Deception, Lies and Disinformation

March 2013

"Deception Was My Job"--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press - An Interview with ex-KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov (1984)

 

http://www.resonoelusono.com/BezmenovPrediction.htm

Bezmenov's prediction

    This is a 25 years old story about defection of a KGB agent Bezmenov. His analysis and conclusion about America's situation appeared to be amazingly accurate, written as though right now, before and after the election of an impostor Obama/Soetoro.

    Already in our time (2010-2012) a group of authors compiled a video clip  juxtaposing the original footage of the interview with Bezmenov 25 years ago vs. a serious of the well recognizable culprits of America's demise of the modern days (see the link below after the original). This modern video clip is the best illustration of veracity of the Bezmenov's prediction. The situation we are in now is outlined in a comparison analysis of the Bolshevik coup of 1917 in Russia vs. that of 2008 in America.
    Bezmenov's analysis of 1984 (concentrated in parts 8, 9) is the best and the most exact characterization ever that I have possibly seen. Nobody, literally nobody has expressed the essence of what happened to us with such a clarity....
    Listed below the link to the part 1, from which you can reach the subsequent parts. The transcript covers the analysis proper, contained in parts 8, 9. (The other parts tell the prehistory of his defection).
    Although he had expressed the essence of what happened to us with such a clarity, I don't think, that the totality of our catastrophe should completely be credited to the efforts of KGB. Rather, KGB noticed certain strain of microbes called fellow travelers and useful idiots (since Lenin), and then they skillfully cultivated and spread the infection. So now we have a pandemic situation...  
    What is particularly striking in his prediction is that yes, it really looks as though no amount of truth per se can change the direction of this social trend. The social phenomenon develops as though it were some natural process unrelated to any intelligence. It looks as though we are trying to affect the motion of the tectonic plates (explaining to the plates that they are moving in the wrong direction!)     
     Alexander Gofen


The video interview and (partial) transcript
with a former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov in 9 short clips.

by Edward Griffin - 1984

This shocking video transcription exposes KGB's subversive tactics against western society. In this interview, Yuri Bezmenov explains how Marxist ideology is deconstructing America's values, destabilizing the economy, and provoking crises in order to sovietize the free world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkPkJInUmU    (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz3VjoHXLA&feature=youtu.be   (2012)
 

Partial Transcript:
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?

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.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/06/political-correctness-revenge-of.html

http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/