Kent Clizbe - Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness, Obamas Hate-America-First Political Platform, and Destroyed America

WILLING ACCOMPLICES

How KGB Covert Influence Agents
Created Political Correctness,
Obamas Hate-America-First Political Platform,
And Destroyed America

Kent Clizbe

For those who care to see, and those
who dare to see.

Ashburn, Virginia, USA
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kent@kentclizbe.com

All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official positions or views of the CIA or any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying U.S. Government authentication of information or Agency endorsement of the authors views. This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified information.

Preface

In Willing Accomplices, using counter-intelligence analytical techniques honed while serving as an espionage officer in the CIA, I will demonstrate that the emergence of Political Correctness (PC) in America was as intentionally orchestrated as Coca-Colas advertising is carefully planned and implemented.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the roots of the strategy to implant PC in the American ethos came from an old and familiar adversary: the former Soviet Unions Committee for State Security (Russian acronym KGB ).

My thesis is that the KGB, beginning soon after the Communist takeover of Russia in 1917, implemented massive covert influence operations. Their goal was to destroy the core moral fabric of American society. Taking advantage of the intellectual and philosophical climate of the early 1900s, the Soviet intelligence apparatus began what would now be called in intelligence circles, a preparation of the battle space to move the world towards the inevitable dictatorship of the proletariat. Covert operatives realized that Americas greatest strengths were its proud exceptionalism and belief that freedom and liberty were part of mans divine destiny. Our free society also made us vulnerable to covert operations. KGB case officers and their agents had easy access to a wide range of American society.

Prior to and during the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik head Vladimir Lenin and his cronies learned the value of conspiratorial practices and the value of disinformation, propaganda, agents of influence, and other covert influence techniques. Russian society and culture were uniquely suited for these practices of secrecy and espionage. Trotsky described his first experience in Communist agitation, saying [w]e knewcontacts with workers demanded secret, highly conspiratorial methods. And we pronounced the word solemnly, with a reverence that was almost mystic.

The Bolsheviks employed these tactics first during the many years of preparation for the October Revolution but then more ambitiously as part of a long term project that was designed to soften their capitalist enemies for their imagined global Communist revolution.

A target of energetic covert influence operations was the Soviet Unions Main Adversarythe United States. The covert operations, in which KGB officers recruited and ran agents, were aimed at influencing Innocents, which is the term Soviet covert operatives used to describe Westerners who could be manipulated into doing the Communists bidding.

The KGB identified and focused on the three areas of a free society that pass on its cultural heritage: the media, academia and education, and entertainment. In addition, they focused their efforts on vulnerable governmental policy-makers, particularly in the State Department.

Using experienced operatives and highly compartmented operations, the KGB sought to insert covert influence payloads designed to call into question the fundamental bases on which American society and culture had been built. Many American Progressives eagerly carried out these covert operations for the Communists. Others not involved in the operations received the covert messages and accepted them as gospel.

The messengers denigrated American patriotism, capitalism, and individualism, and called into question American foreign policy. The critical view of America seemed to form the philosophical basis of an elite anti-American attitude. The attitude coalesced during the Great Depression. It was nurtured and strengthened by the American transmitters of the KGBs covert influence operations: journalists, screenwriters, and professors, among others.

I call these Americans Willing Accomplices. They were witting, and unwitting, agents of influence. They were Willing to imbibe the superior attitude conferred by the high-minded ideals of the fronts. And they were Accomplices to the communists goal of destroying their countrythe greatest cultural destruction operation in the history of mankind.

The Willing Accomplices in the KGBs efforts to destroy American culture may, or may not, have known exactly who they were dealing with. They may, or may not, have known that the KGB was helping them. They may, or may not, have known that they were receiving special treatment and favors for being a conduit for the America is a hateful place message.

Whether they were witting or unwitting of KGB or Comintern involvement by their friends does not matter. Whether they actively spread the influence payload of the Soviets, of hate-America-first, out of good intentions, or because of true belief in normal Americas inferiority and their own, and Soviet, superiority, does not matter. Whether they received a bundle of cash, or a check, or any money at all does not matter. As well see in the counterintelligence analysis chapter, each of the Willing Accomplices put themselves in the control of the Russians, and their situations favorably changed.

Recent writers have used the term Dupes for the fellow travelers and others who fell within the communist sphere of influence. This is too kind, and at the same time misunderstands the true nature of most communist operations. The targets, the Willing Accomplices, may have appeared to be duped, but as well see, this appearance was a fig leaf, provided by the Soviets to their Accomplices, so they could appear innocent, if their conscience or reputation required that appearance.

The communist master of feel-good America hating, Willi Muenzenberg perfected the Popular Front operational concept. He and his agents set up multiple organizations with high-minded names and reasons for existencefor example the International Congress Against Fascism and War, and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. These fronts gave intellectuals, journalists, artists, and educators a higher callingwhile serving as cover to insert covert influence payloads into the targeted cultures.

The perceived moral superiority of the Soviets covert influence messages provided Popular Front members a chance to show you were a decent human being, in fact, a better human being. Muenzenberg despised these Popular Front members, and called them Innocents.