Wikileak
Cables: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Washington's Pocket
Since 2006
It
turns out that Ukraine's new president, Petro Poroshenko, has been
working for the U.S. government since at least 2006 and they knew he
was corrupt.
18
June, 2014
There's
not much point in staging a coup if you don't influence who is placed
in power in the aftermath. Of course in order for a puppet government
to be effective, they can't be perceived as such. You wouldn't want
the natives to get restless would you?
The evidence
that the U.S. was behind the toppling of the Ukrainian
government early
this year is so overwhelming at this point that the subject really
isn't up for debate, however initially it was unclear how the
election of Petro Poroshenko fit in. The ecstatic response by
Washington when he was declared the winner, and their unbending
support in spite of his ongoing
military assault against civilians in the east,made
it clear that he was the chosen one, but the paper trail wasn't
immediately obvious.
As
it turns out, the evidence that Poroshenko is in the pocket of the
U.S. State Department has been available all this time, you just had
to know where to find it. In a
classified diplomatic cable from 2006 released by Wikileaks.org, U.S.
officials refer to Poroshenko as "Our
Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko".
A
separate cable
also released by Wikileaks makes
it clear that the U.S. government was considered Poroshenko
corrupt.
"Poroshenko was tainted by credible corruption allegations, but wielded significant influence within OU; Poroshenko's price had to be paid."
The
U.S. government knew Poroshenko was dirty, but he was influential,
and arguably their most dependable mole.
Perhaps
the most interesting revelation comes from a 2009
cable where
Poroshenko told then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton he supported
"the opening of a U.S. diplomatic presence in Crimea" and
"He emphasized the importance of Crimea, and said that having
U.S. representation there would be useful for Ukraine."
Poroshenko's role as an informant for the U.S. government
continued in
cables in 2010 as well.
Reading
through the cables, I have to wonder if Poroshenko was actually
breaking Ukrainian law by sharing the kind of strategic information
that he did. Considering that this information was certainly used
when planning the coup against Yanukovich, one could argue that he
committed treason.
Poroshenko,
however, isn't the only Ukrainian politician mentioned. For example,
the cables mention the scandal surrounding Oleksandr Turchynov's
destruction of SBU documents tying Julia Tymoshenko to organized
crime, and note that the accusation that Tymoshenko wanted Turchynov
get the Interior Minister position so that she could gather damaging
information on her enemies. The
cable refers
to this accusation as "not farfetched". Turchynov went on
to be installed as the acting president of Ukraine in the provisional
government.
In
order to grasp the extent of the U.S. government's tinkering in
Ukraine it is worth reading the documents for yourself
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