Diogenis Valavanidis, chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee of the Center for geostrategic studies
I have written several times, but because of the importance of the topic, I think it necessary to reiterate, that the "doctrine of the American struggle against the East" created by CIA Director Allen Welsh Dulles, the first civilian director of the CIA, has long been known in which the guidelines on how to destroy the traditional values that are present in Orthodox countries, i.e. to extinguish the national consciousness of their citizens and break the military power and spirit of the Slavic peoples and their states. Allen Dulles believed that this goal could be achieved because the human brain and consciousness are prone to change. He believed that chaos should be sown in the Slavic countries, thus imperceptibly imposing false values on them and forcing them to accept them. With the help of like-minded allies and assistants in their homelands, it is necessary to irrevocably extinguish their national consciousness.
The essence of the doctrine is that the despotism of officials, corruption and unprincipled should be aided, while honesty and fairness should be ridiculed, and pointed out that they are not needed by anyone but a remnant of the past. On the other hand, of prime importance are the affirmation of rudeness and impetuousness, lies and deceit, drunkenness, drug addiction, treachery, chauvinism as well as hostility towards other peoples. In this context, the CIA Director considered it particularly important that the American intelligence services should pay the utmost attention to the destruction of Russia.
Also, so far we have heard that Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople is in "close cooperation" with the State Department and that thanks to this cooperation and support of the United States, the schismatic Church of Ukraine (PCU) is recognized. This time there is news that says much more than that, in fact it confirms the connection of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with the security structures of the United States.
Orthodox Christianity as well as the website of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in America (Orthodox Observer News) are 26.04.2023. Metropolitan Elpidoforos, the head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the United States, was an honored guest at the National Intelligence university in Maryland, where the personnel of all 18 intelligence agencies of the United States (CIA, NSA, FBI, DEA, etc.) are educated. A senior official of the Patriarchate of Constantinople spoke on the topic: "Russian weapons of religion in the conflict in Ukraine". The National Intelligence university is the leading academic institution of the U.S. intelligence community, educating the staff of all 18 intelligence community agencies in the United States. This historic visit marks the first address by the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox community of the American archdiocese to the American intelligence community. In other words, the level of cooperation has risen to the highest pedestal, given that it is a historic event. University President Dr. James Scott Cameron (J. Scott Cameron, Ph. D.D), he invited His Eminence to visit the intelligence University and share his "unique perspectives, insights and experiences on the religious dynamics of the conflict in Ukraine". This gesture was made as if metropolitan Elpidoforos was a "high-ranking intelligence officer" whose report interests American security? The high priest of Constantinople spoke about "the granting of autocephaly to the schismatic Church of Ukraine by the Patriarchate of Constantinople as well as the implications of the Russian violation of the Orthodox faith in the Ukrainian conflict"? Undoubtedly, in recent times, these church topics have come increasingly into the focus of Western political and intelligence circles. On that occasion, Metropolitan Elpidoforos presented to the president of the University Dr. Cameron a copy of his book regarding the church in Ukraine, as well as a memorial icon in honor of the centenary of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America. Upon completion of the lecture, Archbishop Elpidoforos traveled to Constantinople to attend the session of the Holy Synod of bishops and refer to observations from The Last Lecture in America.
Photo: Archbishop Elpidoforos at the National Intelligence University of Maryland /
Руски сајтови у Америци су пренели да Цариградска патријаршија има дугу традицију сарадње са обавештајном заједницом у овој земљи, што се детаљно наводи и у документима које је објавила ЦИА. На пример, Међуканцеларијски меморандум – OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Канцеларије за стратешке службе (агенција која је била претходница ЦИА) од 26.03.1942. године цитира тадашњег архиепископа Атинагору, а потоњег Цариградског патријарха, који је рекао: „Имам три епископа који су под мојом влашћу, 300 свештеника и велику организацију која је распрострањена на великој територији. Свако ко је под мојом влашћу, уједно је и под вашом влашћу. Можете им издавати наређења за било коју врсту услуге која вам је потребна. Питања се неће постављати, и ваша упутства ће бити верно извршена. Молим вас пренесите господину Бернсу, да је то тако“. Бил Бернс (Bill Burns) је био директор тадашње агенције која је пандан данашњој ЦИА. Атинагора је касније у разговору са William J. Donovan-ом, шефом ЦИА, рекао да је „спреман да се подвргне свакој дужности и да поднесе сваку могућу жртву за нашу вољену земљу која се бори за универзалну слободу и правду“.
As a reminder, the CIA and Ankara agreed on all the details of Athenagoras ' arrival at the head of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except one. In fact, the patriarch of Constantinople could only become a citizen of Turkey, a condition that Athenagoras did not satisfy, so 26. January 1949. during the landing of the plane at Istanbul airport, a new Turkish passport was handed to Athenagoras.
After all, it is quite clear that Constantinople's granting of autocephaly to the schismatic Church of Ukraine was a joint project of the Ukrainian and American governments, which was recognized by both church and political figures. The so-called Metropolitan Makary Maletich (the leader of the schismatic group in Ukraine who was rehabilitated by the Patriarchate of Constantinople by an unsubstantiated decision) has repeatedly spoken publicly about the role of Western governments in the creation of the schismatic church. It is June 2019. he said that this was not only the merit of Petro Poroshenko (then President of Ukraine), but also the Supreme Rada as well as diplomats of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany who were interested in the events in the church. Maletich pointed out that he was sure that the patriarch of Constantinople would not have decided on this step if he had not had the support in the leading countries of the world.
January 2021. in 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted about U.S. efforts to get the Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize schismatics as early as May 2021. Mr. Valery Chaly (ambassador of Ukraine to the United States from 2015-2019), stated that the creation of a schismatic church in Ukraine can be considered by the United States as its own achievement. He said that the US has done very much to make this issue a reality for Ukraine.
After the granting of autocephaly to the schismatic church in Ukraine, it was necessary to ensure the wider support of the local Orthodox churches. The Patriarchate of Constantinople has so far been supported by only three smaller local churches, namely the Archbishopric of Athens, the Church of Cyprus and the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
When it comes to the support of the Cypriot church, let us recall the words of 2018. in 1030, Archbishop Chrysostom of Cyprus said to Patriarch Cyril of Moscow, in a congratulatory message on the occasion of 1030. anniversary of Russia's violations:
„The Church of Cyprus will never deviate from its position, which we have repeatedly expressed to you, and will support with all its strength the position of the Russian Orthodox Church regarding the so-called autocephaly of Ukraine. She considers this position to be just and justified in full. That is where your spiritual roots are located and you cannot break away from them. In this regard, we Cypriots understand you especially, looking at the tomb and monastery of Apostle Varnava, the founder of our church, which are inaccessible to us due to the Turkish invasion (the shrine is located on the territory of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). The main reason we rushed to respond to your invitation to participate in these events was to reassure you of the immutability of our position.“.
Unfortunately, these words of the head of the Church of Cyprus are today forgotten, because it is obvious that the pressure was exerted by the Americans, who had always been interested in weakening the Russian church, but and an effort to oppose the Greek world to the Slavic world. Today is the official invitation of the Church of Cyprus to Metropolitan Epifanije Dumenko (religious head of the schismatic Ukrainian church) to visit Cyprus, wishing "for successful communion".
However, Werniki in Cyprus, they believe that even the then scandal involving Archbishop Chrysostomus was connected with the autocephalous issue. In fact, former Cyprus Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos and the head of the Cyprus Investment Program at the Ministry of the interior, Christina Kaula, claim that the head of the Cypriot church facilitated the issuance of a "golden passport" to Malaysian businessman Joe Lou in 2015. years. According to them, the hierarch asked the ministry to resolve the entire procedure quickly. In the end, just four days after the application, Lou held a Cypriot "golden passport" in his hands, and a few days before that he had dined with Chrysostom, on which occasion he presented him with a bank check for a "contribution to the church".
In conclusion, it is more than clear that no means are being chosen to divide the Orthodox Church and draw it into the field of geopolitical combinatorics. Bartholomew and his archbishops are in the "same club or lodge" with the highest political and intelligence authorities of the West, so it is more than clear why several Patriarchs of Constantinople in the last almost 100 years, unhindered by other local Orthodox churches, are working towards the creation of a new pope in Istanbul. This would undoubtedly be the end for the Orthodox Church we know.
Due to the above compromising facts, it is extremely questionable whether the patriarch of Constantinople can still be considered the first among equals in honor (Primus inter pares), which can only be resolved at the Pan-Orthodox Council.
Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies
Cover photo: priests of the proxy PCU perform a Christmas service in the Uspensky (Holy-Uspensky) Cathedral, in the complex of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, which was abducted from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in Kiev, Ukraine 7. January 2023. REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko
23. August 2024.
