Oct. 31, 2020
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tags:wear orstore for a “rainy day”. An integral part of this war of ideology isIDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION
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Even after witnessing the ruthless tactics used by my country 1 stillnaively hoped that things would turn out for the better eventually.After all, 1 was a product of the post-Stalin era of “thaw” and libera-lization started by Krushchev. I believed in “Socialism with a humanface”. That faith was shattered irreparably only five years later, when1 witnessed the brutal Soviet military intervention into “fraternal"Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Why did 1 allow myself to be recruited? There really is no simpleanswer. For one thing, a Soviet journalist cannot simply say “no” tothe KGB. If he wants to remain alive, free, pursue his career andtravel abroad, he simply must cooperate with the KGB, or suffer theconsequences. Secondly, apart from monetary and material gains, a Sovietjournalist co-opted (hired) by the KGB has a rare chance to becomeIMPORTANT in his own country, and in 1965, the USSR was stillmy country. Many of my colleagues, both cynicists and true patriots,joined the KGB, naively believing that they could promote them-selves to the higher positions of power, while maintaining their sec-retly kept moral principles and disguising their actual disgust of thesystem. By the time most of them realized that’power corrupts’andthat allegiance with the Soviet Communist power corrupts abso-lutely ? it was too late. The majority of my former colleagues arenow firmly entrenched in the ‘privileged class1 and their humanisticideals have all been traded one by one for small comforts such as aprivate car (a rare thing in the USSR), a free apartment, a countryhouse (“dacha”), free trips abroad and freedom to socialize withforeigners, none of which would be possible or available to theaverage Russian worker.
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It did not take me long to discover that our group was engaged in, neither “research” nor “counter-propaganda”: behind locked doorswe accumulated intelligence from various sources, including Indianinformers and agents, regarding virtually EVERY important andpolitically significant citizen of India ? members of Parliament, civilservicemen, military and public figures, media people, businessmen,university professors, radical or otherwise students and writers ? inother words EVERYONE instrumental in shaping the PUBLICOPINION and policies of the nation. Those who were “friendly “andready to invite the Soviet expansionist policy into their own countrywere promoted to higher positions of power, affluence and prestigethrough various operatons by KGB-Novosti. Large groups, of theso-called “progressive and sober-thinking” Indians were on a regularbasis, generously supplied with duty-free booze from the embassystocks.
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Let me give you an example of how the KGB uses the informationit collects. One day in 1968, I was routinely scanning through thebacklog of USA Information Service releases and classified docu-mentation, generously supplied to us by our Indian and American"friends". In one of the dispatches 11 read that the South Vietnamesecity of Hue had been captured by the Hanoi Communists. When it wasre-captured by the US Army and allied forces, only two days later,the CI A discovered to their horror that several thousand Vietnamese ? teachers, priests, Buddhists, businessmen, and educated citizens ? everyone who was “pro-American”, had been rounded up by theinvaders and IN ONE NIGHT, taken out of the city limits andexecuted collectively. Some were shot. Others, with their hands tiedby electric wire, were found with their skulls crushed-in by shovelsand iron bars. “How could they possibly have located all of thesepeople within only a few hours in a large city?” ? the Americanswondered. I thought I knew the answer. Long before the invasion there was an extensive network ofCommunist informers working under the guidance of the Sovietembassy in Hanoi ? that is under the KGB. The Communists filedevery bit of information: addresses, personal habits, political affilia-tions, expressed ideas, unexpressed thoughts revealed in informaland private conversations, even the names and addresses of relatives,friends, even lovers and mistresses of the future victims of “libera-tion”. After reading the news release I was sick, physically, with therealization that the department I was working for in New Delhi was 13 engaged in exactly the same activity that had been used in the city ofHue.
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In order toavoid detection by the Indian Police and the KGB, 1 had disguisedmyself as an American “hippie”. This method of defection wasactually a guaranteed success ? no -KGB detective in his “rightmind” would have thought to look for a missing Soviet diplomatamong the crowds of long-haired, bearded, barefoot, hashish-smoking Americans who had invaded India in search of’enlighten-ment’. And so I escaped to the West. I landed successfully in Canadain July 1970. There, I studied history and political science, taughtRussian language and literature, and worked for the CanadianBroadcasting Corporation as an announcer/producer for Radio-Canada International (an equivalent of the’Voice of America’). 1 waslater forced to resign from my position with the Canadian Broadcast-ing Corporation due to a complaint made by the USSR ambassadorto Canada to the Canadian government stating that I was anti-Soviet.
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All warfare is based primarily ondeception of an enemy. Fighting ona battlefield is the most primitive wayof making war. There is no art higherthan to destroy your enemy withouta fight - by SUBVERTING anythingof value in enemy’s country. Sun-Tzu, Chinese philosopher
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All warfare is based primarily ondeception of an enemy. Fighting ona battlefield is the most primitive wayof making war. There is no art higherthan to destroy your enemy withouta fight - by SUBVERTING anythingof value in enemy’s country. Sun-Tzu, Chinese philosopher 500 B.C.
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The art of duping the masses into doing things to their own dis-advantage and making them believe it is “the will of people” is as ancient as mankind itself. ?_ - , The essence of sub-version is best expressed in the famous Marxist slogan, (if you substi-tute “proletarians” for a more appropriate word): “Useful idiots ofthe world ? UNITE! To achieve the desired effect, the subvertermust first ? make idiots out of normal people, and DIVIDE them,before turning the people into a homogenized mass of useful andunited idiots. Tanks and missiles may or may not be needed at finalstage. For the time being they are simply the means of terrorisingpeople into inaction and submission.
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500 years before Christ, the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzuformulated the principle of subversion this way: 1. Cover with ridi-cule all of the valid traditions in your opponent’s country. 2. Implicate their leaders in criminal affairs and turn them over tothe scorn of their populace at the right time; 3. Disrupt the work of their government by every means; 4. Do not shun the aid of the lowest and most despicable individu-als of your enemy’s country. 5. Spread disunity and dispute among the citizens. 6. Turn the young against the old. 7. Be generous with promises and rewards to collaborators andaccomplices. Sound familiar? About 2500 years later we can read this very sameinstruction in a secret document, allegedly authored by the Com-munist International for their “young revolutionaries”.
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1. Corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them awayfrom religion. Make them superficial and enfeebled. 2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping oncontroversial issues of no importance. 3. Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders by holding thelatter up for contempt, ridicule and disgrace. 4. Always preach democracy, but seize power as fast and asruthlessly as possible. 5. By encouraging government extravagances, destroy its credit,produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent. 6. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civildisorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of thegovernment towards such disorders. 7. Cause breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety,self-restraint, faith in the pledged word.
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All you have to do to “screw up” the status quo of a free nation, isto borrow ON E false idea from the ideology of a communist or totali-tarian government. For the sake of simplicity, I have chosen the ideaof “egalitarianism”. “People born equal therefore must be equal”.Sounds great. But look at yourselves. Were you born equal? Some ofyou weighed 7 pounds at birth, others 6 or 5 … Are you NOW equal?In any way? Physically, mentally, emotionally, racially, spiritually?Some are tall and dumb, others ? short, bald and clever. Now, let’sfigure out what will happen if we LEGISLATE EQUALITY, andmake the concept of “equality” a cornerstone and pillar of socio-economical and political system. All right? You don’t have to be agreat economist or sociologist to foresee that some of the people whoare “less equal” would demand as much as those who are “moreequal” BY LAW! Aha, now you’ve got it. There will be some who get more forGIVING less and take advantage of those, who are even “less equal”,say, in the art of TAKING. And to avoid the squabble for “equalredistribution” you will have to introduce a THIRD FORCE ? theState. Why? Because people were never equal, are not equal and ifGod wanted us to be equal He would probably have made us equal.
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The beauty of the best, most successful political/economic system,created by the Fathers of America has nothing to do with LEGIS-LATED or enforced equality. The American Republic is based onthe principle of EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES for UNEQUAL andvery much DIFFERENT and diverse individuals to develop theirabilities and to coexist in mutually beneficial cooperation. And thatis entirely different story. That much I knew even from the Soviettextbooks of American history. Now let’s move faster. People who have declared themselves to beequal will inevitably come to expect more for their individual needs,which sooner or later will tragically come to conflict with the “un-equal” reality. That will automatically produce discontent.
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Chronic instability breeds radicalism as a means of solvingproblems. Radicalism is the precondition of a power struggle whichmay (and has often) resulted in violent and forceful replacements ofpower structures. If the situation deteriorates badly, this replacementtakes ugly forms of internal civil war, or revolution, or invation of a"friendly and fraternal" neighbor, and finally ends up in the tradi-tional way ? namely, state control. Depending on maturity of anation, and the amount (or absence) of common sense, this controlwill manifest itself in the creation of a “closed society” ? the oppositeof what we had in the beginning. Borders are closed, censorship ofthe media is established, “irritants” and “enemies” of the state areexecuted, etc.
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In the context of the USA, most of these nasty things are done toAmerica by Americans . . . with the IDEOLOGICAL help of theCommunist subverters. Most of the actions are overt, legitimate, andeasily identifiable. The only trouble is ? they are “stretched in time”.In other words, the process of subversion is such a long-term processthat an average individual, due to the short time-span of his historicalmemory, is unable to perceive the process of subversion as aCONSISTENT and willful effort. That is exactly how it is intendedto be: like the small hand of your watch. You know it moves, but youCAN NOT SEE it moving. The main principle of ideological subversion is TURNING ASTRONGER FORCE AGAINST ITSELF. Just like in the Japa-nese martial arts: you do not stop the blow of a heavier more power-ful enemy with an equally forceful blow. You may simply hurt yourhand. Instead you catch the striking fist with your hand and PULLthe enemy in the direction of his blow until he crashes into a wall orany other heavy object in his way.
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America is obviously a “stronger force” that Communism isunable to defeat. But it is possible to conquer this nation using thepreconditions 1 have described, created by Americans themselves,and diverting America’s attention away from these mortallydangerous preconditions. The situation is similar to a house, theowners of which have stored explosives and inflammable materialsINSIDE. To destroy this house the enemy does not have to intrudephysically into it. It is enough to start a fire next door and wait till thewind blows in the right direction. Meanwhile the enemy may “throwin some great ideas” for the owners to argue about in order to taketheir attention off the actual fire: environmental protection, gay libe-ration or emancipation of house pets are the types of non-criticalarguments that divert America’s attention from the real danger.Smart people would notice the fire and remove the inflammableobjects and materials BEFORE the house catches the fire. Usefulidiots will keep arguing about whether it is constitutional or not to
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This process has many names: psychological warfare, ideologicalaggression, propaganda warfare etc. The KGB calls it “ActiveMeasures”. Since my defection from the USSR embassy in 1970, 1have been trying desperately to explain to the Western media, politi-cians, “intelligence community” and your “academic-sovietologists"that Active Measures are more important and dangerous than classicespionage ? James Bond style. At long last, in 1983, in his new book “KGB Today” John Barronaccurately and excellently described the process of demoralization,basing some of his analysis on the data supplied by another KGBdefector, KGB official, Stanislav Levchenko ? incidentally, myformer schoolmate from the Oriental Studies Institute who was laterstationed in Tokyo, Japan under the guise of correspondent with"New Time” magazine.
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Stanislav Levchenko succeeded where 1 failed: he brought theActive Measures to the attention of American public. The purpose ofthis process is to change your perception of reality to such an extent,that even despite an abundance of information and evidence aboutthe danger of Communism, you are unable to come to sensible con-clusions in your own interests and in the interests of your nation.
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Other tactics, such as sabotage, characterassassination of ‘stubborn’ Indians resisting Soviet subversion, ter-rorism and even occasional killings of ‘reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries’ for the psychological effect of’paralyzing with fear’? these also were used by my KGB colleagues from other depart-ments of the USSR embassy. I am less familiar with these aspects of the subversion process. Myrole as a ’legitimate’and overt public relations man and a ‘charisma-tic’ socializer was directed by the KGB mainly at the initial stage ofsubversion. After a certain period of befriending and ‘cultivating’foreigners, I had to provide my KGB supervisor with my ‘psycholo-gical assessment’ of the target individual (or group) and pass themover to the “professionals” for further ‘processing’and recruitment.Nevertheless, I was able to reconstruct the overall picture of theprocess rather accurately, and, unlike the Western ‘sovietologists’,come to more systematic and logical description of subversion.
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More than that: the Japanese, althoughreluctantly, opened up to Western values and surpassed the West inthe shortest possible historical span since the World War II, becomingone of the greatest industrialized and technologically advancedpowers in the world. Without such ‘maturity’ a nation may ill-conceive even the most favourable foreign influence which is clearlydemonstrated bj; a number of’decolonized’Third World countriesprematurely embracing parliamentary democracy. But if and when an outside influence is purposely ill-intended, animmature nation ? or a nation with a neglected indigenous ideology(America) ? automatically becomes a recipient of SUBVERSIONin its early stage of DEMORALIZATION.
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The successful demoralization is an IRREVOCABLE process, atleast for another generation. Why? Let us take an example: the semi-literate and unstable American generation of the ‘crazy’ 1960’s is nowapproaching the age of 40. These people, who were too preoccupiedwith protesting the Vietnam war, the drug/ rock music scene, takingpart in ’love-ins’ etc., to study and prepare for assuming their civilresponsibilities, are now in positions of power and decision-makingin government, business, media, social life, entertainment (Holly-wood), military, and intelligence services. Not all of them? OK, someof them are. You are STUCK with them, until they retire or resign.You can not fire them ? it’s against union regulations. You cannot,unlike the USSR, send them to Alaska, after declaring them ’enemiesof people’. You can not even openly and effectively criticize them ?they have invaded the media and control public opinion. Unless youwant to be called ‘McCarthyist’, you cannot change their attitudesand mores. At this age people are usually ‘set’ in their ways as indivi-duals. YOU ARE STUCK with them. THEY change your attitudesand opinions, they navigate the domestic and foreign affairs, they aremaking decisions and choices for YOU, whether you like it or not.
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You may reduce this period of time if you can make an enormousALL-NATION effort in an atmosphere of prevailing UNITY and CONSENSUS. It will take a miracle (or another national disaster,such as a new world war, God forbid) to make Americans embraceONE American ideology and to act in ONE direction after decades ofdisunity, dispute, partisan antagonisms and self-castigation.
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THE THREE LEVELS OF DEMORALIZATION Now, let us see the same stage of demoralization from the stand-point of the SUBVERTER. Communist manipulators divide theareas of APPLICATION of their efforts into THREE LEVELS. Theprocess of demoralization operates simultaneously on all threelevels, which I call for the sake of simplicity: 1) the level of IDEAS(consciousness); 2) the level of STRUCTURES (socio-political setup of a nation); and 3) the level of LIFE (which includes all the areasof MATERIAL existence of a nation, the ‘fibre of life’ so to say).Level
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The level of IDEAS, the highest level of subversion, affects suchvital areas as religion, education, media, and culture, to name just afew of the most important ones. If we look back in history of man-kind, we may notice that the greatest upheavals and changes werecaused by IDEAS, by faiths and beliefs, not by KNOWLEDGE orTHINGS. Few peple sacrifice their comforts and lives for such trivialthings as a new car. Scientific knowledge seldom generates strongcollective emotions. Many scientists have preferred life and affluenceto death for scientific truth. I have never heard of a man who wouldstaunchly face a firing squad for the sake of defending the truth of theLaw of Gravity or 2x2=4. But FAITH in the seemingly irrelevant (atthe time) and immaterial teachings of Jesus Christ generated suchtremendous MORAL FORCE in MILLIONS of human beings forthe past TWO THOUSAND YEARS, that people willingly andhappily accept violent death and tortures rather than deny theirbelief in Christ!
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All subverter has to do to remove the spiritual backbone ofAmerica is to help you to POLITICIZE, COMMERCIALIZE and’ENTERTAINMENT-AL1ZE’ the dominant religions. There aremany other contributing factors the subverter can also take advan-tage of, such as the development and spreading of various religiouscults, including Satanic and Death cults; preaching moral relativityand removing religion (and prayer, ANY prayer) from schools;creating ‘personality cults’ in religion whereby the preacher becomesthe center and object of divine worship, not God (often your religiouscharlatans claims to be ‘incarnations’of God, or even God Himself)etc.
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Let’s start with the most ‘innocent’ method of destroying religion,namely, making it ENTERTAINING. To attract people ANDMON EY to ’established’ religious organizations some churches haveliterally become theaters conducting variety shows featuring celebri-ties from the entertainment ‘industry’ who perform for ‘fees’. TheKGB Agents of Influence may or may not have to physically manipu-late these entertainment arrangements. The indiscriminate choice ofthe ‘celebrities’ for these church ‘performances’ is usually quitepleasing to the KGB. A group of rock or pop-musicians with amessage of ‘social-justice’ sugar-coated in popular ‘spiritual’ tunescan be actually more helpful to the KGB than someone standing inthe pulpit preaching Marxist-Leninist doctrine. The sugar-sweetmessages of social equality from the crooning mouths of the enter-tainers is quite enough to accomplish the aims of the KGB withoutany overt activity on their part. COM M ERCIALIZATION of religion does the same thing. If thechurch has to SOLICIT your money and remind you over and overagain in every TV show to contribute (with telephone numbers topledge donations), that only means and infers that there is somethingbasically wrong with your faith. Faithful people do not have to beASKED for money, they tithe to their churches voluntarily and eagerly. Unhealthy competition for donations between various’electronic churches’ does two things beneficial to the subverter:(KGB): 1) it makes religion dependent on the most successful ‘sales-men’ of God (and these salesman may not necessarily be, theyDONT HAVE to be, of the highest moral standards) thus, trulymoral, God-centered people are turned off by organized religion and2) it EMPTIES regular churches, where you have to practice yourreligion by personal physical presence and participation and in-volvement. All the subverter has to do now is to keep on further dis-crediting the main body of the church, by harping at religion ingeneral as “just another means of the capitalist exploitation of mas-ses, and a profit-oriented opiate of the people”. And the Soviet pro-paganda, and its fronts such as ‘Novosti’ Press Agency does exactlythat, and quite successfully, through thousands of ’liberal’ and’leftist’ media establishments in the USA. Politicizing religion is the most efficient method of demoralizing atarget nation. Once a nation starts giving to Caesar what belongs toGod, and getting God involved in such things as ‘social justice’andpartisan political squabbles, it predictably loses what religion callsmercy and the grace of God. To put it in ‘atheistic’ terms, a targetcountry allows the subverter to use the area of moral values for dis-semination and enforcement of amoral ideas and policies. The mostpowerful instrument of this process is an organization called WorldCouncil of Churches, infiltrated by the KGB to such extent, that it ishard to distinguish, these days, a priest from a spy. Being a publicrelations officer for Novosti, 1 accompanied many foreign membersof the WCC during their visits to the USSR. Some of them struck meas individuals pathologically unable to say or hear truth. They weresimply allergic to any facts or opinions which would ‘undermine’their ‘spiritual’ affiliation with the Soviet manipulators. Archbishopand president (!) Macarios of Cyprus was one such’religious’visitor.Skillfully combining both God’s and Caeser’s things, Macarios wasextremely effective in bringing the desperately needed air of legitima-cy and ‘holiness’ to the junta of the Soviet mass murderers andoppressors of religion. His photogenic presence at various ‘interna-tional forums’ in Moscow greatly promoted ACCEPTABILITY ofthe Soviet influence in the ’non-aligned’and ‘developing’countries. When, after my defection to the West, I find Trotskyite publica-tions in a United Church of Canada, or see Nicaraguan CatholicChurch ‘fathers’ with Soviet-made Kalashnikov machine guns hungover their church robes, or read about ‘humanitarian’ aid from theAmerican Council of Churches given to African mass-murderers andterrorists, who were trained in my old country by the KGB, 1 do not’suspect’ I KNOW these things to be what they are ? direct results ofthe Communist SUBVERSION of religion. I do not need any’evidence’ of ’links’ between the KGB and the church. The complete 29 confusion of God-related and politically subverted related goals areobvious. In the extreme left colum of my chart you can see the RESULTS ofDEMORALIZATION in each individual area on each level of sub-version. The result of the demoralization of religion is a phenomenonreferred to as the “death wish”. This expression is borrowed from abook by a Soviet dissident writer, Igor Shafarevich, titled “Socialismas a Historical Phenomenon”. (YMCA Press, Paris, 1977) Dr.Shafarevich in analyzing the ‘dead’ civilizations of Egypt, Maya,Mohenjo-Dara, Babylon, etc., comes to an ominous conclusion:EVERY ONE OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS DIED WHENPEOPLE REJECTED RELIGION AND GOD, AND TRIED TOCREATE ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ ALONG THE SOCIALISTPRINCIPLES. Thus, Socialism, according to Shafarevich, may be amanifestation of an inborn human instinct of SELF-DESTRUC-TION, if unrestrained ? leading ultimately to PHYSICAL DEATHOF ALL MANKIND. ‘Mass’ education This is another area of subversion at the stage of demoralization.The Marxist-Leninist concept of education emphasizes ’environ-ment’ and ‘mass’ character of education over individual abilities andquality. When American media enthusiastically reports (repeatingSoviet propaganda cliches) about ‘achievements of Soviet science’,they usually obscure the IDEOLOGICAL aspects and purposes ofthe Communist system of education. ‘Massiveness’and ‘universality’of education attracts Western sociologists and governmentalbureaucracies alike. For the ‘developing’ nations this seems to be theeasiest short-cut to many contemporary problems. The Western public seldom receives the explanation of THEPRICE of the state-controlled Socialist-type education: politicalconformity to dictatorship, ideological brainwashing, lack of indivi-dual initiative in ’educated masses’, lagging behind in development ofscience and technology. It is a commonly known fact that most of theSoviet ’technological marvels’are stolent, bought or’borrowed’fromthe West. Most of the scientific and technological research in theUSSR is ‘productive’ only and always in the most destructive area:the military. My motherland is still, after more than half century of’victorious Socialism’, a country without even common householdrefrigerators, and yet boasts of their ‘space exploration’ and tremen-dous military might, which have done absolutely nothing to improvethe day to day life of Soviet citizens. The American romance with state-run education as encouraged byKGB subverters has already produced generations of graduates whocannot spell, cannot find Nicaragua on a world map, cannot THINKcreatively and independently. 1 wonder if Albert Einstein would havearrived at his Theory of Relativity if he had been educated in one of today’s American public schools. Most likely he would have’discov-ered’ marijuana and variant methods of sexual intercourse instead.Wouldn’t you agree that KGB sponsored demoralization is no? goingto produce the dynamic, talented and fruitful young Americans ofthe future? Contemporary American permissiveness and moral rela-tivity in education have greatly facilitated Soviet ideological subver-sion tactics. The main methods of Soviet DEMORALIZATION of Americaneducation are: 1. Student Exchanges whereby American students and professorsgo to Moscow and are exposed to ideological brainwashing some-times lacking the proper education that would allow them to assessthe Soviet information they receive objectively. 2. Flooding of campus bookstores with Marxist and Socialistliterature published both in the USSR and by domestic ‘fellow travel-lers’; 3. International seminars and conferences with Soviet participa-tion, where Soviet propaganda seldom is balanced by opposingviewpoints; 4. Infiltration of schools and universities by radicals, leftists, andsimply ‘disturbers’, often functioning unknowingly under the directguidance of KGB Agents of Influence. 5. Establishing numerous ‘student’ newspapers and magazines,staffed with Communists and sympathizers; 6. Organizing ‘study groups’ and ‘circles’ for dissemination ofSoviet propaganda and Communist ideology. The eventual result is very predictable: ignorance combined withanti-Americanism. That’s good enough for the KGB at this stage ofsubversion.
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People habitually refer to the American media as ‘free’,ignoring the obvious and commonly known fact that most of themost powerful media in the USA, is already MONOPOLIZED bothfinancially and ideologically by what are referred to as ’liberals’.American media ‘chains’ BELONG to fewer and fewer owners, who,do not seem to mind that the media is being almost totally ’liberal-ized’. Liberalism, in its old classical sense, means above all, respect toindividual opinion and tolerance to opposing views. However, inmy own experience, communist defectors who have 31 1 Mm ? Hi urn Tomas Schuman with a copy of ‘Look" magazine he helped to produceas a Novosti manipulator. Below: Look’s idea of ‘Russian fashions’inspired by Novosti manipulators. ‘All is fine in Soviet Russia after 50years of Communism’ - that was the message. ?i Propaganda monument in Volgograd (above) as presented by the ‘Look"magazine; Schuman (centre) with group of American guests, includingLook’s photographer Phillip Harrington, who took the pictures forthe propaganda issue of Look magazine. 33 requested and sometimes literally begged, to have stories of their lifein the Soviet Union told to the American people via the majorAmerican media have been completely ignored.
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Years ago, when I was scanning through a pile of Western newspa-pers in Novosti’s Moscow headquarters, 1 came across a columnwritten by a Canadian writer, Gregory Clark in the “Toronto Star”.Here it is in full. 1 have saved it for my files;“If 1 were a Communist agent in America with millions of dol-lars to spend annually I would not waste it in bribing pubicservants to give away state secrets.But 1 would lavish and en-courage the sleazy tune-smiths of that region to turn out moreand more garbage ‘culture’ . . . Gaggled-headed and obscuremusicians would be helped to prominence. I would seek out themore questionable publishers of the dirtier paperbacks and slipthem a few hundred thousand so they could set up more respec-table head offices. Wherever trend shows towards the beatgeneration I would offer it a helping hand. Anything thatprompted the insubordination of teenagers, anything that con-tributes to the confusion and exasperation of parents would bemost liberally endowed. The basic intention of my spendingwould be to break down the discipline, encourage relaxation ofauthority of every kind so as to build up, in as short time aspossible, an adult generation that could easily go out of con-trol. ??4
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America would look desperately around for any kind ofdiscipline to rescue them and THERE ? pretty as a picture,would be Communism, the most iron-fisted discipline sinceSparta. The victory would be bloodless.. . Except of course inconcentration camps, torture, prisons, and few things like that.But nobody would know about that because of censorship of the press."
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There is not much 1 can add to that statement of a wise Canadiancolumnist today. Yes, KGB encourages DEMORALIZATION ofAmerica through the ‘mass culture’ by relying upon the help of the"useful idiots" of the entertainment business. No, the Beatles, Punksand Michael Jackson are not on the KGB payroll. They are onYOUR payroll. All the KGB had to do is to slowly and graduallyCHANGE YOUR ATTITUDES and kill your RESISTANCE tothe demoralizing addiction your kids call ‘music’, make it acceptable,NORMAL; make it a part of ‘American culture’ where it does notbelong and never did.
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In the area of “Law and Order”, the method of demoralization is topromote and enforce the prevalence of the “legalistic” approach overthe “moral” one. Several generations of American lawyers and law-makers, graduating from the ’liberal’ (that is LEFTIST, Socialist-oriented) schools, after long-time exposure to the SocialistIDEOLOGY, have already created an atmosphere in the U.S. judi- cial system whereby “underprivileged” criminals are treated as a “vic-tims” of the “cruel American society”, and the real victim (the law-abiding society) is turned into defenseless and very underprivilegedcitizens and taxpayers, PAYING for a comparatively comfortablelife of the criminal in or outside prison. The result is as predictable asit is desirable for the subverter: MISTRUST of the American popu-lation towards their own judicial and law-enforcement system, andpeople demanding harsher punishments and stricter CONTROLS inorder to fight crime. And what could be better than Soviet orCommunist-type control? Even your ’liberal’ media claims that thereis no street crime in Moscow and no drug problem in the USSR.
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Similarly, in the area of social life, by encouraging you to put yourindividual RIGHTS over your OBLIGATIONS (any obligations ?private, financial, moral, patriotic etc.) the subverter achieves thedesired effect: a society composed of IRRESPONSIBLE INDIVI-DUALS, each one “doing h is own thing”, and acting according to the"law of jungle". Such subversion of society is the first step to tyranny. To demoralize America’s PROTECTIVE FORCES it is enough tomake your kids call the police “pigs” and “fascists” for a decade, dis-band police agencies watching over subverters and radicals by callingthem “spies” (that is exactly what American Union of Civil Libertiesdid), stage campaign after campaign of discreditation and “investiga-tion” of the wrongdoings" of the police, and in 20 years you arrive atthe present situation, when the majority of civilian population of thisnation is virtually without civil laws or protection from mur-derers, lunatics, criminals, etc. Can you now expect your police andcivil authorities to protect you and your family in case of terroristattack or a major civil disturbance? The American FBI and CIA have had no better treatment. Amer-icans are MADE to believe that your own security agencies posemore danger than the Soviet KGB. There were dozens of “revela-tions” and exposes on the CIA during the last 10 to 15 years. Butthere was not a SINGLE public trial of any Sovie agent of the KGBcaught in the USA “red-handed”. There were numerous expulsionsof Soviet ‘diplomats’ yes. But an equal or greater number of themcame to America to replace their ‘fallen comrades’. There is not a SINGLE law in America which could be used tolegally persecute KGB agents for ideological subversion. But there isa law that prevents your CIA from using YOUR media to vindicatetheir acts to protect YOU against the KGB subversion. Your mediaand your H ollywood entertainers lovingly repeat every fabrication ofSoviet propaganda regarding the CIA ‘atrocities’, mixing it withtruth, half-truth and blatant lie. Demoralizers like Larry Flint regu-larly entertain the public with juicy stories about ‘CI A assassinations’sandwiched between pornographic pictures in his magazine. Do you 37 remember when you saw an American film or read a book about the’good CIA"? I do not imply that pornographer Flint or members ofRockefeller commission on CIA are on the KGB payroll. Butobviously pornography, as well as political prostitution pays. It sells’Hustler’ magazine, it sells’ politicians . . . and it kills the security ofAmerica. Criticism of the KGB does not pay. In fact, critics of KGBsubverters may get killed in the process. What are you, my dearAmericans? A nation of masochists and cowards? When you readand listen to all this dirt poured upon your security agencies by themedia and politicians, can’t you realize, that the most just and factualcriticism of the CIA is wrongly addressed? Security agencies ofAmerica (unlike the KGB) are INSTRUMENTS in the hands of anation and her elected POLITICIANS. One should not blame aninstrument, when it is the OPERATOR’S fault. If the instrumentmalfunctions ? CORRECT it, and don’t use a hammer where a finescrewdriver is needed.
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Every American administration has contributed tothe process of DEMORALIZATION of their own foreign policy bycontinuously negotiating and SIGNING “peace treaties” From the"Lend Lease" to the “Helsinki Accord” to the “SALT” treaties,creating false expectations and voter complacency and NEVERopenly and honestly admitting that NONE of those agreements andtreaties EVER WOR KED ? for America that is ? They ALL bene-fited the USSR however. In the process America has lost MOST ofher foreign friends to the ‘Socialist camp’ ? Concentration camp, tobe precise. Presently the USA is rapidly nearing a situation ofTOTAL ISOLATION from the rest of the world. Even our long-timefriend Great Britain did not support America, even verbally, on theliberation of Grenada, despite the obvious fact that America was onthe British side in the ridiculous war over the Falkland Islands.
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Marxist-Leninist ideology coated in various indigenous “socialtheories” have greatly contributed to the process of American familybreak-up. The trend recently is changing in the opposite direction,but many generations of Americans, brought up in broken families,are already adults lacking one of the most vital qualities for the survi-val of a nation ?-LOYALTY. A child who has not learned to be loyalto his family will hardly make a loyal citizen. Such child may growinto adult who is loyal to the State though. The USSR example israther revealing in this case. In the struggle for the ‘final victory ofCommunism’, the goal of the subverter is to substitute, as slowly andpainlessly as possible, the concept of loyalty for NATION with loyal-ty to the “Big Brother” welfare state, who gives everything and is ableto TAKE everything, including personal freedom ? from every citi-zen. If that objective is successfully achieved, the subverter does notneed any nuclear warheads and tanks and may not even need thephysical military INVASION. All that will be needed is to ’elect’a’progressive thinking’ president who will be voted to power byAmericans, who have been addicted to welfare and ‘security’ asdefined by Soviet subverters.
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Demoralization in the area of food CONSUMPTION patterns isalso effective in the introduction of such things as ‘junk foods’. No,KGB agents do not put chemicals into American food and drink. It isdone by some American mega-monopolies who operate along thesame principles as Soviet ‘Obshchepit’ (Public Food Service): theylook at consumers as ‘units of consumers’, not individuals. Abolish-ing freely competing SMALL food companies, who HAD TOTREAT YOU INDIVIDUALLY to survive economically, thesegiants of indigestion artificially CREATE consumers’ tastes anddemands which may not be in the interests of your health but surelyin the interests of the monopoly profit. And here I tend to agree, atleast in part, with America’s ralph-naders, and consumer protectiongroups, althoughl do not share their ideas on the solution of theproblem
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Racial and ethnic interrelations is one of the most vulnerable areasfor demoralization. There is not a single Communist country whereracial groups are ’equal’and enjoy as much freedom to develop them-selves culturally and economically as in America. Actually, there arenot too many “capitalist” countries where ethnic minorities have it asgood as in the U S A. 1 have been to many countries of the world and 1can state to you, my dear Americans, that your society is the leastdiscriminatory. The Communist ‘solution’ for racial problem is’final’: they simply murder those who are different AND stubbornlyinsist on remaining different. Stalin played with whole populationsof ’ethnics’ ? ‘resettling’ Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians inSiberia, relocating Crimean Tartars from the tropics to permafrostand Koreans from the Far East to the Kazakhstan deserts. But unfor-tunately, an ‘average’ American never recalls these commonly knownfacts when his attention is drawn to domestic ‘racial discrimination’issues by those who profess ‘racial harmony’along the socialist prin-ciple guidelines. Why? Simple: because American ‘race discrimina-tion fighters’ NEVER MENTION these facts. If the USA were loca-ted on a separate planet from the Communists, 1 would probablyagree with Martin Luther King when he said that “America is a racistcountry’. But when these statements are made on TH IS planet and inTHE MOST INTEGRATED NATION IN THE WORLD, I say toyour ‘fighters for racial equality’: you are hypocrites and instruments(even if unwilling) of DEMORALIZATION.
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The American traditional solution of racial and ethnic problems isslow but efficient: the ‘melting pot’ which raises the less developedgroups to a HIGHER level. It has worked for more than a century ofAmerican history and created the most harmonious and productivenation on Earth. The present day ‘solution’to racial inequality is bor-rowed from Communist mythology: EQUALITY of all racial andethnic groups LEGISLATED by the government and ENFORCEDby state bureaucracies. We know perfectly well that neither races norINDIVIDUALS are equal, in every respect. We know that everynation and race has its peculiar character, abilities, traditions, men-tality, and ability to learn and its individual PACE OF DEVELOP-MENT. By mimicking the Soviet ’national policy’ of equalityAmerica simply erases the distinct racial characteristics that havemade this country great.
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Very briefly on population distribution: urbanization and “de-landization” (the taking away of private land) is the greatest threat toAmerican nationhood. Why? Because the poor farmer often is agreater PATRIOT than an affluent dweller of a large congestedAmerican city. Communists know this very well. The Soviets keep avery tight control over the size of their cities by the system of ‘policeregistration of residence’ called ‘propiska’. They know perfectly wellthat the farmer will fight an invader until last bullet ON HIS LAND.“Underprivileged” or urbanized masses on the other hand, may feellike meeting an invader with flowers and red banners. ALIENA-TION of people from privately-owned land is one of the very impor-tant methods of DEMORALIZATION.
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What 1 would like you to think about today is this: what sort ofMORALITY it takes to make medical nurses leave sick and dyingpatients in hospital beds and walk out to strike for fifty cents an hourmore in pay? OK, for a full DOLLAR more? What makes unionizedelectricians leave a city without power in the middle of a severe winterand let several children in “under privileged” slums freeze toDEATH? How desperate for money must a unionized truck driver beto SHOOT TO DEATH a strike-breaking colleague, father of five?Surely, each individual American, who commits these outrageouslyAMORAL acts is not that cruel and egocentric. And, let’s face it, notTHAT broke. So, why? My answer is ? IDEOLOGICAL DEMO-RALIZATION.
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The bargaining process in American labor in many instances is nolonger motivated by the desire to IMPROVE working conditionsand wages. In many cases it is not bargaining at all ? it’s blackmail.And in the process of the unlimited growth of union POWER, theAmerican worker loses the only relevant and real freedom he has inthis country: the freedom to choose, to work or not to work, and forhow much. If an individual prefers to work for LOWER pay (and itmust be his free individual choice), he often is no longer able to do so.1 have just mentioned what happens to strike-breakers in America.
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In the area of foreign relations America is being pushed furtherand further into isolationism and defeatism. Few remaining friendslook with horror at the destiny of those nations who were betrayedand abandoned by the USA and try to find ’their own solutions’,which often comes as ’establishing friendly relations’ with the USSRand its Communist empire. The belligerent encirclement of Americaproceeds with an ever-increasing pace and demoralized politiciansare no longer able or willing to face the inevitable reality. Soviet andCuban military supplies and direct intervention seem to the U S legis-lators to be less dangerous, than America’s ’losing face’ by ‘violatinginternational laws’ by mining Nicaraguan ports to prevent the exportof Communist revolution to the region. The majority of Americansare made to believe that it is their country? America ? who’violates’ international law, not the USSR and its surrogates. Theaverage American may not even realize that the ‘International Court’is nothing but an artificial creature of the Soviet-controlled GeneralAssembly of the UN.
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CRISIS, STAGE THREE _ It may take only 2 to 6 months, to bring America to the samesituation which now exists South of the border in Central America.At this third stage of subversion you will have all your American ‘radicals’ and Soviet ‘sleeper’ agents springing into action, trying to’seize power as quickly and ruthlessly as possible" (see the ‘Rules ofRevolution’ in the beginning of this booklet). If all the previousstages of Soviet subversion have been successfully completed by thattime, the majority of Americans will be so totally confused that theymay even WELCOME some “strong’leaders who’know how to talkto the Russians’. Chances are these leaders will be elected and givenalmost unlimited ’emergency powers’. A forceful change of the U.S.system may or may not be accomplished through a civil war orinternal revolution, and a physical MILITARY invasion by theUSSR may not even have to take place at all. But change it will be,and rather a drastic one, with all the familiar attributes of Soviet’progress’ being instituted such as NATIONALIZATION of vitalindustries, the reduction of the ‘private sector’ of the economy to thebare minimum, the redistribution of wealth and a massive propa-ganda campaign by the newly ’elected’ government to ’explain’ andjustify the reforms.
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This chart explains in detail the steps in the subversion process from the destabilization stageto the crisis stage (see chart of “The Subversion Process” > in the areas of economics, military, and diplomatic relations. The longer arrow indicates the action of thesubverter; the smaller arrow indicates the response of the target nation to the actions of thesubverter. then on the New Order will need STABILITY and NEW MORALI-TY. No more ‘grass roots’ movements. No more criticism of theState. The Press will obediently censor itself. In fact, this censorshipis already existing NOW, imposed by the so-called U.S.’liberals’andsocialist do-gooders. You will now have the opportunity to ’enjoy’exactly the same lifeas the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Angolans and Nicaraguans, be-trayed by you enjoy NOW. This state of social ‘NORMALIZA-TION’may last forever, that is ? your life-time and life-times of youchildren and grandchildren .
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The most general solution I can offer ? for the whole process ofSUBVERSION ? is to STOP AIDING THE SUBVERTER. Youare still living in a free society and you are able to force your electedpoliticians to change their policies toward the Communist world ifyou so choose. But if YOU, personally do not see anything wrong indealing with the Communists and HELPING them in their globalexpansion, I feel that you should begin learning more about the reali-ty of the Communist/ Socialist situation, not from your monopolizedmedia, but from the independent media and press who have novested interest in making out the Soviet Union to be the ‘good guys,‘and from people like myself, who have experienced Commun- ism first-hand for many years. There are numerous Americanpatriotic groups and organizations who are well informed and whoalready have many SOLUTIONS, to combat the damage done byideological subversion some of which are as good or even better thanmine. Seek these groups, join them and DO something.
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