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Over the course of the Cold War and in the years that followed, defectors from the KGB, GRU, and other Soviet-bloc intelligence services repeatedly described the same objective within Soviet 'active measures': to discredit the CIA in the eyes of the public. Across memoirs, interviews, congressional testimony, and archival records, they outlined efforts to portray the CIA as corrupt, criminal, incompetent, or responsible for instability abroad. The goal, as they explained it, went beyond reputational harm. It was to ensure that warnings and assessments issued by U.S. intelligence would no longer be believed. What follows are direct statements from those defectors, spanning more than forty years, presented in their own words. Defector Testimony: YURI BEZMENOV (KGB, First Chief Directorate) Source: Love Letter to America (1984) -"The highest art of warfare is not to fight at all but to subvert anything of value in your enemy's country... to discredit their leaders and their intelligence services, exposing them to the public as corrupt or inefficient." Source: Lecture, Los Angeles (1983) -"To discredit the CIA in the eyes of the American public was a primary task. If the people lose faith in their own intelligence, they lose the ability to defend themselves." ION MIHAI PACEPA (Head of Romanian DIE; worked jointly with the KGB) Source: Disinformation (2013) -"The KGB's main enemy was the CIA, which had to be discredited by any means." Source: Red Horizons (1987) -"Moscow ordered us to spread anything that would damage the CIA. The purpose was to make the CIA appear as a criminal organization in the eyes of the world." OLEG KALUGIN (KGB General; head of Active Measures) Source: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives (2000) -"Discrediting the CIA and the FBI was always among our main objectives. We spent years planting stories that portrayed the CIA as incompetent or evil." Source: Spymaster (2009) -"The heart and soul of the KGB was active measures... aimed at discrediting the CIA and other American institutions." STANISLAV LEVCHENKO (KGB, Tokyo rezidentura) Source: On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB (1988) -"One major line of active measures was to attack the CIA. We were instructed to place stories portraying the CIA as the source of coups, assassinations, and turmoil." VASILI MITROKHIN (KGB archivist) Source: The Mitrokhin Archive, Volume I (1999) -"Department A devoted substantial resources to discrediting the CIA, portraying it as responsible for political repression, assassinations, and international tension." STANISLAV LUNEV (GRU colonel) Source: Through the Eyes of the Enemy (1998) -"Stories blaming the CIA for unrest in other countries were standard practice. The goal was to weaken trust in American intelligence." ANATOLIY GOLITSYN (KGB, Department D - strategic deception) Source: New Lies for Old (1984) -"A principal objective of Soviet strategy was to discredit the CIA so that its warnings would not be believed." Source: Interview (1985), cited in The Perestroika Deception (1995) -"The Soviets worked to destroy the credibility of the CIA. Without an intelligence service the public trusts, a nation is blind." ARKADY SHEVCHENKO (Under-Secretary-General at the UN; highest-ranking Soviet defector) Source: Breaking With Moscow (1985) -"The Soviet leadership encouraged every allegation against the CIA. Any scandal that weakened the CIA was considered a victory for Soviet foreign policy." OLEG GORDIEVSKY (KGB, London rezidentura) Source: KGB: The Inside Story (1990) -"The KGB fed material to Western journalists designed to portray the CIA as dangerous, untrustworthy, or engaged in crimes." ***A note of caution is warranted regarding figures (especially public) who repeatedly and conspicuously attack their own intelligence agency, the CIA, using the same recurring frames described here.***








Starmer has just admitted he banned me and other commentators from traveling to the UK because we would “set back communities.” Yet mass third-world migration doesn’t bother him as it only sets back the one community he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about: the White native population.



NOW - King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."


















