Covert Influence–Russian Operations Changed America (Part 3)

Political Correctness 2010: Reflexive Loathing of the United States

It is not likely that any of the ComIntern covert influence operators realized that they were creating a monster that would grow for decades. They likely believed that after a few years their ops would have sown enough confusion to cause the global communist revolution they knew was coming. Even though the revolution never came in their lifetimes, the “hate America first” attitude slowly caught on. The Elites spread their anti-American message. It had to go underground from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. But after the late 1960s, the Elite Vanguard emerged in full flower.

A more concise description of Political Correctness cannot be found than Koch’s formulation of Munzenberg’s covert influence payload. Look inside any PC ideas, speech codes, or requirements, and you’ll find a “reflexive loathing” of traditional America, our values, history, and morals.

By the late 1980s, full-blown PC infected academia, education, the media, Hollywood, and American society in general. Americans were constantly bombarded with reminders of their hatefulness, bigotry, racism, sexism, and imperialism. Confused by the message of hate and disgust, while their daily lives were filled with positive energy, normal Americans became wracked with guilt. They were reminded daily that they were guilty of slavery, bigotry, killing babies in Vietnam, oppressing minorities and women around the globe, stealing the continent from the Indians, being arrogant in dealing with foreigners, killing the Earth with their hairspray, and various other sins.

In 2008, PC blossomed into full flower. In a spasm of PC-induced guilt, America elected our first anti-American president, who did not hide his disgust for normal Americans. Obama is the first president to apologize repeatedly for America’s sins against foreign countries, and to speak disparagingly against the country that elected him. Obama’s cool, detached Elite attitude, loathing the “bitter clingers” of the heartland, is a living testament to the power and success of Munzenberg’s covert influence operations.

Covert Influence Counter-measures

So, when American media seem to be puzzled as to the efficiency of Russian espionage operations against the US, and ignore the Russians’ use of Pelaez as a covert influence operative, it is not surprising to a knowledgeable observer. The KGB’s successors, the Russian Federation’s intelligence service, learned all they know from the KGB. They have a long and successful history of working against America. They know the power of influence operations. The KGB, including Vladimir Putin has seen their influence ops succeed. The sorry state of PC-America is a direct result of Putin’s predecessors’ operations. All Americans should understand the power of past influence ops, and the potential for future influence ops.

Dazzled by Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer, and ignorant of the most effective forms of espionage, Americans didn’t know what to make of the pudgy Peruvian-born journalist. Seemingly, the main concern the media was the plight of her children. The Huffington Post speculated that she was betrayed by her handling officer–her husband. Many Americans were distracted by the slutty daughter of a KGB officer, caught peddling her wares as a swallow (KGB’s term for the bait in sex-traps). Little did Americans realize that the frumpy journalist, Vicky Pelaez, was the latest warrior in a century-long, vicious attack on America. The sex-kitten was just a shiny bauble to distract us.

In the early days of the struggle for world domination between the USA and global communism, American statesmen were clueless about the enemy they faced. They were clueless about the rules of the struggle. They were ignorant of the communists’ tactics. And they arrogantly refused to learn.

In 1929, more than a decade after the Bolsheviks had imposed communism on Russia, the American Secretary of State, Henry Stimson, politely declined to take part in espionage, averring that, “Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”

The Bolsheviks, however, were not gentlemen. In 1929, the Russians were already reading our mail, even as we refused the offer to read others’. The communists had, so to speak, slipped into our house at night and were living in our basement. The communists were playing a game that America had never understood. Even at that early date, they were winning. Their strategy: covert influence operations.

Intel Collection vs. Active Measures

There are two major types of espionage operations: intelligence collection, and, in the KGB’s terminology, active measures. Intelligence collection is stealing secrets. The Rosenbergs were Soviet espionage agents focused on stealing and reporting America’s nuclear secrets.

Collection operations are fragile and perishable. The success of the operation, and its life-span, depends on the agent’s access to secrets, his willingness to continue stealing secrets, and his ability to avoid detection. Loss of access, change in motivation, or detection by authorities bring the operation to an immediate end. When the Rosenberg op was disrupted, there was no more product, no more secrets–it died with the communist agents in the electric chair.

Active measures arose from the communists’ long fight against the tsar. Outlawed as a party, the communists organized covert cells. Without strong military capabilities, they learned how to use the tools of active measures–propaganda, disinformation, and agents of influence–against the royal government.