Sunday 4/27/2014 - Tarpley Points Out Fake-OSCE Observers Are Actually N...

Tarpley Points Out Fake-OSCE Observers Are Actually NATO Military Officers


Alleged OSCE Observers Held in Slavyansk by Pro-Russian Forces Are
Active Duty NATO Military Officers Out of Uniform, Many from
Geilenkirchen Intelligence Base Where Awacs Are Flown; Visit Was
Sponsored by German Defense Ministry, Which Is Pressuring Osce To Keep
Up Attempted Camouflage of Possible Spy Mission-or Worse

Press TV: Now looking at the current events with OSCE observers, it goes to show the
level of mistrust people in eastern and southern Ukraine have with
regards to anything connected with Europe. How do you see the role they
are playing?

Tarpley: I would have to say first of all, we
should stop calling them OSCE observers because all indications are that
they are not. That is what the OSCE has been saying continuously since
the start of it and you can see it on their website. They basically are
two versions. The Western media say OSCE observers, but the mayor Mr.
[Vyacheslav] Ponomaryov, the pro-Russian mayor of Slavyansk, knows them
as spies. I'm afraid reality seems to be going in the direction of Mr.
Ponomareyov. These are active-duty NATO military officers. They are four
from Germany, one from Sweden, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Poland.
All NATO or European Union (EU).

The German officers come from
a place called Geilenkirchen, which is a very important NATO base. This
is where the Awacs planes are flown from. It's one of the big NATO
reconnaissance centers and they particularly belong to a unit of the
German army, the bundeswehr, which is called the center for enforcement
or verification tasks. In other words, it's military intelligence. What
seems also to be the case, is that they were accompanied by five
active-duty Ukrainian officers of the pro-Kiev forces, the ones that are
controlled by the regime.

The complicating factor is they were
riding around in OSCE vehicles. They were in a bus that seems to have
been displaying OSCE markings. Now, when they were captured, there was
obviously tremendous pressure exercised by the German Defense Ministry
and the whole NATO apparatus on the OSCE to play along with this
charade, pretending that they were sent by the OSCE, but it hasn't
worked. On Friday evening in Vienna, on the first program of the
Austrian television, Claus Neukirch, a high-ranking official of the
OSCE, said this was not our group, not our visit, we were not the ones
who did it. This is also admitted on the Deutsche Welle. Deutsche Welle
is the international TV and radio of the German Foreign Ministry.


All of this exists really only in German, so today, the Ukrainian
foreign minister struggling to keep up this fakery to maintain the
camouflage, the Ukrainian foreign minister said, "oh, the Secretary
General of the OSCE will be arriving here in order to begin negotiations
or to take them over." Very wisely the secretary general of the OSCE,
an Italian diplomat named Lamberto Zannier, said "no, I'm not going." He
was very well advised not to go. Who knows what would happen to him if
he got there?

The fact is that for the first couple of days,
negotiations were conducted exclusively by the German Defense Ministry,
who were the people that made the deal with Kiev to send these people
in. This was embarrassing that the German Defense Ministry leaned on the
OSCE to say "why don't you go in and negotiate," which the OSCE I think
unwisely did.

I would say to Mr. Zannier, don't go to Ukraine,
rather you should denounce the abuse and perversion of an OSCE vehicle
in the name of the OSCE by what is in fact NATO military intelligence,
and if you're caught behind military lines with no uniform, that's
sometimes called espionage, whether that's the current situation or not,
it's not clear, but I would urge everyone to stop referring to them as
OSCE observers, they are NATO military officers.