This Former KGB Spy's Message Begs Our Attention
Infiltrating a powerful country like the US of A is much easier than waging kinetic war
KGB Emblem - Attribution: jgaray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Note to Readers:
I published the original version of this article on Medium on February 22, 2022, but have since deleted it so that it could be available to the public at large.
If you read it on Medium, you’ll probably want to read this version because I have since expanded it, deleted a few small parts, and linked to an interview Del Bigtree did in late 2021 with G. Edward Griffin regarding Griffin’s interview with the late Yuri Bezmenov (the KGB defector who informs this article).
Aside from making it available to a wider audience, I also think this article is important to read before I send out the second part of the 2023 predictions in the next couple days. Why? Because 2023 is going to be a year of serious cognitive dissonance for most of us—varying in degrees, of course. This article can help all of us come to grips how deeply programmed we’ve become in the West as a whole, not just in the United States, and to start looking for patterns, if we haven’t already.
The controlled demolition of the United States and Western civilization is a serious mind-fuck. Today, chances are your country is run by Bolsheviks in designer clothes pushing World Economic Forum agendas as the final stage of demolition before they can roll out the full enslavement of humanity.
The good news? I think we have plenty of minds that are clear enough (or salvageable) for humanity to put an end to such totalitarian fantasies and win this war. You’ll see what I mean when you reach the conclusion.
This article may be about the US, but you can use this template to examine the events and trends in your own country.
In 1984, former KGB propagandist and defector, Yuri Bezmenov, sat down with G. Edward Griffin for a two-plus-hour long interview (video link) to warn Americans of the systematic destruction the US was facing. Now, nearly 40 years later, Bezmenov’s warnings have become reality. Many feel the adverse effects of such destruction and unleash their frustrations and anger on those who seem to bear responsibility (but actually don’t), while remaining ever blind to the reality of it all.
This inability to see what is actually happening before one’s eyes is the result of what Dutch-American doctor and psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo refers to in his book The Rape of the Mind as menticide: the killing of independent thought through brainwashing, propaganda, coercion, and demoralization.
Ideological Subversion
Bezmenov explains how the destruction of an enemy country is mostly done, not via espionage as many would like to think—he attributes only 15% of the USSR’s efforts to this tactic—but by ideological subversion, also known as psychological warfare, of which the USSR gave 85% of their efforts and resources.
He defines ideological subversion as the process of:
“chang[ing] the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite an abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”
In short, it’s the use of infiltration instead of invasion. Infiltration costs significantly less and goes mostly undetected by the sleeping masses. Very few born, educated, and informed (i.e. those who have consumed any media/entertainment) in the US from the 20th century onwards fully escape this.
The Four Stages of Menticide
Bezmenov says, “It’s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow and it’s divided into four basic stages.”
Demoralization (requires 15–20 years minimum to achieve)
Destabilization (2–5 years)
Crisis (6 weeks)
Normalization (may last indefinitely)
According to Bezmenov, the stage of Demoralization had already been completed by the time he sat down for the aforementioned interview, and that it had started 25 years prior (1959). The 15 to 20-year minimum is what it takes, he says, “to educate one generation of students and expose them to the ideology of the enemy.” In this case, it’s that of the USSR: Marxism and Leninism. And “most of it is done by Americans to Americans, thanks to a lack of moral standards.”
The effect of this stage is that “a person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing…And then the first subverted generation trains another generation who think they are living at the peace time.”
Each time I listen to this part of Bezmenov’s interview, I can’t help but question everything: my own education, the subliminal and not so subliminal messages politicians, “news” channels, TV shows, movies, and pop culture are constantly flinging our way. Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt wrote quite extensively about the educational aspect of this in her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. And while I can see dozens upon dozens of ways in which demoralization has taken place or still takes place today, I will leave it to you to discern what you will.
Richard Nixon’s Role in Destabilizing the United States
However, I think it is important to discuss the second stage of ideological subversion: destabilization. Bezmenov says there are three avenues through which destabilization is done: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. There are two major events related to the US economy that stand out to me as perfect examples of such destabilization, and they aren’t even carried out by Russian spies. The cancer, after all, was already taking over the system.
The first was in 1971 when Nixon cut the United States’ last tie to the gold standard, and the massive economic hardship that soon followed. (Anyone who was an adult by the early-to-mid-1970s can tell you what happened to jobs and inflation.) When you have a currency backed by hard assets, such as gold, silver, etc, you can only print currency in direct proportion to the new amount of precious metals/assets that you have acquired.
By removing the US from the gold standard, the Federal Reserve could begin printing as much money as Congress wanted. It’s vital to focus on why governments would want this printing power.
At the time Nixon did this, the Vietnam War had been raging for 17 years (since 1954), and the “arms race” of the Cold War had been going on for 24 years (since 1947). Funding such protracted wars can be quite difficult without a constant supply of new money to keep the military industrial complex’s wheels turning. If one does not have to exert time, money, and effort to acquire the necessary (new) assets in order to increase the money supply, then it’s far easier to spend.
And as we all know, the one thing the US government loves to do — regardless of which political party is dominant at a given time — is to go to war. It’s much easier to fund/keep a war going if you can print money ad infinitum without the acquisition of new assets. This is why governments and arms manufacturers love “cheap” (fiat) money.
The irony of it all is that Nixon claims he removed US from the gold standard “to create a new prosperity without war.” As we all know, the 20th century was the century of incessant war, and it seems the 21st century is following suit with Biden stoking the flames of World War III as I type the second version of this article. So much for a new prosperity without war.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Nixon’s desire to be re-elected the following year as a key part of this move. And while he probably knew that doing what he did would be destabilize the US in the long run—much like using credit cards—it can, for some time, give the illusion of prosperity. At least long enough to win re-election. Creating illusions wins votes. (And for him it did, along with the “surprise” diplomatic trip he made to China only 8.5 months prior to the election.)
The Lima Declaration & Globalization
Another key part of the United States’ destabilization came in the form of the little known Lima Declaration, which was agreed upon by UN members only a few years later in 1975. This agreement set forth the framework for the “New International Economic Order.” In plain language: globalism.
And by globalism, I mean the global economy and supply chain that are currently on their knees. Under the aforementioned agreement, “every effort should be made by the international community to take measures to encourage the industrialization of developing countries.” It cites that the goal was to move at least 1/4 of the world’s production to developing nations by 2000.
This document may have been drafted and signed over the course of two weeks in Lima in 1975, but it is safe to assume that this plan was long in the making. Ultimately, the UN has only been interested in becoming a full-fledged one world government, but self-sufficient, wealthy nations that aren’t drowning in debt make that takeover nearly impossible. (Now look at those once wealthy, stable nations…)
The Destruction of Productive Societies
While Nixon’s reasons for making his shocking trip to China were multi-layered, a major factor was to convince China to open up to the world. In short order of Nixon’s trip and the Lima Declaration, US manufacturing started being shipped abroad to China and other “poor” countries. As a result, the United States would no longer be a thriving nation, capable of providing for its own needs. A lack of self-sufficiency is a major threat to national security for any country.
As the populations of developing nations entered the workplace as producers, the US population transitioned—and those of other developed nations—from being one of makers and creators to one of consumers, losing vital, life-supporting skills along the way. (It also destabilizes the “host countries,” those in which manufacturing moved to, but that is an article unto itself.) This has only become more true with time. Look around: America’s favorite past-times have become shopping, watching sports, getting hysterical about something the fear-mongering media pushes out, and watching Netflix (or some other equivalent).
Furthermore, the opening up of China made the infiltration of communist agents from the CCP into every corner of American society possible, including our government. The amount of politicians bought and paid for by the CCP will astound most people. (The Biden family is at the top of the list.) But it has also destroyed the fabric of families and communities across the nation. Most of the fentanyl found in the US has been mass-produced in Chinese labs and smuggled across our wide-open southern border (a simple web search will bring up US government reports).
All of this, I would argue, has been pivotal in the destabilization process.
And while I could list a handful of crises (Stage 3) and periods of normalization (Stage 4) that have taken place in my lifetime, I won’t. I sense it’s best that readers come to their own conclusions. If you’re not sure where to start, think of a major national or global crisis and then examine how our lives had to shift/change/adapt as a result of said crisis.
Americans Destroying Their Own Country
However, there is one thing I would add regarding ideological subversion/psychological warfare: the key to the enemy’s victory is to ensure the subversion process occurs repeatedly in their rival’s country so that eventually every generation alive has been subjected to it. Even Xiao Liang and Wang Xangsui discuss similar techniques in their book Unrestricted Warfare with respect to China’s mission to subvert the United States. (It’s seems China, the UN, and the WEF have been able to pick up where the USSR left off.)
If you are wondering where in the process we are, we are there now. All generations in the US have been, to some extent, demoralized. Much of the younger generations more “successfully” so because, as Bezmenov notes, there is a lower possibility over time of it being “challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism and American patriotism” since they have already been so heavily eroded. Bezmenov also says that once demoralization is complete, it is “irreversible.”
It’s no wonder a significant part of the population is begging for socialism and communism, and clinging to the idea of Marxism without ever having read a single book by Karl Marx. Or without understanding the horrors of living under a communist/totalitarian regime. Or without knowing a thing about what happened when the Bolsheviks hijacked the Russian Revolution. Or what it was like living in the GDR on the East side of the wall. Or the trials of living under the tyranny of China’s surveillance state and social credit system.
And since things have become so dire in American society, largely due to our current system(s), it is easy to see why said people believe that communism and socialism are the solution.
Due to their lack of understanding around economics, they incorrectly believe free-market capitalism is to blame. However, what’s really to blame is our “corporate socialism.” In such “corporate socialist” societies, governments repeatedly bail out or act in the interests of large corporations, not the people they claim to represent and serve. On the other hand, free-market capitalism cannot exist any society—especially ours—where the government repeatedly acts in the interests of large corporations, central banks control the money supply, and fractional reserve banking exists. (More on this in a future article.)
The late Czech President and famous playwright Vaclav Havel, in his book Disturbing the Peace, draws multiple parallels between large multinational corporations and socialism:
“It is well known, for instance, that enormous private multinational corporations are curiously like socialist states; with industrialization, centralization, specialization, monopolization, and finally with automation and computerization, the elements of depersonalization and the loss of meaning in work become more and more profound everywhere.”
The major difference between the two is that under a socialist system, pay and freedoms are even further diminished and businesses are owned by the state. (Be sure not confuse countries with large welfare systems like France or Finland as being socialist; they are not. They simply have large social safety nets in their very capitalistic societies.)
Even though vast numbers of the US population may be fully “demoralized,” it does not mean the country has been given a death sentence—yet. But as Bezmenov says about our freedoms and way of life, they can and will suddenly “disappear in 5 seconds” if people don’t fight to preserve them. He says it is only at that point in which those rights are lost that the fully demoralized wake up—albeit much too late.
Eyes to See
If history has taught us anything, though, it’s that a majority is not needed to bring about major change. After all, it only took about 6% of the population of the Colonies, including soldiers in the Continental Army and Colonial militias, to win the Revolutionary War against the British.
But this, as Bezmenov says, is “psychological warfare,” and it requires those who are not totally demoralized to educate themselves and their families and start stripping away the programming in order to rescue and rebuild their country. We are seeing sparks of this cropping up all over the world—and it’s finally starting to snowball in the right direction.
(See video links below.)
Videos & Resources
Full length Yuri Bezmenov interview
Del Bigtree’s Interview with G. Edward Griffin re: Yuri Bezmenov
*The watchdog group, Marco Polo, did a year-long exploration and analysis of its entire contents. Marco Polo created this 630-page report—including images and documents from the laptop—that cites over 459 legal violations. The above link takes you directly to their report. If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, click on “Online Reader View” or “PDF” just under the word REPORT. By reading this, you will start to understand how deeply entrenched the Biden family’s business dealings in China and Ukraine, among other horrific things.
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Excellent piece JM. I only just saw the Benzemov video a couple years ago, and made it my duty to expose it to as many people as possible. The grand irony of it all is, showing people the video only proved Benzemov's points further. Even though he had accurately predicted the infiltration of the woke/Marxist poison into American culture with chilling accuracy, and it was unfolding all around us with crystal clarity, *people still refused to acknowledge it's existence*, and I was accused of tin foil hat tactics etc. And those who didn't deny it all outright kind of poo-pah'd it, and were remarkably casual...suggesting that "sure there's a problem there but you're grossly exaggerating" etc.
The push to normalize all this stuff so aggressively is due to the critical period of time we're in atm. Those of us born before 1980, let's say, are the last of a dying breed. All the generations that came after us were exposed to this brainwashing to one degree or another, and it won't be long before we - the pre-woke generations - are too old, too tired to fight, or dead. Once that happens the freaks will have carte blanche. They'll just move right on in with no resistance whatsoever. We're the last line of defense. I don't think I'm being dramatic when I say that this is the final stand. It has to happen now or things will begin crumbling quickly
You really know how to begin a Monday morning, JM. I am grateful to read and begin to digest the breadth of all you have included. Though I will admit there is a part of me that would prefer to keep my head stuck in the sand. That pie in the sky, right brain thing, that is my nature. This piece will sit on my shoulders as I move through this day, allowing it all to sink in. Truly great reporting here, kudos to you, JM.