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WHOA. According to an explosive report issued today by The Intercept, Family Research Council Vice President Jerry Boykin used a Christian NGO as an unwitting front for spying operations against North Korea while working as a senior Pentagon official during the Bush II administration.
North Korea and other anti-Western regimes regularly imprison charity workers and missionaries on false charges of spying, so if this story gets legs, the Josh Duggar scandal will look like PEANUTS. The Intercept story begins:
On May 10th 2007, in the East Room of the White House, President George W. Bush presided over a ceremony honoring the nation’s most accomplished community service leaders. Among those collecting a President’s Volunteer Service Award that afternoon was Kay Hiramine, the Colorado-based founder of a multimillion-dollar humanitarian organization.
Hiramine’s NGO, Humanitarian International Services Group, or HISG, won special praise from the president for having demonstrated how a private charity could step in quickly in response to a crisis. “In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” read Hiramine’s citation, “HISG’s team launched a private sector operation center in Houston that mobilized over 1,500 volunteers into the disaster zone within one month after the hurricane.”
But as the evangelical Christian Hiramine crossed the stage to shake hands with President Bush and receive his award, he was hiding a key fact from those in attendance: He was a Pentagon spy whose NGO was funded through a highly classified Defense Department program.
The secret Pentagon program, which dates back to December 2004, continued well into the Obama presidency. It was the brainchild of a senior Defense Department intelligence official of the Bush administration, Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin. Boykin, an evangelical Christian who ran into criticism in 2003 for his statements about Islam, settled on the ruse of the NGO as he was seeking new and unorthodox ways to penetrate North Korea.
According to the above-linked story, bibles were hidden in a shipment of winter clothes donated by the charity to North Korea. Boykin apparently believed that if the bibles went undetected, that meant the same method could be used to secretly ship listening devices and other military equipment into the country. Hit the link for much, much more.
RELATED: Right Wing Watch points out that Boykin regularly accuses President Obama of endangering the lives of Christians both abroad and at home. The hypocrisy is stunning.