Here’s Lozansky Introducing Republicans To The Father Of Russian Foreign Intelligence —And Putin’s Mentor
Part 6 of a 10 part series: the Grand Old Putin Party
After the Cold War ended, Lozansky sat at the nexus of Russian government officials and Americans seeking access to the fallen Communist state and the apparatchiks who still controlled the strings of a massive economy
The Cato Institute reminisced about their heady days in Moscow a couple of years ago in a blog post, in which they embellished the title of their story by calling the Oktyabrskaya Hotel “in the Kremlin” even though it’s about 3 kilometers away.
They celebrated meeting the father of modern Russian foreign intelligence services after the fall of Soviet Communism.
Yevgeny Primakov founded the SVR from the KGB’s First Directorate shortly after this photo was taken.
The above photo was taken just one month after the coup which toppled the Soviet state, and six months after a US registered foreign agent for the very same government – identified as the Russian Soviet Republic – named “Russia House” as that country’s official trade mission, and it’s sole focus of American lobbying activities.
Two months later, the Lozansky’s Russia House officially opened in Washington D.C. only blocks from Capitol Hill.
On September 14th, 1990, the CATO institute, held a “Transition to Freedom” conference in Moscow, which was attended by the founding fathers of the libertarian conservative movement.
Present at the conference was CATO founder and one of the infamous Republican donor brothers who spawned the Tea Party movement, Charles Koch.
Other attendees at the CATO conference included the Mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, who was Putin’s mentor until he was mysteriously poisoned during the 2000 presidential election after meeting with the future Russian President.
At this event, Dr. Lozansky introduced the Cato Institute’s founding President Ed Crane (forced out in 2012) to Yevgeny Primakov, who became the first post-Soviet head of Russian Intelligence.
Primakov — who recently passed away — was presented with a bust of Hayak, the father of their generally discredited school of economics.
Yevgeny Primakov was considered one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies and advisors until his demise.
Primakov was also the father of Russia’s modern SVR serving as its head until 1996, which separated Russia’s internal security from foreign intelligence.
Vladimir Putin recently reversed Primakov’s reforms, when he announced creation of the Ministry for State Security last September, sharing a name with Stalin’s security forces.
Analysis: Reading deeply in between the lines, Putin’s recent moves on the world stage show an oedipal impulse towards more adventurous and daring risk taking — now that his mentor is gone — which the Conservative apparatchik Primakov would’ve disapproved.
Primakov was serving as Prime Minister to President Boris Yeltsin in 1999 when he famously returned to Moscow when the Clinton Administration bombed Kosovo, changing the direction for Russian foreign policy only a couple of years after signing NATO’s first accord with the Federation only two years earlier.
They called it the “Primakov loop.”
It marked a major shift in US-Russian relations and the beginning of the rejection of NATO’s expansion by the Kremlin, which only intensified under Putin.
Lozansky’s Long Lasting Libertarian Ties
The Fellows listed at the American University in Moscow’s think tank make quite the interesting crowd, as they are operatives of the libertarian movement’s leading political dynasty, the Paul family.
Senator Rand Paul even hired Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor and Alfa Bank board member Richard Burt, and pro-Putin think tank Chair Dimitri Simes as advisors in 2014.
Simes runs the Center For The National Interest, which used to be called the “Nixon Center,” until the disgraced former President withdrew their family name from the think tank, because they didn’t want it soiled with the group’s Pro-Putin views.
Daniel MacAdams is the head of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
MacAdams also ran a website called the Daily Putin for a short period of time.
Interestingly, McAdams was a frequent contact for one of the lobbyists for a Putin-created breakaway Republics in the Caucasus in 2009. Lozansky was also contacted by lobbyists for Putin’s breakaway Republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The Ron Paul Institute’s (RPI) extensive connections to Russian interests include multiple Russia apologist writers. RPI’s Dr. John Laughland is the head of the Putin funded French think tank, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation.
Last year, Lozansky published a story onto the Ron Paul Institute’s website along with co-author and FARA registered agent James Jatras.
Dr. Lozansky’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the Russian government seem to be pretty openly exposed in this instance, which created lasting bonds in the Republican libertarian political movement to this day.
A series of investigative reports The Grand Old Putin Party — co-authored by Grant Stern and Patrick Simpson.
