Re: Kerry as Soviet propagandist (#42490)
by Richard Rongstad on September 22, 2004 at 9:44 AM

Mackubin Thomas Owens is saying Kerry and "Americanized", in essence recycled Soviet propaganda about U.S. war crimes.

There are several sources from the other side stating that Americans bought into and pushed Soviet propaganda; including NVA Colonel Tin Bui and Russian defector Staanislov Lunev, plus Owens mentioned Romanian spy chief Ion Mihai Pacepa.

Pacepa wrote "As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between America and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, 'our most significant success'."

There is also Russian defector Staanislov Lunev who wrote "The GRU and KGB helped fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad... What will be a great surprise to the American people is that GRU and KGB had a larger budget for antiwar propaganda in the United States than it did for economic and military support to the Vietnamese." ("Through the Eyes of the Enemy" page 78).

From Colonel Tin Bui; "Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9:00 a.m. to
follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war, and that she would struggle along with us." - Bui Tin, Colonel, People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in Wall Street Journal article, Thursday
August 3, 1995 (A8), also see "Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel" by Tin Bui.

I wonder if Yuri Andropov's pride in his KGB disinformation campaigns was boosted with the knowledge of Soviet propaganda going full circle and being thrown in the faces of American POW with the help of an American naval officer. U.S. POW including Paul Galanti and several others say they were taunted and pressured to confess to war crimes by North Vietnamese communists armed with news clippings of antiwar protestors charging war crimes, one of the protestors being an American naval officer (John Kerry).

Based on the words of Lunev, Pacepa, Tin Bui, Paul Galanti and others it may be difficult to turn the tables on the Republicans and show John Kerry is an American patriot.