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Book: KGB operation seeded Muslim countries with anti-American, anti-Jewish propaganda
Daily Mail UK
1970s; laying the groundwork for Islamist terrorism against U.S. and Israel
The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims in a new book that anti-American Islamic terrorism had its roots in a secret 1970s-era KGB plot to harm but the United States and Israel by seeding Muslim countries with carefully targeted propaganda.
Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief for 15 years before he became the Soviet premier, sent hundreds of agents and thousands of copies of propaganda literature to Muslim countries.
‘By 1972,’ according to the book, ‘Andropov’s disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that Israel and the United States intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom.’
‘According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a petri dish in which the KGB community could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought.’
Those claims come from former Romanian Lt. Gen Ion Mihail Pacepa and University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak.
In their book, titled Disinformation, Pacepa spills the secrets he kept for decades as head of Romania’s spy apparatus and secret police, the DIE, before he secured political asylum in the U.S. in 1978.



Mary Jane Anklestraps
June 26th, 2013
Why not?
The musztards were best buds with hitler. This was just a continuation of their evil.
Maudie N Mandeville
June 26th, 2013
Breaking!! “Russians don’t play fair.”
Ensign Pulver
June 26th, 2013
This is all of a piece.
Two other propaganda wars that the Soviet Communists won.
1) The opening of the KGB archives proved beyond any doubt that the entire anti-Vietnam War movement was conceived, implemented and funded by the Soviets. (fuck YOU, Bill Ayers, you damned traitor)
2) The opening of the KGB archives also proved beyond a doubt that the entire Environmental movement in the West was conceived, implemented and funded by the Soviets. So fuck YOU Pew Environment Group, Packard Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Sierra Club, Audubon Society, Save The Manatee Club, Oceans Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, WWF, etc.
Ensign Pulver
Jimbo
June 26th, 2013
This isn’t just anti-American agitprop, it’s anti-West and it has been infecting Europe since the 1960s.
My next theory (to be proved correct) will be that the European and North American riots in 1968 were entirely the work of the Soviet Union and their agents in the West.
Tim
June 26th, 2013
With all the 5th columnists in education, academia, the churches, and government they really didn’t have to work that hard.
Our country, our way of life, our freedoms have been sold out by cowards, miscreants, and perverts.
If we don’t take it back, it’s lost forever.
Botec
June 26th, 2013
It’s so much easier when you’re the bad guys, huh.
Rick
June 26th, 2013
Goes a long way in explaining the sudden rise of OPEC and the subsequent breaking-it-off-in-the-infidels.
We had no problem with these Desert Irish back when oil was $7.00 a barrel.
Bob
June 26th, 2013
The problem in the US is that every 4-8 years we get a new administration, so when an idiot like Jimmah “we have an inordinate fear of Communism” Carter gets elected he kills Soviet counterintelligence programs (or whatever adversary of the moment). Then we’re screwed again.
How do the IOTW folks think Arabic and Farsi counterintel programs are going with teh SCOAMF in office?
thirdtwin
June 26th, 2013
I threw some twigs on a bonfire, too, Ivan. Don’t piss in the ocean tell me it’s full now.