THE DESIGNATED HIT MAN
Oswald was recruited by Soviet foreign intelligence (the PGU) when he was serving in Japan as a young Marine. What feels hard for people to swallow, however, is that another PGU department subsequently trained Oswald as an assassin and so thoroughly brainwashed him that not even the PGU itself could deter him from accomplishing his very secret and special “mission for Khrushchev.” (For details see Pacepa’s book Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the KGB, and Kennedy’s Assassination.)
Flash back to Oswald’s life.1 Following the example of his two older brothers, as soon as he turned seventeen, Oswald enlisted in the Marine Corps, eager to escape from the impoverished and chaotic life imposed on them by their dysfunctional mother. After being trained in the United States, he arrived in Japan on September 12, 1957, for assignment as a radar operator at Atsugi Air Base (which also had a U-2 reconnaissance plane unit). As a lonely child, Oswald’s only pleasure had been devouring books in the public library, where he had become hooked on the fairytale descriptions of Marxism and the Soviet Union. In Japan, unlike his teammates, he showed no interest in sports and girls, but he did begin going with his teammates to the local bars. There he spouted off about his favorite subjects, the Soviet paradise and the Russian language.
It would not have taken the PGU long to recruit a person such as this. At that time Pacepa was urged by his PGU advisors to focus on recruiting an American “serzhant” stationed at Atsugi or Wiesbaden, important Soviet targets for high-altitude radar intelligence. Oswald was soon dating one very expensive bar girl and later seeing another girl for Russian lessons.
In December 1958, Oswald was assigned to El Toro Air Base in California, which did not have U-2s but did have new height-finding radar gear. For security reasons, the PGU did not allow personal meetings with its agents in the United States, but Oswald found ways to go to Tijuana, Mexico, to meet “friends” and also to deposit classified material in bus station lockers that could be retrieved by PGU illegal officers. The Soviets were clearly impressed with his radar information, and Oswald was happy to have found people who appreciated him. Oswald soon developed a determination to spend the rest of his life in the Soviet Union. He managed an early discharge on September 11, 1959, allegedly to care for his sick mother, and on September 20 sailed for Europe on a freighter out of New Orleans. The Soviets did not really want him as a defector, but the PGU arranged to bring him to Moscow “black” for a week in order to debrief him fully on the U-2 flights. It then planned to send him back out as its agent at an international school in Switzerland that it had already arranged for Oswald to contact in March 1959.
Oswald got to Moscow sometime in early October 1959. He was thoroughly debriefed of his information on the U-2. Its most secret attributes were the height at which it flew (thirty thousand meters, or roughly ninety thousand feet) and the new radar used to track it. Oswald was able to provide detailed data on both. Security concerns had caused the U.S. to suspend U-2 flights temporarily, but they were started up again on April 9, 1960, enabling the Soviets to confirm the accuracy of Oswald’s reporting. Pacepa learned around this time from PGU chief Aleksandr Sakharovsky that “a defector” had provided the checkable information on the U-2’s flight altitude and that the Soviets were ready to shoot down the next flight.
Finally, on May 1, 1960, the Soviets succeeded in bringing down an American U-2 plane. Khrushchev bragged to the world that his rockets had shot it down. In fact, the Soviets did not have rockets able to reach a target at that altitude. If they did, the rocket would have blasted the U-2 and its pilot to smithereens. What the Soviets had actually done was build a special lightweight plane, whose pilot was able to maneuver into the U-2’s slipstream and cause it to fall. Thus, both the pilot, Gary Powers, and parts of his U-2 were saved for Khrushchev’s exultant show trial and public display.2
Khrushchev was riding high, the KGB took all the credit, and Oswald secretly became the hero of the day. Plans to send Oswald to the school in Switzerland were scrapped. At this time, Pacepa heard PGU chief Sakharovsky claim that the downing of the U-2 was “the most valuable May Day present we’ve ever given the Comrade,” meaning Khrushchev.
On November 7, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States, taking office in January 1961. At first Khrushchev merely disdained Kennedy as the spoiled son of a millionaire. But in late January, reliable PGU spies reported that Washington was preparing an assault on Cuba (which would become the Bay of Pigs debacle). Khrushchev exploded with rage. The PGU’s Department Thirteen (assassination and sabotage) was called into play. Pacepa recalls that in January 1961, the PGU tasked his Romanian foreign intelligence service to provide the PGU with American English speakers (officers and agents) who could conduct diversion and sabotage operations in the United States. (Up until then, the KGB had trained its officers and agents in British English.)
The hot-headed Khrushchev demanded Kennedy’s head. This was how he had always dealt with his enemies. It would not be an easy job for the PGU to pull off in the United States. But in Oswald it already had one devoted and loyal agent who spoke American English and could be trained for the assignment. Oswald was told that his idol Khrushchev had specially asked for him to be sent temporarily to the United States on a very secret mission, after which he would of course return home to the Soviet Union. Flattered, Oswald could not refuse.
Then things started to heat up. The U.S. embassy in Moscow received an undated letter from Oswald in Minsk on February 13, 1961, in which he stated that he wanted to return to the United States. On April 17, the Bay of Pigs fiasco took place. The PGU immediately ordered its satellite services, including Pacepa’s in Romania, to “throw mud” on “the Pig,” Khrushchev’s new name for President Kennedy. On May 25 Oswald wrote the U.S. embassy in Moscow that he had gotten married and wanted to take his Russian wife with him to the U.S. Pacepa’s PGU advisors always insisted that every illegal officer or agent have a trained wife to help him with communications and to bolster his morale. On June 2 and 3, Khrushchev met Kennedy in Vienna—a meeting that reinforced his hatred for him. Just after that event, coauthor Pacepa saw a letter Khrushchev had sent to Ceausescu and probably to the other satellite leaders calling Kennedy a puppet of the CIA and the American military-industrial complex. Khrushchev stepped up tension over Berlin, and on August 13, the Berlin Wall was built overnight.
After persuading him to return to the U.S. on a very secret, temporary mission, Department Thirteen would have put Oswald through some intensive training as he was not a trained agent. Our best guide to his training would be the example of “Anton,” a case very similar to Oswald’s. Born in Canada, “Anton” returned with his family to his fanatical communist father’s native Czechoslovakia at the age of sixteen. There “Anton” was recruited by the Czech secret police and in 1957 was turned over to the Soviet PGU’s Department Thirteen for assassinations abroad and sent to Moscow for training. His assignment was to return to Canada to perform “special tasks,” which would be specified after he was settled in Canada.
In 1958 “Anton” entered training near Moscow, where he was comfortably lodged in a safe house, by officers of Department Thirteen. Pacepa’s Romanian DIE also had its own such division, known as Group Z—the last letter of the alphabet, standing for the final solution—which similarly had its own training facilities. “Anton’s” instruction focused on all kinds of clandestine communications: ciphers, codes, invisible writing, microdots, recognition signals, and radio procedures.
In 1962, Oswald worked for a short time at a graphic arts company in Dallas, where he discussed the making of microdots with another employee. He also used the company’s equipment to make identity documents for himself under the alias O. H. Lee, which he used for travel to Mexico, in fake documents certifying his vaccinations, and to receive weapons at post office boxes, including the rifle that would kill Kennedy.
“Anton” also became an excellent marksman by practicing at a special firing range on targets depicting a man’s upper body.
When Oswald was arrested after the assassination, he still had in his proud possession a hunting license issued to him in Minsk, a membership certificate in the Belorussian Society of Hunters and Fishermen, and a gun permit, all issued in the summer of 1960.
“Anton” had studied the vulnerabilities of sabotage targets and on the side had endured a little academic instruction in Marxism.
Oswald did not need sabotage instruction, as he knew what his assignment was, but he undoubtedly had plenty of morale-building brainwashing sessions.
Unlike Oswald, “Anton” never knew what his exact assignment would be, although he was told that “if a need for a weapon develops, one will be provided.” After “Anton” completed his training, his principal Department Thirteen training officer was assigned to the United Nations in New York so as to be available to “Anton,” but for the time being “Anton” simply remained in Canada awaiting further instructions. In 1972 “Anton” was arrested by Canadian authorities, with whom he then fully cooperated.3
In Moscow, it took over a year for the U.S. embassy, on May 24, 1962, to issue proper papers for the Oswalds (now including daughter June, born February 15, 1962) to travel to the U.S. On June 1, 1962, the family finally left the Soviet Union on their long trip to Fort Worth, Texas, where Oswald’s brother Robert took them in.
Materials found after Oswald’s death indicate that he knew Department Thirteen officer Valery Kostikov by the operational pseudonym “Comrade Kostin” before meeting him in Mexico City in 1963. It is very likely that Kostikov participated in Oswald’s training in the Moscow area and then went to Mexico City, just as “Anton’s” training officer from Moscow was assigned to the United Nations in New York when “Anton” repatriated to Canada. Kostikov was assigned as a Soviet diplomat to Mexico City in September 1961 shortly before Oswald’s anticipated repatriation to the United States.
PGU illegal officer George de Mohrenschildt moved back to the Dallas area in October 1961, evidently in order to help the Oswalds settle down there at that time. Oswald’s departure from the Soviet Union was delayed simply as the result of bureaucracy at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in getting its paperwork to the Oswalds.
A SECRET PROMISE TO KHRUSHCHEV
It is hard for normal citizens to understand what it was like to be Oswald, enthralled, some would say brainwashed, by the Soviets. The whole focus of his life during his “temporary” return to the United States was to carry out the very secret mission that Khrushchev had personally entrusted to him—to kill President Kennedy, who had destroyed Khrushchev’s international prestige. Then Oswald could return to his own life with his beloved new family in the Soviet paradise.4
We do not know if Khrushchev ever spoke to Oswald in person, but he very well might have. We do know that Khrushchev personally decorated Bogdan Stashinsky for having killed two prominent Soviet émigrés living in West Germany. Oswald did Khrushchev a huge favor in 1960 in enabling the Soviets to bring down Gary Powers and his U-2 spy plane. So during his training for the mission in the United States, Oswald was certainly told that Khrushchev had personally asked him to perform a top secret assassination for him. Marina, Oswald’s wife, would tell her biographer that her husband had once complained that Kennedy’s “papa bought him the presidency,” an echo of Khrushchev’s oft-repeated disdain for Kennedy as “the millionaire’s kid.” Yet nothing indicates that Oswald himself had ever developed any personal animus against Kennedy.
Soon after the Oswalds’ arrival in Texas in 1962, they sought out other Russian émigrés. According to one young man who used to visit the Oswalds to practice his Russian, Lee described Khrushchev as “simply brilliant.” He also liked President Kennedy; on their living room table, the Oswalds “more or less permanently” displayed a copy of Life magazine with a photo of Kennedy on the cover. Marina Oswald would testify to the Warren Commission in 1964 that her husband had once said: “If someone had killed Hitler in time, it would have saved many lives.” That could well have been the theme-song of Oswald’s Department Thirteen training.
Shortly before the Oswalds left the Soviet Union, the pregnant Marina visited “two aunts in Kharkov” for three or four weeks. This was undoubtedly time spent with Department Thirteen officers, who trained her how best to support her husband physically and emotionally and in clandestine communications. Marina was not, however, told what her husband’s secret mission was. Oswald understood the extreme secrecy of his mission, and he was also very protective of his wife and did not want her to suffer from sharing his life. Upon arriving in Texas in 1962, Oswald told his mother: “Not even Marina knows why I have returned to the United States.” He also did not want his wife to hang out with Russian-American women, going shopping, or practicing speaking English, because he was determined to see his family return to live out the rest of their lives in the Soviet paradise, where she would have no need for American products or the English language. Neither did he want Marina’s life complicated by his own frequent changes of residence, so he was happy when she became friends with the kindly American Ruth Paine over Russian lessons and began staying with her as Oswald became preoccupied with his mission. Starting on February 17, 1963, he had Marina write to the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC, to say that she wanted to return to the Soviet Union. She wrote again with the same request on March 17. On July 1 Oswald himself wrote to the embassy, asking for separate visas, with a plea to rush Marina’s so that she could give birth to her second child in the Soviet motherland. Then Marina herself wrote again on July 8. The embassy fudged in every case, saying it had to check with Moscow or asking for more documents.
The only other person who was close to Oswald after his return to the United States was the supposedly wealthy and aristocratic Russian émigré George de Mohrenschildt. He became Oswald’s best friend and mentor, but no one could ever really explain how they had come to know each other. Actually, de Mohrenschildt was an old, experienced KGB illegal officer who had become an American citizen and whose main job since at least 1938 had been to collect military intelligence.
On December 22, 1958, Oswald was assigned to El Toro Base in Texas. That was most likely when the KGB first assigned de Mohrenschildt to guide the inexperienced, nineteen-year-old Oswald both in the everyday logistics of being an agent and in the kind of intelligence Moscow needed. De Mohrenschildt’s role in Oswald’s story is fascinating, but it is clear that in 1962 he did not know why Oswald had returned to the United States.
Let us look briefly at the illegal officer George de Mohrenschildt himself. Allegedly born in 1911, he was handsome, charming, changed his background story many times during his lifetime, had many love affairs, and was married four times. His last wife, Jeanne, was also an illegal officer and had been publicly denounced as a communist spy by a previous husband. George first came to the United States in 1938 on a Polish passport documenting him as Baron George von Mohrenschildt, the son of a German director of the Swedish “Nobel interests” in the Baku oilfields. His intelligence assignment was to mix with conservative German-Americans and try to pick up Nazi military information. When it became clear that the Nazis were losing the war, he became the French George de Mohrenschildt, who had attended a commercial school in Belgium founded by Napoleon. After the war he claimed his father had been a Russian engineer working in the Ploesti oilfields in Romania who was captured and executed by the Soviet army. In whatever guise, de Mohrenschildt’s job was to collect military intelligence.
De Mohrenschildt was most likely the PGU illegal officer who collected Oswald’s information on U.S. Air Force planes from bus station lockers in the U.S. and at personal meetings in Tijuana when Oswald was assigned to El Toro Base in Texas. As an American citizen, de Mohrenschildt could freely move around in the United States. He and his wife, Jeanne, are known to have been in Mexico at the time of Oswald’s meetings with “friends” in Tijuana. Oswald wasn’t yet twenty years old when he decided he wanted to defect to the Soviet Union. For all his bravado, until then he’d been moved around on instructions from his peripatetic mother or the U.S. Marine Corps, so he badly needed advice from the older and more experienced de Mohrenschildt. When Oswald was discharged from the Marines on September 11, 1959, he immediately went to New Orleans, booked passage for Le Havre on an unlisted freighter of the Lykes Lines, and sailed for Le Havre the next day, September 20. (On his own, the inexperienced Oswald would not have known about the Lykes Line freighter that took him to Europe, but it was an inconspicuous and inexpensive line often used by de Mohrenschildt.)
When Oswald returned to the United States in 1962, his contacts with Russian-Americans in the Dallas area provided a pretext for how he might have met de Mohrenschildt. But every time either of them was asked about it, the story changed. De Mohrenschildt kindly helped the Oswalds get settled and resettled, but he mistakenly assumed that Oswald’s KGB job was more or less the same as his own had been, i.e., to collect military intelligence, as Oswald had done when he was in the Marines. Upon Oswald’s return to the United States, de Mohrenschildt went to a lot of trouble to find ways to introduce him to interesting military people but then was completely baffled when Oswald made no effort to follow up on any of those attractive leads. Clearly, not even de Mohrenschildt, Oswald’s “best friend” and mentor and PGU advisor, knew the real reason Oswald had come back to the United States.
Only Oswald knew what Khrushchev wanted him to do, and although Oswald was only twenty-three years old, he was determined to accomplish his secret mission for his idol Khrushchev and, at all costs, to keep it entirely secret.
The Soviet embassy in Washington was not involved in Oswald’s return to the United States. The PGU station there was responsible for keeping track of the Oswalds’ whereabouts in the United States, for replying to the Oswalds’ letters—which it did coldly—and finally for preventing their return to the Soviet Union, just as Moscow had instructed it to do. That was surely all until further instruction if the inconceivable (or the inevitable) occurred.
Department Thirteen had assigned its officer Valery Kostikov to Mexico City in September 1961 to provide Oswald with moral support and operational advice. After his unsuccessful trip to Mexico City in April 1963, Oswald understood that he would have to rely on his own wits to accomplish his mission, but he still needed official assistance to return legally and safely to the Soviet motherland. When the Soviet embassy in Washington kept giving him and his wife the runaround about getting visas for the Soviet Union, he decided to try getting visas in Mexico for Moscow via Havana. After unsuccessfully seeking to visit his case officer Kostikov in Mexico City again in September–October 1963, and with unfriendly officials at the Cuban embassy, he gave up and retreated to Texas, hoping to be able to work out an escape mechanism by himself when the time came.
Oswald’s working draft of a letter dated November 9, 1963, addressed to the Soviet embassy in Washington was found after the assassination at Ruth Paine’s house, where Oswald had gone to join his wife and children after his second fruitless visit to Mexico. In it, he explains that he talked to “Comrade Kostine” at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City but that the embassy was unprepared and couldn’t help him with the visas he and his family needed, stressing that the Soviet embassy was not to blame but was simply unprepared for him. He complains, however, that the Cuban consulate was “guilty of a gross breach of regulations.” Once again he asks for the entrance visas “as soon as they come” while informing the embassy of the birth of his second daughter on October 20, 1963.
Oswald tried hard to be polite with Soviet officialdom, but by this time he must have understood that no help would be forthcoming from them. Left hanging high and dry, he was still convinced that he alone understood what Khrushchev wanted him to do. He had made a solemn promise to the Soviet leader, and he was going to fulfill that promise even if none of the stupid KGB bureaucrats would cooperate. Taking matters into his own hands, Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Fidel Castro was already prepared to do his part, so two days later, Cuban agent Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald at the Dallas Police station. On October 5, 1966, Ruby’s death sentence was overturned and a new trial ordered. That December, Ruby was diagnosed with acute lung cancer, and he died on January 3, 1967.
The Russians have used radioactive weapons to kill their enemies in the West often. On July 22, 1978, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu ordered Pacepa to have a Romanian émigré in the West, Noel Bernard, killed. Bernard directed the Romanian program at Radio Free Europe in Munich, whose broadcasts constantly attacked the Romanian dictator. Bernard was to be administered a lethal radioactive substance the Romanians had gotten from the Soviets. Instead, Pacepa defected the next day and sent a warning to Bernard. Bernard insisted on continuing with his job. On December 23, 1981, three years after Pacepa was granted political asylum in the U.S., Noel Bernard died of a galloping form of cancer later confirmed as the result of a radioactive poison administered by Romanian foreign intelligence.
George de Mohrenschildt and his wife stayed in Haiti until 1967, when they quietly sailed for the U.S. with their household effects and some $250,000 from a mysterious deposit that had been made to his Haitian bank account. The Warren Commission had already absolved de Mohrenschildt of any connection with the JFK assassination. Pacepa knew in Romania that George de Mohrenschildt was a KGB asset but nothing more about him or his activities. On March 29, 1977, de Mohrenschildt was interviewed by the writer Edward Jay Epstein about Oswald at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. There de Mohrenschildt learned from Epstein that the House Select Commission on Assassinations was scheduled to interview him. At the lunch break, de Mohrenschildt went to his daughter’s home in nearby Manalapan (where he was staying) and shot himself in the head.
De Mohrenschildt’s widow provided some materials he had left behind, including a manuscript in which the alleged German baron praised Khrushchev: “He is gone now, God bless his Bible-quoting soul and his earthy personality. His sudden bursts of anger and beating of the table with his shoe, are all gone and belong to history. Millions of Russians miss him.”5 The manuscript also described Oswald as a nervous marksman who admired Kennedy and could not have killed him. It suggested that President Lyndon Johnson was behind the assassination because he hated the whole Kennedy clan. In other words, de Mohrenschildt was doing his best to support the post-assassination disinformation narratives.
The House Commission concluded its investigation without accusing anyone of conspiring with Oswald in the Kennedy assassination. The CIA was specifically absolved of any responsibility.
In the end, there is no doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was trained by the KGB’s Department Thirteen to commit the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as ordered by Nikita Khrushchev. Even after the Russian political scene had changed and the KGB ordered Oswald to stand down, Oswald stubbornly went ahead with what he considered his personal mission as bestowed upon him by his hero, Khrushchev.
Ultimately, the Russian government must bear the responsibility for President Kennedy’s death.
THE COVER-UP: A DISINFORMATION EMPIRE IN THE WEST
“Dezinformatsiya works like cocaine,” KGB chief Yuri Andropov preached in his days at the Lubyanka. “If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. Use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.” During the Cold War, non-communist Western information outlets willing to publish the KGB’s fabricated stories without sourcing them were hard to find. To solve that problem, the KGB created its own organizations and masqueraded them as Western. Persuading the rest of the world that the Soviet Union had nothing to do with Kennedy’s assassination became one of the most important tasks of its secret intelligence service’s vast disinformation machinery that eventually commanded more undercover intelligence officers than the rest of the KGB had.
The first Russian international disinformation organization was founded under the respectable name of the World Peace Council. At first its main function was to document that America was a war-mongering, Zionist country financed by Jews and their money, run by a rapacious “Council of the Elders of Zion” (a derisive epithet for the U.S. Congress, a “Trilateral Commission,” or other secretive cronyist society), the aim of which was to convert the globe into a Jewish fiefdom. This material was all concocted by the Soviet foreign intelligence service.
To make the World Peace Council seem to be an indigenous Western organization, the Kremlin headquartered it in Paris and persuaded the leftist French Nobel prizewinner Frédéric Joliot-Curie to chair it. Back in those days, however, the French government saw through the ruse, accused the World Peace Council of being a Russian dezinformatsiya front, and kicked it out of France. One of Russia’s most trusted influence agents of that period, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, tried to persuade the French government to recant its decision. Sartre publicly vilified the United States as a racist nation suffering from political rabies,6 but that didn’t do the trick. A few months later, the World Peace Council was moved to Soviet-occupied Vienna.
It is no wonder the WPC was expelled from France. Behind its supposedly French façade, the WPC was as purely Soviet as it gets. Its daily business was conducted by a Soviet-style secretariat, whose twenty-one members were undercover intelligence officers from seven Soviet bloc countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and East Germany). The WPC also had twenty-three vice presidents, all undercover intelligence officers or agents. Four represented Soviet bloc countries (USSR, Poland, East Germany, and Romania), three represented communist governments loyal to Moscow (North Korea, North Vietnam, and Angola), one represented the African National Congress—which was financed and manipulated by Moscow—four represented non-ruling communist parties (in the United States, France, Italy, and Argentina), and eleven represented national-level WPC affiliates in the Soviet bloc and other Soviet puppet countries.
Most of the WPC’s permanent employees were undercover Soviet bloc intelligence officers trained in “peace operations” whose true role was to shape the new Western peace movements into fifth columns for the socialist camp. The WPC’s two publications in French, Nouvelles perspectives and Courier de la Paix, were also managed by undercover Soviet intelligence and Romanian DIE7 officers.
The money for the WPC budget came largely from Moscow, delivered by Soviet intelligence in the form of laundered cash dollars to hide its origin. In 1989, when the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, the WPC publicly admitted that 90 percent of its money came from the KGB.8 When the Soviet army was withdrawn from Austria, WPC headquarters was moved to Prague.
During the Vietnam War, the Russians tried to make the WPC look “nonaligned” by moving its headquarters to Helsinki. In those days, the Soviet bloc operated with a virtually free hand in Finland, because President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen was a highly regarded KGB agent. According to KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, Kekkonen had been fruitfully manipulated by the KGB until 1981, at which time he ended his unprecedented twenty-five-year term as president of Finland. During most of those years, his case officer was Viktor Vladimirov, a onetime chief of the KGB station in Helsinki. Vladimirov was promoted to the rank of KGB general for his successful handling of Kekkonen.9
To give more credibility to the WPC’s alleged “nonaligned” appearance, Moscow also appointed an “apolitical” Indian, Romesh Chandra, as its chairman. In reality, Chandra was a Soviet intelligence agent infiltrated into the National Committee of the Communist Party of India, one of the foreign communist parties most loyal to the Soviet Union at that time.10
After the Soviet Union collapsed, the World Peace Council moved to Athens, but its honorary chairman was still Romesh Chandra. In the 1970s the WPC required all its branches to initiate demonstrations around the world to protest America’s Zionist government and its militaristic sharks.
Over the years, the KGB created similar disinformation organizations in every part of Western society. Here are just a few in which Gen. Pacepa was directly involved: the World Federation of Democratic Youth, headquartered in Budapest, which had 210 national affiliates and published Jeunesse mondiale and Nouvelles de la FMDJ; the International Union of Students, headquartered in Prague, which had eighty national student organizations and published Nouvelles du monde étudiant; the World Federation of Trade Unions, headquartered in Prague, which was joined by ninety national organizations and published Le movement sindicale mondial and Trade Union Flashes; and the International Federation of Democratic Women, headquartered in East Berlin, which had branches in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South America, was joined by 129 national organizations, and published Women in the World in eight foreign languages.
Until President Kennedy’s assassination, the tasks of these huge machineries were to change Europe’s old hatred for the Nazis into one for Zionist America, the new occupation power. In other words, to try once again to exploit latent antisemitism to scare Europe and the Islamic world into thinking America intended to transform them into Jewish fiefdoms.
After President Kennedy’s assassination, these disinformation organizations spent most of their efforts trying to persuade the world that the United States had murdered its own president in a coup plot. Most Western European leftists, who had never set foot in America, were game to regarding far-away America with contempt just as these disinformation organizations painted it to them. That is, as a Zionist realm financed by Jewish money and run by a rapacious “Council of the Elders of Zion,” whose intelligence services assassinated its domestic enemies, even its own president.
To get that image across, these international disinformation organizations portrayed everyone and everything in America as subordinated to Jewish interests: the leaders, the government, the political parties, the most prominent personalities—even American history. Their goal was to make people in Europe “feel sick to their stomachs just thinking about America.” It would appear that they succeeded. During Pacepa’s last years in Romania, millions of Western Europeans took to the streets, not to celebrate the freedoms they enjoyed because America had liberated them from under the Nazi boot and protected them from that of the Soviets but to condemn America’s war-mongering Zionist government.
In the early 1970s, KGB chairman Yuri Andropov, the father of Russia’s modern era of deceit, decided to turn the Islamic world into an explosive enemy of the United States. Islam and the Arab world, General Sakharovsky had preached, were petri dishes in which his disinformation machinery could nurture a virulent strain of America-hate from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islam’s doctrine of soul-purifying jihad was the twin to our own soul-purifying romance with revolutionary nihilism. The Muslims’ anti-Semitism ran deep. We had only to keep repeating our themes: that the United States was a “Zionist country bankrolled by rich Jews, who wanted to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.”
As Sakharovsky described it, Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidel’s occupation of its territory. It would be highly receptive to the dogma that American Zionism was the source of all evil. Muslims would instantly applaud our characterization of the U.S. Congress as a rapacious Zionist body aiming to turn the world into a Jewish fiefdom. That would redirect the historic Arab and Islamic hostility, nationalism, and vulgar anti-Semitism to focus on the United States. Fervent anti-Americanism would spread just the way Sakharovsky had planned. September 11, 2001 and September 11, 2012 are heartrending proof of that.