2021 by R. James Woolsey and Ion Mihai Pacepa
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Woolsey, R. James, 1941 author. | Pacepa, Ion Mihai, 1928 author.
Title: Operation dragon : inside the Kremlins secret war on America / by Ambassador R. James Woolsey and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa.
Description: New York : Encounter Books, [2021] Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020632 (print) | LCCN 2020020633 (ebook) ISBN 9781641771450 (cloth) | ISBN 9781641771467 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Espionage, Russian--United States--History. Intelligence serviceSoviet UnionHistory. | SpiesSoviet Union.
Classification: LCC JN6529.I6 W66 2021 (print) | LCC JN6529.I6 (ebook) DDC 327.1247073dc23
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In Memory of Nancye Miller and Maurice Anthony Miller, with love and admiration
To Mary Lou Pacepa, who helped me to look at my past with American eyes
If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Until its wars against communist expansion in Korea and Vietnam, America was accustomed to victory. From 1776 to 1782 and in 1812, America gained and maintained its liberty from the British Empire, the most powerful in the world. In 1846, Mexico attacked and was soundly defeated. In 1898, the United States went to war to keep Cuba independent of Spain, decimating the Spanish fleet and forcing Spain to sue for peace. In World War I, in which over 40 million Europeans were killed, the United States quickly put together an army of 4 million and became instrumental in defeating the German aggressor. In World War II, almost half a million Americans died to defeat Nazism. At its end, a united America rebuilt her vanquished enemies. It took seven years and trillions of dollars to turn Hitlers Germany, Mussolinis Italy, and Hirohitos Japan into prosperous democracies, but the effort made the United States the uncontested leader of the world, a fact that has kept the peace for over seventy years.
America has always stood against tyranny from any ideological source. Russia during its socialist period killed over 90 million people throughout its empire. It stole American nuclear technology. It murdered one of our presidents. It generated todays international terrorism. Now, our intelligence professionals say, it openly interferes in Americas internal affairs. This book is about why confronting such behavior must be at the center of Americas foreign policy.
This is the first and it will be surely the last book in history to be co-written by a former director of the U.S. foreign intelligence community and an ex-Sovietbloc spy chief. As communism collapsed economically in the early 1990s, Pacepa effectively sent a socialist tyrant, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, to the gallows by writing a book entitled Red Horizons. Knowledge is power. This book adds to our knowledge base about Russia as it was in the Soviet period and as it continues to be. Karl Marxs Communist Manifesto has turned 172 years old, leaving behind the wreckage of nations like trailer parks after a hurricane. Communisms late socialist leaders are today reviled universally as tyrants, from the Soviet Unions Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin to Cubas Fidel Castro; from Yugoslavias Josip Broz Tito to Bulgarias Todor Zhivkov; from Albanias Enver Hoxha to Hungarys Mtys Rakosi; from Guineas Skou Tour to Tanzanias Julius Nyerere and Venezuelas Hugo Chavez. For years the USSRs Nikita Khrushchev and Romanias Nicolae Ceausescu were even found unworthy of a marked grave.
The United States fought the Cold War for forty-four long years. It may have won, but unlike other wars, this war didnt end with the defeated enemy throwing down its weapons. The Soviet Union has changed its name, but at 6,612,100 square miles, Russia is still the largest country on earth geographically. It also still has the worlds largest stockpile of nuclear and bacteriological weapons and the worlds second largest fleet of ballistic nuclear missile submarines, a fact our politicians and press tend to ignore. Russia remains largely a mystery to America, but it is a puzzle that we assume away as subdued, or as having collapsed, at our peril.
On March 16, 2014, Moscow state television announced with fanfare that Russia could now turn its archenemy, the U.S., into radioactive ash. A single Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) nuclear bomb launched above the U.S. mainland from a fishing boat off either our East or West Coast could collapse the entire United States electric grid and all that depends on itcommunications, transportation, banking, finance, and food and water. This is all that is currently necessary to sustain modern civilization and the lives of 360 million Americans. NATOs deputy supreme commander in Europe, General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, warned that the threat from Russia and the risk it brings of miscalculation resulting in a strategic conflict represents an existential threat to our whole being.
We agree.
The two of us have spent decades managing the foreign intelligence communities of our native countries. Behind Russias new smiling face lurk almost a hundred nuclear and bacteriological cities built and managed by the KGB. This intelligence service has been rechristened the FSB only to make it seem to be a new organization. Its sole task is to steal U.S. military technologies and weapons and to secretly reproduce them as if they were Russian inventions. Chelyabinsk city in the Urals is on a map of the
Candidates for public office routinely ignore the threat to national security from historical enemies of the United States. Some appear to believe that Russia is now Westernizedsome who lean left even seem to believe that Russias cast-off socialism still ought to serve as a model for the United States. In the tradition of pie-in-the-sky promises, candidates for public office promise American voters Russian-style jobs, free education, and free health care for all. Few seem to grasp that the Soviet Unions economic disintegration in 1989 was final proof of socialisms bankruptcy as a system. Its failure also came without warning. Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1991 that I never heard a suggestion from the CIA or the intelligence arms of the departments of Defense or State about growing, systemic economic problems in the Soviet Union. Rather, the trendy political science theory of the 1970s was convergence. That the Soviet Union and the U.S. were more alike than different and were gradually coming together in a convergence of free market and socialist systems.
