Soviet Propaganda Abroad

One would think that there would be more information available dealing with Soviet propaganda during the Vietnam war. Unfortunately, there isn't. I have touched upon this before and have provided some insight into Communist groups funding and organizing recent peace protests in D.C. It may sound like the some ridiculous rant taken from the McCarthy playbook, but that is what the Soviets were hoping we'd think (see italicized text below). Could it be that history is repeating itself? I planon delving into this further by analyzing the source material. For now, here is a blurb taken from Wikipedia; links were left in for "easy access."

"Propaganda abroad was partly conducted by Soviet intelligence agencies. GRU alone spent more than $1 billion for propaganda and peace movements against the Vietnam War, which was a "hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost", according to GRU defector Stanislav Lunev [9].
He claimed that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad". [9]
According to Oleg Kalugin, "the Soviet intelligence was really unparalleled. ... The KGB programs -- which would run all sorts of congresses, peace congresses, youth congresses, festivals, women's movements, trade union movements, campaigns against U.S. missiles in Europe, campaigns against neutron weapons, allegations that AIDS was invented by the CIA ... all sorts of forgeries and faked material -- [were] targeted at politicians, the academic community, at the public at
large." [10]
Propaganda against the United States included the following actions [11]:

Promotion of false John F. Kennedy assassination theories, using writer Mark Lane.
Discreditation of the CIA, using historian Philip Agee (codenamed PONT).
Spreading rumors that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual.
Attempts to discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. by placing publications portraying him as an "Uncle Tom" who was secretly receiving government subsidies.
Stirring up racial tensions in the United States by mailing bogus letters from the Ku Klux Klan, placing an explosive package in "the Negro section of New York" (operation PANDORA), and spreading conspiracy theories that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination had been planned by the US government.
Fabrication of the story that AIDS virus was manufactured by US
scientists at Fort Detrick; the story was spread by Russian-born biologist Jakob Segal Senior SVR officer Sergei Tretyakov made the claim to writer Pete Earley that the KGB "created the myth of nuclear winter" as disinformation (see Sergei Tretyakov for details), although Earley said that the accuracy of this claim "is impossible to
discern",[12] and subsequent studies using more advanced climate models have continued to support the hypothesis (see nuclear winter). "

Bush Heckler Arrested After Punching Wheelchair-Bound Girl

Is it fair to put anti-war weenies into the same category as this loser?
Probably not.
Do I care?
No.

Bush Heckler Arrested After Punching Wheelchair-Bound Girl
Thursday , April
24, 2008

A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and
daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a
wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said
Wednesday.
German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who
were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John
Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.
They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children's book, "Read All About It."
"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was
waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about
a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out
of here! You're being a moron!' "
The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen, a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.