| Suppose, as the Italian communist Antonio
Gramsci advocated, that an attempt is being made to control the Western
mind. Suppose that "control of the Western mind is to be achieved not only
by means of the dishonest use of language, but also through operations
to demoralize the West through corrosive attacks on society's institutions,
the active promotion of drug abuse, and the spread of agnosticism, nihilism,
permissiveness and concerted attacks on the family in order to destabilize
the society."
The quotation is from a forward to the
book The Perestroika Deception by Anatoliy Golitsyn, a former KGB officer
who defected in 1961. Even though this book was published in 1995, it is
Golitsyn's earlier book New Lies for Old, published in 1980, that lends
credibility to Golitsyn.
In that first book, nearly a decade
before it happened, Golitsyn predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
apparent collapse of communism and the apparent liberalization of Soviet
society. He stated that it was all part of a grand strategy of strategic
deception. He hasn't changed his mind.
The idea is to lull the West into disarmament
and to create the conditions in the West that would make it easy for it
to converge into a new world order, run, of course, by the communists.
Is it true or is it paranoia?
The world of intelligence and counter-intelligence
has been called a wilderness of mirrors. It's very easy to get lost in
suspicion, and it's very difficult to find out the truth.
It is a fact that drug abuse has been
and is being promoted. It is a fact that nihilism, agnosticism and permissiveness
are spreading among Americans, particularly younger Americans. A recent
survey by Rutgers University found a majority of the 20-somethings saying
they are interested only in casual sex and making money. Other surveys
consistently show that a high percentage of American students admit to
cheating on tests.
It is an axiom among communists that
religion and the traditional cultural and moral hegemony must first be
destroyed before the revolution can be successful.
Religion is under such constant attack
by secularists that most journalists think that routine beliefs about the
Bible are "controversial." There is, for example, no question whatsoever
that the Christian Bible condemns homosexual behavior and clearly does
not authorize women to be pastors or priests. That may be news to the secular
crowd, but it's ancient history to those of us who grew up in that old-time
religion.
Is all this just happening or are agents
of influence promoting it?
Well, too bad, but one of things the
American press never covers is the American left. How many stories have
you ever seen about the U.S. Communist Party?
To most journalists, all the bogymen
are on the right, and there are only saints and well-intentioned souls
on the left.
At the end of World War II, there was
a de-Nazification program, but there has been no de-communization program.
Communists are still there, some still wearing the label and others wearing
different labels. But, by and large, many of the people in control before
the collapse of communism are in control now.
If the Cold War really ended, why didn't
the Russians give us a list of their covert spies, their agents of influence
and their sleeper agents?
Instead, the spying kept right on going.
Question: Is the collapse of communism
all a deception or is what Golitsyn has written disinformation?
Truth has become as elusive as a bat
on a foggy night. It's enough to keep a fellow from a good night's sleep. |
