The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat

by Pedro Sanjuan

Book Overview

On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385513194
• ISBN13: 9780385513197
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

An eye opener for the blind

If you are still under some delusion that the UN is anything but the most corrupt, inept, and ineffective organization in the history of modern society, you need to read this book. Admittedly I have worked with several of the members of the current hierarchy of the UN, so I may be somewhat prejudiced because i know from experience that they are beyond hope, but Sanjuan writes about previous regimes, and doesn't get into the current band of incompetents who waste billions of dollars every year in the name of "peace" while doing nothing but prevent proper oversight of programs which only enable tyrants and criminals to continue their corrupt raping and pillaging of nations all over the globe. The sad part of this book is that it does not include the most recent revelations of the Anan regime, where billions in the "oil for fraud" programs were siphoned off by criminals grand and petty without regard to the original mission and idealism of the UN.

How Corrupt is the United Nations?

In 1984 Pedro Sanjuan was appointed by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to the UN Secretariat. During the next 10 years what Sanjuan discovered pertaining to the inner working of the Secretariat, as well as other United Nations agencies, was mind boggling. It is quite remarkable to read the sense of detachment exhibited by the various UN secretary-generals pertaining to criminal, corrupt, clandestine and conspiratorial activities going on under their very noses. As if they adhered to the old saying, see no evil hear no evil! To comprehend the workings of the United Nations it is essential to bear in mind, as Sanjuan points out in his book, THE UN GANG, the UN is controlled from only one place-the Security Council. It is here where its members make deals, including the nominating of weak and ineffectual secretaries-general who can easily be manipulated. Furthermore, it has always been a covert arena for political maneuvering and disputes, that is contrary to the charter of the UN. When Sanjuan was appointed to his post, his primary mission was to keep tabs on the espionage activities of the Soviet Union. It was common knowledge that the Soviets were able to control many important departments of the UN and to cleverly use them to their advantage. As mentioned in the narrative, the Soviet department of political and Security Council affairs was always to be headed by a Soviet undersecretary-general and was under the control of the Kremlin. This was effectuated through a system of Soviet assistants and KGB operatives that occupied all supervisory positions. Likewise, many other UN departments, including the extensive Russian translation facilities, were controlled by the Soviets with their primary objective of protecting a gigantic intelligence operation, hidden under the disguise of being international servants working for the benefit of the UN. Apart from the flagrant abuse of the UN for foreign intelligence collection activity, Sanjuan immediately discovered, upon taking up his post, the blatant culture of anti-Semitism, that probably still exists today. Quite astounding was the fact that many of the UN officials, including the then Peruvian Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, were more concerned in finding out if he were a Jew, which he is not, than trying to work with him in a co-operative spirit. Moreover, as he points out, "Kofi Annan's predecessors deliberately coddled Muslim extremism on a daily basis through their undisguised anti-Semitism in an atmosphere that equated Zionism not only with racism but with the United States as a whole." Another of Sanjuan's discoveries was the trafficking by UN personnel in drugs such as cocaine, heroin and other quality products in the UN garage that went on all the time. Quite ironically, it is the American tax payer who foots the bill for about twenty-five percent of the UN budget! Other illicit activities included the sale of shotguns by members of the UN disarmament department, a

Bloody Brilliant

Pedro Sanjuan doesn't pull any punches in this larger-than-life memoir of his time at the U.N in the 1980s. Pedro was witness to what is only now coming to light, the rampant racism, hatred of women, sexual harassment, fascism, drug dealing and money wasting that is what the U.N stands for today. Pedro explains and shows with funny and lively examples the true nature of the U.N, support for terror and genocide and the dictatorship of the worlds dictatorships. Since the UN is a democracy the fact that the majority of the world's nations suppress human rights, and women and are dictatorships means they can control the UN committees like Human rights, so that those committees never find 'human rights' violations in countries such as Libya or Cuba but magically only find them in the most democratic and free countries. The UN was created to stop genocide, but what was the UNs role in the genocides in Cambodia(1975), Rwanda(1994) and Sudan(1985-today)? Nothing. In fact as Sanjuan shows the UN did nothing to stop genocide because those with the bloodies hands such as Idi Amin and Arafat are favorites at the UN, heroes to most of its member states. Sanjuan shows how UN employees engage in criminal activities and how the UN supported KGB spying and drug dealing and wasted billions of U.S tax payers money(the US pays for the majority of the Un budget and receives the majority of criticism from the UN). Sanjuan shows how UN soldiers, which we now know to be true, traded sex for food in Africa. This is a brilliant account of the truth behind the UN and its inner workings and although some stories seem too fantastic to be true, it is nevertheless a wonderful rip roaring account. Central to Sanjuans view is that anti-Semitism is rampant at the UN including a vicious UN sponsored campaign to smear U.S Jews and U.S Jewish lawmakers, the mere fact that Jews and Judaism would ever be mentioned at the U.N(given that Jews make up .00001% of the world) is ample evidence of anti-Semitism showing that UN workers have an 'elders of Zion complex' regarding Jews. A great book, a great gift for anyone interested in America and current affairs and why the UN doesn't prevent genocide, but supports it. Seth J. Frantzman

A Stunning Rebuke for the U.N.

Sanjuan has laid bare the anti-Americanism, the incompetence and the tower of hypocrisy that has become the United Nations. Far from its original intent as an institution born out of the need to confront hatred and inhumanity, the UN now embodies those very evils. The Oil for Food scandal apparently is just the tip of the corruption iceberg. Thankfully Sanjuan's book is giving us the necessary specifics if any clean-up is going to take place.

Very illuminating

When I was much younger, I had a high regard for the United Nations. I liked their postage stamps. I thought that they did a good job with international tasks such as eliminating smallpox and at least a useful one with, say, Planned Parenthood. Still, I had to notice that the UN was not very effective in times of conflict. Whether the conflicts were in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, or Europe, the UN always seemed helpless at best. In 1974, when Arafat was applauded there, I began to have more serious doubts about how it was doing. And within a few years, the values of its postage stamps fell dramatically. For me, that was confirmation that the UN itself was of very low value. And since then, I've been in favor of getting rid of it. I think it is just too perverse to be of much help to the people of this planet. We could replace it by restricting ourselves to sets of bilateral agreements, or by creating ad hoc single-issue international organizations, issue by issue (to avoid building up too much esteem, which would permit their perversion). We could also have competing advice-giving organizations that could stand or fall on their own merits (poor ones would go out of business). Well, just how bad is the UN? This book gives us an idea about the UN, and the Secretariat in particular. Incredibly, the Secretariat employs over 6000 people and costs over 2 billion dollars per year. And I may be biased, but I find it hard to believe that it serves any useful purpose at all. Sanjuan describes the amount of Soviet influence and control in the Secretariat, which extended to, for example, the UN library. By the way, one of the few people the author has kind words for is the present US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. Among other things, Bolton helped get the infamous UN resolution repealed that equated Zionism and racism. The author describes some of the endemic anti-semitism at the UN. To me, it seems surreal. It is a little like hearing that the UN is against Martians, and that many people there suspect that quite a few of the people they meet are related to Martians, or are Martian-lovers, or are friends of Martians. And that there is a vast Martian conspiracy to run the United States or worse. In any case, these sorts of fantasies can't be productive. In addition, they have to be bad for real live Jews, even though such people rarely resemble the fantasy ones. And the assault on rationality, sanity, and truth has to be bad as well. Sanjuan describes some of the ways that the UN wastes money. But I think that may be the least of its problems. The book finishes with ten modest recommendations from the author. He's against UN Secretariat's nepotism, conflicts of interest, antisemitism, racism, moonlighting, contacts with local and international crime, corruption, espionage, and support for terrorism. And he thinks that members of the Secretariat that engage in them "ought to be relieved of their posts."