Plus qa change, plus la meme chose.rnGermany’s policy in the region traditionallyrnhas been anti-Serb; it remains so today,rnno less than in 1914 or 1941. In Decemberrn1991, Hans-Dietrich Genscher,rnthen-foreign minister of the Federal Republic,rninsisted on what the rest of thernEuropean Union subsequently came tornregard as the “mistaken and premature”rn(in the words of Lord Carrington) recognitionrnof Croatia. It is also noteworthyrnthat the self-proclaimed government ofrnthe Republic of Kosovo is based in Germany,rnwhere approximately 400,000rnKosovo Albanians now live.rnAccording to a report from Paris byrnRoger Faligot, published in the Europeanrn(September 21-27), Germany’s rolernin arming the Kosovo militants has ledrnto a serious rift between the Bundesnachrichtendienstrn(END), the Germanrnintelligence service, and the Central Intelligencernjgency (CIA). Faligot quotesrnFrench diplomatic sources and GeneralrnPierre-Marie Gallois, a specialist inrngeopolitics, who maintains that some decision-rnmaking circles in Germany wishrnto destabilize the Serbs regardless of thernconsequences for regional stabilit)’: “ThernKosovo crisis has initiated a rift betv’eenrnGermanx^ and the United States. Washingtonrnrealized that pushing the KosovornAlbanians towards a military confrontationrnwith Milosevic, as the Germansrnwanted to do, would have a boomerangrneffect on the Balkans. The United Statesrnput pressure on Germany to stop supportingrnthe KLA behind the scenes, asrndid the other European countries suchrnas Britain and France.”rnThe founding of the KLA, the armedrnwing of the Albanian separatist movementrnin Kosovo, coincided with the appointmentrnof Hansjorg Geiger as thernnew head of the BND in 1996. One ofrnhis first operational decisions was to setrnup in Tirana one of the largest BND regionalrnstations. BND operatives collaboratedrnclosely with the top brass of thernShik, the Albanian secret service and thernsuccessor to the notorious communistrnSigurimi. The BND men were inrncharge of selecting recruits for the KLArncommand structure from among tens ofrnthousands of Kosovo Albanians living inrnAlbania. Meanwhile, the BND Romernbureau provided political intelligencernback-up, including recruitment work inrnTrieste and Bari, two of the principal entry’rnpoints into Italy for Albanians.rnThe German Militdrabschirmdienstrn(MAD), the intelligence arm of the militan,’,rnand special commando units suchrnas the Kommandos Spezialkrdfte (KSK)rnwere involved in training and the provisionrnof uniforms and communicationsrnequipment. Reporters covering Kosovornwere surprised to find some KLA fightersrnclad in current issue Bundeswehr combatrnjackets with identifiable German insignia.rnThe training was subsidizedrnthrough an Albanian foundation knownrnas “The Fatherland’s Call,” with branchesrnin Diisseldorf, Bonn, Stockholm,rnBern, and other European capitals.rnThese findings were corroborated in arnrecent German television documentarv’rnprogram, Monitor (September 24). Thernnetwork’s team of investigators, Jo Angererrnand Volker Happe, have unearthed arnwealth of data proving the link betweenrnthe KLA and German intelligence services.rnThe report opened with a shipmentrnof arms seized as they were beingrnsmuggled into Kosovo from Albania, includingrnhigh-tech Armbrust anti-tankrngrenade launchers. “They were developedrnby the German company MBB forrnthe Bundeswehr, and built in Singaporernunder German license,” the report stated,rnadding that Albanian rebels were alsornusing radio communications and militaryrnmonitoring equipment of Germanrnorigin.rnMonitor confirmed that immediatelyrnafter the communist regime in Tiranarncollapsed, the BND resident in Tiranarnwas involved in “several illegal arms supplies”rnwhich had been arranged bvrnMAD headquarters in Cologne. A formerrnN’lAD official said that the arms suppliesrnwere ordered “by the very top” andrnthat the operation is still treated as strictlyrnconfidential. According to a writtenrnstatement by another informer involvedrnin this operation, “In 1990 and 1991, thernMAD supplied electronic and opticalrnmonitoring devices and other equipmentrnsuch as radios to the Albanianrnintelligence service. The monitoringrnequipment came from the former EastrnGerman ministry for state security—thernBundeswehr took it over after unificationrn—and from MAD supplies. MADrnofficials trained Albanian intelligencernservice personnel in Tirana to use tinsrnequipment.”rnContrary to the expected denials fromrnthe Federal Defense Ministry, BND andrnMAD sources confirm that members ofrnthe Bundeswehr’s school for communicationsrnin Bad Ems visited the Albanianrncapital Tirana on several occasions, asrndid members of the MAD in Cologne, tornarrange deliveries and tiaining.rnAll of this is against the law—both internationalrnlaw, and Germany’s domesticrnlegislation regulating its intelligencernagencies, according to Dr. Erich Schmidt-rnEenboom, a Munich-based expert on intelligence-rnrelated questions. It remainsrnto be seen whether the new coalition inrnBonn will be less adventurous in itsrnBalkan policy and more inclined to observernthe law of nations and to pursuernconsensus-building within Europe.rn—Srdja TrifkovicrnP O P E PAUL VI, whose encyclicalrnHumanae Vitae turned 30 this year, predictedrnthat the proliferation of artificialrncontraception would bring “conjugalrninfidelity and the general lowering ofrnmorality.”rnIt’s hard to argue with him: The Pillrnmay not be the only reason that Americansrntolerate a 22-year-old tramp providingrnfellatio (but not sex!) to our chief executivernon taxpayer time. Nevertheless,rnas Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denverrnobserved earlier this year, the sexualrnrevolution (and the consequent culturalrn”unraveling”) would not have been “possiblernor sustainable without easy access tornreliable contraception.”rnHumanae Vitae’s forecast was notrnmerely a civilization turned orgy inrnwhich one out of four high school studentsrnis expected to graduate with a sexuallyrntransmitted disease. The encvclicalrnalso warned that contraception wouldrnbecome “a dangerous weapon . . . in thernhands of those public authorities whorntake no heed of moral exigencies.” PopernPaul reasoned that if a husband and wiferncould sterilize themselves on therngrounds that another child would breakrntheir limited means, governments couldrnapply the same solution to “the problemsrnof the community”: overpopulation,rncrime, low I.Q. A generation earlier,rnC.S. Lewis, in The Abolition of Man, describedrncontraception as another technologyrnthat would be advertised as liberatingrnbut in practice would be a meansrnfor men to control other men.rnAmericans might find Pope Paul’s andrnLewis’s warnings a little fantastic. Afterrnall, most victims of contraception’s darkerrnpurpose are Third World peasants,rnand many of them have allowed a giftbearingrnRockefeller or Turner to convincernthem that paradise is really a villagernfull of women with metal coilsrnrattling around in their uteri. Over herernDECEMBER 1998/7rnrnrn