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Title: RED SMOKE, COMMIE MIRRORS
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch ... rect=on&utm_term=.1f470add6f8c
Published: Dec 8, 1991
Author: George Lardner Jr. December 8, 1991
Post Date: 2018-07-11 10:30:07 by VxH
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THE COLD WAR isn't over for Anatoly Golitsyn. Since last summer's failed coup in Moscow, he has been churning out memos for the CIA, warning them of what he regards as the true import of the tumultuous events taking place in the former Soviet Union. It is all "pretense," he says -- an elaborate exercise in strategic deception, designed to gull the West into embracing what is still an evil empire, still run behind the scenes by communist ideologues. Mikhail Gorbachev is in on the scheme. And so, too, says Golitsyn, is Boris Yeltsin. "At the end, when they win," Golitsyn declares, "they {will} get rid of capitalists forever." Golitsyn, you may remember, is the KGB defector whose assertions about Soviet moles at Langley once threw the CIA into a turmoil. The great mole hunt, actively pursued by the late CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, Golitsyn's indefatigable sponsor, lasted more than a decade, but never unearthed a single mole at the agency. According to the recently published "Cold Warrior" by Tom Mangold, a detailed study of Angleton's work, Golitsyn was actually a "minor and undistinguished KGB officer" whose paranoid fingerpointing ruined the careers of many of the CIA's finest officers and blackened the credentials of genuine Soviet defectors who threatened his standing.
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#1. To: VxH (#0)
The latest news from 1991? These Soviet defectors working as CIA mouthpieces are a dime a dozen. You can get a lot of ex-KGB types to say this stuff for very little money.
FAIL. "Golitsyn worked in the strategic planning department of the KGB in the rank of Major. In 1961 under the name "Ivan Klimov" he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Helsinki, Finland, as vice counsel and attache. He defected with his wife and daughter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via Helsinki on December 15, 1961"
They were a dime a dozen, even during the Cold War.
"Of Golitsyn's 194 predictions, 139 had been fulfilled as of 1993.[4] " https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/09/the_perestroika_ deception.html "and he states throughout his works that NATO would be dissolved" https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/01/did_communi sm_fake_its_own_dea.html
Lost me...
Is Putin's alleged ideological affinity with Solzenyitzen legitimate - and, if not, what sort of a deceptive landscape does that put the husband of Melanija Knavs in?
#16. To: VxH (#15)
Naah. That tangent is off the chart. Sorry.
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