Forty Year Spy Report
The assignment began before the instructor was even a rookie. This story starts in 1968 when I was recruited to infiltrate anti-war groups.
The individual who approached the college student explained the assignment as follows: this is a special intelligence operation which requires the recruit to gather and report information on the anti-war movement.
When the recruiter was asked why me, the answer was: two reasons, you don’t look the part, and the operation requires independents since nobody knows the extent of the communists incursions on American soil.
Rules for the assignment were simple:
1) only the recruiter knows of your existence;
2) survive by not getting caught;
3) trust no one but the recruiter;
4) report only to the recruiter; and
5) if the recruiter is lost, the new assignment is to identify own targets and finance independent operations.
Following the taking of an oath to uphold and defend the constitution; specific details were reviewed on how future contacts would be made.
The recruiter’s final advice: never forget that when it comes to this kind of work: international socialists have more resources, are better trained, better organized, and are brutally ruthless; so never forget that this is a “one mistake only” business.
It was not long before the then rookie now a surveillance instructor experienced the organizational skills of the underground. It seemed that every community had an underground contact. It was common practice to allow local contacts to arrange for lodging at safe houses when moving through different towns.
On many occasions these were abandoned or vacant houses or buildings. In some places these shelters were residences of people who were on vacation.
When the rookie asked about the cops, he was told not to worry; because warnings would be made before the pigs arrived. In one instance, a runner came to warn the rookie that the pigs were one the way. Sure enough, the cops arrived about two to three minutes after the house was vacated.
These were the days before scanners. When asked how the process worked, the rookie was told that it helped to have people working on the inside. This same tactic would be deployed by smugglers in the “war against drugs” years later.
When it came to massive resources, the recruiter was right again. The rookie had occasion to observe a meeting which involved financing Weathermen anti-war activities. The organizer in charge stated that the group had just received a one hundred thousand dollar “contribution” from movement supporters. He also stated that more would be available when needed if desired results were achieved.
The reader needs to understand that in the late sixties and early seventies, a hundred thousand dollars was worth a lot more than a hundred thousand dollars in the 1990’s. When the cell leader was asked where the money came from, the response was: The Cubans, the Chinese, or American sympathizers; does it matter? To which the rookie replied, “Not to me.”
One event that taught a valuable lesson was being forced to sit in the back of a police car while one officer held a gun to the rookie’s head, while the cop’s partner raped the rookie’s Maoist traveling companion on the trunk of the patrol car. The officer who raped the young woman said that he wanted some of that “free love” hippies were always talking about.
The lesson here is that the special intelligence operation always comes first. Professional intelligence agents do not jeopardize their assignment by engaging in “feel good” revenge for civilian casualties.
The socialist bad guys had a better networking system with common criminals than patriot agents. In one case, the anti-war underground in return for a fee, arranged for one of their own to drive an embezzler’s car in the opposite direction the thief was going.
Perhaps the primary domestic intelligence industry lesson of the sixties and seventies was that socialist intelligence efforts on American soil since the nineteen thirties have relied on better financed, better organized, and better trained spies and puppet masters.
Some suggest that the greatest risk to undercover agents is succumbing to the other side’s doctrine. This concept can be reinforced when one loses their handler and is confronted with the reality that deactivation is no longer a future option. Explaining not complaining as the rookie had option number five.
Working behind American lines requires adapting to a work place where survivors learn to become independent pragmatic leaders. Sooner or later, every operation manager realizes that regardless of client, undercover agents are always on their own.
It was not unusual to find that socialists and liberals have better skills when it comes to manipulating the news media. For example, socialist organizers were masters at turning peaceful demonstrations into violent riots and making it look like the “pigs” caused the event.
Those who are familiar with “relief valves” in crowd control should easily comprehend the tactic and how the process works. After the relief valve is closed with turned over vehicles; all that remains is getting the press to photograph abuses of overreacting under trained cops.
If the USA had ever used sarin gas on defectors in the Vietnam War, the following events would have transpired:
1) Monday - USA uses sarin gas on defectors in neutral country.
2) Tuesday - Field reports from collaborators alert Hanoi to attack.
3) Wednesday - Chinese communists alert professional activists in American anti war movement.
4) Thursday - News media blankets air waves with sarin story.
5) Friday - Thousands of anti-war protestors demonstrate against USA policy of using sarin gas on defectors.
The USA using sarin gas on defectors, it never happened. If it had, where was the movie of the week about feeling the pain of treasonous defectors with rotten childhoods?
Lessons from those days taught me that the anti-war movement depended on four components: foreign trained professional activists, foreign monies, self gratification driven students, and over reactive law enforcement agencies.
These Chinese Communists orchestrated tactics eventually resulted in the American people losing their will to fight to win; which led to America giving up and going home.
Since hard core socialists think in terms of decades not years, their next move could be predicted by asking the following question: where did the professional’ anti-war activists go after the Vietnam War?
These people and their sympathizers became civil servants, or sought elected or appointed offices. What better place than government to expand:
1) subsidy addiction among the general population,
2) government regulations that destroy property rights,
3) policies which eliminate liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, and
4) entangling alliances or economic treaties that reduce American sovereignty and domestic manufacturing base.
While these socialist policies were being enacted, efforts were also made to reduce America’s military capabilities:
1) continuing negative main stream media propaganda,
2) smaller defense budgets,
3) transferring military technology to foreign adversaries, and
4) establishing foreign naval bases or ports of entry on American soil.
Communist agents tend to rely on the following tactics:
1) lies and broken promises;
2) intimidation;
3) greed;
4) strategic deception (tampering with elections); and
5) diversion tactics.
Covert or closet American socialists have the same primary targets for control as those used by the North Vietnamese to “pacify” South Vietnam:
1) control all levels schools;
2) control social services especially health care services; and
3) control selection and actions of local “chieftains” also called politicians with “politically correct” bureaucratic enforcers (regulatory agencies) and easily manipulated youth
4) manipulate major print, electronic, and in modern times news media (add internet to list)
Instincts combined with practical experiences from October 1968, cause me to raise the following question: Are socialist Democrats and their collaborators (moderate Republicans and anticonservative aristocrats) contemporary America’s
covert traitors?
