{"id":23924,"date":"2014-06-13T05:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=23924"},"modified":"2014-06-13T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:42:42","slug":"ukraine-president-once-agent-for-u-s-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wikileaks\/ukraine-president-once-agent-for-u-s-state-department.php","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine President Once Agent for U.S. State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>      by Michael Collins      June 10, 2014    <\/p>\n<p>            (Image: Global Panorama CC)    <\/p>\n<p>    Is he still working for his former masters in Washington, DC?  <\/p>\n<p>    Two diplomatic messages from the WikiLeaks Public Library on U.S. Diplomacy    indicate that newly elected President of Ukraine, Petro    Poroshenko was an agent for United States State Department. A    confidential message from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev on April 29, 2006 mentions the newly elected Ukraine    president twice.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine    (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was    using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure    on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    \"During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine    (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko denied that he was behind    Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko's recent decision to    issue an arrest warrant for Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr    Turchynov.  [to] question him about the alleged destruction of    SBU [Ukraine intel] files on organized crime figure Seymon    Mogilievich.\" [Russian Mafia Boss of Bosses] WikiLeaks Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy  <\/p>\n<p>    The motivation for alleged destruction of files appeared in an    embassy message from April 14, 2006.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"-- The files contained information about Tymoshenko's    cooperation with Mogilievich when she ran United Energy Systems    in the mid-late 1990s.\" WikiLeaks  <\/p>\n<p>    Yulia Tymoshenko, an aspiring oligarch, is the darling of the    both the Bush and Obama administrations for her role in the    2004 Orange Revolution that brought the first modern    anti-Russian Ukraine government to power. She helped negotiate    the natural gas deals between Ukraine and Russia.  <\/p>\n<p>    Another mention of Poroshenko made it clear that the State    Department saw the future value of Poroshenko's insider role.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL1406\/S00062\/ukraine-president-once-agent-for-us-state-department.htm\/RK=0\/RS=sKZTVYiPd_VHCWwibyCOZTB6AEU-\" title=\"Ukraine President Once Agent for U.S. State Department\">Ukraine President Once Agent for U.S. State Department<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> by Michael Collins June 10, 2014 (Image: Global Panorama CC) Is he still working for his former masters in Washington, DC? Two diplomatic messages from the WikiLeaks Public Library on U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}