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"so, how did they keep the other countries intel quiet?"

"Who can we elect to the Presidency that will truly protect Americans?"

The Presidency is obviously hugely important. But really, solving this problem is going to require first, the conservative Republicans need to wake up, smell the coffee, and start to realize that we have a real enemy facing us---someone far beyond a bunch of suicidal ragheads. Nor are the co-ordinated, multidirectional attacks on United States a matter of "chance" or "stupidity".

For example, we will have to abandon cultural theories about why our mainstream media functions as a well integrated, well coordinated tool of our enemies.

The multifaceted, worldwide structure of the subversion built by the KGB through most of the 20th century, the American portion of which was described in part by Ann Coulter in her book Treason, has not magically disappeared or evolved into some cultural force.

Vladimir Putin and his KGB colleagues now rule Russia. Although it is true that they have abandoned the folly of state control over the means of production (communism)they have not abandoned the ideals of the KGB by which they were trained and served throughout their lives. I refer to a belief in deception, line, torture, murder, blackmail, subversion, terror, et cetera.

The best way to understand what is going on in the world today that he is to read two books written by Anatoly Golitsyn: New Lies for Old (1984, 1990) and the Perestroika Deception (1990, 1993, 1995, in 1998).

Golitsyn was a ranking member of the KGB until 1961 when he defected to the U. S. with his family from his posting in Finland. He explained that Stalin had done huge damage to communism. Recognizing this, in 1957 to 1960 there were a series of high-level international conferences in Russia to repair this damage and change the direction of communism.

This is not speculation on Golitsyn's part---he was part of these conferences. The Stalinist system---the idea that the Soviets had to completely control all Communist parties in the world---was abandonned in these conferences. It was replaced by a much more flexible concept of Communist Parties acting in a more independent manner based on local conditions.

Most especially, the idea that China was supposed to be subordinate to the government of the Soviet Union was abandoned. This, according to Golitsyn, marked the end of the real sign of Soviet conflict. However, it was decided that a pseudo Sino-Soviet conflict would be begun because it would be useful for manipulating the West.

In addition, in-depth historical studies of Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) were begun with the purpose of imitating this strategy. In the last, we knew Lenin's NEP as a genuine attempt at liberalization in the Soviet Union--- an attempt that was short-circuited by Stalin. According to Golitsyn however, this view is false. The NEP was a deception, staged by Lennon to reduce pressure from the West to open up badly needed economic aid and monetary credits at a time when the more sincere, openly revolutionary strategy was leading the Soviet Union toward its own destruction. Although the Communist leadership (in the late 1950s) was aware of this past deception, they were not well familiar with its details. Detailed records had been kept however, and were studied at that time.

The various waves of "liberalization" in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China were the result of these studies (according to Golitsyn). In every case, fake operations by the Communist governments drew many naïve, sincere participants into the protest, liberalization movement. In Eastern Europe this had a tendency to get out of hand, i.e. Czechoslovakia and Poland. Even in China (Tieneman Square), a problem developed. Golitsyn sites and extensive report in the New York Times, June 13, 1989, by Nicholas D. Kristof "asserting that, while troops were shooting and killing victims in the area around the square, there was no firm evidence that students were killed in the middle of the square its self. If Christos version is correct, it would support the suggestion that the crackdown was aimed, not if the original pro-democracy demonstrators, who, by Kristof's account, left the square together singing the internationality and who had been carrying placards supporting the Communist Party, but at the on organized elements, who sought to join them or other allies to take advantage of the demonstration." (The Perestroika Deception, by Golitsyn, page 109.)

At first, Golitsyn had wide success in the West. He worked closely with the French president Pompidou and helped him completely clean up the French intelligence service, which had been compromised from top to bottom by the Soviets. He began a close collaboration with James Angleton, head of counterintelligence in the CIA. They determined that there were multiple Soviet penetrations in the CIA, particularly in the Soviet division.

Then things started to go wrong for Golitsyn. Pompidou left office and Golitsyn was not able to establish a relationship with his successor (as I recall that part of the book, at any rate, his relationship with the French government and in some way.) Angleton was gradually discredited. Golitsyn predicted from the start that there would be a stream of defectors from Soviet intelligence, who would denounce him. This happened, and they were received very positively by the US intelligence establishment.

My own view is that Golitsyn is (or was) an experienced intelligence pro, who obviously could deal well with intelligence people and understood problems from that and from a professional angle. I think his big mistake was initially underestimating the effect of those he called "agents of influence." These were non-intelligence assets of the Soviet Union including journalists, professors, politicians, et cetera.

Anyhow, Golitsyn and Angleton were made the objects of ridicule. Angleton's health failed and he died, possibly this could have been caused in part by the stress of these experiences.

At any rate, this is my view of our current problems. We face a worldwide organized hard left (WOHL) that is the successor to World Communism. As always, the government of Russia, is the head of this organization. Many elements of the WOHL are under strong Russian control, particularly elements that function inside democratic countries. Of course, Russia does not control the government of China, but they are strongly allied with them and coordinate closely with them, albeit in secret.

The WOHL controls many key people in the US and worldwide mainstream media (MSM), the American Hard Left (which increasingly influences the Democratic Party), US academia, the US State Department, and many other places in the US and throughout the world.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the Conservative Republicans of the US have the power to defeat the WOHL inside the US and maintain our democracy, our freedom (including our freedom of religion), our Constitution, our military strength, our economic preeminence, and in short, everything we value. This will not require any of us going out and preempt for early shooting in a one or anything like that. We can win using the electoral process, freedom of press, etc.

However, to defeat an enemy, it is required that one first knows that the enemy exists and understands the nature of the enemy reasonably well. This, conservative Republicans of the US have not yet done. They have a vague understanding that the enemy exists, but a vague understanding will not be enough to give victory.

There is no need to panic. But if we bury our heads in the sand we, and everything we value, will be destroyed by a determined enemy.