8/8/2007
Well of course this sounds like our current commie propagandists…and it is, although the media and others seem to avoid the term, a tactic which was known some years ago as communist propaganda - LIES - to fit the political goal. It is a coward’s position, and is not based in fact or reason. I was thinking the other day about how someone like Scott Beauchamp lied about war crimes of his fellow soldiers, yet he is hailed as a hero by the left. That is their cowardly position; hating the military and looking for ways to discredit, malign and derail the mission. To hell with the consequences, they have an election coming up! And God forbid the Republicans or the chickenhawks should be RIGHT about this…we have to make sure that everyone thinks they’re WRONG by depicting them as bloodthirsty savages. Even though the soldiers who are dying are our neighbors, our sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, cousins, etc.-if not our own kids, they’re the kids next door. Shameful.
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Today in the Opinion Journal, former KGB intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa explained the propaganda tactics of the communists during the Cold War.
Here is a bit of what Pacepa had to say about the Soviet’s propaganda campaign in the West:
During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren’t facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.
Does that remind you of anyone? |
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It should be noted that Ion Mihai Pacepa is a survivor of Communist Romania who at one time had two death sentences on his head…and his stories are similar to those of Reverend Wurmbrand’s, although Wurmbrand never worked for communist intelligence, his story is instructive, as he was an evangelical minister who spent fourteen years in Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland of Romania. Pacepa’s story, on the other hand, is similar to that of David Horowitz, a former peace activist, whose parents were card-carrying communists. Each one of these men have a unique instructive perspective that we should pay attention to, considering the democrats’ lip service to the communists’ methods, tactics and even slogans.
I personally like to listen to the people who were at one time on the inside - who can recognize the tactics and the verbiage that our enemies within are using- for what it really means.
Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. His new book, “Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination” (Ivan R. Dee) will be published in November.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Gen. Pacepa was NOT a KGB hand. He was the Director of Ceausescu’s D.I.E. (Foreign Intelligence Directorate), the Romanian equivalent of CIA.
He defected while accompanying Ceausescu in an official visit in West Germany and only hours later was transported to the US in absolute secrecy aboard a military plane.
Once in the US Pacepa was debriefed by the CIA for quite some time. His ex-boss the romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu put him on trial and sentenced him to two death sentences - in absentia, of course.
As a three-star general, Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer EVER to defect to the West. The treasure trove of information he provided upon his arrival in the US helped President Reagan to understand the tactics and strategies of disinformation employed by the Soviets in the Cold War. Later on, Pacepa becomes one of the most trusted intelligence advisers to President Reagan, convincing the President to push forward arming America with new weapon systems, to challenge the Soviets and not to back up to their threats.
The rest is history, and most Americans have no idea the debt of gratitude we owe to Mr. Pacepa.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for sharing that.