Yuri Bezmenov's full lecture given in LA in 1983. I have cleaned up the audio and filtered the video. But you can't polish a turd.nnIntroduc...
Yuri Bezmenov's full lecture given in LA in 1983. I have cleaned up the audio and filtered the video. But you can't polish a turd.nnIntroduction: 0:00nSlide-Show Presentation: 32:33nSubversion Lecture: 1:33:08nAudience Q&A: 2:36:09nnYuri Bezmenov worked as a "journalist" for Novosti Press Agency, which was a disinformation and propaganda agency controlled by the Soviet non-military intelligence agency (commonly known as the KGB). The Soviets called their disinformation work through Novosti "active measures," though Schuman uses the phrase "ideological subversion" to describe the activity of Novosti. Actually, "ideological subversion" was more of a term used by Soviet and Soviet-bloc propaganda to characterize the supposed actions of the West to undermine socialist and Communist ideology within the Soviet Union. nnIn the fifties and sixties, the Soviets and their allies began to use more creative means to mislead and misinform the West and the Third World, creating a cumulative effect that would in the long term be favorable to the Soviet Union. Novosti Press Agency was an overt and legitimate organization that published articles and books mainly for the West. It was ostensibly independent of the government, but we now know that this is a ridiculous claim. Most people assumed (and observed) that Novosti's work was somewhat propagandist, but until Bezmenov many did not realize the extent to which Novosti worked closely with the KGB to produce disinformation and mislead foreign governments and organizations, to the extent that Novosti's goals were quite simply the KGB's goals. nnLooking back, many people might think that no one really took Novosti seriously. This is not the case. Western journalists and newspapers treated Novosti as a legitimate source of news and opinion. Papers like The New York Times used Novosti press releases just as they would the press releases of the AP, Reuters, AFP, or Groupe Presse. Novosti publications like the magazine Soviet Life and various books and travelogues were widely available in the United States and throughout the world and treated for the most part as honest, legitimate publications. Many of these publications can be found simply by searching Amazon for "Novosti Press Agency." nnBezmenov: No NOVOSTI is good newsnhttp://archive.org/details/BezmenovNoNovostiIsGoodNewsnnBezmenov: LOVE LETTER TO AMERICAnhttps://archive.org/details/BezmenovLoveLetterToAmericannYuri Bezmenov Psychological Warfare Ideological Subversionnhttp://archive.org/details/YuriBezmenovPsychologicalWarfareIdeologicalSubversionnnBlack Is Beautifulnhttp://archive.org/details/Yuri-Bezmenov_Black-Is-BeautifulnnWorld Thought Policenhttps://archive.org/details/Yuri-Bezmenov_World-Thought-PolicennLos Angeles, 1986 nnnn'BOAT PEOPLE'... 'KILLING FIELDS' OF nnCAMBODIA... GENOCIDE IN AFGHANISTAN... nnFAMINE IN SOVIET-OCCUPIED ETHIOPIA... nnWe notice (if at all) the tragedy only in it's last act - when nSoviet-made tanks screech into the streets of foreign ncapitals. We tend to overlook how it all starts... We are nbeing told later, by the media and the 'experts', that — nfirst, the 'oppressed masses' revolt against their corrupt n'rightist' regimes; then, we are told, the new 'people's ndemocracy' is established, and it immediately falls in ndisfavour with the 'Western, U.S. imperialism'. It causes nhardships: shortage of foreign currency and shortage of nthe essentials (food) as the result; censorship over the nmedia is established; than mass arrests take place, nfinally — execution of the opposition ('the enemies of the nrevolution')... And ultimately, as usual, the 'liberated' nmasses try to flee their 'independent' motherlands by nthe million — climbing over the berlin walls, being shot nat the back, or drawning by the thousand in the seas... nAnd where do they flee? To the 'decadent oppessive ncapitalism!' nnWORLD THOUGHT POLICE nnNOVOSTI PRESS AGENCY (APN) - KGB FRONT FOR nACTIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE FREE MEDIA nnI worked for the Devil and he was a nbore and mediocrity. Although the nmethods and goals of Novosti are devi- nlishly evil, its daily routine is so boring nthat it does not produce outrage. It nsimply debilitates. For those in the nWest (and East), whose knowledge of nour system is based on spy thrillers, the nreality is much less exciting. If the free nworld wants to survive, it has to mobi- nlize itself to take dominion over this ndeadly dangerous disease called in nAPN's newspeak "ideological subver- Less
