A central theme I have emphasized repeatedly at LRC is the phony ideological nature of the political spectrum of opinion as reflected in Congress, the media, and in academia. Both contemporary “liberalism” and “conservatism” are the synthetic creations of the deep state intelligence community.
The video above is a very disturbing and perceptive analysis of the deep state’s contemporary usage of “soft power,” psychological warfare, and front group manipulation of the internal political affairs and elections of other nations. A covert activity is “an activity or activities of the United States government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly.” Plausible deniability is the rule of this disinformation game. The video confirms and demonstrates this continuing bipartisan elite consensus in this long running interventionist strategy which had its roots decades ago in the intelligence community’s Cold War efforts to create a parallel, mirror image network to that of the Soviets’ master propagandist Willi Munzenberg.
Munzenberg manipulated thousands of European and American progressive intellectuals in the inner-war period of the 1920s and 1930s by his vast publishing network, espionage apparat, and interlocking front organizations under the covert direction of the Communist International (Comintern) and the Soviet secret services of the NKVD and the GRU.
In 1948, former OSS agent and Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner first headed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), which was soon absorbed into and became the covert espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the newly-created Central Intelligence Agency. From the beginning, these activities have been funded clandestinely by the CIA’s black budget, from diverted funds such as the Marshall Plan, and NGO foundations and think tanks.
This strategy initially targeted the anti-Stalinist left and was guided by former Trotskyists such as James Burnham. Burnham, who had been a leading Trotskyist communist, WWII consultant for the Office of Strategic Services, was later head of the Political and Psychological Warfare division of the Office of Policy Coordination. He was a central figure in the the CIA front, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and later in the creation of the CIA’s synthetic conservative movement’s principal publication, the National Review. National Review editor William F. Buckley Jr. was initially recruited for the CIA by his Yale professor Willmoore Kendall, a former Trotskyist and OSS/CIA consultant. But it was the other former Trotskyist communist, OSS/CIA consultant, and pioneer Cold Warrior James Burnham who was the dominant influence on CIA agent Buckley and National Review since the magazine was founded.
As the video details the legacy of this interventionist strategy continues under different auspices such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), but is still guided in its overarching synthetic ideology derived from Trotskyism which today is most identified as Neoconservatism.
2:14 am on September 1, 2018
