KGB Connections is the title of a documentary now in DVD form which was originally produced sometime prior to the fall of the Soviet Union - probably about 1990 or 1991. It is extremely well done and detailed with names and interviews of KGB agents, KGB officials, United States State Department Officials, CIA agents, etc. The DVD should be seen by every citizen of the United States, and especially by those still in High School - because most of the population of the United States is asleep and completely unaware of the danger that stalks them.
The Soviet Union fell and the cold war was supposedly over. That is all that the general population of the U.S. wanted to hear. However, the KGB has had many incarnations, each with a different name, starting with secret police of Czar, known as the Okhrana before the Russian revolution of 1917. Those who were members of the Okhrana had no desire to change occupations after Lenin took over the country, and changed their names so that they could become members of the Cheka, the original name of the KGB. Although the Cheka was the first reincarnation of the Okhrana, it was much worse. Through the years, it has had many names.
Incarnations of the Cheka:
(1) In February 1922 it was incorporated into the NKVD as the GPU.
(2) In July 1923 it became the OGPU.
(3) In July 1934 it was re-incorporated into the NKVD as the GUGB.
(4) In February 1941 it became the NKGB.
(5) In July 1941 it was again incorporated into the NKVD as the GUGB.
(6) In April 1943 it became the NKGB.
(7) In March 1946 it became the MGB.
(8) From October 1947 to November 1951 it was the "Foreign Intelligence" as part of KI.
(9) In March 1953 it was combined with the MVD to form an enlarged MVD.
(10) In March 1954 it became the KGB.
(11) Department A, the department of disinformation, of the KGB became essentially
the new KGB and was called the SVR. The last revolution in Russia overthrew
the Communist Party. In the power vacuum that followed, the old Communists
started anew with new names. The Soviet Union had been temporarily dissolved
so that military might became extremely expensive. The solution was to focus
the efforts of the old KGB on disinformation and undermining the target nations'
youth and news media. Since this had been going on since the late 1930s,
the follow-through was not very expensive and is being continued to the present
with excellent results.
(12) Today, Vladimir Putin is the de facto dictator of the coalition that has come about since
the fall of the Soviet Union. Putin was once head of the KGB and his methods have not
changed appreciably. His chief goals are (a) to establish a secure political and
economic sphere of influence for Russia and its satellites in nearby countries, and (b)
for Russia to be again recognized as a great power. Under Putin, the KGB's name is
the FSB.
At this time (March of 2008), Putin is likely to remain in control of Russia even though it supposedly will soon have a new leader, Dmitri Medvedev. Medvedev is considered to be a puppet of Putin.
Even though the political system is different in Russia from what it was when there was a Soviet Union, the same players have come to the fore and one man is still able to dictate policy. The independent companies and corporations that existed after the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as the various branches of the Russian media, are being swallowed up by the government once more.
The KGB still exists regardless of what it is called, using the same methods as before and using the same KGB clones found in other countries to maintain its worldwide influence. In cases where a clone has become independent, it acts alone - so in essence, the KGB is like a red starfish - when broken, each piece forms another starfish. This tendency to have the same dominating brutality with each generation is something that can be understood by Americans only by studying Russian history. The invading hordes of the barbarians in older times made the leaders of a feudal society afraid of more such invasions. In more recent times, Napoleon and Hitler invaded Russia. Then were the small wars with neighboring countries (often with Russia as the aggressor). Political power was a means of maintaining the country against invasions by its neighbors. Brutality was the tried and true means to attain and maintain power. The serfs were accustomed to being ruled by a monarch. After the Czar was deposed, Lenin was able become the new dictator and most of those who were well-educated or considered to be against him were either sent to slave camps or executed. This policy of removing the well-educated and those who might be are threat to the dictator has continued with each change of leadership. So today, Russia still has a system much like a feudal society with rulers and serfs - and the current "Czar's" secret police continue to instill fear within the populace.
Russian communism
has been a blight among nations, choosing to bring other nations down to its level rather
than raising itself up to their level - the policy of purging those individuals who might
otherwise be capable of developing higher technology has hurt Russia's ability to go upward
and has forced it to rely very heavily upon espionage.
The information that follows - even though it is from a documentary that is over sixteen years
old - is still valid and still shows the world the true nature of the KGB with its new name.
KGB Operations
Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the Politburo was the chief organ that ran the Soviet Union. Beneath it were the International Department, the KGB, and the Ministry of Defense. The International Department ran and financed both communist and non-communist organizations in other countries and, with the Ministry of Defense, shared espionage activities in other nations. The KGB was divided into Chief Directorates of which the first two were the most important. The First Directorate was reponsible for operations abroad. The Second Directorate was responsible for operations within the Soviet Union. The Second Directorate was the largest because it was comprised of a large number of informers, those who were involved in preventing Soviet citizens from escaping, those involved in preventing the leaking of state secrets, the production of pro-Soviet propaganda, and the altering and producing of facts (sometimes complete fabrications) for public consumption. However, it is the First Directorate with which the documentary, KGB Connections, is primarily concerned. The First Directorate consisted of 18 departments: Departments A, S, T, V, and 1 thru 14.
Putin, when he was younger, was in the U.S. officially as Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy. In reality, he was an officer of the KGB. The Soviet Embassy was the major center for espionage in every target country. In North America, the KGB had dozens of Soviet establishments from diplomatic missions, trade offices, and businesses (selling everything from trade goods to tractors, and operating merchant shipping). In 1980, there were 3 to 4 Soviet officials in the U.S. for every FBI agent. Although these officials were not legally allowed to travel without first showing their itinerary, most traveled with impunity and were not tracked. This allowed them to gather intelligence through photographs and observations. Later, this intelligence was used for various reasons which will become apparent.
The Soviet Embassy and certain other Soviet installations in the U.S. were built in areas where telephone traffic from certain key points would be of interest to the Soviets. Such buildings were placed on high ground with antennae which would intercept any telephone messages from defense plants, government buildings, and other key points. By contrast, the Soviets would not allow the U.S. to have its embassy on anything but low ground, and everything possible was done to bug the various rooms within the embassy. One example of information obtained by the Soviets in this manner was eavesdropping on grain dealers in the west during the agricultural crisis in the Soviet Union. This allowed the Soviets to outmaneuver the U.S. negotiators, so that the Soviets could acquire a record amount of grain, long-term, at extremely low prices. Crops in the U.S. failed in subsequent years, and the Soviets continued to receive grain at much lower prices than could U.S. citizens. Another example is intercepting telephone conversations pertaining to U.S. submarines and observing the submarines in port so that the Soviet military would know which were at sea. Embassies of nations with clones of the KGB (Poles, Czechs, East Germans, Cuba, etc.) were also located on the high ground with antennae. These clones worked under the KGB so that, together, the clones and the KGB formed a vast spy network in each target country.
The United Nations in New York is and was a nest of spies. Over 500 soviets worked there and the U.N. was the most active intelligence gathering center for the Soviets in America. The Soviet First Chief Directorate, Department One, controlled operations against the U.S. and Canada under diplomatic cover in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, and Ottowa, using the U.N. in New York and all embassies and consolates. The most active intelligence gathering was carried out by Soviets assigned to the United Nations. Usually, these Soviets were "civil servants" who were actually KGB agents. Their orders came from the KGB in Moscow rather than their supposed superiors at the U.N. - and they were placed there by the KGB - not by diplomats.
The Office of the Soviet Military Attache' was one post for a Soviet agent. Usually,
they were spies of the GRU operating closely with the KGB. The GRU was directly
under the Ministry of Defense and confined itself to espionage and military matters.
The First Chief Directorate of the KGB had ultimate authority over the GRU's espionage
network. Espionage included information on geography, the economy, the government, and
the armed forces - with special emphasis on naval affairs, shipments of arms, and locations of
docks and warehouses - especially where weapons are stored or handled and from where they
are being shipped to foreign countries.
Illegals
Illegals are foreign agents who enter the United States using forged documents and establish themselves as citizens. Little by little, more documentation is established such as driver's licenses, birth certificates, and credit cards. They find jobs to obtain more credentials for future references as bonafide citizens. They may come from the U.S. originally, move to other countries, and eventually wind up in a soviet nation. Usually, they are trained in a spy school in Moscow. Once inside the target country, they spend quite some time establishing themselves - and then often they sit and wait until an occasion arises requiring the use of their services. Illegals entered the U.S. via the Soviet trawlers, submarines, Canada, or Mexico. They were usually handled by KGB Department S which was usually involved only with espionage. Other illegals were handled by Department V which controlled "wet affairs" such as assassinations, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
The illegals trained at the spy schools learned to act like Americans from American movies. They learned English and correct accents from people who lived here - some having degrees from American schools. [One English instructor had her degree from Columbia University.] They bought their clothes from "American" department stores located in "American" cities in the Soviet Union where they lived until they are deemed ready to go to real American cities. They were given backgrounds which they had to memorize in detail using photographs of their alleged places of prior employment, the cities in which they were supposed to have lived, etc. They are usually very eager to finally enter the United States.
In the United States, they were paid by United Nations officials and Soviet diplomatic personnel via "drops" where cash was found in small magnetic boxes placed where they were nearly invisible. Instructions were provided by unpostmarked letters found in the same boxes. Drop points were semi-remote utility poles, underpinnings of bridges, etc.
Illegals had a tendency to become Americans which was far better than having to live in the Soviet Union. This tendency was offset for many years by family ties in the Soviet Union, a sense of honor to their sponsoring nation, and a sentimental attachment to that same nation. However, when such feelings were exhausted, there was the threat of harm coming to their Soviet friends and relatives should they fail to perform when asked.
Illegals were sometimes used as recruiters and handlers of agents in the United States.
Other times they were used to plant explosives at key points such as power stations
where, in case of war or for other purposes, the explosives could be used almost at one
time to disable the target nation. In some cases, they were used as assassins with
James Bond types of devices and means of creating simulated heart attacks or strokes.
As a rule, they assassinated in such a way that the death was either accidental or
some type of "health failure".
KGB Recruitment
The recruitment practices of the KGB were based upon (1) sex, (2) money, (3) ideological appeal, (4) the common enemy, (5) emotional attachment, (6) blackmail, (7) ego (prestige), and variations of the foregoing. Sex was used frequently, usually by male operatives to discover information and later recruit neglected wives or secretaries of diplomats, state department officials, military men, corporate officials, etc. Once recruited, the wives were kept in place either by lying as to the nature of the recruiter or through blackmail. Money was always a means of obtaining information from and later recruiting various people privy to corporate or defense department secrets, asking first for small favors with such excuses as the need to have information for a book being written or for aiding another corporation (industrial espionage). Each new request led to further involvement until the individual was addicted to the inflow of cash or could be blackmailed to continue. Sometimes, the individual never discovered that he was helping the KGB. Ideological appeal never seemed to work on the working man or woman in the U.S., but those of the intelligent and middle class were often swayed by the utopian appeal of socialism. When these people discovered the truth they were usually too loyal to their friends to discontinue their operations with the KGB. In the 1930s the common enemy was fascism. Many were recruited because they were told that they would be working against fascism. Emotional attachment was sometimes a means of recruiting as the recruiter would establish a friendship with the target which could lead to an affair (either hetero or homosexual) or marriage. By the time the one recruited could discover what had happened, the emotional bond was too great for hindsight to matter. Blackmail was often used against homosexuals who were, at that time, ostracized by society and usually still "in the closet". Many times, there were people - from clerks and secretaries to scientists - who felt that they were being slighted or overlooked. These were easily subverted because they were extremely disenchanted with their employers.
There was competition among recruiters and usually they did not know each other or even that
there were other recruiters in the neighborhood. This was an example of ways in which
the KGB kept their operatives secret in case one should defect or become a double agent.
Moles
On November 15, 1979, Sir Anthony Blunt, assistant art advisor to the Queen, was stripped of his knighthood. He had been in Cambridge in the 1930s when many students were recruited by the Soviets, and was approached for Soviet recruitment on the pretext that he would be helping in the fight against fascism. Since he felt that fighting fascism was a worthy goal, and the Western powers were not taking a stand against it, he accepted. Later, with British Intelligence, he passed on information to the Soviets. When he discovered what Russia was in actuality, he could not stop because of loyalty to his friends who were also acting as Soviet moles. During the Korean War he passed on information regarding U.S. intentions. This allowed the Soviets to know that the United States did not plan to use nuclear weapons in the conflict. When the North Koreans and Chinese were going to give up, this information caused them to continue to fight.
Recruiters in the 1930s were never to show any inclination toward communism or socialism, but if a potential recruit was found, his name came before the group to be discussed. The recruiter was then not to have further contact with the individual. An entirely different person made the approach. In this manner, the clandestine nature of the group was kept intact.
Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury during World War II, was a mole entrusted with the responsibility for all treasury policy bearing on foreign relations. He was not only able to pass on information to the Soviets, but to influence policy decisions. Under Soviet instruction, he drafted a plan for Henry Morgenthau (one of Roosevelt's closest advisors) which was presented to the allies at the Quebec Conference in September, 1944. It was dismissed as ill-conceived by Winston Churchill and the Chiefs of Staff. It called for the total de-industrialization of Germany after the war under the pretext of permanently disabling German militarism. It was publicized widely, particularly in Germany. Hitler used it as a propaganda tool to stiffen resistance to the advancing allies, saying that anything would be better than a Germany under the dictates of such a plan. This propaganda served to lengthen the war.
The Russians at that time were still far in the east and would not have been able to acquire desired territory had the war ended too soon. The delay in ending the war allowed them to acquire Poland, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Rumania.
In China, Mao Tse-tung with his communist forces was battling Chiang Kai-shek for control of the country. In 1943, Roosevelt promised to send 500 million dollars to Chiang for his fight against the Japanese, with 200 million dollars in gold to be delivered immediately. White, with his personal control over the Chinese Currency Stabilization Program, ignored the declared policy program of Roosevelt and Congress, and delayed the gold shipment until it was too late to prevent the take-over of China by the communists.
Roosevelt's personal envoy to Chiang, Laughlin Curry, was also working with the Soviets to
de-stabilize the Chinese economy. A few years later, Elizabeth Bentley, a Soviet
spy and courier, testified before a U.S. Senate committee. We were getting information
from the Army, the Air Corps, the OSS, the CIA, the Rockefeller Committee, the OWI, the
War Production Board, the War Land Power Commission... She went on to reveal that
she had passed on inside white house information from Laughlin Curry that the Americans
were about to break the Soviet code. She said Harry Dexter White was the cause of
the most damage. White testified to the committee that he had never been a communist.
Two days later, he died of a "heart attack". Soviet defectors at the time this
documentary was shown, stated that the situation regarding Soviet moles in the United States
had grown considerably worse. That was in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Today, with the usual sleepy attitude of Americans, there are probably a lot more Russian
moles in high places.
Espionage
First Directorate, Department T of the KGB (1) collected scientific, technological, and military information through espionage, (2) targeted the Western industrial sector, and (3) utilized exchange programs and official trade organizations as cover.
In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for relaying atomic information to the Soviets, but by far the most important information was obtained by Soviet agents working directly on the project to build the atomic bomb.
Many American colleges and universities hosted large numbers of Soviet scientists. The universities are often involved in secret research in areas of industrial and scientific significance. The American/Soviet student exchange program has been used chiefly by the Soviets to gain the secrets of American technology - very often to gain information in fields in which the Soviets were particularly weak. A study was made of a speech made by a Soviet which showed the areas of Soviet weakness and of the list of Soviet students about to enter the exchange program. The areas of weakness and the student specialties dove-tailed exactly. The most highly classified fields were the ones in which most Soviet students were assigned in an attempt to get around our security restrictions. In the 22 years of the program, the Soviets allowed us to send to them only students involved in non-scientific fields such as the humanities and the arts. Soviet students sent to the U.S. were involved in virtually every strategic area of research being carried out (lasers, micro-circuitry, ceramics, and other fields important to the space program, missiles, and weapons). Soviet scholars were welcomed with courtesy in the United States while about 20% of U.S. scholars in the Soviet Union were followed, harassed, intimidated, seduced, or pressured to provide information about fellow students or American Embassy officials.
Department T often worked closely with the GRU which attempted to gain secrets of
military technology. Many American companies are approached on a commercial
basis by the KGB, and some of them are greedy enough to send secrets illegally to
the Soviets. Many deals have been made directly - without KGB involvement.
For instance, submersible technology was used on Soviet atomic
submarines. One company was given a large sum to avoid the export bans and
send a new submersible (small submarine), one piece at a time,
to Switzerland where it was re-assembled and then sent the Soviet Union. This
allowed the Soviets to catch up. In other instances, a company gave up the
secret to an advanced ball bearing manufacturing machine allowing the launching of
multiple warheads from a single missile, another gave up advanced array processors
which came to be used in Soviet submarines, another provided technology for the use of copper
water-cooled mirrors for particle-beam and laser research (allowing Soviets to destroy
communication satellites), and yet another
provided the keys to U.S. inertial guidance systems (increasing the accuracy of
Soviet missiles from three miles to about 600 feet, causing the U.S. to take its
missiles out of their silos and develop MX missiles on railroad cars at a 600 million
dollar cost).
The DGI
It was the Czech clone of the KGB that first became active in Cuba. Once the groundwork had been done, the organization was turned over to the KGB (1969). Although the new Cuban intelligence service (the DGI) was supposedly Cuban, it was the KGB head in Havana that ran the organization. In Moscow, the DGI was assigned to Department 11. Department 11 controlled and advised the Cuban DGI and the Warsaw Pact Security Services. Agents of the DGI were trained in Moscow in recruitment, sabotage of American embassies, infiltrating the CIA, and counterintelligence of all kinds. Even when DGI operatives worked in other countries, the work was ultimately directed against the United States. In the Cuban Embassy in the U.S. were 98 employees of which approximately half were DGI agents. The station chief for Cuban intelligence in New York was Nestor Garcia, officially listed as First Secretary of the Cuban Mission.
The Cuban Consolate in Montreal was the second most important base of Cuban intelligence in North America. Intelligence and espionage operations from this consolate and from other Cuban diplomatic missions were conducted by the DGI via a spy network designed to increase the KGB's penetration in North America. Defense secrets, political and economic information, leftist movements in the United States, industrial plants were all of interest to the KGB.
In the 1960s, black ghettos erupted with rioting, looting, and arson in a "spontaneous"
protest. Once conditions were ripe, the DGI revolutionaries moved in to orchestrate
the black movement. They had previously met with Castro and then had spread out
to New York City, Los Angeles, and other "ripe" areas. The American operatives were
told by the Cubans that the American revolution was for the
Americans, but would be financed by Cuba (actually the Soviet Union). Revolutionaries
were given money and then told that they could obtain more from the Cuban embassies.
They were trained in Cuba on the use of weapons, anti-police tactics (such as throwing bricks
and garbage from
higher buildings at policemen in the street), and making molotov cocktails. These
operatives passed their training on to the blacks in the ghettos.
Weathermen
The Weathermen in the 1960s were underground revolutionaries in the United States headed by Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers. The Cubans realized that these U.S. revolutionaries could not overthrow the U.S. government by themselves. The Cubans hoped that the the Weathermen could provide assistance from within for the International Communist revolution. If any member of the Weathermen should lose contact with the parent organization, he or she could go to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico or Canada and use a particular code name to say where he or she could be reached. The Cubans would make the required contact.
The DGI was composed of seven departments, each subdivided into geographic sections. The KGB was the overall directing body, followed by the DGI which was broken into American and Canadian sections. The American section was the largest, controlling North American operations which included those from the United Nations, diplomatic posts, and radical groups. The radical groups included the Weathermen, the Venceremos Brigade, the FLO, and the FALN.
During the 1970s, young Americans went to Cuba by circumventing the travel regulations. They wanted to harvest sugar cane and experience the Cuban revolution first-hand. Their Cuban hosts, tour organizers, and tour guides were all DGI officers who used this occasion as cover for training young Americans as radicals who would become members of the Weathermen. These Americans were known as the Venceremos Brigade. After each new group arrived, the DGI would drop everything else to do background investigations on the new arrivals to see who could be recruited - and also to gain intelligence from them. Those recruited came back to the United States to work for the DGI in America.
Criticism by the Cubans after the first group came back to the U.S. was that they were useless - did not help with the sugar cane. This was justified by the DGI as a means to train and politicize weathermen contacts and weathermen. To the Americans, the Cubans had more appeal than the Soviets, so the KGB wanted the Cubans to handle the Americans. The American revolutionaries were told that the Cubans were the vanguard of the international communist revolution, that the Russians were being used by the Cubans, and that the KGB was subservient to the DGI. This was as the KGB wanted it to appear.
The Weathermen were told that more action was needed than simply demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. [It was the Weathermen who were largely responsible for the anti-war movement that caused the United States to lose the war in Vietnam and allow communism to take over in South Vietnam - Today, the after-the-fact communist propaganda states that the Vietnam War was a civil war rather than an invasion from communist North Vietnam to subjugate the south.] Consequently, the Weathermen changed their national action to begin the Days of Rage. In October of 1969, they fomented an attack on the city of Chicago and its police department. Protesters were egged on by the Weathermen for 4 days to commit acts of violence.
In the 1960s, Quebec and its police were assaulted by terrorist demonstrators, using French Canadians who supported the FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front). The DGI used such organizations as the FLQ to create an international terrorist ring. In late March or early April, 1970, certain members of the Weathermen were told to go to Canada where they received several thousand dollars from the FLQ for the use of the Weathermen. This was another means of introducing dollars into the U.S. for the revolutionaries. The money was furnished by the KGB, given to the DGI, who gave it to the FLQ, who then gave it to the Weathermen.
The Black Liberation Front was formed in Cuba in 1964. It was the prime mover in a plot to blow up the statue of liberty in 1965. The explosives were furnished by a French Canadian separatist organization. The police prevented the plot from reaching its conclusion when they discovered the dynamite.
Today, the Weathermen are still underground and able to be activated.
Latin American Communism
Most of the KGB/DGI operations concentrate in Central and South America and the islands in the Caribbean. In 1968, the government in Grenada was overthrown by a Marxist regime. This was typical of so-called right-wing dictatorships being replaced by left-wing dictatorships financed by Cubans. In Grenada, first Cubans were brought in to build a new airport which had military importance to both Cubans and Soviets because Grenada is located along the oil tanker routes to the U.S. from the Middle East and Venezuala. [At that time, American oil companies had holdings in Venezuala. Since then the communists have taken over in Venezuala and the oil company holdings have been stolen (nationalized without compensation).]
In Nicaragua after their revolution, over 3,000 Cubans moved in. At the anniversary of their take-over, the new rulers staged a celebration for visiting dignitaries (Fidel Castro and his ambassadors to Grenada and Nicaragua, both of whom were top DGI officers). One of the featured speakers was Morris Bishop of Grenada who blatantly forecast successful communist revolutions in El Salvador and Guatemala. In El Salvador, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico all revolutionary movements have been assisted by Cubans with Soviets behind them. Puerto Rico is crucial to the Soviets as a submarine tracking base.
Castro directed Puerto Rican terrorist revolutionaries in the United States,
and furnished their explosives, weapons, and dollars. Soviet naval presence
in the Atlantic and the Caribbean was enhanced now by having a friendly harbor in
Havana. This was especially true for submarines roaming just off the American coast
with nuclear missiles aboard. Soviet trawlers for electronic intelligence
gathering, sometimes for vectoring American aircraft into obstacles or jamming their radar
during storms, and for aiding Soviet submarines to prevent their detection, were also
given a haven in which to refuel and resupply.
KGB Philosophy
Disinformation
Department A was responsible for disinformation (forgeries, agents of influence, and planting false stories to deceive decision-makers or public opinion). Elaborately planting false information to cause nations to mistrust one another was a major thrust of Department A, especially in the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO was the reason that the Soviets were very careful about "annexing" through force more of the free nations. If the alliance could be broken through pitting one nation against another, the Soviets would have solved their problem. Some of the means used in attempts to accomplish this follow:
(1) a forged letter filled with damaging remarks about Greece and Turkey supposedly sent from President Carter
(2) a phony intelligence report on the European left-wingers
(3) a NATO document claiming to devise ways of getting support for the neutron bomb
(4) a confidential State Department memo advocating economic espionage on American allies
(5) various false reports on national leaders
(6) papers released to show American suppression of Islam
(7) a long-term attack on the CIA labeling many American diplomats abroad as CIA agents in order to paralyze their positions
(8) publications designed to alienate certain elements of society against other elements or individuals
The most successful pieces of disinformation put out by Department A was a phony book called Who's Who in the CIA. This book undermined CIA activities for decades because it was given as a reference book by the media, various reports, and other books. It was used by ABC to show that Reverend Jim Jones had a CIA associate before the massacre. It was sold by many book stores in America. Attempts to expose the book as an disinformation ploy have essentially failed - once such lie is told, the truth is seldom able to reach most of the people. The various news networks usually are far more interested in sensational news than truth because truth is usually not as lucrative as sensational lies.
Today, the disinformation campaign has been taken over in the United States by various
Hollywood producers (the best propaganda is visual), by people like Michael Moore, by
a Frenchman who started the rumor that 9-11 was created by the Bush administration,
and others who are either Weathermen or their successors. Even though most of
their lies are easily exposed to someone with a rudimentary education, the vast majority
of Americans do not seem to know how to analyze such things, and are apparently too naive
and gullible to combat the problem. This, of course, is largely due to very successful
past KGB efforts to subvert American youth, American media, and to rely upon emotional
propaganda to do the rest.