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The Secret Roots of Liberation Theology
National Review ^ | April 23, 2015 | Ion Mihai Pacepa

Posted on 04/23/2015 6:15:39 PM PDT by rmlew

History often repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance of seeing the reenactment with your own eyes.

Liberation theology, of which not much has been heard for two decades, is back in the news. But what is not being mentioned is its origins. It was not invented by Latin American Catholics. It was developed by the KGB. The man who is now the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov” and spent four decades promoting liberation theology, which we at the top of the Eastern European intelligence community nicknamed Christianized Marxism.

Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity. What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians. I described the birth of liberation theology in my book Disinformation, co-authored with Professor Ronald Rychlak. Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.

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TOPICS: History; Orthodox Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: christianizedmarxism; coldwar2; communism; kgb; lefties; liberationtheology; marxism; politburo; putin; russia; russianorthodox; socialjustice; sovietunion
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To: Interesting Times

Thank you for your posts. I wasn’t aware of the book “Cover Cadre”


21 posted on 04/24/2015 12:10:40 PM PDT by zot
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To: zot
Thank you for your posts. I wasn’t aware of the book “Cover Cadre”

My typo, sorry. That's "Covert Cadre."

22 posted on 04/24/2015 12:11:54 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Interesting Times

Not a problem. The link works to Covert Cadre on Amazon.com


23 posted on 04/24/2015 12:16:12 PM PDT by zot
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To: olepap

Did she know what cultural marxism is?


24 posted on 04/26/2015 9:11:04 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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