I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR DUTCH INTELLIGENCE

Instapundit ^ | 12/03/04 | WSJ

[pissant]

This is too funny. I hope the CIA had a similar program to collect funds from the US commie/pinko/bedwetters and funnel it to spying on the USSR.

[siunevada]

Sorry. No refunds for gullible Maoist university researchers.

"There are some ideas that are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them.."

George Orwell

[Red Badger]

"I totally wasted 12 years of my life," says Paul Wartena, an ex-MLPN member who was so dedicated to the cause he used to donate 20% of his salary to the fake party.

I have a feeling 12 years is just the tip of the iceberg.....

[2banana]

Well, it could be worse, the communist Soviet Union could have collapsed and become capitalist...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Mr. Boevé, now 74, scoffs at his acolyte: "He was an idiot."

I believe that the correct term is "useful idiot."

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

This isn't the half of it.

There was a multi-pronged effort by the U.S. government-most of which went well over most people's heads-at defeating the Evil Empire.

In addition to espionage, containment through peripheral military attacks on USSR satellites and diplomatic pressure, there was also an enormous cultural subversion campaign aimed at captive peoples living behind the Iron Curtain.

Abstract expressionism being one derivative of that campaign.

[Chad Fairbanks]

OMG this is too funny. It also gives me an idea... bwaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha

[katana]

"He was an idiot."

Sums up the "true believers" very nicely.

[mutchdutch]

Mr. Boevé, now 74, scoffs at his acolyte: "He was an idiot."

There is hope for the dutch!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I totally wasted 12 years of my life...

I wonder if that's how John Kerry feels sometimes.

John Kerry:

HEY BUSTER! I'll have you know that I've been a U.S. Senator for eighteen years. So get your facts straight!

[dirtboy]

. To add authenticity, the party let Mr. Wartena and a handful of other true believers join its otherwise nonexistent ranks, telling them that they were part of a network of underground cells. . . . "I totally wasted 12 years of my life," says Paul Wartena, an ex-MLPN member who was so dedicated to the cause he used to donate 20% of his salary to the fake party.

I think this is one of the funniest things I've read in some time.

[advance_copy]

I hope the CIA had a similar program to collect funds from the US commie/pinko/bedwetters and funnel it to spying on the USSR.

Haven't you heard of MoveOn.org?

[jriemer]

I believe that the correct term is "useful idiot."

In this case, is he a "used idiot"?

[dwilli]

Anyone remember I Was a Communist For the FBI starring Frank Lovejoy? One of the first TV shows I remember watching.

[Dog Gone]

I wonder if Michael Moore is really a CIA agent.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He could be two CIA agents.

[advance_copy]

Me too. George Soros is the $20 Million "used idiot" of 2004.

[Dog Gone]

ROFL

[pissant]

"Haven't you heard of MoveOn.org?"

I guess it was a stroke of cunning and genius to get MoveOn to support an unelectable girly-man. I hope they spent every last cent!

[Welsh Rabbit]

Ping. Do you know anymore details about this hilarious story?