The Ghost of Soviet KGB Ideology Within American
Politics.
After losing the 2016 Presidential Election, the inner
circle of the United States government known as “Deep State” has been pursuing
a disinformation campaign at the highest level in order to take down, at any
cost, the current duly elected President of the United States.
The premise is built around the allegation that Trump, and
those surrounding him, colluded with Russia to win the election.
At an estimated cost of $25 million, the Special Prosecutor
has mulled over millions of pages of documents, investigated hundreds of key
people and is about to wind up its investigation. There is much speculation that Robert
Mueller’s team will come up empty handed of any evidence implicating Donald
Trump with Russian collusion.
But undoubtedly the Russians, or more precisely the former
Soviet Union, have impacted the American psyche and are winning the
disinformation campaign they launched over fifty years ago against both the
United States and Israel.
Unfortunately, this disinformation campaign is now being
conducted by Americans in power against America. In doing so, they are doing the Soviet
bidding.
When you hear the new radicals of the Democratic Party bang
on against their own country and its leaders, when they adopt the propaganda of
radical regimes, when we hear allegations against Israel couched in
anti-Semitic terms, you can be sure that they are ideologically colluding with
the ghost of the Soviet KGB.
To quote former KGB chairman, Yuri Andropov, in a
conversation he had with General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector
from the former Soviet Union to the United States in 1978.
“We could nurture a virulent strain of American-hatred,
grown from the bacteria of Marxist-Leninist thought…We have only to keep
repeating our themes that the United States and Israel were ‘fascist,
Imperial-Zionist countries bankrolled by rich Jews.”
Andropov went on to say, “Islam was obsessed with
preventing the infidel’s occupation of its territory, and it would be highly
receptive to our characterization of the US Congress as a rapacious Zionist
body aiming to turn the world into a Jewish fiefdom.”
Who can say that what we are hearing from Ilhan Omar and
others do not accurately reflect the KGB playbook from way back in the 1960’s?
This is the emerging dialogue being heard in the US
Congress.
This is the indoctrination coming out of American campuses.
It is the language we are beginning to hear from the new graduates of the
campus industry of Soviet-style indoctrination, graduates that are emerging as
the new generation influence and opinion makers.
It began in the early 1960’s after the Arab armies failed to
destroy Israel. The Communist Soviet Union entrusted the KGB to embark on a
global campaign to destabilize the United States and Israel through propaganda
and terrorism.
The KGB was heavily involved in support of wars of national
liberation in the Third World in order to disrupt the influence of the United
States. The KGB relied heavily of their intelligence service not only to spy on
their adversaries, but also to train their selected candidates in the arts of
destabilization through disinformation and the skills of terrorism.
Many leading Cuban, African, and Palestinian revolutionaries
were brought to the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. This ivy league
campus was the finishing school for top terrorists, including Arabs who would
promote the Palestinian agenda to chip away at the legitimacy of Israel and
eventually replace it. Yasser Arafat was there. He came as an Egyptian from
Cairo and left as a Palestinian revolutionary. Mahmoud Abbas was trained in
Moscow and left as a KGB spy, known as ‘Krotov” in Damascus. The notorious Ali
Hassan Salameh graduated from the KGB school at Patrice Lumumba University as
head of the Black September Palestinian terror group to supervise the Olympic
Games massacre of the Israeli athletes. Overly ambitious, Salameh, with the
strategic help of the KGB, almost succeeded in bringing down the plane carrying
Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, over Rome Airport. He was eventually
tracked down and killed by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut.
An integral part of the Soviet disinformation campaign in
support of the Palestinian cause was to use language against Israel that we are
familiar with today.
As part of the Cold War between the United States and
Russia, the Soviet Union brought a 1965 United Nations resolution condemning Zionism
as “colonialist and racist” to deflect from the international attention
it was getting over the plight of Soviet Jews who wished to leave for
Israel. At that time, the Soviet Union
was under pressure from the United States in the UN Security Council over their
support for Syrian border clashes with Israel.
The Soviet resolution failed, but the KGB persisted and,
with the help of the Arab and Islamic bloc then under the Soviet influence, the
United Nations General Assembly proposed a second anti-Israel resolution
condemning Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination. UN Resolution
3379 was passed in November 1975. It
took until December 1991 for this fraudulent resolution to be revoked.
In the early 70’s, the KGB launched Operation SIG, an
international smearing campaign to fan the flames of Arab resentment against
the United States and Jews represented by Israel. It was launched in the Arab world to portray
America as an imperialist Jewish fiefdom financed by Jewish money and run by
Jewish politicians with the aim of America and he Zionists subordinating the
Islamic world. The KGB sent four thousand agents into Middle East to spread
their anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda campaign.
All this was disclosed by Ion Mihai Pacepa. Pacepa recalls a conversation in which the KGB
chief, Andropov, said, “We need to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews
throughout the Islamic world and turn this weapon of emotions into a terrorist
bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one
within the American-Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe”
Surely the echoes of this threat are alive and growing on
the campuses of America, on the streets of America in pro-Palestinian (read
‘anti-Israel’) rallies, and, more worryingly, in the halls of Congress where
CAIR, the NGO with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, have been
emboldened by the introduction of their candidates to positions of power as
high as the US Foreign Affairs Committee.
Nothing effective has been done to counter this surge of
anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic ideology which is wrapped up and
protected under the brand of intersectionality politics making it impenetrable
to any form of criticism by intimidation campaigns that carry the same
Soviet-style accusations of racism and oppression of minorities.
One thing is certain. The enemies of traditional America and
Israel feel they have the tailwind to progress their agenda and to
fundamentally change political thinking and policy within the United States
government.
And it will be done following the old Soviet-KGB playbook.
Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy
Associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the author of
‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.’
