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WAKE UP AMERICA
1 SOCIALISM IS DISINFORMATION
2 DISINFORMATION AS IN DEZINFORMATSYIA
3 COVERING UP TERRORISM, AN EXISTENTIAL DANGER
4 MARXISM, ANOTHER EXISTENTIAL THREAT
5 MARX’S GHOST
6 THE ART OF CONCEALING MARXISM
7 FROM UNDERCOVER MARXISM TO ANTI-SEMITISM
8 FROM ANTI-SEMITISM TO TERRORISM
9 THE MIND-BOGGLING POWER OF DISINFORMATION
10 HOW DISINFORMATION ALLOWS ELECTIONS TO BE STOLEN
11 FROM DISINFORMATION TO BLOODY VIOLENCE
12 FROM DISINFORMATION TO LOSING WARS
13 AMERICA: FREEDOM AND CAPITALISM’S PROMISED LAND
EPILOGUE
ABOUT ION MIHAI PACEPA
ABOUT PROF. RONALD J. RYCHLAK
NOTES
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Make no mistake about it, America is at a critical crossroads. The
November 2016 elections are not just about Donald Trump or
Hillary Clinton. They will decide whether the United States will
remain a powerful, free-market capitalist country and leader of the
world, or if it will be transformed into one more pathetic, con-
flicted, socialist welfare state incapable of defending itself against
the growing specter of nuclear terrorism.
After forty-five years of Cold War – which, unlike other wars, did
not end with the enemy being forced to throw down his weapons –
and a decade and a half of still unfinished wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq, the U.S. is now facing the pandemic of Marxism disguised
as socialism and “progressivism,” as well as ever-metastasizing ter-
rorism. That makes America’s 2016 elections as significant as the
1860 elections, which led to the end of slavery.
This November’s elections could go a long way toward neutral-
izing not only the growing threat of nuclear terrorism, but also the
bubonic plague of Marxism and progressivism, which dispossessed
over a billion people of their properties, killed tens of millions,
transformed a third of the globe into a gulag archipelago, and made
Marxism a religion and the Marxist leader the only god allowed.
Our book, Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strate-
gies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Ter-
rorism, published in 2013, warned about these existential dangers.
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political assailants by the “neck and the seat of his trousers” and
tossed him out.12
Lincoln once wrote that God “could have either saved or
destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest
began.”13 America is currently facing another existential contest.
Unfortunately, right now Marxism (i.e., socialism and progres-
sivism) is fashionable in the United States, and being successful in
business seems almost to constitute a political crime. Even some
leaders of Reagan’s Republican Party have been boycotting their own
presidential candidate, Donald Trump, although he has built a vast
capitalist empire – like John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and J. P. Morgan, who played such
a large part in making the American dream a reality for millions.
We are not personally acquainted with Donald Trump, but
we firmly believe that the whole of America – Republicans and
Democrats and fringe thinkers – should unite behind him in order
to defend capitalism and our great country during these existentially
dangerous times. The alternative is unthinkable.
We have collected our evidence and spelled out our reasoning
in this e-book. And we want to express our thanks to Joseph Farah,
the publisher of our book Disinformation, for deciding to distribute
this e-book as a service to our country. Like General Pacepa, Farah
was a Marxist at one time in his life, and now he is likewise doing
everything in his power to protect our country from the forces that
intend to destroy it.
This e-book is written in the first person, as Disinformation was,
to emphasize the unique perspective of General Pacepa, who paid
with two death sentences for helping his native Romania stop seeing
government as a boon bestowed from on high. Both this e-book and
our book, Disinformation, have however been conceived and written
by both General Pacepa and Professor Rychlak working together.
—T H E AU T H O RS
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1 SOCIALISM IS DISINFORMATION
I was not privileged to be born in this unique land of freedom, but
I grew up with the picture of the American president hanging on
the wall of our house in Romania. My father loved America – he
had spent most of his life working for the Romanian branch of the
American car company General Motors – but he never set foot in
this country. For him, America was just a vague place thousands
of miles away. The American president was its symbol. During
WWII, we learned from the Voice of America and the BBC that
America loved President Truman, and so we also loved him. It was
as simple as that. For us, and for millions of other Romanians, he
symbolized American capitalism, which had saved civilization from
the barbarism of National Socialism and restored our freedom – at
least for a while.
I’ve spent almost thirty-eight years in America under six presi-
dents – some better than others – but my happiness at being a part
of this unique land of liberty is surpassed only by the realization that
I’m still alive. I still regard the American president as the symbol of
this greatest country on earth. To me, he embodies the essence of
our unique democracy: a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people. The president of the U.S. is not a figurehead,
as in parliamentary democracies. He is the chief executive officer
of the United States, its chief diplomat, and the chief guardian of
its economy. He is the commander in chief of the most powerful
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2 DISINFORMATION AS IN DEZINFORMATSYIA
Let me go back to the first page of the first chapter of our book Dis-
information. The current efforts to transform America into a socialist
monument to the Clintons – one of the most powerful and enduring
political teams in modern history – seems even more relevant today:
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where reset is the legal term for knowingly and dishonestly receiving
stolen goods.5 Unfortunately, most of our foreign policies have been
built on naïveté, stolen goods and wishful thinking.
Our disastrous war against Muammar Qaddafi, which generated
the birth of ISIS, was just one such policy. Do not take me wrong:
Qaddafi had set a $2 million bounty on my scalp, and I celebrated
his death. Qaddafi was, indeed, a crazy killer, but during the Cold
War the United States deposed quite a few such crazy killers without
firing a single bullet. My former boss, Romanian tyrant Ceauşescu,
was one of them. The U.S. government stayed out of the limelight,
but it secretly helped the Romanians send him before the firing
squad. Now Romania is a prosperous East European nation.
We all want to see democracy succeed in the Arab world. For
that, however, we should learn from America’s Cold War leaders
how we can rid the world of crazy tyrants without firing a shot. That
strategy was expressed in one of the most important U.S. political
documents of all time: the “NSC 68/1950,” a fifty-eight-page top-
secret report of the U.S. National Security Council, declassified in
1975. “The issues that face us are momentous,” the document stated,
“involving the fulfillment or destruction not only of this Republic
but of civilization itself.” NSC 68 was signed by President Harry
Truman on September 30, 1950, who then launched a “Campaign
of Truth,” defined as “a struggle, above all else, for the minds of
men.” The Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Libera-
tion (soon to become Radio Liberty) all became part of Truman’s
“Campaign of Truth.”6
I know a few of Donald Trump’s intelligence advisers from my
past cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community, and I have
no doubt that a President Trump will start a new “Campaign of
Truth” that will wreck ISIS and remake America as leader of the
world without firing a shot.
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3 COVERING UP TERRORISM, AN EXISTENTIAL DANGER
History usually repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I
have done, you have a good chance of seeing that re-enactment with
your own eyes. The attempted cover-up of the 2012 assassination of
the U.S. ambassador to Libya, John Christopher Stevens, by Islamic
terrorists, gives me reason to fear that Hillary Clinton may follow
her husband’s policy of shielding terrorist leaders for the purpose
of hiding the Clintons’ own lenient attitude toward terrorism. Let
me take you back in time to four decades ago.
In 1973, the Romanian espionage service – my DIE – learned
that PLO leader Yasser Arafat had sent a commando to Sudan
headed by his top deputy, Abu Jihad (né Khalil al-Wazir), to carry
out an operation codenamed Cold River (“Nahr al-Barad”). Abu
Jihad’s task was to take a few American diplomats hostage in Khar-
toum, so that Arafat could use them as exchange pieces for “freeing”
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy.
“Stop him!” Ceauşescu yelled when I told him the news. He
knew that his close friend Arafat had been trained in terrorism at the
KGB’s Balashikha special-operations school,1 and he feared that his
excellent relations with President Nixon would be compromised. It
was too late. We soon learned that, after Nixon refused the terrorists’
demand, the PLO commando executed three of their hostages: U.S.
Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr.; his deputy, George Curtis Moore; and
Belgian chargé d’affaires, Guy Eid.
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4 MARXISM, ANOTHER EXISTENTIAL THREAT
A few years ago, when I read “Why isn’t capitalism working?” by
Lawrence Summers, former secretary of the treasury in the Clinton
administration and head of President Obama’s National Economic
Council, I had the sudden feeling of being back in socialist Romania
during those old Cold War days, when the KGB’s disinformation
machinery was putting all its effort on doing nothing but discred-
iting capitalist America.
According to Summers’s essay, Americans have been disillu-
sioned with market capitalism: Only “50 per cent of people had
a positive opinion of capitalism, while 40 per cent did not.” The
reasoning: “[Capitalism produces inequality and] declining social
mobility … The problem is real and profound and seems unlikely to
correct itself untended. Unlike cyclical concerns, there is no obvious
solution at hand. ... When outcomes are unsatisfactory, as they surely
are at present, there is always a debate between those who believe
that the current course needs to be pursued with increased vigor and
those who argue for a radical change in direction.”1 Summers called
for change: In effect, replace capitalism with socialism!
A follow-up article in Russia’s Pravda cried: “It must be said, that
like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism
is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a pas-
sive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”2 Robert
Reich, former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, added his own
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5 MARX’S GHOST
A recent Rasmussen poll showed that only 53 percent of Americans
preferred capitalism to socialism.1 Why would so many citizens of
the U.S., which restored capitalist freedom to Europe, now succumb
to the noxious socialism that America spent forty-four years of Cold
War to defeat?
Just before he died, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who
claimed he had broken with Marxism but confessed to still being
choked with emotion whenever he heard the Internationale (the
traditional anthem of the socialist movement), reminded us that
the first noun in Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” is “specter”: “A
specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.” According
to Derrida, Marx began “The Communist Manifesto” with “specter”
because a specter never dies.2
Evidently, Derrida was on to something. In 1915, Alfred Mosley,
one of Europe’s most celebrated economists, stated: “Of only one fact
do I feel certain, and it is that no thinking man can imagine that the
ultimate result of the Great War can be anything but disastrous to
humanity at large.”3 Mosley was prophetic. Marx’s specter has risen
from its grave in ever-new corners of the world after every long war.
The Great War brought Marx’s specter to life in the shape of
the Soviet Union, which made stealing a national policy. The Soviet
leaders confiscated the wealth of the imperial family, seized the land
owned by rich Russians, nationalized Russian industry and banking,
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and killed most of the property owners. In the mid-1930s, the Com-
munist Party itself became a target for theft. By 1938, Stalin had
arrested and executed virtually the entire party leadership. Once he
had finished that massacre, Stalin stole all the top-level positions in
the country and pinned them onto his own chest like war decora-
tions, thereby establishing a dismal new feudalism in the middle of
the twentieth century.
The socialist redistribution of wealth generated not only political
changes, but spiritual changes as well. These changes made socialism
a religion – the only religion permitted – and the socialist leader the
only god allowed. In 1917, when Marx’s socialism grabbed political
power in Russia, that country had 29,584 churches. By 1940, it
had only 500. Church documents record that 168,300 Russian
Orthodox clergy were arrested, and over 100,000 were shot.4 Then
Stalin became that country’s god.
In 1945, Great Britain’s young voters, also tired of five years of
war and ignorant of world history, turned to Marx’s specter for help.
Two months after World War II ended, they kicked the legendary
Winston Churchill out of office – although his leadership had been
critical to winning WWII – and brought in Clement Attlee, an
undercover Marxist leader of the Labour Party. Attlee started his
reign with a populist move: he nationalized the healthcare system,
which had been heavily damaged by the war. Since, as the saying
goes, l’appétit vient en mangeant (“the more you have, the more you
want”), Attlee went on to further nationalize the financial system,
the automobile and coal industries, communication facilities, civil
aviation, electricity production, and the steel industry. The British
economy collapsed and the British Empire passed into history,
giving a stern – but ignored – lesson to all who would later look
upon Marx’s specter as savior.
Famous British brand names, such as Jaguar, became interna-
tional jokes. “Apart from some Russian factories in Gorky, Jaguar’s
were the worst,” stated Ford executive Bill Hayden, when Ford
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6 THE ART OF CONCEALING MARXISM
On February 7, 2009, shortly after the inauguration of Barack
Obama as president, the cover of Newsweek magazine proclaimed,
“We Are All Socialists Now.”1 That was also what Ceauşescu’s official
newspaper Scînteia announced when he began changing the country
into a monument to Marx’s specter and to himself. Scînteia went
bankrupt, and Newsweek was sold for one dollar. A few conserva-
tive political commentators, like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and
Rush Limbaugh, have warned that Marxism is infecting the U.S.,
but the Republican Party has failed to unleash any war against this
deadly heresy. Although the GOP calls for cuts in taxes and federal
spending, taxes and spending are not our enemy. They are just
weapons used by power-mad socialists in our government.
The brutality of the 1917 Soviet revolution, which exterminated
millions of people, made Marxism a kind of a scarecrow. Hiding its
ugly face under the smiling mask of “socialism” became a Marxist
science, one conceived by Lenin, who coined the term “useful idiots”
to describe those who naively promoted Marxism without knowing
what it really was. I was once one of them, and I will never forgive
myself for that.
Stalin perfected that science. At his request, East European
countries “liberated” by the Red Army at the end of World War
II began their march toward Marxism by donning socialist masks.
Just a few months after the Red Army “liberated” the Kingdom of
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came along, Russia never had a real political party, and Lenin’s
Communist Party was from the start a mere formalism, a tool for his
autocracy. A 1993 book written by British writer John Costello and
Russian intelligence officer Oleg Tsarev, based on KGB documents,
reports that in 1921, Soviet Russia counted more Cheka officers than
party members.8 That had been the standard in the Soviet empire
– and it is still so in today’s Russia, which has now become the first
nuclear intelligence dictatorship in history.
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7 FROM UNDERCOVER MARXISM TO ANTI-SEMITISM
On June 23, 2016, the Democratic minority in the House of Rep-
resentatives began picketing the floor in a bizarre attempt to force
Congress to curtail Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear
arms. This “Occupy Congress” protest, as many pundits labeled it,
indeed resembled an aristocratic version of the infamous Occupy
Wall Street (OWS) movement, which had Marxist roots and had
been promoted by the international communist movement.
Let’s back up a bit. It all started with the French Marxist
movement. Soon after stepping into this millennium, a nonage-
narian French diplomat, Stéphane Hessel, who dreamed of trans-
forming the universe into a Marxist paradise, published a booklet
preaching the redistribution of the whole world’s wealth. People love
free lunches, and this booklet, Time for Outrage (original French
Indignez-vous!), was translated into fifteen languages and sold sev-
eral million copies. In 2013, when Hessel died, the U.N. Human
Rights Council observed an unprecedented international “moment
of silence” in his memory.
Hessel’s book is credited with inspiring the 2011 Spanish
socialist protest against capitalism, nicknamed Los Indignados (“The
Outraged”) and the recent socialist uprisings in Greece. Time for
Outrage also inspired the OWS movement in the U.S., which
revealed the foreign Marxist hands behind its puppeteers.
OWS demonstrators were instantly joined by the Workers
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World Party (an undercover KGB outfit when I was at the top of its
community) calling for the beheading of America’s “bankers and the
rich who won’t give up wealth.”1 The then president of Venezuela,
Marxist Hugo Chavez, promised the OWS demonstrators financial
and political support.2 Iran’s Ayatollah predicted that OWS would
“bring down the capitalist system.”3 The Communist Party USA
held a national teleconference to endorse the OWS movement.4
“The bourgeoisie won’t go without violent means,” a CPUSA speaker
announced. “Long live the Revolution!”5 Many leading Democrats
also cautiously embraced the movement.6
On November 22, 2011, President Barak Obama expressed
support for the OWS movement, which advocated the abolition
of “capitalist America.” Addressing one such protest group in New
Hampshire, the president said: “Young people like the ones here
today ... are the reason that I ran for office in the first place.”7 House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi concurred: “God bless them,” she said
about the OWS movement. “It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused
and it’s going to be effective.”8 Former White House “green jobs”
czar, Van Jones, who resigned after some of his controversial associa-
tions were revealed – including having founded a radical communist
organization – also announced his support for Occupy Wall Street,
which he said he believed was the start of an “American Autumn.”9
President Obama and other leading Democrats have also
embraced the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement,10 but it too is
a tool used by communists for their own benefit. Many observers
have noted “Revcom.us” on pre-printed signs at BLM events.
Revcom stands for the Revolutionary Communist Party. Its web
page purports to support the Black Lives Matter movement: “Black
people stood up in Ferguson, Missouri, after a pig pumped at least
six bullets into Michael Brown – murdering Michael Brown in
broad daylight. The pig who did this was not even arrested. …”11 As
also reported on its website, at a recent protest in Chicago, Revcom
had a truck with large signs that read: “Black Lives Matter Friday,
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Black Lives Matter & Jew Hatred: How BLM and Anti-Israel Activ-
ists Found Common Cause.” It explains that “BLM co-founder
Patrisse Cullors is a co-signatory to a statement proclaiming ‘soli-
darity with the Palestinian struggle [for] liberation;’ demanding an
end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine; and urging support for
anti-Israel the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement.” The
motivation may primarily be opposition to capitalism (the state-
ment explains: “we aim to sharpen our practice of joint struggle
against capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and the various rac-
isms embedded in and around our societies.”), but the hatred it
cultivates is real.18
At a BLM rally in Seattle, held to mark the one-year anniversary
of the shooting in Ferguson, a speaker in front of a Jewish-owned
marijuana store accused the owner of bullying the neighborhood
by, among other things, taking down posters for an African heritage
summer festival from property that he owned. “You don’t come into
black neighborhoods trying to throw your weight around, especially
when you’re coming from Israel and former IDF [Israel Defense
Forces].”19 Referring to the posters that “his weirdo ass” had taken
down, the speaker threatened that if such things continue, “some-
one’s going to come see you, alright. We’re not playing out here.
We’ve been seizing buildings. We’ve been dealing with reactionary
crackers just like yourself... Give me a what’s up if you’re the soldiers
for Omari out here.”20 The crowd cheered. The threatened business
owner contacted the Anti-Defamation League.
It begins to sound like Nazi Germany, or – more recently – like
the slogans launched by the Soviet bloc’s disinformation machinery
during the Cold War, which portrayed the U.S. as an “imperial
Zionist country” financed by Jewish money, the aim of which was
allegedly to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.
Communism is inherently anti-religious, and perfectly willing to
be anti-Semitic or even racist if that serves the anti-capitalist cause.
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8 FROM ANTI-SEMITISM TO TERRORISM
Our Democratic Party and its front-runners for the White House are
bending over backwards to persuade America that the current wave
of terrorism is homegrown and that canceling our constitutional
right to bear arms would make America safe. This is disinformation.
Today’s international terrorism was born in the KGB, and Romania’s
foreign intelligence service – my DIE – was one of its midwives. In
a substantive article published in 2006, I synthesized my knowledge
about the birth of today’s anti-American terrorism.1 In Disinforma-
tion, published three years ago, I detailed that knowledge.
Recent revelations show that even the dreaded anti-American
ISIS might have been born in the KGB/FSB. Consider that six years
after defecting to Great Britain, former Russian intelligence officer
Alexander Litvinenko claimed that Osama bin Laden’s right-hand
man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had once been arrested in Russia for
terrorism, was later (1996 and 1997) secretly trained in terrorism
by the KGB/FSB.2 Al-Zawahiri later became the head of al-Qaeda
in Iraq (AQI), which would ultimately morph into ISIS. How
did Litvinenko know all this? Former KGB officer Konstantin
Preobrazhensky, who defected to the U.S. in 2006 and is a regular
speaker on the Voice of America, testified that it was Litvinenko
himself who was “responsible for securing the secrecy of al-Zawahiri’s
presence in Russia while he was trained by FSB instructors.”3
The revelation that al-Zawahiri, who essentially created ISIS,
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If the Democratic contender for the White House did not know
that Treblinka was a Nazi death camp in Poland, whereas the KGB
headquarters was, and still is, the Lubyanka, what should we suppose
he learned about disinformation from seeing all those files – written
in a language he could not read?
Speaking of not knowing the language, on March 6, 2009, in
Geneva, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton presented Russian Rep-
resentative to the United Nations Sergei Lavrov with a red button
with the Russian text перегрузка. Clinton thought
this was the Russian word for “reset,” explaining she wanted to
reset relations between the two nations. As mentioned earlier,
Lavrov explained that перегрузка actually means
“overcharge.” The two pressed the button anyway, but the dealings
between Russia and the USA following the “reset” suggest that
Clinton’s diplomacy was on par with her linguistic skills.
I do not doubt Hillary Clinton’s and Secretary’s Kerry’s patrio-
tism, but I have reason to believe they have been deluded by the
KGB disinformation machinery. Once I was deluded too. So was
the ever-optimistic President George W. Bush, who in his second
inaugural address said of the former KGB head Vladimir Putin:
“We’re friends, and that’s important.”
The KGB is indeed a difficult read, but I believe that Russia’s
upper class enthroned the head of the KGB in the Kremlin for a
reason. That country’s aristocrats love Byzantine disinformation
– generations of them kidded themselves about the glorious state
of their Soviet Union – and the new KGB makes them feel clever
again. Over the years, this Russian, Soviet, and now again Russian
political police has changed its name many times, from Okhrana
to Cheka, to GPU, to OGPU, to NKVD, to NKGB, to MGB, to
MVD, to KGB, to MSB, to MB, to FSK, to FSB, and the anagram
game will certainly continue in order to hide its real roots. Since
the sixteenth century’s Ivan the Terrible, all Russian rulers ran the
country with the help of their intelligence organizations. That was
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The still little-known “science” of disinformation can change night
into day. After meeting Vladimir Putin for the first time in Slovenia
in 2001, President George W. Bush said he had looked the man in
the eye and found him to be “straightforward and trustworthy.” On
the other hand, Bob Gates, who as director of central intelligence
and secretary of defense knew something about Russian disinforma-
tion, looked into Putin’s eyes and saw “a stone-cold killer.”
Disinformation is as old as human life. Do you remember
the story of how Satan, in the form of a snake, tricked Eve? Many
nations throughout history have used disinformation to confound
their wartime enemies, most famously when the Greeks in the
second millennium BC presented the Trojans with a huge wooden
horse, in the hollow belly of which the Greek army succeeded in
entering the otherwise impregnable city of Troy. The American and
British intelligence services also managed in 1944 to trick the Ger-
mans into believing the Allies would invade the continent at Calais,
rather than on the beaches of Normandy. In peacetime, however,
disinformation has been employed mostly by tyrants attempting to
deceive others about their real agenda.
Although publicly claiming disinformation was a French word
used for Western deceptions, among themselves the Soviet leaders
took credit for inventing the “science” of disinformation, just as they
took credit for most of the world’s major inventions. “Do you know
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During my days in the Romanian foreign intelligence service, I had
a banner posted in my office proclaiming – all in upper case letters –
“CAPITALIST ESPIONAGE REPORTS HISTORY. WE MAKE
IT.” Elsewhere in the world, foreign intelligence services are primarily
engaged in collecting information to help their heads of state conduct
foreign affairs. The Kremlin and its viceroy, however, already knew all
the answers, and they frequently took offense when we tried to tell
them something new. Throughout the Kremlin’s sphere of influence,
the main intelligence task was to fabricate a new past for the country’s
leaders and for their enemy targets in order to manipulate their future.
That task is still the main task in today’s Russia.
The U.S. media seem to be now doing the same thing in order
to manipulate America’s elections. During the last election cycle in
2012, a five-thousand-word article published by the Washington Post
depicted GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as an anti-gay
bully who had psychologically murdered one John Lauber, an alleg-
edly gay classmate, by forcefully chopping off his shock of bleached
hair. According to the Post, Lauber was a fragile young man, and four
decades later his body collapsed around a spirit broken by Romney.1
Wow! How dare that anti-gay brute Romney now presume to
run for the White House?
A few days later, however, the Washington Post story proved
to be disinformation – but the damage was done. Lauber’s sister,
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Christine, slammed the story as a political ploy.2 “If he were still alive
today,” she said, “he would be furious [about the story].” Lauber
was not, in any way, a broken spirit. He was a tough guy who had
toured the world with the Royal Lipizzaner Stallion riders. Moreover,
Lauber did not die because his spirit was broken by Romney. Lauber
died of cancer. According to his obituary published in the South
Bend Tribune at the time of his 2004 death, “Lauber led a full life,
graduating from Vanderbilt and becoming a member of the British
Horse Society. He earned seaman papers, was licensed in three states
as mortician, and was head chef of the [upscale] Russian Resort in
California. He also served as a civilian contractor during the war
in Iraq.”3 Romney was never able to recover after that framing, and
lost the election.
The leaders of the Soviet bloc intelligence community, when I
was one of them, looked at the Washington Post as one of the most
credible Western newspapers. Its courageous Watergate reporting
made even Ceauşescu fear it. In that socialist world, fear meant
respect. In January 1990, when U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) got
my daughter out of Romania, the Post published a powerful con-
demnation of socialism signed by Judith Weinraub.4 Soon after that,
I became acquainted with the Post’s Book World editor, William
McPherson, and I was amazed by his staunch exposure of what he
called “Marxist heresy.” He even went to Romania to see the hor-
rible legacy of Ceauşescu.
The transformation of the Washington Post from an outspoken
defender of truth into a tool for changing the historical past was,
in my view, the beginning of a new era in the U.S. mainstream
media. This is an era in which even some of the most prestigious
U.S. newspapers have lost their political independence.
There is a widespread belief that the worst damage from enemy
intelligence operations against the U.S. has been the theft of highly
classified secrets, such as the technology for the atom bomb. Not so.
The absolutely worst – and often irreparable – damage done to the
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11 FROM DISINFORMATION TO BLOODY VIOLENCE
At the end of April 2016, a communist organization called ANSWER
(“Act Now to Stop War and End Racism”) organized violent dem-
onstrations against Donald Trump in California, New Mexico, and
Chicago. U.S. flags were burned, police cars were destroyed and
people were hurt. ANSWER is a front group of the Workers World
Party (WWP), created by the KGB in 1957 with the initial task of
helping the Kremlin create a favorable impression of the 1956 Soviet
invasion of Hungary among the trade unions and “colored” popula-
tion of the United States. During my years in the KGB community,
the WWP was run by a Soviet-style secretariat whose members were
secretly indoctrinated and trained by the KGB, which also financed
its day-to-day operations.
In 1959, the WWP got its own newspaper, Workers World,
edited by the KGB’s disinformation department. To camouflage
Moscow’s hand and give the paper a broader appeal, the early
issues showed both Lenin and Trotsky holding up a banner saying,
“Colored and White Unite and Fight for a WORKERS WORLD.”
In those years, the WWP had a national office in New York
(55 W. 17th Street) and eighteen regional headquarters across the
United States, presenting itself as a “national Marxist-Leninist
party promoting socialism, supporting working class struggles and
lesbian/gay/bi/trans liberation, organizing protests, and denouncing
racism and sexism.” Two of its leaders, Larry Holmes and Monica
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12 FROM DISINFORMATION TO LOSING WARS
On September 11, 2001, a staggering 2,996 people were killed and
over 6,000 injured by terrorists in the U.S. On November 13, 2015,
130 people were killed and 389 injured in the terrorist attacks that
struck Paris – the deadliest day in France since World War II. The
attacks are becoming more frequent. On March 22, 2016, 34 people
were killed and 198 injured in Brussels. On June 28, 2016, 44 people
were killed and 239 injured by terrorists at the Atatürk Airport in
Istanbul, and two days later, 28 people were killed in Bangladesh.
ISIS, which proclaimed a worldwide terrorist caliphate in 2014, is
now bragging that it will soon “wreak havoc” in London and New
York with a [nuclear] “dirty bomb” that will kill thousands of people.1
Soon after September 11, 2001, the U.S. declared war on
terrorism. Fifteen years later that war is still on, and nuclear ter-
rorism has become an existential danger to the U.S. Why? Today
it is considered bad manners to point to any outside source of
anti-Americanism. But Americans are proud people who love their
country, and who won every military conflict – up until its Vietnam
War against communist expansion.
From 1776 to 1782, the Americans challenged Great Britain,
the most powerful empire in the world at that time, and won. In
the War of 1812, the United States forced the British to retreat back
across the Atlantic. In 1846, Mexico attacked the United States
and was soundly defeated. In 1898, the United States went to war
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13 AMERICA: FREEDOM AND CAPITALISM’S PROMISED LAND
Two days after September 11, 2001, my wife (an American writer)
and I landed in Berlin. We were having lunch with friends at the
enormous KaDeWe department store, and I wandered off to get
some food for dinner. The manager, noticing the American flag on
my lapel, came up to me and asked if I was an American. “Cham-
pagne for everyone,” he ordered, when I told him I had just flown
over from the U.S. “Without capitalist America and the Berlin
Airlift, we would be speaking Russian now,” he explained.
This capitalist America, which has kept freedom, democracy,
and economic prosperity alive in the world for the last hundred
years, was not created by socialists and progressives, nor was
it embodied in the lives of those political bureaucrats who do
nothing but give speeches.
America’s reputation was built around a procession of patriotic
capitalists, like Donald Trump, who were elected president because
they had been successful in business and in defending our country’s
wealth and freedom. George Washington’s assets are estimated at
over half a billion dollars in today’s money, Thomas Jefferson’s at
$212 million, Theodore Roosevelt’s at $125 million, Andrew Jack-
son’s at $119 million, James Madison’s at $101 million, Lyndon
Johnson’s at $98 million, Herbert Hoover’s at $75 million, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s at $60 million, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
who may not have earned his own fortune but inherited one, at
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EPILOGUE
I was twenty-five years old when the doctors advised my mother to
have a just-discovered malignant tumor surgically removed as soon
as possible. “What’s the rush, if it doesn’t hurt?” my dear mother
kept asking me every time I tried to take her to the hospital. One
year later I was kneeling at her grave. That was the last, and most
important, lesson I learned from my dear mother: get rid of cancer
any way you can.
On Christmas Day 1989, the president of Marxist Romania,
Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed at the end of a trial whose main
accusations came almost word for word out of my book Red Horizons,
serialized by Radio Free Europe and republished in samizdat Roma-
nian and Hungarian editions. From one day to the next, my native
Romania became free of cancer. Now it is a flourishing country again.
The United States had spent forty-four years of Cold War to
protect the rest of the world against the Marxist cancer hidden
under the smiling mask of socialism and progressivism, which has
killed over a hundred million people and left behind only countries
looking like trailer camps hit by a hurricane – most recently Ven-
ezuela. All Marxist, Socialist and Progressivist leaders have ended
up in hell – all, from Trotsky to Stalin, Tito to Zhivkov, Kamenev,
Zinoviev, Buckarin, Enver Hoxha to Mátyás Rakosi, Sékou Touré,
Nyeree and Hugo Chavez. All had their days of temporary glory,
but all ended in eternal disgrace.
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ABOUT ION MIHAI PACEPA
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking official from
a socialist country ever to have been granted political asylum in the
United States. His defection made him the most hunted American
citizen alive. The Romanian Securitate, along with Libya’s Muammar
Qaddafi and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Yasser Arafat
(both of whom were surrogates of the Soviet KGB and had officially
dealt with Pacepa), set multi-million-dollar bounties on his head.
The Securitate also created a super-secret intelligence unit staffed
with one thousand officers whose sole task was to assassinate Pacepa,
denigrate his name and deny the accuracy of his revelations.
After two years of unsuccessful efforts to kill Pacepa, the KGB
community gave the task to the infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
Although unable to find Pacepa, on February 21, 1981, Carlos
exploded a 20-pound bomb at the Munich headquarters of Radio Free
Europe, which was broadcasting Pacepa’s revelations. Eight employees
were injured, and five Romanian diplomats assigned to West Germany
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ABOUT PROF. RONALD J. RYCHLAK
Ronald J. Rychlak is professor of law and holder of the Jamie L.
Whitten Chair in Law and Government at the University of Mis-
sissippi School of Law, where he has been on the faculty since 1987.
He also serves as the university’s faculty athletic representative.
A graduate of Wabash College and Vanderbilt University School
of Law, he is a member of the Mississippi Criminal Code Revi-
sion Committee, the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission, and the Executive Committee of the
Southeastern Conference (SEC). He serves on editorial boards of
The Gaming Law Review and Angelico Press, and also serves on
advisory boards to Ave Maria School of Law, the Catholic League
for Religious and Civil Rights, and the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists. He is the author of numerous books, including “Hitler,
the War, and the Pope,” which the Vatican’s Congregation for the
Causes of Saints called “definitive” in its response to charges made
against the leader of the Catholic Church during World War II.
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INTRODUCTION
1. “State TV says Russia could turn US to radioactive ash,” AFP, March 13, 2014, posted
as http://news.yahoo.com/state-tv-says-russia-could-turn-us-radioactive-212003397.
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3. R. James Woolsey and Peter Vincent Pry, “The Growing Threat from an EMP
Attack,” The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2014, posted as http://www.wsj.com/
articles/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-
attack-1407885281
4. James Jay Carafano, PhD. and Richard Weitz, PhD, “EMP Attacks--What the US
Must Do Now,” The Heritage Foundation, Nov. 17, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/
research/reports/2010/11/emp-attacks-what-the-us-must-do-now
5. James Jay Carafano, PhD. and Richard Weitz, PhD, “EMP Attacks--What the US
Must Do Now,” The Heritage Foundation, Nov. 17, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/
research/reports/2010/11/emp-attacks-what-the-us-must-do-now
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12, 2015, http://thehill.com/policy/defense/250962-odierno-russia-is-the-most-
dangerous-threat-to-us
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7. Larisa Brown, “The new Cold War: Putin issues chilling new threat as NATO chief
says tensions with Russia could end in ‘al out conflict,’” Daily Mail, February 20,
2015, posted as http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2961643/Russia-tensions-
trigger-war-Britain-s-NATO-commander-warns-Soviet-style-tactics-pose-existential-
threat-being.html#ixzz3dXTODk1b
8. (AP) “Bottom of Form
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nbcnews.com/id/7632057/ns/world_news/t/putin-soviet-collapse-genuine-tragedy/#.
U86bdUBjByU
10. “‘Clan’of FSB Provide a ‘Foundation’ for the Putin Regime,” Novaya Gazeta, June
2003, republished by Center for the Future of Russia, as www.future-of-russia.org/
issues/fsb_boys_partII.html.
11. Tyler Pager, “Politifact: Democrats never mentioned terrorism on Day onr of DNC,”
Politico, July 26, 2016, as posted in http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/did-
democrats-mention-islamic-state-convention-226202
12. Jim Hoft, “DNC Convention 2016: Soviet Flags, Palestinian Flag -- BUT NO US
FLAGS, The Gateway Pundit, July26, 2016, as posted on http://www.thegateway-
pundit.com/2016/07/dnc-convention-2016-soviet-flags-palestinian-flag-no-us-flags/
13. This widely reported story appears in many accounts and biographies on Abraham
Lincoln. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
14. Abraham Lincoln, Meditation on the Devine Will, http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.
org/lincoln/speeches/meditat.htm
1. (AP) “More Americans than ever before are not working with 92 MILLION people
out of the workforce,” The Daily Mail (January 10, 2014). http://www.dailymail.
co.uk/news/article-2537585/More-Americans-not-working-92-million-people-
workforce.html
2. Cited on page 108 of Jones, Milo L. and; Silberzahn, Philippe (2013). Constructing
Cassandra, Reframing Intelligence - 2 - Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001. Stanford
University Press. ISBN 978-0804793360.
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3. Oliver Burkeman, “The Power of Negative Thinking,” The New York Times, Aug. 4,
2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/the-positive-power-of-
negative-thinking.html?_r=0
1. Bill Clinton during a Saturday June 8, 1996, radio address to the nation as reported
in the Daily Republican, ‘Vivid’ Childhood Memories a Clinton Fabrication,” June
10, 1996, http://www.dailyrepublican.com/clintonfabrication.html.
2. Monica Langley, “National Church Council Wants To Raise Roofs, Racial
Awareness,” Wall Street Journal, August 9, 1996, http://www.wsj.com/articles/
SB839542401195860000.
3. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa and Prof. Ronald Rychlak, Disinformation: Former Spy
Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Pro-
moting Terrorism,” 2013, WND Books, pp. 1-3
4. (ESPN) “Rays turn to Seminole medicine man,” June 9, 2014 http://espn.go.com/
mlb/story/_/id/11056541/slumping-tampa-bay-rays-turn-seminole-medicine-man-
bobby-henry
5. See “Chapter 14 - Theft/Reset in Scots Criminal Law,” 3rd Edition (Sept. 1, 2010).
http://uk.practicallaw.com/books/9781845921521/chapter14
6. The American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the USSR was started in
1951, and its broadcast station became known as Radio Liberty. For more on VOA
during this period, see David F. Krugler, The Voice of America and the Domestic Pro-
paganda Battles, 1945-1953(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000); for more
on RFE/RL, see Arch Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky,
2000).
1. Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story (New York: Harper
Collins, 1990), p. 545.
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1. Doug Mainwaring, “We are all Tea Partiers now,” The Washington Times,, September
30, 2010, p.1.
2. “Economic Determinism,” MSN Encarta Dictionary, as published in http://encarta.
msn.com/dictionary_1861689621/economic_determinis.html.
3. Yevgeny Yevdokimov, “Russia comes to understand Mikhail Gorbachev,” Center for
Defense Information Russia Weekly, No. 143, March 2, 2001, p. 5, Internet edition,
www.cdi.org/russia/143.html
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1. See Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won’t Give Up Wealth, Real Clear Politics,
Oct. 1, 2011 (“‘I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability
to pay back anything over $100 million [of ] personal wealth because I believe in a
maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of
that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that
doesn’t help, then being beheaded,’ Barr said with a straight face.”) http://www.
realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/01/roseanne_barr_behead_bankers_rich_who_
wont_give_up_wealth.html
2. “Hugo Chavez and Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Stand with Occupy Wall
Street,” Before It’s News, Oct. 9, 2011. http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conser-
vative/2011/10/hugo-chavez-and-iranian-revolutionary-guard-general-stand-with-
occupy-wall-street-1207368.html. Ray Walser, Hugo Chavez, “Occupy Wall Street,
and Double Standards,” October 07, 2011, The Daily Signal, http://dailysignal.
com/2011/10/07/hugo-chavez-occupy-wall-street-and-double-standards/
3. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatc/news/regions/americas/united-states/111012/
ayatolah-ali-khamenei-occupy-wall-street-iran.
4. http://www.businessinsider.com/amerivan-nazi-communist-parties
5. http://pajamasmedia.com/2011/10/11-occupy-I-a-speaker-violence-will-be-neces-
sary-to-achieve-our-goals.
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6. Eric Lichtblau, “Democrats Try Wary Embrace of the Protests,” The New York
Times, October 10, 2011 (“Leading Democratic figures, including party fund-
raisers and a top ally of President Obama, are embracing the spread of the anti-Wall
Street protests in a clear sign that members of the Democratic establishment see the
movement as a way to align disenchanted Americans with their party.”) http://www.
nytimes.com/2011/10/11/us/politics/wall-street-protests-gain-support-from-leading-
democrats.html
7. Ibid.
8. Peter Catapano, “The Occupy Wall Street Quiz,” The New York Times, October 7,
2011. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/the-occupy-wall-street-
quiz/
9. “Van Jones Praises Occupy Wall Street, Says Progressives Launching ‘October Offen-
sive’ To Rival Tea Party,” The Huffington Post, Oct. 1, 2011. http://www.huffington-
post.com/2011/10/01/van-jones-occupy-wall-street-rebuild-the-dream_n_990463.
html.
10. Jack Wisdom, “Obama’s Poisonous Embrace of BLM,” American Thinker, July
14, 2016, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/obamas_poisonous_
embrace_of_blm.html
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February 9, 2015, http://revcom.us/a/373/joe-veale-black-lives-matter-latino-lives-
matter-all-lives-matter-en.html.
12. Ibid.
13. William Korey, “Russian Antisemitism, Pamyat, and the Demonology of Zionism,”
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as published on http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/studies2.
html.
14. The Okhrana had been founded in 1881 by Alexander III. It replaced the Department
of State Police, which failed to save the life of his father, Tsar Alexander II.
15. In 1894, French captain Alfred Dreyfus, a wealthy Alsatian Jew, was falsely sentenced
for espionage by an anti-Semitic court and deported to Devil’s Island. Émile Zola,
a leading supporter of Dreyfus, promptly published J’accuse, reproving the judges
for their anti-Semitism. Zola was tried for libel but escaped to England. The violent
partisanship over this case dominated French life for more than a decade.
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16. Philip Grave, “The Protocols: A Literary Forgery,” The Times, London, August 16, 17
and 18, 1921, as published in www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?documents/protocols/protocols.
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17. Deroy Murdock, “Obama Occupies Wall Street, National Review Online, December
5, 2011.
18. John Perazzo, “The Marriage of Black Lives Matter & Jew Hatred: How BLM And
Anti-Israel Activists Found Common Cause, FrontPage,” March 15, 2016, http://
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19. Charles Mudede, “Anti-Semitic Remarks at a Black Lives Matter Event Appear to
Go Unchallenged,” The Stanger, Sept. 2, 2015, http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/
slog/2015/09/02/22792847/anti-semitic-remarks-at-a-black-lives-matter-event-
appear-to-go-unchallenged. The bossiness owner, Ian Eisenberg, was born in the
United States and had not served in the IDF.
20. Josh Feit, “Anti-Semitism Creeps into Recent Black Lives Matter March: Recent Black
Lives Matter rally marred by anti-Semitic rhetoric,” Seattle Met, August 26, 2015.
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