Posted on 06/19/2002 1:55:13 PM PDT by bat-boy
On June 13 The Guardian (UK) reported that “European satellite TV viewers can watch live broadcasts of peacekeeping and anti-terrorist operations being conducted by US spyplanes over the Balkans.” (See URL) For six months super-secret video links from U.S. military and paramilitary operations have been accessible to ordinary satellite TV receivers. Someone even linked these sensitive communications to the Internet. This lapse in U.S. security was discovered last November by John Locker, a British engineer and satellite enthusiast. Locker realized that somebody in the U.S. had made a “deadly error.” Locker’s first thought was to warn British, NATO and U.S. officials about the oversight. But Locker’s warnings were “set aside.”
Consider the situation: A man from an allied country discovers that top secret communications are being compromised. He warns officials of a serious blunder. But the West’s intelligence structures refuse to acknowledge the problem. As it turns out, the simplest warning with regard to the most correctible error isn’t simple at all. Imagine, therefore, a more complex warning from a source that doesn’t speak English (or doesn’t speak it fluently). Imagine a warning from an intelligence officer in a “former” communist country, or from the bowels of the KGB. Imagine a warning that would cause sensible people to break into a cold sweat. Furthermore, imagine if this warning were given in the form of 148 falsifiable predictions in 1984. Imagine if these predictions turned out to be 94 percent correct by 1994.
In 1984 a KGB defector named Anatoliy Golitsyn wrote a book with the title New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation. The book was about Russia’s secret plan for defeating the West and eliminating capitalism. According to Golitsyn, Moscow’s plan was based on the “façade and strength pattern of disinformation” and “the precedent of the NEP [New Economic Policy].” As a matter of perfecting totalitarianism, the Soviet Union had spent decades building secret structures capable of misleading and misdirecting both Russians and Westerners. “If a communist regime is in a state of crisis,” wrote Golitsyn, “if the regime is weak, if its leadership is split or compromised, the logical pattern for disinformation is to conceal the crisis and its dimensions….” This is the essence of the Potemkin village pattern of disinformation. “It has been applied in all communist countries,” noted Golitsyn.
Now that the Soviet Union has collapsed, we laugh at the Potemkin village and Russia’s exaggerated Cold War claims. As everyone now realizes, Russia was bluffing. But Golitsyn tells us there is another side to the Potemkin village pattern of disinformation. After Stalin passed from the scene: high-ranking officials in the Soviet Union wanted to repeat Lenin’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s, in which communist ideology was declared “dead.” Instead of Moscow puffing itself to look better than it was, the façade would shift from emphasizing strengths to highlighting weaknesses. “The decision in principle to revert to the whole-scale use of strategic disinformation, [was] taken in 1957,” wrote Golitsyn. The Central Committee of the Communist Party Soviet Union secretly published an 80-page training manual, for internal use only, written by a GRU officer on the subject of strategic disinformation. A second secret manual published at this time was On the Use of Agents of Influence, written by a KGB official. The Russian strategists, along with special departments within the Soviet Academy of Sciences, studied the NEP period with great attention to detail. In the 1960s a unique collection of Lenin’s letters were published. These emphasized Lenin’s deception policies. It seems that Lenin instructed his foreign minister to tell the Western leaders, especially the Americans, what they wanted to hear. “In case the Americans would insist on representative institutions [for Russia], don’t you think that, for solid compensation, we can deceive them by making a small ideological concession which would not have any practical meaning?” Wrote Lenin to his diplomatic representative in Switzerland.
“To be credible and effective,” wrote Golitsyn in 1984:
a deception should accord as far as possible with the hopes and expectations of those it is intended to deceive. Since the communist strategists were aware through their knowledge of the Bilderberg papers, that the West half expected and ardently desired the disintegration of the communist bloc, they could anticipate that the projection to the outside world of a fictitious disintegration of the bloc would be advantageous – provided always that it was accompanied in parallel by an actual, but partially concealed, implementation of the long-range policy of strengthening the bloc and changing the world balance of power in its favor.......
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