To Russia with Love...

While not technically a KGB Cold War operation, it might as well be. The service is the same, just with a different name. What is truly shocking about this whole case is that most Americans are actually surprised that there are Russian spies in America. There is no doubt that there are many more "illegals" here, some of whom I would imagine are working to influence our media, thereby policies and world opinion. Vicky Pelaez, one of the ten, is Peruvian but paid by the Russians. It should come as no surprise that the Russians would go to lengths to recruit a non-Russian asset to influence media with her extreme-left, pro-Communist ideology. Then again, they need not look far to find willing participants...

(Reuters) - Ten people pleaded guilty on Thursday to being agents for Russia while living undercover in the United States as part of a spy swap between the U.S. and Russian governments that revived Cold War-era intrigue.

The suspects agreed in court to be deported to Russia. In turn, Russia agreed to release four people imprisoned for suspected contact with Western intelligence agencies, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The swap helped resolve a scandal that threatened to strain U.S.-Russian relations and revealed shocking details about 10 people living double lives as ordinary citizens while trying to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles.

Such swaps are not unprecedented but were more a fixture of the Cold War, when the United States and the former Soviet Union were sworn enemies competing for world domination.

Both the Kremlin and the administration of President Barack Obama sought to prevent the arrests from affecting relations that had been improving after hitting lows with Russia's 2008 war against Georgia.

Obama, who hosted Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the White House last month, needs Moscow's help for efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program and keep supply lines open for the war in Afghanistan. Russia wants U.S. support to gain entry to the World Trade Organization.

Obama "was fully informed" about the swap and endorsed it, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on the "PBS NewsHour" program, stressing that the case was pursued by intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Some of the suspects were shown on NBC television boarding a Vision Airlines jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday night, and footage from Reuters Television later showed the plane taking off.

Neither the U.S. State Department or the U.S. Department of Justice would comment on the reports.

FALSE NAMES

Five of the suspects revealed their real names for the first time publicly and all but one -- Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez -- said they were Russian citizens.

The couple known as Richard and Cynthia Murphy said their names were Vladimir and Lydia Guryev, 44 and 39 years old.

Donald Howard Heathfield was actually Andrey Bezrukov, 49, Tracey Lee Ann Foley was Elena Vavilova, 47, and Juan Lazaro was really Mikhail Anatonoljevich Vasemkov, 66.

Vladimir Guryev told the court he had been in the United States since the early 1990s.

"I resided here under an assumed name and took direction from the Russian Federation and met with Russian officials and I did not register as a diplomat or foreign agent," he said.

Russian officials promised Pelaez she could go to any country, including her native Peru, with a monthly stipend of $2,000 for life plus visas for her children, her lawyer told the court.

The 10 suspects were sentenced to time already served -- 11 days since their arrests on June 27 -- and had separate charges of money-laundering dropped.

One of them, Anna Chapman, became a staple of the New York tabloid press, which splashed pictures of her across their pages and labeled her a party-hopping "sexy redhead" and a "Manhattan beauty."

Also known as Anya Kushchenko, the 28-year-old was arrested in Manhattan, where she ran a $2 million real estate business.

WAITING FOR SUTYAGIN

In Moscow, relatives anxiously awaited word from a jailed Russian scholar they said was to be sent to Vienna on Thursday in the first stage of the swap.

It was unclear whether Igor Sutyagin, convicted in 2004 of passing secrets to the West, had arrived in Austria as part of what his lawyer said Sutyagin was told would be a exchange forRussian agents arrested in the United States.

Sutyagin, a respected nuclear expert, was convicted in 2004 of passing classified military information to a British firm that Russian prosecutors said was a front for the CIA.

He said the information was available from open sources and his conviction cast a chill onRussian scientists.

Three of the prisoners Russia agreed to release were convicted of treason and serving long prison terms, Justice Department prosecutors said. Some were in poor health, and the Russian government agreed to release them and their family members for resettlement.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the investigation was not done to gain a "bargaining chip" withRussia.

"With the arrests and guilty pleas in this case it would appear that the Russian Federation is unlikely to engage in this methodology in the future, and that is a good thing," Bharara told reporters.

"These arrests and prosecution send a message to every other intelligence agency that if you come to America and spy on Americans in America, you will be exposed and arrested."

San Francisco and L.A. "Anti-War" Rallies: The New Communist/Truth/Jihad Alliance

Here are some great pictures from San Francisco and L.A. springtime 2010 "peace" rallies... and by great I mean frightening. I don't recall the media scrutinizing these left-wing loons comparing President Obama to Hitler or the anti-semetic signs . Please visit the link http://zombietime.com/sf_anti-war_rally_3-20-2010/  to view more photos.

Operation POROK: Henry "Scoop" Jackson Gay?

The KGB loved to accuse American politicians of being Zionists, gay, or both. It did not matter if they were Republicans or Democrats. All that mattered was their anti-soviet stance. In the late 60s, after a failed attempt to subsidize Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign to prevent Richard Nixon from being elected, the KGB moved on to Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Fearing Jackson's stance on the Soviet Union and believing he would be the Democratic nominee, the KGB launched active measures to discredit him as a Zionist and homosexual. First, Service A forged an FBI document claiming that Jackson was gay. Copies were sent to the Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times, the Topeka Capital and Jimmy Carter's campaign HQs. Then, in April 1976, after Jackson stated on television that "homosexuality leads to the destruction of the family", The KGB sent said statement and forged documents alleging Jackson was a member of a gay sex club to various people and entities including: Senator Edward Kennedy, columnist Jack Anderson, and the Playboy and Penthouse magazines. The KGB continued POROK despite Jackson failed to obtain the Democratic nomination in 1977 one of POROK's goals was to have the gay press attack Jackson as a hypocritical, closet homosexual. A forged document was sent to a California magazine called "Gay Times." The entire operation, however, was largely a failure and had no clear effect on Jackson's career.

To read more, see The Sword and the shield by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Political Warfare, pages: 239 -241.

Oleg Kalugin and Yours Truly

I had the great pleasure of meeting Oleg Kalugin at an International Spy Museum event that took place in mid November 2009, in Washington D.C.

I attended the VIP ceremony beforehand and had the chance to rub elbows with some ex-KGB folks, including the famous Oleg Kalugin. Oleg Kalugin is a retired Major General of the KGB, and onetime deputy resident and acting chief of the KGB Residency at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. He is also the author of "The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage against the West".

I asked him specifically about the KGB's role in the anti-war protests of the 60s here in The States. He was reluctant to answer, but did admit the KGB supported the anti-war movement. He made sure to clarify that they were under strict orders not to recruit any of the protest leaders, as they did not want that getting out in the press, thus tainting the movement. The "peace" protesters at the time most likely did not need any encouragement; most were ideological communist to begin with. Another former KGB agent in attendance, who shall remain nameless, eluded to the Soviet Union supporting the anti-war movement through secret funding. He believes fully that Russia is still working to subvert U.S. policies through Active Measures aka Influence Operations.

Active Measures: The KGB Targets Dr. Martin Luther King

Would you believe that the soviets wanted to create turmoil in the USA so badly that they resorted to race baiting? Well, believe it. During the mid-1960s, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) failed yet again. The KGB's service A had come to realize the CPUSA could not direct King's policies as it had promised. Much to their chagrin, King, being the great American that he was, did not rail against America's alleged worldwide imperialism as they had hoped, instead he concentrated on encouraging African-Americans to fulfill their dreams. According to Mitrokhin, the KGB sought to discredit MLK so that he may be replaced with a more radical figure. Service A's Yuri Modin, who was the case manager for the Magnificent Five had approval to place articles in the African press saying that King was in fact merely an Uncle Tom, who was receiving funds from the Johnson administration to dilute the Civil Rights Movement. Furthermore, Modin was authorized to:

1. Distribute pamphlets and the like stating that the Johnson administration was using terrorist methods to suppress the Civil rights Movement.

2. Encourage leading figures in the world of law to discredit Johnson's administration in regards to their handling of the Civil Rights Movement.

3. Forge a document claiming that the John Birch Society and the Minutemen organizations were planning for the "physical elimination" of African-American civil rights leaders.

Service A soon began amplifying the violent images of the Watts race riots. The Center was hoping that such imagery of violence would encourage African-American radicals to replace King with Stokeley Carmichael, a self-proclaimed revolutionary who sought to change the American system through guerrilla warfare on American streets.

On April 4th, 1968 Dr. King was assassinated. Now, instead of brushing off King as a mere Uncle Tom, their course of action led them to depict King as a martyr of the African-American liberation movement. What did they resort to? Once again, conspiracy theories. One of which was to claim that King was murdered by white racists under the tutelage of American authorities.

Why? One might ask. Again, anything that tore at the fabric of American Society was good for the Soviet Union.

Ever notice how there seems to be friction between certain groups of African Americans and Jewish people, to this day?

Ponder this: In 1971, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, chairman of the KGB, approved the dissemination of fabricated pamphlets, which were full of racial insults toward blacks. It was purported that the pamphlets came from Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League as a call to arms against the "black mongrels". Further forged media was sent to some 60 other black groups offering up fabricated details of "atrocities" committed by the Jewish Defense League. The problem being of course that none of it was true.

Furthermore, remember the story of Pandora's box? Enter (stage left) operation PANDORA. On July 25, 1971, Anatoli Tikhonovich Kireyev told the New York residency members to set up a delayed explosive device at one of the "Negro colleges", after which, members were admonished to clandestinely inform various black groups that the Jewish Defense League was responsible. Can you imagine going to such lengths to foment disorder?

Racial tensions and the fabricating thereof remained one of Service A's oft used themes. Right before the beginning of the LA Olympics in 1984, KGB officers sent fabricated letters to the African and Asian Olympic committees claiming to be from the KKK. Here is an example:

"THE OLYMPICS - FOR THE WHITES ONLY!
African monkeys!
A grand reception awaits you in Los Angeles!
We are preparing for the Olympic Games by shooting at black moving targets.
In Los Angeles our own Olympic flames are ready to incinerate you. The highest award for a true American patriot would be the lynching of an African monkey.
Blacks, welcome to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles!
We'll give you a reception you'll never forget!"

Incredibly, this and other like propaganda made it into print media around the world. When accused of perpetrating such active measures, the Soviets would feign indignation at the America's anti-Soviet stance.

This is a key tactic in propaganda: produce something so outrageous that mere notion of casting blame on somebody other than the perceived author would in turn cast dispersions upon the claimant. Perhaps McCarthy was not so crazy after all.

Communist Funded Anti-War Rally

Let's face it, anti-war or so-called peace protests are nothing but a ruse; they are more often than not funded by opposition groups not "grass roots" efforts as they'd like you to believe. The Soviets, through active measures, spent more money funding anti-war rallies during Vietnam than they did on direct support to their proxies there i.e. weaponized peace. It's funny when you think about it. There are still ongoing wars, yet there don't seem to be any protests now that George W. Bush left office. This video was shot a few years ago in Washington, D.C. Most of the people were not from D.C., they were in fact bussed down by A.N.S.W.E.R. and other Marxist groups. It's pure propaganda and people who say otherwise are being intellectually dishonest.
P.S. This video is a re-edit to improve video quality.

Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement

I am not sure why this book is not more popular. Then again, I highly doubt it would be required reading at today's universities. For the benefit of full disclosure I have not read the whole book yet, but will post some of the more juicy stuff when I get a chance. In the meantime, here is a great overview of the book:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf

So, Did the GRU and KGB Fund Anti-War Movements During the Vietnam War? Da!!

On page 78 of Stanislav Lunev's and Ira Winkler's book titled "Through the Eyes of the Enemy", is one of the most revealing bits of information concerning the duping of American peace activists. Should note that Stanislav Lunev was Russia's highest ranking Soviet Military defector. Since this book is rarely found in brick and mortar bookstores, and as far as I can see, its passages are nowhere on the Internet, I present page 78 in hopes it will reach a new, fresh set of eyes:

"Only in our second year did we learn about our operational target's military. In my case, it was the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Special Services. This was while the United States was pulling out of Vietnam. We spent a great deal of time studying the Vietnam War, which was considered a Vietnamese victory over American imperialism. While the GRU instructors would not state it directly, they strongly implied that the GRU was responsible for the Vietnamese success. The GRU had a massive presence in both North and South Vietnam; their operatives worked under cover of the North Vietnamese Special Services.
Our instructors also told us about how the GRU influenced the American public. The GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad. Funding was provided via undercover operatives or front organizations. These would fund another group that in turn would fund student organizations. The GRU also helped Vietnam fund its propaganda campaign as a whole.
What will be a great surprise to the American people is that the GRU and KGB had a larger budget for antiwar propaganda in the United States that it did for economic and military support of the Vietnamese. The antiwar propaganda cost the GRU more than $1 billion, but as history shows, it was a hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost. The antiwar sentiment created an incredible momentum that greatly weakened the U.S. military."


Now, call me crazy but in essence, the peace movement was in large part nothing but a ruse and indeed sounds conspiratorial. Be that as it may, this reminds me a great axiomatic statement: the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. There is no doubt in my mind that new anti-war sentiments were in part funded by those, who do not have America's interests at heart. World Worker's Party, A.N.S.W.E.R, Scott Ritter? Sound familiar guys?

Active Measures and Ideological Subversion: In the Words of Yuri Bezmenov

Condensed Interview:



Transcript Highlights:

ED GRIFFIN: Well, you spoke before about "ideological subversion" and that's a phrase that I'm afraid some Americans don't understand. When the Soviets use the phrase "ideological subversion" what do they mean by it?

1. YURI BEZMENOV: Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate and open. You can see it with your own eyes.... It has nothing to do with espionage.

I know that intelligence gathering looks more romantic.... That's probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....

The result? The result you can see ... the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.

In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.

ED: And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept - these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?

YURI: Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist-Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents. Unlike the present United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America. [Now] you can get popular like Daniel Elsburg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don't understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.

The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it's over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.

The next stage is destabilization.... It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. This time what matters is essentials; economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly that in some... sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.

Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False. United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course - it's the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy. Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

ED: Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?

YURI: Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government.... The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government... to stop aiding Communism.

The Peace Symbol

I bet you didn't know that the Peace symbol wasn't some ancient symbol used to foment peace among warring tribes and Victorian armies. Nope. It came about during the 1960's anti-war movement, and was used basically to say: UK and USA, you can't have nuclear weapons, but the Soviets can, afterall it's just for energy purposes. Sound familiar Iran?

Check out the following from Wiki:

"This symbol (☮) was originally used for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was subsequently adopted as an international emblem for the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain for the April 4 march planned by DAC from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England[1]. The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the first official CND version (preceded by a ceramic pin version that had straight lines, but was short lived) the spokes curved out to be wider at the edge of the circle which was white on black[2,3]."

1. "A Piece of Our Time". Time Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
2. The CND symbol. Hugh Brock Papers. http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/cwlhbp.php
3. "The CND logo". Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.

Active Measure: Herbert Hoover A Homosexual?

Along with the CIA, the FBI was a target of Service A's active measures. Most of the propaganda was aimed at the Bureau's leader J. Edgar Hoover, who passed away in 1972.

The KGB's propagandists delivered their literary mud in three phases:

1. Service A portrayed Hoover as an extreme, ultra right-winger in cahoots with the very right-wing John Birch Society. The Service ended up obtaining some of their stationary; the full extent of how they used the stationary is unclear. They did however later forge a letter in November 1965, making it appear that Hoover was sending the society his warm regards, and that with FBI money the John Birch Society could open up more branches.

2. Operation SPIRIT: This operation's aim was to depict abuses of civil rights on behalf of the FBI. Service A forged yet another letter to make it appear that Frances Knight, head of the Passport Office in the State Department was really an FBI agent. The forged letter from Ms. Knight to Hoover asked for FBI assistance in digging up information on a Harvard Vietnam War critic Professor H. Stuart Hughes. The letter was sent to columnist Drew Pearson and published August 4th 1967. Both Knight and Hoover dismissed the letter as a forgery, but damage had already been done as the FBI did not readily deny contacts with the Passport Office. Lesson: always forcefully deny what are lies and follow it up again and again. Luckily, the damage wasn't too severe.

3. And finally, Hoover was a red dress and boa wearing homosexual. There is of course no proof for this. The KGB had taken testimony from a known perjurer, Susan Rosenstiel, and ran with it. Not helping the matter Hoover did, however, share a home with his deputy Clyde Tolson. Despite this there is no credible evidence that any unusual relationship was occurring. To the dismay of Hoover's number three Deke DeLoach, he was shocked how readily the smear was accepted as an "undeniable truth". This is similar to a "repeat it often enough and people will believe it" matter as is with a more modern urban legend involving Richard Gere and a Gerbal. The lesson is, the next time you hear: "But, I mean everybody knows it's a fact that...", take it with a big grain of salt.

From Russia With Love

More posts from the Mitrokhin series and other to come...

In the meantime, communist propaganda is still alive and well, not only from the KGB man himself Vladamir Putin, but also regurgitated via a very famous leftist blog called The Huffington Post, no less. Follow this link below

http://www.red-alerts.com/un-american-activities/pravda-huffington-post-spreading-neo-soviet-propaganda/

Active Measures: Codename PONT, Phil Agee And His Punch Drunk Love For... The KGB and Cuba

Service A lesson one: Hell hath no fury like a scorned employee, who publishes a tell-all book about his former employer. Most people may have never heard of Philip Agee, and those who have probably couldn't care less. But he epitomizes the biggest fear an intelligence agency has when they hire new officers: a person who's ego and bitterness will give him/her all the rationalization he or she needs to betray their country. According to various accounts, including Mr. Mitrokhin and Oleg Kalugin, the former head of the KGB's counterintelligence directorate, Agee, a CIA field officer in Latin America, was summarily fired from the agency in 1968 for heavy drinking, hitting on embassy wives, and financial mismanagement. Agee was originally turned down by the KGB in Mexico City, as his information he wanted to unload seemed too good to be true. The Cubans, however, lapped him right up like a fly to a frog's tongue. The communist Cuban government, no friends of the US mind you, passed many if not all of Agee's revelations over to the KGB. With an unknown amount of assistance from service A and the Cubans, Agee went on to publish five damaging US and CIA books, first of which was titled Inside The Company: CIA Diary. Agee's blatant disregard for his oath led to unspeakable damage to operations including the likely cause of deaths of two agents. The book was first published in Great Britain and received much fanfare. After a lengthy appeal, Agee was deported from Britain to The Netherlands and other various countries. One not so surprising character witness during this debacle was former US-Attorney General Ramsey Clark (this man alone deserves an entire book written about his anti-American antics).
Service A later used Agee and other US citizens for active measures; namely publishing an anti-CIA information bulletin. Those people and the bulletin shall remain nameless as well as Agee's other books, because frankly they don't deserve mention. For a matter of record however, the KGB codenames for the latter were: RUPOR, RUBY, and ARSENIO.
In January 2008 while in Cuba, Philip Agee died at a local hospital during routine surgery. While one should rarely find such feelings within concerning a person's death, it is hard not to feel an ironic poetic justice involved. Bottom line is this: be careful employing those who have a long, malignant history of blaming others. Furthermore, a selfish and disgruntled mindset will always trump ideology (did he really care about the Communist Utopia?). Philip Agee, who never served time for his crime, shall go down in history as not a man destined to do right by a utopian ideology, but as a grumpy drunk who was successfully exploited by the KGB to act as their puppet. Sound familiar Scott Ritter?

Soviet Infiltration of the Anti-War Movement

The following is an excellent link about Soviet infiltration of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. This was carried out through secret funding of mainly unwitting members of various anti-war movements. There were copyright restrictions on copying any part of the article, which is unfortunate because there are great excerpts from John Kerry's book, The New Soldier.

http://www.thewednesdayreport.com/Soviet-Infiltration-Anti-War-movement-VVAW.html

Defaced Idaho Stop Signs With Anti-War Message for Sale

This may not have anything to do with Russian propaganda per se, but it is definitely indicative of the anti-war message writ large. I live in the DC area and saw this same thing written on a stop sign. Hell, in my hometown we still have a stop sign that reads "STOP hammer time" and has been there for at least a decade. I saw another one here that had a red sticker with white lettering, which read: "(STOP) driving SUV's". Now, this chicanery is hardly a serious offense, legally, but in many ways I find it offensive nonetheless. The SUV thing is another issue entirely (if they really wanted to cut down on emissions then they should protest private jets and airplanes in general). The "Stop War" thing is, admittedly clever, but a moot point. What these protesters (most likely spoiled college kids) don't realise is that in many cases the only way to stop war is with war. Anti-war sentiments from one country play right into the hands of the adversary, especially the extreme Salafist jihad adversary we face now. Of all the anti-war war rallies I begrudgingly attended, never did I see anything protesting Saddam Hussein (well except for Iraqi national counter-protesters numbering about 50 who were summarily razzed by the peaceniks), nor Usama Bin Ladin, nor al-Qaeda. I mean seriously, these people just can't be taken at face value, it's not an anti-war statement it's an anti-America statement. If they really wanted to stop war they would call on all sides to cut the shit, but they don't, they just blame the USA and Israel, which of course is a familiar fad. What really irks me about damaging a stop sign however, is that these people are not only destroying state property but making money off of it. Any pea brain that would spend 80 dollars on a stop sign that he/she could make for 25 bucks needs their head examined. Now, in all fairness if the sign said "STOP anti-war whiners", well...



Friday , June 13, 2008

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — A war protest in which 179 stop signs were defaced by stenciling the word "war" in white letters under the "stop" has morphed into an exercise in free market capitalism.
A judge ordered that at least some of the defaced stop signs belonged to the people who vandalized them once they paid restitution. Those signs are now being sold — briskly and at a profit — for $80 apiece.
It has also encouraged others in the region noted for its conservative voting record to come forward with their own misgivings about the war in Iraq.
"I really am shocked almost weekly by hearing people tell me, 'Thank you,"' 19-year-old Alexander Piet told the Post Register. "It's really refreshing."
He said he will autograph some of the signs he's sold when he returns to this eastern Idaho city from classes at the University of Washington.
Piet and 20-year-old Craig Bakker vandalized the signs last year, and earlier this year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor vandalism in 7th District Court. Authorities say three juveniles also took part in the vandalism, but their identities and the resolution of their cases, and whether they received any of the signs, has not been made public.
Piet and Bakker were each ordered to pay restitution for 20 signs at $60.86 per sign, adding up to $1,217.20. Both also were ordered to pay a $500 fine, plus $72.50 in court costs.
Piet has paid his restitution and received his 20 signs, and has sold 14 so far for $80 apiece. At that price, if he sells the remaining six, he would recoup $1,600 in all.
The restitution, fine and court costs add up to $1,789.70. But the $80 could be less than the market will bear.
One of the signs sold for $300 and another for $275 after the Bonneville County Democrats bought them from Piet and then auctioned them off at the annual Truman Banquet fundraiser May 3.
One was bought by Dan Henry, a member of the Snake River Freedom Coalition that formed after the signs were defaced to encourage less destructive forms of protest.
Henry is also head of the local chapter of Drinking Liberally, a national group that describes itself as "an informal, inclusive progressive social group." He said the sign he purchased will be displayed on the group's float during this year's Fourth of July parade in Idaho Falls.
Thomas Hally, an Idaho Falls City Council member, disagreed with the judge's decision to allow the vandals to own the signs.
"The war is a volatile issue," he said. "But no one has the right to destroy public or private property to express an opinion, and I don't think one should profit from that."

Active Measure: JFK Assassination Conspiracy

This has long been a favorite among conspiracy theorists. I relied heavily on Mitrokhin's book (see previous post) to sum up the basics.
JFK's assassin, as we are well aware, was Lee Harvey Oswald. What many people do not know or have forgotten was that Oswald defected to the USSR in 1959 over "disgust" with the American system and admiration for the Soviet system. After subsequently annoying the Russians, he returned to Texas in 1962 with a Russian wife in tow. Various accounts claim that Oswald was unstable and a nuisance. But the fact that he had indeed previously defected proved to be an embarrassment to the Soviets; an embarrassment that they wanted to go away.
After the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had indeed acted alone and was not part of some Soviet conspiracy per se, the KGB sponsored the services of Carl Aldo Marzani, an American citizen, yet Italian born Communist codenamed NORD through his book publishing company Liberty Book Club (affiliated with book selling network Prometheus Book Club), codenamed SEVER, with a $15,000 grant to publish pro Soviet materials.
Upon this, Joachim Jösten (Joesten), a German author, later published a book called Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? Joesten supported Moscow's assertion that the blame be place upon a group of racist right-wingers, most notable among them was "oil magnate" H.L. Hunt. Joesten's quotation inducing story basically asserted that the "right-wingers" were wary of Kennedy's wish to squelch the "military-industrial complex", thus starting the basis for a theme that would reoccur for the next 30 years: Oswald had ties to the FBI and CIA and was killed by the US Government to prevent him from talking.
Around this time, the Warren Commission's findings were drowning out Joesten's assertions. In rebuttal,  the KGB identified and financially supported New York lawyer Mark Lane as the most able conspiracy theorist to propagate said theme.

Mark Lane is well known as a person with close ties to Democratic Party
circles in the US. He hold liberal views on a number of current American
political problems and has undertaken to conduct his own private
investigation of the circumstances surrounding the murder of J.F. Kennedy.
(Mitrokhin Archive vol. 6 ch. 14, part 3.)

After the Watergate scandal, a new life was given to the CIA involved conspiracy theory where Service A was responsible for an active measure against E. Howard Hunt (not to be confused with H.L. Hunt, despite the fact the press did just that) a former CIA officer involved with the Watergate scandal. Thus, a letter, codenamed ARLINGTON, was forged to a Mr. Hunt "signed" by Oswald. This was actually fabricated by the Soviets based on phrases and expressions Oswald had used in the USSR. The forged letter is as follows:

Dear Mr. Hunt,
I would like information concerning my
position. I am only
asking for information. I am suggesting that we discuss
the matter fully before
any steps are taken by me or anybody else.
Thank-you
Lee Harvey Oswald
(Ibid).

There was much confusion and speculation as to who Mr. Hunt was. The KGB wanted to spin the story into a yarn of CIA involvement, hence focusing on E. Howard Hunt vice H.L. Hunt, the Texas oil man. It is unclear whether the KGB itself had confused the two names, but one thing is clear: the USSR's conspiracy theory, made possible through KGB active measures and the US government's own inadvertent confusion, could rightfully claim that even in the late 1970s more Americans believed the KGB orchestrated conspiracy theory than did believe the official findings of the Warren Commission. Now if somebody could just tell that to Oliver Stone.

Service A and Active Measures

Paraphrasing from Christopher Andrew's and Visili Mitrokhin's book The Sword And The Shield, Service A was the name given to the disinformation and covert action group, which fell under the jurisdiction of the FCD (First Chief Directorate; foreign intelligence) of the USSR state Security Committee aka the KGB (Комитет государственной безопасности СССР (КГБ). One of their main goals was to spread disinformation and propaganda around the world to exploit weak spots of the main adversary, a term of little endearment for the USA.
The book describes service A as basically half competent with the other half composed of rejects from other areas of the KGB. Being assigned to service A was not deemed highly by everyone due to the lack of foreign postings. Those who specialized in propaganda were responsible for quite a few successes, while the other half "relied on crude conspiracy theories about the capitalist and Zionist plotters who supposedly operated a secret 'command center' in the United States." Such conspiracy theories were the result of the KGB, writ large, not heeding the famous Chinese warrior Sun Tzu's advice: "Know your enemy"... for if "you know your enemy and know yourself you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." But, Sun Tzu also cautioned, "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat."
Such propaganda, much of it made up by the service, were part of "active measure" campaigns. These measures are revealing, albeit not well-known as to the source, subjects of posts to come, which I hope shed light on some modern urban legends.

So detailed it hurts

One of the most detailed books dealing with the KGB and their antics, especially with the "Main Adversary" aka the USA. Most interesting is chapter 14 called Political Warfare. This chapter deals with "active measures" or influence operations carried out against the United States. Service A is the component of the KGB responsible for such operations, and will be one of the main sources I will cite in detailing deceptive propaganda used against America that many of her cinspiracy-oriented citizens still believe to be factual such as: the USA invented AIDS, the CIA killed JFK, and J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite homosexual. It would surprise few if we were to find out the FSB (formerly known as KGB) was funding some propagation of 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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.

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Believe it or not, I actually did a lip-sync (remember those) in Middle School to a Megadeth song of the same name as the above title. It meant little to me then(1980s), but it makes a lot more sense to me today then yesteryear(s). Today while driving to work, a red, old,beat-up looking eco-car was trying to pass me on the left. Looking over from my comfy SUV I noticed the male driver looked disheveled and appeared to be suffering from an extreme case of "Angst" and "Ennui". On his dashboard was a beat up old hackey sack, some change and other gunk. As the car struggled to pass me with it's rusty undercarriage and pint size wheels, I slowed down and let him pass. I find myself doing this more often than not, as for some reason, be it ESP, or simply conditioning, I asked myself "Yup, I wonder what stupid bumper stickers this guy has?" Sure as the driven rain, on the right side was a "Bush's last day" bumper sticker showing the Jan 2009 date, and on the left side was one that had a picture of President Bush that read "America's number one terrorist."
Now, normally this wouldn't bother me as I am used to it, but for some reason I got angry. Then I remembered: an hour earlier I had been watching the news where there was a report about a bomb going off outside a recruiting station in downtown Manhattan. It later turns out the bicycle "bomber" allegedly sent some anti-war letters to congress in protest of the war in Iraq. So let me get this straight, in an effort to create "peace" some yahoos decide to bomb a recruiting station? I mean give me a friggin' break here.
So this brings me back to the bumper sticker guy. I have no problem with somebody expressing themselves, but when an American slaps on a bumper sticker saying that President Bush is the number one terrorist, it makes me mad. Not because he is making fun of Bush, but because it is a slap in the face to all the men and women, especially military men and women, who are overseas busting their ass getting shot at and dying in order to secure two countries we were asked and paid for to go save 17 and 19 years ago, respectively. The former being the same country whose leader, uncle Saddam, kept us there by constantly bullshitting and bribing the United Nations (not to mention the fact they were constantly firing at our aircraft) and the latter country, Afghanistan, whose ass we saved from the Soviets. These efforts are what that bumper sticker is speaking to; essentially that anybody fighting these current wars are carrying out terrorist acts. Am I going overboard here? No, I am not. The War on Terror (WOT) or whatever one wants to call it, has by no means run like clockwork, but these are important, nay, very important times, and the WOT is far greater than President Bush alone. From spouses who are separated from their loved one to those who lost loved ones, Americans are out there sacrificing and frankly, the general population couldn't give two shits about it.
To the bums who tried to blow up a recruitment station, like-minded individuals and yes, even bumper sticker boy, truthfully I don't respect your opinion and to quote a good Marine who appeared in one of my videos I posted below, "You suck."

Anti-War Protests in DC Funded By The Revolutionary Communist Party

Iraqi Gives Thanks At Pro-Troop Rally (Ok, this was a pro-troop rally but was later interrupted by anti-war "activists" crashing the Party).






Iraqi's Give Thanks At Pro-Troop Rally Part 2: The "Peace" Movement Strikes Back





Pro-Troopers Sound Off

Comrades and the Peace Movement: The Vietnam Redux

If any of you have seen any of the videos I have posted that deal with the peace rallies in DC, some may say I am going overboard or painting everything with a broad pink brush. I wish that were true, but the fact of the matter is the vast majority of groups represented at these anti-war rallies are not what they claim to be. They claim they are for "peace", yet support tyranical regimes. They claim they are against war, but are silent about wars, which have been fought in the name of utopian societies as we see in communist or socialist regimes e.g. China, Cuba and Venezuela. They are all too quick to condemn the USA for pouring water over terrorist masterminds' faces, but turned a blind eye to Saddam's past transgressions or Iran's murdering of gays, political detractors or their strapping of cords around teenagers and old women's necks to to be hoisted up slowly by crane in a public square for all to see. I have seen these things; it is truly heart-wrenching, and yet I don't see the streets of Washington DC filled with angry activists condemning such actions.
This brings me to Vietnam and the propaganda machine they had going. Vietnam, I admit, is very similar to what is going on in Iraq. First, however, let's get the differences out of the way; Vietnam was never a threat to us, nor did they have 16 UN resolution slapped upon them, nor was there intelligence indicating they may give bio or chemical weapons to proxy agents, nor did they bribe the UN and other not so United Nations i.e. France, Russia, Germany etc., nor did the Vietcong plan to reconstitute a nuclear program after sanctions were lifted due to the bribing of said countries. What is very similar, aside from the fact that the USA lost not a single military battle in either theater, is that we lost and are losing the information war. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and in that vein, perception and the not-so-invisible hand of public opinion is mightier than the A-Bomb.
The Vietcong reveled at the site of dead Vietnamese civilians for its propaganda value, whether caused by the USA or not, much like al-Qaeda gloats when it can cause as much havoc as possible. The formula is simple, the more chaos created that will be pinned on the Superpower the better; the side with the big guns, regardless of the fact that the US military practically jumps through its own rear end to avoid civilian casualties, will always look like the bully. A lot of these peace protesters, hard as it is to imagine, want the US to lose. Yes, I will say it again: A lot of peace protesters want the US to lose. This is the same attitude the prevailed during the Vietnam era, and it worked. What is more chilling, is the fact that the same communist utopian ideological groups whose agenda it was to see the US raise the white flag, bowing to Soviet interests, are of the same cloth as those funding anti-war rallies today, see below. Just think about this: If the same media we have today were embedded with US troops during World War II, we probably would be living in very different, German speaking if you will, world. Scary isn't it?
One can debate the merits for why the US intervened in the later wars. That is another topic for another day, but the fact remains that when the media starts playing politics and foreign media picks up our news and broadcasts thousands of people pontificating in the streets of DC calling Bush a war criminal and the US government filthy liars, it does nothing but embolden those who wish to do us harm. And as far as I am concerned, I would rather keep my moral compass away from those who are trying to kill me.

Here are some Wikipedia.org blurbs dealing with the main groups funding today's "peace" rallies:

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the
Revolutionary Union, is a Maoist-oriented communist party formed in 1975 in the
United States.

United for Peace and Justice
Ms. Cagan was a founder of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off group of the Communist Party in America.

Workers World Party (WWP) is a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 by Sam Marcy. During the Civil Rights Movement the WWP had a youth movement, "Youth Against War and Fascism", which opposed the Vietnam War. Workers World and YAWF were also notable for their consistent defense of the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground along with Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Other groups affiliated, albeit more clandestinely, with communist agendas:

http://www.answercoalition.org/

International Action Center

Not In Our Name

All People's Congress

And here some more blurbs from Wikipedia.org:

Both ANSWER and the International Action Center are closely allied with a small
but energetic Marxist-Leninist organization known as the Workers World Party,
which in its turbulent history has supported the Soviet interventions in Hungary
and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Chinese
government's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Today, the WWP devotes much of its energy to supporting the regimes in Iraq and North Korea.