Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet Bloc, served as acting chief of communist Romania's espionage service and top adviser to President Nicolae Ceausescu. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. Today, still living undercover in the United States, the man credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service--the one he himself managed--takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly influential realm of the Russian-born "science" of disinformation.Indeed, within these pages, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinformation campaigns of our lifetime. Discover answers to many crucial questions of the modern era: - Why, during the last two generations, has so much of the Western world turned against its founding faith, Christianity? - Why have radical Islam, jihad and terrorism burst aflame after a long period of apparent quiescence? - Why is naked Marxism increasingly manifesting in America and its NATO allies? - What really happened to Russia after the Berlin Wall came down? Like the solution to a giant jigsaw puzzle lacking one crucial piece, Disinformation authoritatively provides the missing dimension that makes the chaos of the modern world finally understandable. By its very nature, a disinformation campaign can work only if the seemingly independent Western press accepts intentionally fabricated lies and presents them to the public as truth. Thus, Pacepa and Rychlak also document how the U.S. "mainstream media's" enduring sympathy for all things liberal-left has made it vulnerable to--indeed, the prime carrier of--civilization-transforming campaigns of lying, defamation and historical revisionism that turn reality on its head. - How destroying the reputation of good leaders has been developed into a high art and science. - How Pope Pius XII --a generation ago the world's most high-profile Christian leader, who personally saved countless Jews from Hitler's Holocaust--was transformed, through the magic of disinformation, into a Nazi sympathizer. - How Christianity and Judaism have been targeted for constant denigration and defamation through an ongoing campaign of disinformation. - How the Soviet bloc planted 4,000 agents of influence in the Islamic world, armed with hundreds of thousands of copies of the most infamous anti-Semitic book in history, to fan the flames of ancient Arab resentments against the U.S. and Israel and sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that would later bloom in the form of violence and terror toward Jews and Christians. - How the defamatory attacks on American soldiers John Kerry made before Congress upon his return from Vietnam--charges later discredited and repudiated--were identical to a contemporaneous KGB disinformation campaign concocted to turn Americans against their own leaders. - How supposedly respectable institutions like the World Council of Churches have long been infiltrated and controlled by Russian intelligence. - How much of the world came to believe that the U.S. government itself masterminded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - How the Soviet Union has been transformed into the first intelligence dictatorship in history. - How disinformation is still very much alive in the age of Obama, remaining a powerful engine in the ongoing socialist transformation of America. All this and much more is meticulously documented in Disinformation, with the credibility of an eyewitness who was not only there, but actively involved as a Soviet bloc spy chief--who, thanks to a crisis of conscience, "left the dark side" and came to America to help shine a light on the greatest source of political evil of the modern age. Excerpts posted to: http://that1archive.neocities.org/excerpts/Disinformation-Pacepa.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2016 08:45 AM, Michael Best wrote: (quoting somebody's ad copy:)
Indeed, within these pages, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinformation campaigns of our lifetime.
I was very disappointed that the book in question has all the earmarks of partisan disinformation in and of itself. The networked communication revolution has greatly reduced the usefulness of censorship and secrecy, and disinformation campaigns have grown dramatically to compensate for this development. We do need a better understanding and wider public recognition of the theory, applications and history of black propaganda and disinformation, if we want to avoid and counter this form of deception. In social media venues where populist and/or radical political interests are prominently represented, black propaganda in support of State and corporate interests is rampant. Ideological converts who promote, defend and embellish disinformation narratives supplied by front groups dominate many discussions. These campaigns do more than poison wells where factual information suppressed in broadcast media is available. They also damage the image and dilute the message of populist and activist groups in real life, by seeding their organizational meetings and public events with ideological converts who vocally advocate for delusional beliefs and self defeating methods. Using black propaganda and front groups to co-opt, discredit and neutralize populist and radical movements is an old and well established feature of political warfare. Adapting this strategy to the Internet environment requires new tactics, and presents new opportunities. Activist groups targeted for marginalization, division and termination by well funded adversaries need to adapt their own techniques to counter new threats and exploit new opportunities presented by their opponents in the network environment. Disinformation has inherent advantages over real information: It can be designed from the ground up for simplicity, emotional appeal and behavioral impact. Against this, truth has the advantages of internal consistency, relevance, and appeal to a more intelligent audience - so, when truth is attacked by disinformation operators, it needs all the help it can get to stand even a slight chance of propagating and affecting human behavior in the real world. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWlsgKAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0L1tEP/jEgvJoXIFPaGhMSNlnb9/Bd gnQ0HHPEvaZn7KXeWGJaNrO5TNp9flfFDyq0cS/wt1NkSAm7LBn/qMq67OY4VpMj rV++JbBrvO17hc/E7S7itfShmqy/8CAMvXttwxt4mbc6j/jz0gkWdNIO5lUxjcES l+ATFejYX/+AuaiIWbkDLhBkRLeAA1ldrTRf1KyaRL3j1YegO806stRPY8iEdgWg /13MgLX91BqyAeMgZwA4UbcLY2Gk0VdTq6tDQ7Rrz3bBhQJa5oPGLtLRO0sQZQim AtNyVN3aqKCQNCTo0/v72tgUuKVdL0w2YxUe8luDl4trKFWv9gXHDqHm+FqBMqKK BRU6QpVXORtFomx+V+9zyzLxV+VAOuTDOefv3iWHZFLVZZ6gGCIsE+l9dul/UQOI FKicc9a8KYBcLD1xLaf7d1LYvBzYM3dvK5ZPAfwfSIbH2KlgTfMvAYEYBlH9mkIv 6+xPxOmMugXnvww+wEwCIaQq4U0DOX9GwkBFmEb0CS0KsEEd3mZXxycXRkZA+s3H Q6fv8/fay60lX+1q8ZNZ9e15xtDcqJFCLLmAFz0Pw8oAFnzfLzTZuI7Xfhi36M3P XRbQBcD02envraR/kwCwObZpSHdu0fgfnOEr7u14QvkSCvLYgUOOj4WmaybsD7V1 T7nq6fqCFsl/akXeRf3J =5IJF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Michael Best
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Steve Kinney