A Clear and Present Danger of Becoming a Spy Church

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A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER OF BECOMING A SPY CHURCH -
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Konstantin Preobrazensky

The MP under the Soviets has been "rendering everything unto Caesar," mingling secular with religious interests. Religion, once declared by Lenin as "the opium of the people," has now become a legalized drug, administered under the watchful eyes of Russia's security elite ... It is well known that members of the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church have always been pawns for KGB intelligence. My fear is that soon the ROCOR Church may become the "SPY CHURCH"

I am concerned that the forthcoming union of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Of Russia (ROCOR) with the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church (MP/ROC) will enhance Russian espionage in the USA.

It is well known that members of the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church have always been pawns for KGB intelligence. My fear is that soon the ROCOR Church may become "SPY CHURCH."

The MP under the Soviets has been "rendering everything unto Caesar," mingling secular with religious interests. Religion, once declared by Lenin as "the opium of the people," has now become a legalized drug, administered under the watchful eyes of Russia's security elite – known collectively as "siloviki", "the powerful ones." I call them "SPY CHURCH."

ROCOR is the Church of Imperial Russia. It was brought here by White Russian refugees after the Communist revolution in 1917 and has always been a harsh critic of the Communist regime.

It still ministers to millions of devout Russians living abroad. The Kremlin intends to put them under its control by merging the ROCOR with the Moscow Patriarchy, which really is a church created in 1943 by Comrade Joseph Stalin. That is why the ROCOR may soon be operating as "SPY CHURCH."

If this goal is realized, the church buildings of ROCOR will become Russian State property. Hundreds of Kremlin-dominated outposts will appear in the United States and other Western countries. No matter how our relations evolve in the future, these churches will serve as insidious fronts for Russian state interests.

Parishes in the ROCOR will soon become listening posts for Putin and the KGB/FSB if the ROCOR/MP union takes place. I fear that ROCOR church buildings and properties could soon become operation satellites for "SPY CHURCH."

Furthermore, attempts to monitor their activities by our own American government will be stymied by cynical claims to religious freedom, actually a license to steal property and to spy. Thus "religious freedom" would be granted to ROCOR churches united with the Moscow Patriarchy operating as "SPY CHURCH."

While our U.S. Government does not tend to interfere in religious issues, the Russian government does! In order to correct this misperception, we must assert that there is a clear and present danger that the unification of ROCOR with the Moscow Patriarchy represents to America.This MP-ROCOR union will further Russian espionage and will embed thousands of Russian state agents into American communities forever. I do not think that American neigborhoods want a ROCOR church on their street corners that is "ministering" as "SPY CHURCH."

I pray and encourage all of you to join with my efforts to prevent this frightening situation from occuring. If we do not do not work together then it will be too late - for ROCOR will become "SPY CHURCH."

Konstantin G. Preobrazhensky

[尼古拉前执事]

Russia still spying on us, officials say

WASHINGTON March 26, 2006 — Even as the United States and Russia are cooperating to resolve international crises and track militant Islamic groups, Moscow is working at least as hard at stealing U.S. military and industrial secrets as during the Soviet era, current and former intelligence officials say. Moscow’s spies operate under a larger variety of “covers” than in Soviet days, experts say, and their morale is the highest since the mid-1980s. The Russian diaspora has created a pool of emigres, some of whom can be bribed, cajoled or blackmailed into helping. The twist, perhaps, is that the United States-versus-Russia spy game can no longer be painted in black-and-white, good-against-evil terms, as it generally was when members of the Politburo gathered each year atop Lenin’s Tomb. The two nations are not just rivals, they are partners in efforts to resolve nuclear crises in Iran and North Korea, and they share intelligence on groups such as al-Qaida.

[Kollyvas]

This would be more credible if it included condemnation of the okhrana involvement in the pre-revolutionary church and its control by an "ober-procurator."
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When will it be realized that the real enemy of ROCOR is not the MP but the forces within "new ROCOR" itself...