Posted on 12/03/2004 12:10:38 PM PST by pissant
I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR DUTCH INTELLIGENCE: The WSJ has a story (subscription only, alas) on a phony Maoist group set up by Dutch intelligence, which has recently come out of the cold. Not everyone is happy:
Set up and run by spooks in 1969, his party, the MLPN, had its own newspaper, De Kommunist, written and edited by the secret service. As well as Mr. Boevé playing Chris Petersen, the secretary-general, it had a chairman (another fraud) and a Central Committee stacked with secret agents. 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. He says he "had some doubts now and then" about the MLPN but stayed loyal because "I was very naive and Mr. Boevé was such a good actor." Now a researcher at a university in Utrecht, Mr. Wartena wants Dutch intelligence to pay him back for all his donations.
Mr. Boevé, now 74, scoffs at his acolyte: "He was an idiot."
I wonder what some Al Jazeera fans will be saying in 20 years?
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
I have a feeling 12 years is just the tip of the iceberg.....
I believe that the correct term is "useful idiot."
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.
OMG this is too funny. It also gives me an idea... bwaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha
Sums up the "true believers" very nicely.
Mr. Boevé, now 74, scoffs at his acolyte: "He was an idiot."
There is hope for the dutch!
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!
I think this is one of the funniest things I've read in some time.
In this case, is he a "used idiot"?
I wonder if Michael Moore is really a CIA agent.
He could be two CIA agents.
Me too. George Soros is the $20 Million "used idiot" of 2004.
ROFL
"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!
Ping. Do you know anymore details about this hilarious story?
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