States.
If you were advising an American president, Stan, and you saw the situation in Russia deteriorating very quickly with the wrong people taking over, would you advise our president to attack Russia first?
I cannot advise the American President to attack Russia first by the reason that I do not have in my hands information which is necessary for the decision-making process.
To believe that it's impossible to avoid any kind of war, but very smart politics.
I don't think so, because in history it's happened many, many times when smart policy prevented war.
So I cannot take responsibility for myself and advise somebody to do something if I do not have all information which is possible to have for my decision-making process.
It says, though, in your book, Through the Eyes of the Enemy, Russian military intelligence does everything it can to prepare for a war that it considers inevitable.
Let me be very clear about this.
The GRU Russian military intelligence is still recruiting agents, still preparing for war with the United States as we approach the supposedly peaceful post-war Cold War millennium.
Now, that's very clear, and it seems to suggest there will be a war.
And everything that is going on in Russian intelligence community now is confirming this proposal.
Because military machine, it's not independent machine.
It's working by the request of highest military political leadership, from requests from president.
And if this government cannot afford to exist in peacetime without crisis, it's look for foreign enemies to put attention of people from domestic problems to foreign enemies activity.
Also, you said the GRU continues to train terrorists worldwide.
As you can see, even though Russia no longer seems to be the direct enemy because of a desire for profit, it remains the major threat to the U.S. through weapons, proliferation, and training.
And for me and for my former associates, it wasn't a very good idea to take part in training of these dangerous persons because we knew exactly what is their real nature.
And I was really pleased when in 1990 I heard about special request made by former Soviet, first and last Soviet President Mikhail Garbachev, who requested my agency to stop training of international terrorists and we very welcomed his decision.
But unfortunately in 1991, 92, 93 and later I get news that this training is still in place.
But if in time of former Soviet Union existence this training was done by political reasons to establish Soviet influence in areas of this terrorist activity, just now it's going for money because everything is for sale in Russia.
Yes, for money, because last news I had about this once it was about Aoum Sinrikyu cult members, this Japanese cult which used Neov's gas in Tokyo Subway several years ago.
And these members of this cult, they received training in one of the JRU training centers in Siberia and pay for this training.
We have heard rumors of Russia developing laser seismic weapons, weapons that would be developed to actually cause earthquakes, which are even better than many atomic weapons, electromagnetic and radio weapons, development of these weapons, is it still, is it true first, particularly about the seismic weapons?
I know that American people know so little about this hostile country's policies, military research, development.
But for me it was a well-known fact and by the way maybe you would be first who will know the official name of program which existed in former Soviet Union for the development of seismic or tectonic weapons.
Because seismic weapons is absolutely different type of weapons and using seismic energy, natural energy which is existing in real life permanently and direct this energy to concrete places in concrete time to organize earthquake, natural earthquake.
No nuclear connections.
Yes, first researches which were done in this direction, they were connected with nuclear tests and Soviet scientists found connection between nuclear tests and earthquakes.
But later development was absolutely not connected with nuclear explosions and concentrated of natural use of seismic energy.
In Chechnya, when some people tried to organize earthquake in Chechen capital city of Grozny.
But I don't think that this test was successful because instead of really deep earthquake, it was very small earthquake, about two or three degrees by Richter scale.
You know that now there are no some kind of ideological disputes between Russian Federation and China, which had place in time of Soviet Union existence.
And actually just now there are no any kind of very special problems in the relations between two countries because all these problems we resolved during last ten years include border problems and relations between two countries just now are very good.
And by my point of view, and not only my but some specialists, relations between Russia and China are so good that it's possible to expect that in nearest time it would be some kind of military alliance between Russian Federation, so-called democratic Russia and totalitarian China.
Military ally directed against United States and Americans, friends and allies everywhere.
So to propose that it would be some kind of real war between Russia and China?
No, I don't think so.
They are very close together.
They do have already have secret agreement for intelligence cooperation against United States and other Western countries.
They do have integrating military machines, military-industrial complexes.
And if it could be happened and military alliance would be in place, I think that China and Russia will stay together against American imperialism.
Here in America, many people think we have two governments, that we have one secret government and one very public government.
Do you believe that in Russia there are really two governments, one that we see with Boris Yeltsin sometimes, and another government behind the scenes that is still holding all the power?
No, I don't think so, because this government, which you can see, President Yeltsin and around him, is real government, corrupted, connected with criminals, but it's real government.
Actually, your second proposal is most correct, because it's not so much revival of religion, but it's hope of people to find some kind of way for future.
But what America needs to do in this situation, let's say America needs to know what is going on in foreign countries, let's say in Russia, in former Soviet Union,
and to recognize the difference between promises and real situation and try to understand how to push some non-responsible people to fulfill their promises made officially and get a lot of money for this under these promises, billions of dollars.
And of course, to prepare itself for the protection against possible danger and possible attacks from hostile and non-friendly countries to improve American national security system and to concentrate its system against for the protection against most important dangers for this country.
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I argue with people about disclosure time and time again.
I've told them governments are not going to come out willingly to tell us it's going to happen by a mistake, it's going to happen by a whistleblower, but it's not going to be an organized thing.
Governments won't do that.
And the reason why they won't do it is because they do not want us to know.
They think that they'll lose control of us if we know.
If you actually truly believed that we were being visited by extraterrestrials and you had categorical proof that it was happening, do you think you would listen to some of the bull that government throws out all the time?
Absolutely not.
You'd look toward the heavens, you'd say there's got to be a better way, and you would start doing your own thing.
And you would forget all about government control and everything else.
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When you look at what's going on around this planet, it's almost as if someone has got a playbook to try to control all these countries all of a sudden.
I've always said that not everything is a conspiracy, but a lot of it is.
You know, when you start looking into things, there's only a certain set of conclusions you can reach.
And unfortunately, this is one of them.
You know, it's very, very hard not to see things like that when you start looking at things in a larger picture.
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Of course, they do not want this expansion because NATO and Western civilization, Western democracies are becoming more and more closer to Russia itself.
You know, this hardline communists, they never believe really in ideas which will pronounce by themselves as some kind of absolutely truth.
And when they are talking about this NATO extension to the east and southeast, they using this as much more for propaganda than for real estimation of possible danger to Russia.
Because you know that Russian government closed its eyes on the missile transfer, missile technology transfer to Iran.
And if Iran will develop its own missile weapons, the first target for this missile would be southern Russia.
And it would be real threat to Russia, not mystical threat from NATO extension.
I'm going to ask you again, what should we watch for?
What would be very dangerous in Russia if we saw a civil war?
Would that be a very dangerous time for us here if we saw the communists begin to take over and a coup d'état with Yeltsin out and Zharonowski in or something like that?
I would say that just now it's necessary to watch what's going on in Russia very attentively because you know that Russian President Baris Yeltsin he is not good health.
Actually he is sick, tired and ill and plus he is well known very bad habit.
Actually he is drunk and every other day something could be happen with him.
But if it will happen with him now it would be constitutional crisis in Russia.
And keep in mind that in accordance with Russian constitution he could be succeeded by his prime minister only.
But in current time when he fired former prime minister young Piercen Sergei Kiriyanka two weeks ago, he tried to receive this parliament agreement for his old body Mr. Chernamurdin but parliament rejected candidacy of Chernamueldin and just now there is no constitutional
successor for president and if something happens with Yeltsin nobody willn't replace him and in time without power it's very good time for very strange people come to power.
I know it's a very hard question, but if we began to see that happening over there and it seemed like war was inevitable eventually, wouldn't America be smart to use nuclear weapons first?
For me, once more it's very difficult to answer this question because I need to have information for the decision-making process.
But Art, please trust me that in this country you have enough smart people who plan American activity for any possible development worldwide.
And in your Department of Defense I think there are very good plans how to react for any possible changes in Russian Federation, include possibility of coup revolts, social arrest, unrest and all other possible developments.
Yes, but keep in mind one more point, that according to the Russian Constitution, if something happened now with Yeltsin, his constitutional successor would be his former prime minister, which was fired two weeks ago.
The guy who was fired by Yeltsin and destroyed politically and actually according to Russian constitution, he needs to be acting president.
But nobody from Russian government doesn't want to recognize this fact.
And of course, if you return back to two weeks ago, it was Sibyl's news from Moscow that Yeltsin signed his letter for resignation.
And of course, when somebody from Yeltsin's office found Article 117.5 in his own constitution, he explained it to Yeltsin that if something happened with him, he would be replaced by Jelson, which was fired by Yeltsin.
Of course, after this, Yeltsin immediately stepped back and said, no, no, no intentions, and I didn't sign nothing.
Do you believe he did?
Yes, in this case, it's everything looks like it's almost happened.
Wanting to ask Stan what knowledge he might have, if he has any inside knowledge of UFOs that perhaps the Russians have captured, and if there's been any trading of these type of items between Russia and the United States.
We have many, many reports of objects that fly very quickly, very strangely, and people believe the government does not tell the truth about these things.
Yes, and I remember Russian newspapers' publications during the last several weeks and in all these publications Russian specialists or people who pretend to be specialists they are talking about that American military established contact with unknown flying objects,
with aliens, came to our ears from another system, space system, and keeping them in a very secret camp in Nevada or somewhere else.
Yes, because Russian people who are actually sick and tired from their normal lives, they are looking for something else, for something interesting to give this interest-like support for their life.
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Good morning.
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I think before we talk about learning more about the Soviet Union, I think we ought to learn more about how the American government, both the open and the secret government and the corporate media, which interlocks with the military-industrial complex, subjects us to this kind of disinformation and propaganda.
There's a book, one is called Unreliable Sources, another is Manufacturing of Consent by Noam Chomsky.
And he says, we're probably, in Cold War issues, the most brainwashed people in the world because in other countries they sort of know they're getting the official line, but here it comes down as the Art Bell program or as 60 Minutes.
And we don't see this propaganda.
And I think what is going on here is a classic case of what is brought out in this book, Unreliable Sources, how so-called defectors have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency to scaremonger, to create this kind of phony threats, whether it's in Central America or the Soviet Union, to justify massive military budgets.
What you're saying to Stan is that you believe he is spreading propaganda and disinformation to create a threat to feed the military-industrial complex, ensuring it continues to get its money to build weapons systems.
Statement or accusation, and I can tell to this to this gentleman that let's say that if I would be connected with American special services and worked for their interests, I would be really proud of it.
But just now, I am providing you my own information and not connected with any kind of political gains.
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Well, you know, even on Mission Impossible, even the popular public realizes if you're discouraging, you know, we will deny everything.
But more than that, you know, you talk about NATO.
I think most people in this country don't know that NATO was formed nearly seven years before the Warsaw Pact was formed.
The Warsaw Pact was a defensive response to that.
Every major buildup of a weapon system was developed by the United States from the hydrogen bomb to intercontinent missiles, intercontinental bombers.
We're far ahead of the Soviet Union.
The only country that has demanded the first strike policy has been the United States.
The Soviets refused a first strike and tried to get the United States to accept that.
All of this attempt to project what has been a policy, as you even let slip out, they should be paranoid because the United States, along with 14 other countries, invaded the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution.
And after the Second World War, Lucius Clay and elements of the Joint Chiefs had exactly this policy of a first strike against the Soviet Union, this genocidal policy that you so cavalially throw out there.
You know, it seems to me that there's never been a bombing that you've opposed except to say that enough millions of people have been killed or we didn't use nuclear weapons.
Stan, he's saying that the United States is a very warlike nation, that we resort to military force all the time, as we did just recently in the attack on the terrorist camp and that factory.
or we as we did in Iraq that we really are the military aggressors not Russia and that what we're getting from you is propaganda to prop up our military industrial complex and the first of all I need to I don't know.
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Now we take you back to the night of September 4th, 1998, on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
First of all, I need to return back to the previous question, not question, but statement of Mr. X. Because a lot of people asking me how Soviet propaganda explain what does it mean American imperialism.
Soviet propaganda explain America exactly like this gentleman told us in his statement.
And I can, if it's possible, I would like to give him a very small piece of advice.
If he will chance to find my book, please read this book and you will find a lot of answers for your questions when you will ask me next time about this once.
You will already have all possible information by this reason.
About this question, connection between PGB and Mafia.
I need to repeat myself what I already said in the book, that Russian mafia is absolutely different from other types of mafia, from Sithelian, Colombian and others,
because it includes top-level Communist Party officials, just now former Communist Party officials, highest-level government bureaucrats, law enforcement agencies, leaders and top-level generals, military, many, many star generals, and direct criminals inside these organizations.
So there is some kind of direct link between organized crime in Russia and Russian law enforcement agencies, include former KGB.
You know that KGB was split for different agencies in 1991.
After this, they were united in one agency.
After this, one small split for several agencies.
Just now there are five former KGB successors.
And actually, Macia has their own people in every of these state institutions, main KGB successors of our times.
Yes, and let's say that former KGB four-star generals are so closely connected with Mafia that sometimes it's very difficult to find difference between Mafia and KGB.
and let's say former KGB generals, just now very legitimate businessmen, using their international connections and their people, recruited by KGB intelligence officers in different
countries, organized some kind of drug trafficking from Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to Northern America through former Soviet Central Asia Republic, republics, Eastern Europe and Latin American countries.
So everything is connected and with very small difference between them.
And I had heard something about America in the late 1970s that they had shipped a 40-ton electromagnet over to Russia that they were installing in a facility that was possibly linked with HARP.
And it was able to produce an electromagnetic field that was like 300,000 times more powerful than the gravity field on Earth.
You are right, because this weapons is some kind of weapons of future.
And Soviet scientists and after them Russian scientists, they spend a lot of time and resources trying to find a way how to use electromagnetic weapons against human beings in possible war.
And not only this, because you already said, Menson about laser weapons and you know what happened about one year ago when American pilots were blind by Russian so-called scientific ship which snaked around American nuclear submarines in Pacific.
And you know this is about seismic weapons and very low frequency radio waves weapons, electromagnetic weapons.
And this is one of the paradox of current Russian life.
Because in time of very deep multi-side crisis, Russian government find money for development of Russian military industrial complex.
And in time when this government doesn't pay any serious attention over conventional forces in Russia, they still keep in very close control over strategic weapons development.
And actually Russian military industrial complex just now is leading in the world in new researches and developments of new types of weapons and traditional mass destruction weapons.
Well, it was always my understanding, Stan, that Russian strategic nuclear weapons, Russian submarines, all were under very tight central control in Moscow, and that they really still are today under very tight central control.
What is so worrisome is that the central control is not very stable.
But in time when this control is not so stable by itself or inside itself, they are keeping very strong control over strategic armed forces because they know that this is only one that Russian government can Use for the money extortion from the West.
Our president, of course, was just in Moscow and meeting with Boris Yeltsin.
And it seems like they reached some kind of arms agreement, which I'm sure you believe the Russian government will make promises about but never follow through on.
For me, this summit was strange from the beginning, because I understand that American administration tried to use this summit for especially to have some kind of agreement of Russian non-participation in proliferation
of mass destruction weapons, in Russian participation in liquidating of international conflicts, and for fighting against international terrorism, assumption kills.
So it looks like America try to use once more direct meeting with Russian President Baris Yeltsin, asking Russia to carry not so dangerous policy which is carrying now by Russian government.
But from the beginning for me it was very strange that this meeting would be with Pierson, who is absolutely unresponsible, giving a lot of promises but never fulfilled his promises.
So it was fruitless from the beginning.
And the result of this summit, I never saw the same summit which didn't have any practical results.
Officially, they are not directed during the last, I think, six years.
But this is for general public.
But for military professionals, it's well known that if computer of missile warhead had target sometimes when, it doesn't matter when, it go inside this computer to reprogram this computer and to restore the same targets, it's necessary to spend only one part of second.
So they could not be directed now, or maybe when we spoke, they could be redirected to different targets many, many times.
Official Cold War, in this real sense of this word, finished a long time ago and not because of Russian Federation government, but because of last and first Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.
But inofficially this war is still in place and is going on by much more dangerous ways and underground in Shadow because all parts which are participating in this war are using their intelligence machines,
counter-intelligence apparatus, and the Russian side using its organized crime connections trying to restore its power and to find way for future dominance in the world.
Arthur, I think that just now is much more dangerous because you remember these times when you was in the Air Force, it was confrontation of two military blocs, two powers.
And every side knew exactly that if one side will make a step, another side will make immediately counter step.
And both sides cannot afford to broke this balance of powers.
But just now, when in Kremlin there are very unresponsible people, it's possible to expect that every other day in the Russian Federation has happened something really dangerous.
And if it's happened, somebody unknown will come to power and we will have real danger.
First of all, I would like to ask American people, do not believe very old Soviet propaganda.
Unfortunately, I understand that until now this propaganda is still effective and influence over some people in America.
And for this country, I think it's necessary to know what danger is before this country and what is the most dangerous trend which could affect American way of life.
And of course to try to do something to protect America.
Because if something happens with America, it will happen with fortress of democracy in the world.
And Americans need to pay attention to their national security.
I don't call you guys to spend much more money, to recruit much more soldiers, or to increase the build up of your military machine.
No.
I'd like to ask you guys to improve your national security.
In this country, you have very powerful intelligence and counterintelligence community.
And these people, they are real professionals.
They actually sacrifice their life trying to protect America from all possible threats.
But they do not have enough people, money, and possibilities to protect everything in this country.