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Pentagon chief hit with 'anti-American' charges
You won't believe unexplained background of Secretary of Defense

Posted: November 11, 2011
12:35 am Eastern

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Leon Panetta


NEW YORK – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta partnered with a group that promotes world government to co-chair an initiative to regulate U.S. oceans and cede them to United Nations-based international law, a new book reveals.

Panetta also keynoted the conference of a pro-Soviet, anti-war group during the height of the Cold War, and has previous unexplained close ties to the Institute for Policy Studies, a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity.

And that's just the start of Panetta's controversial background and radical associations exposed in the recently released book, "Red Army: The Radical Network that must be defeated to save America," by New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott.

The book also charges Panetta with anti-CIA activity. Panetta served as CIA chief under President Obama until his appointment to the secretary of defense post earlier this year.

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Until his ascent to CIA director in 2009, Panetta co-chaired the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, which is the partner with Citizens for Global Solutions in a push to ratify U.S. laws and regulations governing the seas.

The oceans initiative, dissected in the "Red Army" book, bills itself as a bipartisan, collaborative group that aims to "accelerate the pace of change that results in meaningful ocean policy reform."


Among its main recommendations is that the U.S. should put its oceans up for regulation under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

That U.N. convention defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment and the management of marine natural resources.

Other recommendations of Panetta's Joint Ocean Commission Initiative include:


•The administration and Congress should establish a national ocean policy. The administration and Congress should support regional, ecosystem-based approaches to the management of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes.


•Congress should strengthen and reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act.


•Congress should strengthen the Clean Water Act.
The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative Leadership Council includes John Podesta, president and CEO of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which is reportedly highly influential in advising the White House on policy.

Podesta served as co-chair of Obama's presidential transition team.

"Red Army" found Panetta's oceans initiative is a key partner of Citizens for Global Solutions, or CGS, which, according to its literature, envisions a "future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone.â€