The Mysterious Mr White: a Spy Tale from Russia

Michael Lee White is my brother. He served in the army as a petroleum specialist. He, in other words, pumped gas. This is hardly cloak and dagger.

When the story came to our attention we were greatly concerned about his well-being for a number of reasons. The story broke, first of all, while he was in transit from Austin to Hong Kong.

He is a world-traveler who has spent some years teaching English as a Second Language in China. He had established the habit of contacting us whenever he reached his overseas destination safely. He left Wednesday and we had not heard from him by Friday when he heard the news.

A representative from the Department of State told us that he would "almost guarantee" that the Chinese would place him in detention immediately upon his arrival in Hong Kong. Detention would lead to interrogation (potentially brutal or harsh) or, we thought, possibly extradition to Russia where they would attempt to beat a false confession out of him.

My mother and I stuggled through our anxiety to work through the night to get the word out about his true identity. He is a teacher and aspiring author.

We knew that if we could establish his identity and location (China) that this would mitigate the reason to beat or torture a false confession out of him. Because his true identity might be established.

My mother, not grandmother as some have claimed, named Meda, went on Coast to Coast to get the word out across all 24 time zones.

Guess what? After all the emails we sent him--urgent ones--over the past two days had not been answered, he received an email from someone who heard of him and his website (www.nationalityinworldhistory.net) from my mother on Coast to Coast and found his email. Once, in other words, the story got around the world his email mysteriously worked again.

This was the first Michael had heard of his passport being used as a propaganda tool. He was obviously shocked.

It is factual that the Russians, Chinese, and Kazakhs met a couple of days before the story broke. In that meeting the Russians asked for, and were denied by the other two, permission to annex Ossetia and, I believe, another province.

Could it be that Kazakhstan and China agreed to support Russia in its claim of U.S. involvement (via my brother's passport) as a conciliation?

The Russians claimed the passport was stamped in 2007 from Kazakhstan. My brother was never there that year. How easy is it to fake a stamp? They have a space program!

In conclusion, my brother has spent the last ten years doing the following professionally: teaching ESL and some business courses abroad (mostly China), helping my father on a book regarding the origins and manifestations of nationality, attending school, and earning his Master's degree (2006-2007).

The work of his life is to change the common conceptions, paradigms, of nationalism, thus, create of more civic (civilized) world in whatever measure an author may hope to do so.

John White

One advice to Mickael White:don't go back in China.This reveals maybe the links between China and Russia against the USA.They might have made a deal against the USA.One thing that these two countries share :pride to beat the US so naive

First US should try to clarify its identity. In outside world us is just seen as puppet of Zionists and UK bankers.

That is quite fascinating indeed. I just love spy tales. Especially when Russia is involved.

Dish
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@Ass: What? How is this any connection that China is working with Russia over this?

A puppet of UK Bankers??? WTF hahahaaha

Interesting to hear the international perspective. Over here we consider it the other way around.

Dhabar, please sell your anti-Israeli garbage elsewhere. You sound like a puppet of the mullahs and those who refuse to take some accountability for their own actions. Muslim on Muslim violence is not the direct result of an Israeli-American relationship. It's thousands of years old, relating to the direct descendants of Muhammed.

Air Assault and Airborne are two totally different courses, and soldiers from many different lines of work are able to take them. They often mean nothing when it comes to the jobs they do, as John White said, his brother was a petroleum specialist. He would have been free to take these training courses, and most soldiers opt to do so because it helps in promotions and better assignments. Hell, Air Assault is only a 10-day course and the main focus is loading equipment for transportation by helicopter, while Airborne is a 3-week course. Neither of these by themselves are "elite" or "black ops".

You all are hysterical. After that press conference no one remembered that White fellow. Most of my friends learned about him from this "article". Get some life.

Yeah, it's very known that Russia tries any way to embarrass the US. I very know well. This man White: Don't go back to China. You fall man.

who really cares that much. Don't any of you people have better things to do than spread conspiracy theories? The man lost his passport. Plain and simple. Even if he is a spy or whatever, what can any of you do to prove it? Or even to disprove it? The fact remains that regardless of what you think you know, you're all really quite clueless to anything that these governments don't want you to. Meaning that the only information anyone has is secondhand and tightly controlled. So even when you think you've reached the truth of the matter, you've really only come to the conclusion you were told to come to.

Hey, dip. A better story would have been that Special Ops don't carry passports. Of course he's a lecturer. How do ya think terrorists get deployed in a community? As commandos? Try harder.

Sounds like the New Zealand issue where they found the Mossad was forging passports or gaining them by illegal means.

'They have a space program!' - In Kazakhstan. It's unfortunate that the U.S. has lost so much credibility around the world due to the actions of our leaders and the dirty dealings of our intelligence services. People always assume America is lying. Don't know what gave them that idea...

You think spies/black ops etc just hop around the globe using their own passports? I'm thinking they took care of using your own passport in the first espionage 101 class. Think people, think.

The story of loss passport can be faked easily. Do you guys remember how quickly you believe the theory that Chinese governement easily faked passports for underaged athlets? Why it is becoming impossible when it comes to USA, the almighty Biggest Brother?

Three possibilities come to mind:

1. He was put there by the U.S. to help Georgia in some way.

2. His passport was taken by the Russians and used to implicate the U.S.

3. His passport was planted by the U.S. so that the Russians would implicate the U.S. and the U.S. could deny all, thus making the Russians seem like they are trying to restart the Cold War.

Look up operation Northwoods--it can be found in the University of Washington Archives--before you dismiss a person's right to make comment. Remember also, Georgia attacked Ossetia, not the other way round.

And after all the comments about it being barbaric for a nation to attack another sovereign nation in the 21st century, U.S. troops are in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not a criticism, just a fact. So let's stop the hypocrisy. It is barbaric for ANY country to invade another in this millenium.

P.S. Your Federal bank IS owned by British bankers and the Rockefeller family, totally nullifying why you guys had your War of Independence in the first place.

Mr. White is already back his workplace in Guangzhou, China. He was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal Sept. 4 and he looks very fine.

South Ossitia and Abkazia were, among lots of other nationalities, part of the old Soviet Union. As such, they encouraged Russians to come down and settle down, which many Russians did.

Enter the fall of the USSR on New Year's Eve 1989. Those Russians who had been encouraged to move into foeign countries found themselves up the creek without a paddle absent Moscow's protection. Many of those formerly colonized states were now free to do whatever they wanted. Georgia, for example. One of the things these societies wanted was to get rid of the Russian colonialists who had their own schools, their own banks, their own businesses, and who pointedly refused to speak the local language. Once the locals began to move against the colonists, that's when Russia, fat and sassy because of oil money, decided to slap Georgia's face for its effrontery to move against the Russian settlers.

And Georgia did move against South Ossetia, which the Georgians consider to be part of Georgia's soverign territory, maybe pumped up by the USA or maybe not. Then there's the whopper of an oil pipeline that cuts right through Georgia (this means Georgia can simply cut off the flow at its own whim, which has the Russians hopping mad because they haven't got any warm water ports) and you're primed for a "situation" in the Caucuses possibly as bad as that of Chechnya.

We have to assume the USA is poking its nose under the newly swaggering Russian tent. These are the times you wish you studied geography harder in school.

Mr White is safe now in China as teacher.

There are thousands if not millions of western teacher in China now. China government has nothing to do with this incident.

It is amazing that now a war in Georgia escalated to this level of spy blaming.

To me what gives validity to this case is the method used by the family to disseminate their information and make their case be known. Coast to Coast is perhaps one of the last intact liberal use of the radio waves today. A program that has taste, and avoids hyperventilating to say their words. A program that gets nutty, just like everyone does once in a while, and yet constantly pusuing a sense of truth. Real news is also broadcast, especially by citizens at large. As is, I belive, the case here. Had Fox News been on to this, I would be suspicious. The issues covered by the family's public addresses are educated, eloquent, and address the concerns of the situation squarely. This could raise flags for some as coaching, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt here, to a well educated and articulate American family. One who has well spoken advocates of making this a better world with their publishings.

The political posturings are shallow in contrast to the demonstration of love and respect demonstrated here. Strike a victory for grandma and everyone else!

Call me a believer.

There was no black op in Ossetia, for one thing. Two, Mr. White is who he is. Black ops don't carry real passports; many of them don't even have any IDs or real names, hence going black.

Russia is using the stolen passport for propaganda purposes so it can shift the blame and is hoping Russian citizens believe their government's B.S. The only U.S. involvement was diplomatic, at best, and transport of Georgian troops and equipment back from Iraq via C- 130s. Maybe a little food or water, that's it.

As for everyone who made comments here, let me say this: If any one of you knew what was really going on in this world you would probably have a hard time believing what you heard or saw anyway. As for the families who had to go through the ordeal of worrying about their brothers' or grandsons' whereabouts, it's understandable and I feel that all the time when I'm away from my family as well. The ones who actually know the truth about anything that is going on are the ones directly involved in it.

THE TRUTH BREAKS ALL CHAINS.