Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa & Ronald Rychlak

Author:Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa & Ronald Rychlak [Pacepa, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2013-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

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OPERATION “DRAGON”

ON NOVEMBER 26, 1963, four days after President Kennedy was killed, General Sakharovsky landed unannounced in Bucharest, in what proved to be his first stop on a blitz tour of the main “sister” services. From him, we in the DIE learned that the KGB had already launched a worldwide disinformation operation aimed at diverting public attention away from Moscow in respect to the Kennedy assassination, and at framing the CIA as the culprit. “The Comrade” himself—Khrushchev—wanted to make it clear to all “our sister services” that this was by far our first and most important task.

“The Comrade” was afraid, Sakharovsky told us, that if the American media and public opinion should start pointing the finger at Moscow, that could end in a nuclear confrontation. Time was of the essence. It was crucial, Sakharovsky emphasized, to spread our version about the assassination before Washington could spread its own, so that our disinformation machinery could plant the idea on virgin soil that the CIA was responsible for the crime.

We in the DIE knew better than to ask Sakharovsky questions. But we knew.

Blaming the CIA for the KGB’s own assassinations and kidnappings abroad was a disinformation tactic that had been introduced by Khrushchev after the Twentieth Congress, where he had “unmasked” Stalin’s crimes. In spite of the KGB’s penchant for bureaucratic paperwork, Khrushchev ordered that from then on, all operations connected with assassinations and kidnappings abroad must be handled on a strictly oral basis. They were never to be committed to paper, and they had to be kept totally secret from the Politburo and every other governing body. Only the Comrade himself could approve assassinations and kidnappings abroad. Regardless of any evidence that might be produced in foreign investigations, the KGB was never to acknowledge its involvement in assassinations and kidnappings abroad; any such evidence was to be dismissed out of hand as a ridiculous accusation.

Finally, after each operation the KGB was surreptitiously to spread “evidence” in the West, accusing the CIA or other convenient “enemies” of having done the deed, thereby if possible killing two birds with one stone. We learned about Khrushchev’s new strategy soon after the Twentieth Congress from General Ivan Anisimovich Fadeyev, the new chief of the rebaptized and widely expanded KGB department for assassinations abroad, who came to Bucharest for an “exchange of information.”

General Fadeyev was known to the DIE management from the years when he had headed the KGB rezidentura in East Berlin, which became an infamous mechanism for assassinating people in, and kidnapping people from, West Germany. He had also been instrumental in the brutal June 1953 suppression of anti-Soviet demonstrations in East Berlin, when his KGB troops opened live fire against the German demonstrators. That had been too much even for the bloodthirsty Stalin, as Fadeyev was recalled to Moscow. Not for Khrushchev, however.

In 1957, General Fadeyev began his exchange of experience in Bucharest by playing Khrushchev’s broken record, according to which Stalin had made an unpardonable mistake by aiming the cutting edge of the state security apparatus against the Soviet Union’s own people.

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